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Petroleum Plays of the Bowen and Surat basins
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Alison Troup, Neal Longdon, Justin Gorton
- Date Published: February 2018
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The plays of the Bowen and Surat basins consist of conventional structural plays along major regional structures and depositional platforms, most of which have some stratigraphic component. These can be subdivided into three main regions: the eastern...
Evolution of “Tres Hombres” – A Mid-crustal Dome Structure within the Jurassic Northern Beagle Sub-basin Western Australia: An Integrated Geophysical Investigation
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Gerry O’Halloran, Chris Paschke, Craig Dempsey, Chris Hurren, Robert Scott, Guimin Liu
- Date Published: February 2018
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The Tres Hombres structure is a large mid-crustal structural feature that that underlies the Permian – Late Jurassic mega-sequences of the Northern Beagle Sub-basin, Western Australia. Originally identified on regional 2D seismic lines, the Tres Ho...
Predicting Structural Permeability in the Deep Coal Play, Tirrawarra-Gooranie fields, Cooper Basin
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Bowker, C.J., Camac, B.A., Fraser, S.A
- Date Published: February 2018
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A 2D numerical stress modelling study was conducted for the Tirrawarra-Gooranie oil and gas field in the Cooper Basin, which produces from a mixture of conventional and non-conventional (deep coal) reservoirs. The aim of this study is to understand t...
TARGETING CORE SAMPLING WITH MACHINE LEARNING: CASE STUDY FROM THE SPRINGBOK SANDSTONE, SURAT BASIN
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Oliver Gaede, Mitchell Levy
- Date Published: February 2018
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We show how clustering algorithms can ensure that the core intervals that are pertinent to specific objectives of a sampling campaign are actually sampled. We also show how clusters can be validated prior to sampling with auxiliary data not used for ...
Interpretation of a Permian conjugate basin margin preserved on the outer Northwest Shelf of Australia
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Christopher A. Paschke, Gerard O’Halloran, Craig Dempsey, Christopher Hurren
- Date Published: February 2018
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The Northwest Shelf (NWS) of Australia is characterized as a series of northeast-southwest trending Mesozoic offshore depocenters which both juxtapose and partially overprint a series of onshore, northwest-southeast trending Palaeozoic basins. An int...
Tectonics and geodynamics of the eastern Tethys and northern Gondwana since the Jurassic
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Sabin Zahirovic, Kara Matthews, Ting Yang, Nicolas Flament, Daniela Garrad, Gilles Brocard, Jeremy Iwanec, Kevin Hill, Michael Gurnis, Rakib Hassan, Maria Seton, R Dietmar Müller
- Date Published: February 2018
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Southeast Asia experienced a complex tectonic and geodynamic history related to the subduction of the eastern Tethyan ocean basins, resulting from the long-term convergence between the Indo-Australian, Eurasian, and Pacific plates since Pangea breaku...
Integration of Downhole Geophysical and Lithological Data from Coal Exploration Drill Holes
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Brett J Larkin
- Date Published: February 2018
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This current study has successfully managed to develop algorithms to automatically determine both coal/non-coal and clayey/nonclayey boundaries based on the gradients and inflection points of the geophysical logs and then integrate this information w...
Borehole gravity in Horizontal Wells.
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Andrew J. Black, Jennifer Hare
- Date Published: February 2018
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Gravity can now be measured practically anywhere a drill hole can go. This extends our ability to perform 3D and 4D gravity mapping of the sub-surface with applications in the energy and mineral sectors....
DISCOVERY THROUGH THE AGES – A JOURNEY OF COAL RESOURCE DISCOVERY IN QUEENSLANDS BOWEN BASIN FROM THE 1960’s and The 2000’s
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Darren Walker, Lex Hansen
- Date Published: February 2018
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Exploration methods, technology and equipment may have changed greatly over the last few decades but still does not replace sound geological principles in making new coal resource discoveries. Starting with a case history of the early big discoveries...
Controls on Mesozoic rift-related uplift and syn-extensional sedimentation in the Exmouth Plateau
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Hayley Rohead-O’Brien, Chris Elders
- Date Published: February 2018
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The Exmouth Plateau, part of the Northern Carnarvon Basin, has experienced a multi-phase extensional history, which is associated with regional-scale uplift, as well the uplift and erosion of individual footwall blocks. Detailed interpretation of 3D ...
