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A model for gas distribution in coals of the Lower Hunter, Sydney Basin
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: S. Thomson, P. Hatherly, S. Hennings and J. Sandford
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
Gas content and gas composition in the Permian coals of the Lower Hunter, Sydney Basin, show evidence of distinct layering that can be attributed to the tectonic history of the coal measures and the effects of meteoric waters. Essentially, coals clos...
Provenance of Eocene Latrobe Group sandstones in the Tuna field, Gippsland Basin
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: U. Schacht
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
Latrobe Group sandstones host the most important hydrocarbon accumulations in Gippsland Basin, although little is known about the provenance of these sandstones. Sediment provenance can exert a significant influence on reservoir quality by controllin...
Palaeo-oil zones in Eastern View Coal Measures reservoirs from the Bass Basin
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: R.H. Kempton, P.J. Eadington, K. Liu, C.J. Boreham, S. Gong and H. Volk
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
Current interest in the oil potential of the Bass Basin is challenged by the predominance of gas accumulations at Yolla, White Ibis, Pelican and Trefoil. A signifi cant role for oil in the petroleum systems of the Eastern View Coal Measures (EVCM) is...
Hydrocarbon potential of the northern extension of the Oaklands Basin, Griffith, NSW
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: M. Fahey
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
In 2006, the NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) acquired two 25 km long seismic lines (DPI 06-01 and DPI 06-02) to the west and southwest of Griffi th, NSW, to investigate the northern extension of the Oaklands Graben as interpreted by Gunn (...
Review of geological storage opportunities for carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Victoria
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: C.M. Gibson-Poole, S. Edwards, R.P. Langford and B. Vakarelov
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
The Victorian State Government is committed to developing the Latrobe Valley brown coal resources in an environmentally responsible manner. One possible technology for low emission industries is carbon capture and storage (CCS), in particular geologi...
Forward prediction of spatial temperature variation from 3D geology models
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: H. Gibson, K. Stüwe, R. Seikel, D. FitzGerald, P. Calcagno, D. Argast, P. McInerney and A. Budd
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
An accessible method is now available for rapid calculation of the spatial variation of temperature directly from a 3D geology model. The need for a tool of this nature stems from Australia’s emerging industries in the exploration and production of...
Pre-competitive geoscience for geothermal exploration and development in Australia: Geoscience Australia’s Onshore Energy Security Program and the Geothermal Energy Project
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: A.R. Budd, F.L. Holgate, E. Gerner, B.F. Ayling and A. Barnicoat
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
Work conducted at the Bureau of Mineral Resources (now Geoscience Australia) in the early 1990s was instrumental in bringing Hot Rocks geothermal research and development to Australia. Following the announcement of the Federal Government’s Energy I...
Unravelling the complex structural history of the Penola Trough – revealing the St George Fault
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: P. Boult, P. Lyon, B. Camac, S. Hunt and H. Zwingmann
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
The Penola Trough is a NW–SE trending half-graben structure bounded to the south by the large Hungerford / Kalangadoo (H/K) fault system. Several major basement cutting faults within the Penola Trough including the St George Fault have exerted sign...
Mid–Late Cretaceous organic-rich rocks from the eastern Bight Basin: implications for prospectivity
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: J.M Totterdell, H.I.M. Struckmeyer, C.J. Boreham, C.H. Mitchell, E. Monteil and B.E.Bradshaw
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
A recent Geoscience Australia geological sampling survey in the Great Australian Bight has provided new evidence for the presence of potential oil-prone source rocks in the Bight Basin. Exploratory drilling in the Bight Basin has historically concent...
Evaluating the hydrocarbon potential of the western Cooper/Eromanga region: Can ‘old’ oil be preserved?
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: T. Bernecker
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
In the context of declining oil supply, the Australian Government provided Geoscience Australia with funding for the 2006–2011 Energy Security Programme. The purpose of this programme is to supply pre-competitive data and information to stimulate e...
Inversion tectonics and the structural development of the Elk/Antelope gas field, Papua New Guinea
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: A. Goldberg and D. Holland
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
The Elk/Antelope Gas Field is located in a complex zone of deformation at the front of the easternmost Papuan Fold Belt. The structure straddles a major change in the orientation of the foldbelt from a WNW/ESE strike in the west, to NW/SE strike in t...
A new generation of digital structure and facies maps for Taranaki Basin: Progress towards a 4D Taranaki Model
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: M. Arnot, J. Baur, K. Bland, H. Bushe, R. Funnell, B. Ilg, C. Jones, P. King, B. Leitner, M. Masey, M. Milner, H.E. Morgans, L. Roncaglia and H. Zhu
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
The Taranaki Basin covers an area of approximately 100,000 km2 and is currently New Zealand’s only petroleum producing basin (Fig.1). In the mid-1990s a series of structural and paleogeographic maps were constructed from available seismic and well ...
Exploring the greater Taranaki Basin north of the established hydrocarbon fairway
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: K. Bierbrauer, T.J. Herdy, A. Rek and K.L. Mills
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
Origin and OMV are currently exploring petroleum exploration permits (PEPs) 38618 and 38619, which are located offshore at the northern Taranaki Basin/southern Northland Basin, New Zealand. This paper provides an update on recent exploration activiti...
Mellish Rise and adjacent deep water plateaus off northeast Australia: new evidence for continental basement from Cenozoic micropalaeontology and sedimentary geology
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: K.L. Hoffmann, N.F. Exon, P.G. Quilty and C.S. Findlay
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
The east coast of Australia was dominated by prolonged periods of subduction and accretion during the Palaeozoic–Mesozoic (Scheibner & Veevers 2000). Widespread rifting and seafloor spreading replaced the compressional regime from around 120 Ma (Ea...
