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The Impact of Multi-Azimuth Seismic Over Tidepole
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: D. Dickinson, S. Gagen
- Date Published: August 2013
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The Tidepole gas field, located in WA-5-L on the North West Shelf, Australia was discovered in 1971. The field is covered by the high-resolution Demeter 3D seismic survey acquired over the central North West Shelf in 2003, but further appraisal of th...
Identification of Fluid Flow Features in the Seafloor and Subsurface and their Implications for Prospect and Geohazard Assessment: Examples from the Australian Northwest Shelf
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: J.K. Dirstein, J.V. Hengesh, A.J. Stanley
- Date Published: August 2013
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Automated data extraction and analysis techniques were applied to open-file 3D seismic volumes from the North West Shelf creating visual databases of virtually all peak and trough surfaces. Examples from the Gorgon, Glencoe and Bonaventure 3D seismic...
Insights from the Automated Extraction of Surfaces from the Bunda 3D Seismic Survey
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: J.K. Dirstein, T. Rudge, R. Li, A.J. Stanley
- Date Published: August 2013
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The Lennard Shelf in the Canning Basin has long held the lure of commercial hydrocarbons. Home Energy discovered the Blina Oil Field in 1981, the first of several small fields found during the 1980’s on the shelf. Buru Energy’s predecessor ARC En...
Stable Carbon and Hydrogen Isotopic Compositions of Paleozoic Marine Crude Oils from the Canning Basin: Comparison with Other West Australian Crude Oils
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: D.S. Edwards, C.J. Boreham, J. Chen, E. Grosjean, A.J. Mory, J. Sohn, J.E. Zumberge
- Date Published: August 2013
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This study focuses on the stable carbon (δ13C) and hydrogen (δD) isotopic compositions of bulk, saturated and aromatic hydrocarbons in 19 Paleozoic marine crude oils from the Canning Basin, Western Australia....
Have We Deciphered the Canning? Discovery of the Ungani Oil Field
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: P.B. Edwards, E. Streitberg
- Date Published: August 2013
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The 2011 discovery of the Ungani oil field by Buru Energy has driven a far-reaching change in perceptions of the prospectivity of the Canning Basin of Western Australia. Previously the basin had been portrayed as ‘difficult’, with a number of pot...
Late Authigenic Pyrite – an Indicator of Oil Migration and Entrapment in the Bonaparte Basin, Timor Sea, Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: G. K. Ellis
- Date Published: August 2013
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Late authigenic pyrite cementation is common to abundant in the Middle Jurassic Laminaria and Plover Formation sandstone in numerous wells on the Laminaria High and in the Vulcan Sub-basin of the northern Bonaparte Basin. Pyrite cementation developed...
Precompetitive geophysical data by Geoscience Australia: Uncovering onshore basins in Western Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Pauline ENGLISH, Lidena CARR, Marina COSTELLOE, Ian ROACH, Josef HOLZSCHUH
- Date Published: August 2013
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Geoscience Australia’s Onshore Energy Security Program (OESP, 2006-2011) provided precompetitive geoscientific data and detailed assessments of the potential for onshore energy resources, including oil, gas, geothermal, uranium and thorium. With st...
Late Devonian–Early Carboniferous Tectonostratigraphic Framework for Northern Canning Basin Carbonate Platform Evolution
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: A.D. George, Z. Seyedmehdi, N. Chow
- Date Published: August 2013
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Mixed siliciclastic–carbonate depositional systems of the northern Canning Basin record platform development on synrift fault blocks related to opening and extension of the Fitzroy Sub-basin and subsequent thermal subsidence. The Lennard Shelf plat...
Petroleum Systems of the Canning Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: K.A.R. Ghori
- Date Published: August 2013
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The recent discovery of oil at Ungani, gas at Valhalla, and emerging shale plays have revived exploration in the Canning Basin. A compilation and review of various data from the onshore Canning Basin including petroleum geochemistry, organic petrolog...
The Seismic Stratigraphy of the Kimmeridgian–Tithonian Dupuy Formation in the Barrow Island Area
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: D. Gillam, K. Ehman, H. Posamentier, M. Trupp
- Date Published: August 2013
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The Kimmeridgian–Tithonian Dupuy Formation forms the injection reservoir for the Gorgon Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Injection Project. Understanding the reservoir architecture of the Dupuy Formation is a key aspect to ensuring the success of the injection...
Middle Proterozoic Biostratigraphy and Log Correlations of the Kyalla and Chambers River Formations Beetaloo Sub-basin, Northern Territory, Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: John D. Gorter, Kathleen Grey
- Date Published: August 2013
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The Beetaloo Sub-basin, McArthur Basin, Northern Territory hosts some of the oldest proven hydrocarbon source rocks in Australia in the Mesoproterozoic Roper Group. Oil has been typed to organic matter from the Velkerri Formation, and the younger Kya...
