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Reservoir Engineering and Simulation for CCS
- Publication Name: PESA/CSIRO CCS Knowledge Transfer Series
- Authors: Jonathan Ennis-King (CSIRO)
- Date Published: October 2023
Abstract:
The practice of reservoir engineering and simulation in CCS begins with the standard physics of multiphase flow in porous media, but with CO2-specific properties to be represented, especially the solubility of CO2 in brine and the matching changes in...
Thermophysics and Multiphase Flow in CCS
- Publication Name: PESA/CSIRO CCS Knowledge Transfer Series
- Authors: Samuel Jackston (CSIRO)
- Date Published: October 2023
Abstract:
In the second talk of the CCS Knowledge Transfer Series, we will discuss the physics and thermodynamics of CO2 flow in relation to CCS. We will highlight key differences, in terms of phase behaviour, between CO2 and other fluids more typically encoun...
2022 Exploration & Appraisal Year in Review
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Adam Craig
- Date Published: September 2023
Abstract:
Petroleum exploration activity in Australia decreased in 2022. The total number of exploration wells drilled and expenditure across Federal offshore and state jurisdictions decreased from 2021 levels. The number of exploration permits awarded and acr...
Oil Jumps to 10-Month High As Saudi Arabia Extends Voluntary Cuts
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Jorge Leon
- Date Published: September 2023
Abstract:
Saudi Arabia announced in early September that they will extend the 1 million bpd voluntary cuts in oil production until December 2023. This is a clear indication that oil prices trump volumes for the Kingdom....
Conventional Exploration Grows, but Discovered Volumes Remain Elusive
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Henrik Fiskadal
- Date Published: September 2023
Abstract:
Spending on conventional oil & gas exploration is rebounding and expected to top $50 billion this year, the highest since 2019, but operators are still waiting for the results they had hoped for. Rystad Energy research shows that despite the rising i...
North Sea Oil & Gas Industry Booms With Increasing Production & Investments
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Dale Granger (ed.)
- Date Published: September 2023
Abstract:
Norway and the UK have overcome recent challenges and are on course to achieve significant milestones due to notable increases in investments, exploration success and production. Solid oil & gas production from the region is also providing indispensa...
Commonwealth Carbon Capture Exploration Release a ‘Boost to New Net Zero Industry’
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Dale Granger (ed.)
- Date Published: September 2023
Abstract:
The oil & gas sector lauded the Commonwealth for opening up new areas of Australia to explore for suitable carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) sites which APPEA said would help reduce emissions and create jobs in a growing sector. Australi...
Carnarvon’s Path to Paradise is Paved With Pavo Aspirations
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Dale Granger
- Date Published: September 2023
Abstract:
Carnarvon Energy has shifted focus back to its core business of exploration with the spotlight specifically on Pavo, the biggest oil discovery in Australia in 2022 which is located only 40km away from Dorado presenting superb tie-back potential to th...
The Juicy Geology That Has Pavo Pioneers Salivating
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Dale Granger (ed.)
- Date Published: September 2023
Abstract:
Roisin McGee, Geoscience Manager at Carnarvon Energy, has unpacked for PESA News the geological attractions that resulted in the prolific Pavo discovery. Like Dorado, the Pavo structure was created by the erosion of the early Triassic-aged Dorado Can...
South Australia Has Opened its Doors to Hydrogen Exploration
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Elinor Alexander - South Australian Department for Energy & Mining
- Date Published: September 2023
Abstract:
South Australia is currently the focus of company natural hydrogen exploration in Australia. Why the current interest?...
Seismic Snapshot – PESA News Issue 170
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Dale Granger (ed.)
- Date Published: September 2023
Abstract:
Seismic Snapshot
- Report Finds Growing Role for Natural Gas in Fuelling WA Economy
- Shearwater Announces Seismic on Steroids With NVIDIA GPU-Acceleration
- Tamboran Intersects 90-Metres High Quality Mid Velkerri B...
Jon Cocker Paddles In As Winner of the Barry Goldstein Medal
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Dale Granger (ed.)
- Date Published: September 2023
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South Australia PESA member and Beach Energy Manager of Geophysics Jon Cocker has been named winner of the Barry Goldstein Medal for Innovation, Collaboration and Communication in Geoscience for outstanding creativity in the field of onshore seismic ...
