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Hydrocarbon potential of the Northern Australian Continental Margin – Arc Collision Zone – Insights from a new regional 2D survey
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Anand TRIPATHI, Rajesh RAJAGOPAL, Adrian WILLIAMS
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
Long offset regional 2D seismic surveysrecently acquired by PGS across the Timor/Tanimbar Trough have provided previously unseen detailed imaging of the continent/arc collision zone between northern Australia and Indonesia.New broadbandseismic data w...
A review of the seismic stratigraphy and hydrocarbon potential of the Triassic sequence inthe Timor Sea region
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Anand TRIPATHI, Rajesh RAJAGOPAL, Adrian WILLIAMS
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
The petroleum potential of the Triassic section has long been established in the Carnarvon Basin, as demonstrated by giant gas/condensate discoveries on the Rankin Platform and Exmouth Plateau.Elsewhere on the Northwest Shelf, however, exploration ef...
Changes in palaeoenvironmental conditions in Late Devonian reef systems from the Canning Basin, WA – A biomarker and stable isotope approach
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Svenja TULIPANI, Kliti GRICE, Paul F. GREENWOOD, Peter HAINES, Roger E. SUMMONS, Michael E. BÖTTCHER, Clinton B. FOSTER, Martijn WOLTERING, Ted PLAYTON
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
During the Late Devonian one of the biggest mass extinctions in Earth’s history wiped out the extensive reef systems prominent in that era. The most severe loss of speciesoccurred at the Frasnian –Famennian (F-F) boundary; however also the Giveti...
Discovery to Development – A Subsurface Case History of the Kitan Oil Field, Timor Sea
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: D. Wheller, G. Ellis, Y. Suhardiman, R. Yokote, D. Selvaggi, J. Derrij, G. Maniscalco
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
The Kitan Oil Field is located in the northern Bonaparte Basin within the Joint Petroleum Development Area (JPDA), an area jointly administered by Timor-Leste and Australia. The Kitan structure is a Jurassic E-W trending tilted fault block. The Kitan...
Tectonic Evolution and Continental Fragmentation of the Southern West Australian Margin
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: J.M. Whittaker, J.A. Halpin, S.E. Williams, L.S. Hall, R. Gardner, M.E. Kobler, N.R. Daczko, R.D. Müller
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
Continental rocks dredged in 2011 show that the Batavia Knoll and Gulden Draak Knoll, two prominent bathymetric features located ~1600 km offshore Perth, are micro-continents. Plate tectonic modeling reconstructs the pre-rift position of these knolls...
Newly-recognised Continental Fragments Rifted from the West Australian Margin
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: S.E. Williams, J.M. Whittaker, R. D. Müller
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
The southwest Australian margin formed at the nexus of rifting and breakup between India, Australia and Antarctica in the Early Cretaceous. Studying the basin evolution along this margin has been hampered by a lack of data from the offshore Perth Aby...
The Stratigraphy of the Pyrenees Member of the Ravensworth, Crosby and Stickle Fields, Exmouth Sub-Basin, Northwest Australia – A Wave- and Storm-Dominated Shelf-Margin Delta
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: M. Woodall, C. Stark
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
The Pyrenees Member of the Lower Barrow Group within the Exmouth Sub-basin, offshore Western Australia, forms part of the Pyrenees Shelf Margin Delta which constitutes the highly productive reservoirs of the Ravensworth, Crosby and Stickle oil and ga...
Structural Interpretation of the Northern Canning Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Y. Zhan, A.J. Mory
- Date Published: August 2013
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Seismic profiles in the northern Canning Basin reveal a major WNW-oriented strike-slip fault zone in the Fitzroy Trough. The zone bisects the trough and was generated during the Triassic–Jurassic Fitzroy Transpression. It contains likely flower str...
Diary of Events
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
2013 Conferences and Courses ...
Industry News: What WA Farmers want: A Slice of the Shale
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
The influential WA Farmers Federation has no objection to fraccing on agricultural lands to release Australia's latent shale gas resources, but the peak industry group says it would ideally like its members to enjoy the same rights as farmers in the ...
Industry News: Update on the ASEG-PESA 2013 Conference Preparations
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
The organising committee and many helpers are working at full pace to deliver a conference that they hope will provide delegates with their very own eureka moment! Registration is open and the early bird full conference pricing ($995 for members) clo...
Industry News: Government Torpedoes Ningaloo Reef Exploration Program
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
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Apache Energy has hit headwinds in its bid to conduct an oil and gas exploration program near Ningaloo Reef off north Western Australia with the Federal Government rejecting the application for seismic activity close to the marine reserve.