Early Carboniferous Petroleum Source Rocks of the Southeastern Bonaparte Basin, Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: J.D. Gorter, D.M. McKirdy
- Date Published: August 2013
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Palaeontological and geochemical resampling of cores from mineral exploration hole NBF 1002 in the southeastern Bonaparte Basin of northern Australia has led to the reevaluation of previously published source rock identifications and the Early Carbon...
Beyond the Deltas: Late Triassic Isolated Carbonate Build-ups on the Exmouth Plateau, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: S.L. Grain, W.M. Peace, E.C.D. Hooper, E. McCartain, P.J. Massara, N.G. Marshall, S.C. Lang
- Date Published: August 2013
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Upper Triassic isolated carbonate build-ups have emerged as a new exploration play on the outer Exmouth Plateau. The presence of Upper Triassic carbonates in the Northern Carnarvon Basin has been known for many years from Exmouth Plateau well-based s...
The Influence of Exhumation on Petroleum Prospectivity in the Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: P.F. Green, I.R. Duddy
- Date Published: August 2013
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Exhumation tends to be viewed by many as highly negative for hydrocarbon prospectivity, leading to basin models and regional assessments which downplay the possibility that preserved basin sequences have been more deeply buried by section that has su...
Process-oriented gravity modelling in the Browse Basin: constraints on crustal structure, stretching and thermal state
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Ron HACKNEY, Tony WATTS
- Date Published: August 2013
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For many basins along the western Australian margin, knowledge of basement and crustal structure is limited, yet both play an important role in controlling basin evolution. To provide new insight into these fundamental features in the Browse Basin, w...
Detrital Zircon U–Pb Ages from the Paleozoic of the Canning and Officer Basins, Western Australia: Implications for Provenance and Interbasin Connections
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: P.W. Haines, M.T.D. Wingate, C.L. Kirkland
- Date Published: August 2013
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The U–Pb age spectra of detrital zircons separated from sandstone were determined for twelve Canning Basin samples, two western Officer Basin samples, and one basement sample from the centre of the Canning Basin. The basement sample has an early Ne...
Structural Architecture of Australia’s Southwest Continental Margin and Implications for Early Cretaceous Basin Evolution
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: L.S. Hall, A.D. Gibbons, G. Bernardel, J.M. Whittaker, C. Nicholson, N. Rollet, R.D. Müller
- Date Published: August 2013
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The southwest margin of Australia is a complex and relatively poorly studied offshore continental region that includes the Perth and Mentelle basins. Plate reconstruction models, in conjunction with regional seismic and potential field data, demonstr...
A regional assessment of the CO2 storage potential of the Bonaparte Basin, offshore Northern Territory
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Andrew D. HEAP, Alfredo CHIRINOS, Christopher CONSOLI, Karen HIGGINS, , Diane JORGENSEN, Kamal KHIDER, David LESCINSKY, Robbie MORRIS, Victor NGUYEN
- Date Published: August 2013
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The Australian Government will complete a regional study of the greenhouse gas storage prospectivity for the southern Bonaparte Basin, offshore Northern Territory. The study identified a large storage capacity within a safe and secure stratigraphic s...
Analysis of Geobody Geometries within the Fluvio-Deltaic Mungaroo Formation, NW Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: G. Heldreich, J. Redfern, K. Gerdes, B. Legler, S. Taylor, D. Hodgetts, B. Williams
- Date Published: August 2013
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The Triassic fluvio-deltaic Mungaroo Formation is the main reservoir in the multi-TCF gas play offshore North Carnarvon Basin, NW Shelf, Western Australia. The study area is located NW of the Exmouth and Barrow sub-basins and lies within the Kangaroo...
Petrel Sub-basin 3D Geological Modelling and Simulation for CO2 Storage Assessment
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Karen HIGGINS, Victor NGUYEN, Alfredo CHIRINOS, Christopher CONSOLI, Diane JORGENSEN, Kamal KHIDER, David LESCINSKY, Robbie MORRIS
- Date Published: August 2013
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Geoscience Australia has recently completed the Bonaparte CO2 Storage project, a regional assessment of the CO2 storage potential of the Petrel Sub-basin. In 2009, two greenhouse gas assessment areas were released, PTRL-01 and PTRL-02, under the Offs...