Site Selection and Characterisation – What’s Different About CCS?
- Publication Name: PESA/CSIRO CCS Knowledge Transfer Series
- Authors: Tess Dance (CSIRO)
- Date Published: September 2023
Abstract:
The goal for carbon dioxide storage site selection and characterisation is to find a suitable location where an effective reservoir exists, matched to a CO2 source in both volume and injection rate. To ensure the CO2 is safely contained, the relative...
CABS IV Special Publications Volume 1
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Date Published: July 2023
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The Camooweal seismic survey extends the known Carrara Sub-basin sedimentary packages
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: G. Butcher, C. Southby, L. Carr, T. Fomin, S. Edwards, A. Troup, C. Carson, A. Bailey, E. Grosjean, P. Henson
- Date Published: July 2023
Abstract:
The Camooweal deep-crustal seismic reflection survey (GSQ Open Data Portal SS095590) was acquired in 2019 by the Geological Survey of Queensland (GSQ) as part of the Queensland Government’s Strategic Resources Exploration Program (SREP). The survey...
Combining the strength of Petroleum and Mineral System knowledge to advance exploration within the Critical Mineral space
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Camac, BA; Krapf, C; Fabris, A
- Date Published: July 2023
Abstract:
Both the petroleum and mineral industries have relied on proven methods when exploring for economic deposits. All methods have their origins in a deep understanding in geological principles, so it’s no surprise that there are many analogous process...
Exploring for the Future – Officer Musgrave project update
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: L.K. Carr, P. Henson, L. Wang, A. Bailey, T. Fomin, C. Boreham, D. Edwards, C. Southby, N. Symington, M. Smith, L. Halas, T. Jones
- Date Published: July 2023
Abstract:
The Officer-Musgrave project investigates the groundwater and energy resource potential of the Officer Basin and neighbouring Musgrave Province near the junction of South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Groundwater investigat...
The Proterozoic greater McArthur Basin – New ways of looking at a frontier resource-rich basin
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: A.S. Collins, M.L. Blades, J. Farkaš, D. Subarkah, A. Nixon, S. Glorie, B. Yang, S. Holford, R. King, C. Spandler, S. Gilbert, A. Deepak, J. Soares, Y. Madavan, A. Jarrett, T. Munson, X. Cao, N. Flament, D. Hasterok, R.D. Müller, S. Pisarevsky, Sanzhong Li, R. Frei
- Date Published: July 2023
Abstract:
The greater McArthur Basin of northern Australia is a vast frontier exploration province for basin-hosted resources, both hydrocarbons (oil and natural gas) and metals (critical metals [e.g. rare earth elements, Co], Cu, Pb, Zn and Au). This basin sy...
Quick-look core-logging, a cost-effective way to develop a regional depositional model, Patchawarra Formation, Cooper Basin
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: C. Cubitt, Rob Kirk, and Sharon Tiainen
- Date Published: July 2023
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The early Permian Patchawarra Formation is one of the principal gas producing intervals of the South Australian Cooper Basin (Government of South Australia., 2022). The gross depositional environment (GDE) for this interval is reported to be dominant...
On the origin of quartz in the Velkerri Fm: implications for exploration and production in the Beetaloo Sub-basin and the Si cycle in the Mesoproterozoic
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Claudio Delle Piane, Kitty L. Milliken, Vincent Crombez, Laure Martin, and William Rickard
- Date Published: July 2023
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The Beetaloo Sub-basin is a concealed, composite depocenter and a component of a group of intra-cratonic Paleoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic sedimentary basins collectively described as the Greater McArthur Basin. The Sub-basin hosts unconventional a...
Base Metal Mineralisation of the Rover Field, Northern Territory
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Farias P, Whelan J, Reno B, Cross A, Huston D, Maas R, Mernagh T, Danyushevsky L
- Date Published: July 2023
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The Warramunga Province of the Palaeoproterozoic North Australian Craton, in the central Northern Territory, represents a prospective terrane for mineral exploration. A well-known example is the Tennant Creek mineral field, which has a rich history o...