The increasing significance of coal seam gas in eastern Australia
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: G. Baker and S. Slater
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
The commercial production of coal seam gas (CSG) in Australia commenced in 1996. Since then its production has ramped up significantly, particularly in the last five years, to become an integral part of the upstream gas industry in eastern Australia....
A minimum-strain approach to reducing the structural uncertainty in poor 2D seismic data, Gambier Embayment, Otway Basin, Australia
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: P. Boult, B. Freeman, G. Yielding, S. Menpes and L.J. Diekman
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
In faulted reservoirs, structural uncertainty arises from two major sources of error; the systematic error of the seismic method and the human error of the interpreter. When the magnitude of fault displacements is greater than the distance between sa...
Clean coal technologies: challenges and opportunities for eastern Australia
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: L.W. Gurba
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
It is now widely understood and accepted that coal has will continue to form part of the world's future energy mix and there is also a growing acceptance that carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) must be applied for coal-based technologies to be ...
Aquifers and coal: storing Queensland’s carbon dioxide
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: J.J. Draper
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
Assessment of the state’s potential for geological carbon dioxide (CO2) storage will underpin the future commercial deployment of large-scale clean coal technology projects in Queensland. In particular, the integration of carbon capture ...
The Carrack-Caravel prospect complex: a possible sleeping giant in the deep water Canterbury Basin, New Zealand
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: W.G. Mogg, K. Aurisch, R. O’Leary and G.P. Pass
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
In 2005 and 2006, Origin Energy Resources (NZ) Ltd (Origin) was awarded petroleum exploration permits PEP 38262 and PEP 38264 covering an area of more than 36,000 km2 in the offshore Canterbury Basin, New Zealand. Previous exploration of t...
A new stratigraphic/structural interpretation helps focus exploration in the Poolowanna Trough, Eromanga Basin, South Australia
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: P. Boult
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
The Poolowanna Trough is a Jurassic to Late Cretaceous trending intra-cratonic depocentre which straddles the border between South Australia and the Northern Territory. It overlies the Permo-Triassic Pedirka and Simpson basins and is characterised by...
Analysis and management of seismic risks associated with engineered geothermal system operations in South Australia
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: C.P. Morelli, and M. Malavazos
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
In 2005, the Petroleum and Geothermal Group (PG), Division of Minerals and Energy Resources (MER), and the Department of Primary Industries and Resources SA (PIRSA) funded a report into evaluation of the seismic hazard generated at Geodynamics’ eng...
Introducing the Jacaranda Ridge Sandstone: A new play in the Penola Trough: Otway Basin, Australia
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: B.A. Camac, and P.J. Boult
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
The informally named Sawpit Sandstone Member, Upper and Lower Sawpit Shale members and the Jacaranda Ridge Sandstone Member occur within lower part of the Berriasian–Valanginian Pretty Hill Formation of the Otway Basin. The Jacaranda Ridge Sandston...
Structural exploration in the Papua New Guinea Fold Belt
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: K.C. Hill, K. Bradey, J. Iwanec, N. Wilson and K. Lucas
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
For 60 years oil companies blindly drilled the big surface bumps in the Papua New Guinea (PNG) fold and thrust belt and eventually found large oil and gas reserves that went on production in 1992. Since then we have greatly increased our understandin...
Assessment of oil and gas reserves discovered within the Taranaki Basin 1955–2000, and potential undiscovered reserves
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: C. Skinner
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
The Taranaki Basin (Fig. 1) was the first sedimentary basin in New Zealand explored for hydrocarbons. It covers over 100,000 km2 on the west coast of the North Island New Zealand, and is located mainly offshore (King & Thrasher 1996). The ...
Glauconite ages from Late Cretaceous reservoir sandstones of the Papuan Basin
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: H. Zwingmann, T. Allan, K. Liu, D. Holland, D. Leech
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
Exploration for petroleum depends on construction of models that describe the time-temperature framework of how a prospective basin has evolved. A critical element in the construction of such models is the correlation of sedimentary units between wid...
Paleogeographic reconstructions for the Oligocene transition from extension to contraction along the eastern Taranaki Basin margin, New Zealand
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: A. Tripathi and P.J.J. Kamp
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
Structures associated with the wedge of basement overthrust into the Taranaki Basin along the Taranaki Fault are regarded as hydrocarbon plays and have been tested by drilling through the tip of the overthrust. The timing of initiation of reverse dis...
Modelling petroleum generation, migration and accumulation in the central Bass Basin, Tasmania, Australia
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: N. Arian, P.R. Tingate and R.R. Hillis
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
Petroleum generation, expulsion, migration and accumulation have been modelled along two sections across the central part of the Bass Basin, Australia. A 114 km long transect (Section A-A`) consists of two seismic lines. The transect ties the Bass-3 ...
Australian-Antarctic rifting
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: J.M. Whittaker, R.D. Müller and A. Goncharov
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
Rifting between Australia and Antarctic began as early as 140 MM years ago. However, the timing of continental breakup and the manner in which rifting proceeded have remained controversial. A major reason for the ambiguity surrounding the Australian-...
Developing carbonate depositional models in the eastern Papuan Basin and the impact on prospectivity
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: D. Holland
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
Recent seismic and airborne gravity and magnetic data have been acquired by InterOil in its licences PPL237 and PPL238 over an extensive onshore area in the Eastern Papuan Basin in Papua New Guinea. The Elk Prospect was initially identified on the ba...
Subtidal origin of the Hawkesbury Sandstone, Middle Triassic, Sydney Basin
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: P.J. McCabe
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
The Hawkesbury Sandstone of the Sydney Basin is widely regarded as the deposit of a large sandy braided river system. A detailed examination of the sedimentary facies suggests, however, that most, if not all, of the sediments were deposited in a subt...