Application of carbon isotope chemostratigraphy as a chronostratigraphic tool in Upper Devonian carbonate slopes: Lennard Shelf, Canning Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Kelly HILLBUN, David KATZ, Ted E. PLAYTON, Evan LEWARCH, Kate TRINAJSTIC, Eric TOHVER, Peter HAINES, Jeroen HANSMA, Roger HOCKING, Joseph KIRSCHVINK, Peter CAWOOD, Kliti GRICE, Maodu YAN, Ken RATCLIFFE, Sergei PISAREVSKY, Paul MONTGOMERY, Peter WARD
- Date Published: August 2013
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Chronostratigraphic correlations are integral for sequence stratigraphic frameworks and subsurface reservoir characterization, however the generation of such frameworks are challenging due to dataset limitations and depositional heterogeneity.The Can...
Impacts of Igneous Intrusions on Source and Reservoir Potential in Prospective Sedimentary Basins Along the Western Australian Continental Margin
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: S.P. Holford, N. Schofield, C. A.-L. Jackson, C. Magee, P.F. Green, I.R. Duddy
- Date Published: August 2013
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Many prospective basins in rifted continental margins, including those located along the western Australian continental margin, contain extrusive and intrusive rocks generated during rifting and particularly during continental breakup. Intrusive igne...
Detailed Stratigraphic Architecture of the Macedon Member Turbidite Reservoirs of the Stybarrow Field, NW Australia: An Integration of Well, Production and 3D/4D Seismic Data
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: C. Hurren, G. O’Halloran, G. Duncan, R. Hill1
- Date Published: August 2013
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The Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous Macedon Member turbidite sandstones of the lower Barrow Group form the reservoir intervals of the Stybarrow Oil Field in the Southern Exmouth Sub-basin. Individual sand units range from a few metres up to 20 m in ...
Unlocking the Origin of Hydrocarbons in the Central Part of the Rankin Trend, Northern Carnarvon Basin, Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: D. Jablonski, J. Preston, S. Westlake, C.M. Gumley
- Date Published: August 2013
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The Rankin Trend has proven to be one of the most prospective areas within the Westralian Superbasin. It has a wide variety of hydrocarbon trap types, varying from simple structural with a single hydrocarbon-water contact to complex reservoir-trappin...
Late Triassic – Mid-Jurassic to Neogene Extensional Fault Systems in the Exmouth Sub-Basin, Northern Carnarvon Basin, North West Shelf, Western Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: S. Jitmahantakul, K. McClay
- Date Published: August 2013
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This paper documents a detailed tectono-stratigraphic analysis of five merged 3D seismic surveys that cover the greater part of the Exmouth Sub-basin in the Northern Carnarvon Basin on the North West Shelf of Australia. ...
Influence of Early Cretaceous paleotopography on deposition and the sealing potential of the South Perth Shale, Vlaming Sub-basin
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Stephen JOHNSTON, Chris SOUTHBY, Irina BORISSOVA, Megan LECH, Chris LEWIS, Diane JORGENSEN, Liuqi WANG
- Date Published: August 2013
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Geoscience Australia is currently conducting a study under the National CO2 Infrastructure Plan (NCIP) to assess suitability of the Vlaming Sub-basin for CO2 storage. It involves characterisation of the potential seal, the Early Cretaceous South Pert...
Analysis of Seabed Features and Shallow Stratigraphy for Indications of Fault Reactivation and Seepage: Results from the 2012 Marine Surveys in the Southern Perth and Bonaparte Basins
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: D. Jorgensen, I. Borissova, G. Bernardel, A. Carroll, C. Consoli, H. Dulfer, K. Higgins, T. Nicholas, K. Picard
- Date Published: August 2013
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In 2012, Geoscience Australia carried out marine surveys in the Vlaming Sub-basin (Perth Basin; GA0334) and Petrel Sub-basin (Bonaparte Basin; SOL5463). The purpose of these surveys was to gather pre-competitive geophysical and biophysical data on th...
Present-day Seismicity and Potential Strike-slip Reactivation in Northwest WA
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: M. Keep
- Date Published: August 2013
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A number of sub-parallel, rhomboidal basinal features identified along the northwestern coastline of Western Australia occur in areas where present-day seismicity indicates strike-slip failure mechanisms dominate. This paper examines the rhomboidal f...
The Exploration History of the Laurel BasinCentred Gas System Canning Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: D. Kingsley, E. Streitberg
- Date Published: August 2013
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Although evidence for a major gas resource in the onshore Canning Basin was present in wells drilled as early as the 1960s, the opportunity to develop these resources was not recognised until increasing oil and domestic gas prices stimulated a resurg...
Northern Carnarvon Basin Hydrocarbon Recoveries using WAPIMS
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: E. Kopsen
- Date Published: August 2013
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The production history of producing and abandoned hydrocarbon fields in the Northern Carnarvon Basin has been used to derive the likely Technical Ultimate Recoveries from all field developments to a reference date of 30 November 2011....