New metal isotope techniques to explore past depositional environments of the Centralian Superbasin, Australia
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Juraj Farkas, Alan Collins, Stefan Löhr, Charles Verdel, Morgan Blades, Chris Holmden, Susanne Schmid, Yuexiao Shao, Darwinaji Subarkah, Robert Klaebe, and Shaun Yardley
- Date Published: July 2023
Abstract:
The Centralian Superbasin (CSB) is a ~ 2 million km2 Neoproterozoic to early Palaeozoic (ca. 850−400 Ma) intracratonic depositional system, which stretches across four states (WA, NT, SA and QLD) and is of fundamental scientific and economic signif...
Possible Late Mesoproterozoic or earliest Neoproterozoic glacial deposits, Beetaloo Sub-basin, Northern Territory
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: John D. Gorter, Darren Ferdinando
- Date Published: July 2023
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In the Beetaloo Sub-basin, the Kyalla Formation is unconformably overlain by a late Mesoproterozoic to early Neoproterozoic sandstone to mudstone succession comprising three formations/units: the lower Jamison sandstone, the upper Jamison sandstone, ...
Oodjuongari – A possible impact crater in the Beetaloo Sub-basin
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: John D. Gorter, Brent Jackson, and Peter W. Haines
- Date Published: July 2023
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The Oodjuongari Structure (-16.636, 134.205), seen on aeromagnetic data as a circular feature (Figures 2, 3a and 5), and traversed by four 2D seismic reflection profiles (Figures 6 and 7), is interpreted as a possible impact crater concealed by super...
Natural Hydrogen and Helium Gas Exploration in the Amadeus Basin
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Lance Holmes, Sandra Menpes, and Matt Densley
- Date Published: July 2023
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As the world transitions to a low carbon future and global helium consumption grows, the Amadeus Basin is emerging as a prime location for high helium and natural hydrogen gas exploration. With a regionally extensive evaporite seal, and significant h...
In situ Rb–Sr dating and trace element analysis of glauconite-rich strata from the Arumbera Sandstone, Amadeus Basin
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Loyola, C, Farkas, J, Verdel, C, Gilbert, S , Holmes, L, Hissey, E, Loehr, S, Brock, G. Shields, G, Edgoose, C, Redaa, A, Blades, ML, and Collins, AS
- Date Published: July 2023
Abstract:
The Rb-Sr dating technique is among the most widely used geochronological tool available in earth and planetary sciences. The method is based on the radioactive decay of 87Rb to 87Sr via a negative beta decay (the emission of an electron), with a hal...
Low-temperature thermal history of the McArthur Basin: Influence of the Cambrian Kalkarindji Large Igneous Province on hydrocarbon maturation
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Angus L. Nixon, Stijn Glorie, Derrick Hasterok, Alan S. Collins, Nicholas Fernie, and Geoff Fraser
- Date Published: July 2023
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The greater McArthur Basin of the North Australian Craton is one of the very few places on Earth where extensive hydrocarbons are preserved that were generated from Mesoproterozoic source rocks, prior to the development of extensive multicellular lif...
The Lucas Outlier: a Western Australian update
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Normore, LS; Haines, PW; Wingate, MTD; Dent, LM; Fielding, IOH; and Lu, Y
- Date Published: July 2023
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The Lucas Outlier was previously interpreted as an outlying component of the Canning Basin that crossed the Western Australian border into the Northern Territory (Hocking, 1994). Recent fieldwork and detrital geochronology (Wingate et al., 2021) now ...
The hidden Proterozoic successions of the Barkly region
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Chris Southby, Nadege Rollet, Chris Carson, Lidena Carr, Paul Henson, Grace Butcher, Tanya Fomin, Ross Costelloe, Michael Doublier, and Dorothy Close
- Date Published: July 2023
Abstract:
The Barkly 2D Deep Crustal Reflection Seismic Survey (L212) was acquired in 2019 by Geoscience Australia as a major objective of the Australian Governments’ multi-year $225m Exploring for the Future (EFTF) program in partnership with, and co-funded...
Geothermal parameters of in situ Rb–Sr dating on Proterozoic shales and its applications
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Darwinaji Subarkah, Angus L. Nixon, Monica Jimenez, Alan S. Collins, Morgan L. Blades, Juraj Farkas, Sarah E. Gilbert, and Simon Holford
- Date Published: July 2023
Abstract:
Recent developments in tandem laser ablation-mass spectrometer technology have been shown to be capable of separating parent and daughter isotopes of the same mass online. Consequently, beta decay chronometers can now be applied to the geological arc...