Towards understanding phosphorus distribution in coal: A case study from the Bowen Basin
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Brooke Davis, Sandra Rodrigues, Joan Esterle
- Date Published: February 2018
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In coal, phosphorus can occur in a variety of minerals but apatite Ca5(PO4)3 (OH, F, Cl) is the most common. This mineral is often observed within the cell-lumens (<20 microns) of inertinite macerals, although fracture infilling apatite has been repo...
MAPPING NORTHERN AUSTRALIA’S PRESENT DAY STRESS FIELD: THE CANNING BASIN
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Adam Bailey, Paul Henson
- Date Published: February 2018
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The Canning Basin of Western Australia has recently become a site of interest for unconventional hydrocarbons, with several formations within deeper basin depocentres being investigated for resources. Modern petroleum resource evaluation is generally...
The influence of reverse-reactivated normal faults on porosity and permeability in sandstones: a case study at Castle Cove, Otway Basin
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Natalie Debenham, Natalie J. C. Farrell, Simon P. Holford, Rosalind C. King, David Healy
- Date Published: February 2018
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This study highlights the importance of detailed mineralogical and petrophysical analyses when attempting to understand the reservoir properties of high porosity and low permeability sandstones....
Georgina Basin – Middle Cambrian petroleum systems and the search for unconventional hydrocarbons
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium III
- Authors: G.J. Ambrose, D.S. Warner, J.P. Heugh
- Date Published: July 2017
Abstract:
The Georgina Basin has two well documented Middle Cambrian source rocks (Lower Arthur Creek Formation and
Thorntonia Limestone) which are believed to have expelled up to 40 billion tonnes (320 Bbbls) of liquid hydrocarbons based on detailed evaluati...
Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Permian Succession in the Southwest Bowen Basin, Queensland
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
- Authors: Christopher R. Fielding, Michael A. Martin, Kerrie L. Bann
- Date Published: September 2015
Abstract:
This paper investigates the distribution of depositional systems, in time and space, of the Permian succession of the Denison Trough and surrounding areas, southwest Bowen Basin, Queensland. A unified facies scheme is presented for the shallow marine...
Where’s the Data? Acquisition and Processing of Seismic Data in the PNG Highlands
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
- Authors: Subhash Chandra, Geoff Mansfield, Peter Carver
- Date Published: September 2015
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Seismic exploration in the PNG Highlands poses many challenges both in the acquisition and in the processing of the data. The seismic method is limited by both operational and geophysical technical constraints....
A Time-Slice of the Lake Eyre Basin: Sand / Mud Depositional Geometries In A Diverse Lowstand Endorheic Drylands Setting
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
- Authors: G.A. Wakelin-King, K.J. Amos
- Date Published: September 2015
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Dryland environments of deposition form an important part of the rock record, and understanding the processes governing sediment distribution is important for predicting their reservoir, seal, and migration pathway properties. A cross-discipline coll...
Petrophysical Challenges and Triumpsh in the Gippsland Basin
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
- Authors: A. Mills and K. Kuttan
- Date Published: September 2015
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Early explorers in the Gippsland Basin must have been ecstatic to find the large accumulations of oil and gas in the Top Latrobe reservoirs. These were easily identifiable on logs. What they did not initially appreciate, was that many of the large ga...
Structural Style in the Eastern Papuan Fold Belt, from Wells, Seismic, Maps and Modelling
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
- Authors: Kevin Hill, Ruth Wightman, Louise Munro
- Date Published: September 2015
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Exploration in fold and thrust belts is fundamentally different from that in most other geological provinces as the mountainous terrain makes acquisition of seismic data very expensive and the data are usually poor to moderate quality. In contrast fo...
Depositional Environments and Sediment Dispersal Patterns of the Jurassic Walloon Subgroup in Eastern Australia
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
- Authors: Joel V.R. Yago and Christopher R. Fielding
- Date Published: September 2015
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This paper summarises results from a regional evaluation of depositional environments of the Middle Jurassic Walloon Subgroup in eastern Australia. The Walloon Subgroup (WSG), which extends from the Clarence-Moreton and other basins of coastal SE Que...
A Powerhouse Emerges: Energy for the Next Fifty Years
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
- Authors: Lodwick W. (Ed)
- Date Published: September 2015
Abstract:
Complete publication of all papers from EABS V (2015) - Eastern Australian Basins Symposium...