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Industry News: Pickard Questions Whether Billions Will Flow to Australia
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
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Shell Australia boss Ann Pickard says that unless Australia finds an effective way of curtailing spiralling costs, stimulating productivity and stabilising regulatory uncertainty, the country's petroleum industry risks the prospect of becoming a shri...
Industry News: Kimberley Activists ‘green-light’ FLNG for Browse
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
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Environmentalists campaigning against Woodside's controversial LNG plant at James Price Point will support floating LNG as a compromise solution to the beleaguered Browse project going ahead offshore. ...
Industry News: Call for New Native Title Framework
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
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Australia must reform legal and taxation laws that stop indigenous people from benefitting fully from the nation's mining boom, leading indigenous scholar Professor Marcia Langton AM told an Indigenous Business, Enterprise and Corporations Conference...
Industry News: AAPG 2013 Geosciences Technology Workshops
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
Members have the opportunity to collaborate and learn at an AAPG workshop in 2013. ...
Industry News: API Proposal Will Impact Australia
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
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The American Petroleum Institute (API) has called on the US Department of Energy to approve and fast-track the export of liquefied natural gas "without delay"....
Industry News: Geoscientist Unemployment Rate Doubles
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
The unemployment rate for geoscientists in Australia doubled in the six months to 31 December 2012 as a direct result of the downturn in Australia's mining fortunes in the second half of the year. ...
Industry News: Gas Deposits a Lottery for Indigenous Benefits
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
Leading West Australian Aboriginal MP Ben Wyatt has called for greater empowerment of Indigenous communities in self-determination and governance at the December national Indigenous Business, Enterprise and Corporations Conference, hosted by The Univ...
Company News: Award of Exploration Acreage in the Maryborough Basin
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
Blue Energy with its JV partner Beach Energy were granted two exploration tenements, ATP674P and ATP733P, in Queensland's Maryborough Basin in early January....
Company News: AWE to Drill in New Zealand
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
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AWE stated on 29 January that the PMP 38158 (Tui) JV has approved the drilling of two additional wells in the second half of 2013: the Pateke-4H infill development well and the Oi exploration well. ...
Company News: Chevron Goes Big Game Hunting and Fishing on Shale Safari
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
Chevron's big game hunting endeavours in South Africa, joining the shale safari in partnership with Toronto-listed Falcon Oil and Gas, are giving the supermajor potential future gas-to-liquid options in Africa's biggest economy, flowing from its clos...
Company News: DownUnder GeoSolutions Opens London Office
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
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Perth-founded geoscience company, DownUnder GeoSolutions, recently opened an office in central London, which is its seventh international office. ...
Company News: Lakes Oil Spikes as Gina Rinehart Buys into Oil and Gas Industry
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
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Lakes Oil has watched its share price soar 130% since mining magnate Gina Rinehart threw the embattled Australian explorer a lifeline, securing a diluted 18.6% stake in the company in buying $4.25 MM of unsecured notes as part of an extended capital ...
Company News: WHL Energy Cashed Up
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
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Australian oil and gas company WHL Energy announced in January that it remains well positioned to fund its current work programs with $8.205 MM in cash available at the end of December. ...
Technology: Stress from Seismic
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: John K. Davidson, Predrill Stresses International Pty Ltd
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
The most important variable in the conventional and unconventional gas and oil sectors is the direction and magnitude of the horizontal stresses approaching and at the target horizons. Why rely on sparsely measured data which are insufficient to dete...
Aussies Overseas: Aleator Energy Looks to Ukrainian Production
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
Aleator Energy CEO Wal Muir may well have rolled the dice when he decided to leave AWT at the end of October last year, but as he explained to PESA News Resources (PNR) it was a calculated decision based on the lure of highly prospective acreage in U...
Aussies Overseas: Hawkley Achieves Commercial Flow Rates
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
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Australian company, Hawkley, has successfully tested commercial gas flow rates from its Sorochynska well 202, Ukraine, with high condensate content....
Aussies Overseas: Ophir Taps into Ghana
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
Abstract:
In December the Contractor Group executed a farmout of a portion of their interests in the Offshore Accra Contract Area, Ghana....
Company Profile: Polarcus in for the Long Haul
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Date Published: February 2013
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Polarcus CEO Rolf Ronningen rates 2012 as a year of important milestone. Last year, for the first time in the life of the Dubai-based marine geophysical operator, it put its full fleet of eight vessels into play. 2012 also saw the company's first for...