The Gobe Field, PNG; Influence of Basement Architecture on Fold and Thrust Belt Structural Style
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
- Authors: Armelle Kloppenburg, Kevin C. Hill
- Date Published: September 2015
Abstract:
The Gobe oil- and gas-field is part of the 25 km long Gobe Anticline in the hangingwall of the Gobe Thrust, located at the SE end of the Papuan Fold Belt, Papua New Guinea. This area was subjected to rifting during the Jurassic with large offsets acr...
Regional Assessment of the Toolebuc Formation: A Shale Oil Play in Southwest Queensland
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
- Authors: A. Troup, S. Edwards, B. Talebi, M. Preda
- Date Published: September 2015
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A regional assessment of the Toolebuc Formation has been conducted to evaluate its potential as a shale oil target. This formation shares many characteristics with successful shale oil plays located in the United States of America. This study has foc...
Construction of 2D and 3D Models of the Kutubu Oilfield, Papua New Guinea Fold Belt
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
- Authors: Louise Munro, Kevin Hill, Ruth Wightman
- Date Published: September 2015
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The Kutubu Field in the jungle-covered mountains of PNG, comprises the Hedinia Anticline containing mainly gas and the oil-bearing Iagifu Anticline. Together they hold significant reserves of gas and have produced well over 300MMBBL oil from a basal ...
Basin Screening for Seal Rock Quality – New Zealand Region
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
- Authors: B.D. Field, D.P. Strogen, H.D. Zhu, T.R. Sahoo, A.G. Griffin, M.J.F. Lawrence, C. Martin, R. McDonnell, K. Jones, R. Daniel
- Date Published: September 2015
Abstract:
This study provides the first New Zealand-wide assessment of the hydrocarbon seal rock potential of twenty sedimentary basins and is designed to help evaluate pre-drill seal risk assessment. Seal rock quality has been assessed using key petroleum wel...
Innovative 3D Reservoir Characterisation in the Papua New Guinea Fold Belt
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
- Authors: G. Boyd, V. Donagemma, J. McPherson, M. Dubsky, Y. Sun, S. Barclay
- Date Published: September 2015
Abstract:
The area of interest for this study covers the Papua New Guinea (PNG) Highlands Fold Belt from P’nyang Field in the North-West to Iehi Field in the South-East. The main sequences studied include the primary reservoir units: Iagifu, Hedinia and Digi...
Facies Distribution and Impact on Petroleum Migration in the Canterbury Basin, New Zealand
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
- Authors: T.R. Sahoo, K.F. Kroeger, G. Thrasher, S. Munday, H. Mingard, N. Cozens, M. Hill
- Date Published: September 2015
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The Canterbury Basin is one of the frontier basins of New Zealand and is under active exploration in multiple permits. Sub-commercial gas and condensate discoveries suggest that it has a working petroleum system. Presence and distribution of petroleu...
Seismic and Well Interpretation of Fluvial Clastic and Coal Packages for Stratigraphic Traps Within the Patchawarra Formation, Cooper Basin
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
- Authors: C. Webb
- Date Published: September 2015
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Several stratigraphic traps have been discovered within the Permian-aged Patchawarra Formation on the western flank of the Cooper Basin. These traps contain gas within fluvial sandstones deposited within a sequence of mixed clastic and coal beds. A s...
New Interpretation and Modelling Results for Large Scale Neogene Channel and Fan Systems: Implications for Hydrocarbon Prospectivity, Deepwater Taranaki Basin, New Zealand
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
- Authors: J. Grahame
- Date Published: September 2015
Abstract:
The deep-water Taranaki Basin, located off the northwest coast of New Zealand, is an underexplored, frontier area with one recent exploration well and limited 2D seismic coverage. The basin developed through multiple tectonic cycles, including Mesozo...
The Mananda Anticline, Papua New Guinea; A Third Oil Discovery, Appraisal Programme and Deep Potential
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
- Authors: Scott Keenan, Kevin Hill
- Date Published: September 2015
Abstract:
The Mananda Anticline is one of the larger structures in the Papuan Fold Belt at 40 km long, 15 km wide and up to 2000m high (Figure 1.a). It is over 20 km from the nearest road and airstrip, is deeply karstified, covered in equatorial jungle and is ...