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Branch News
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: February 2005
Words – Tsunami
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Peter Purcell
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: February 2005
Company Review – Geodynamics – Geodynamics’ Geothermal Project
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: February 2005
President’s Report
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Barry Goldstein
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: February 2005
Gas to Liquids – Stranded Gas and GTL Research: Making Australia More Energy Self Sufficient
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: February 2005
PESA Contacts
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: February 2005
Technology Review – New Zealand’s Geothermal Progress
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: February 2005
Diary of Events
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: February 2005
Industry News – Loadout of the John Brookes Topsides
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: February 2005
Constraints on the oil prospectivity of the Penola Trough, onshore Otway Basin
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: M. Lisk
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
The oil charge history of the Penola Trough has been described using fluid inclusion data from a selection of currently gas and water-bearing traps within reservoirs of the Pretty Hill Formation and Sawpit Sandstone. Grains with Oil Inclusions (GOI?)...
Hydrocarbon generation, migration, leakage and seepage on the West Tasmanian Margin
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: G.W. O'Brien, P.R. Tingate, J.E. Blevin, C.J. Boreham, A. Mitchell, C. Calver and A. Williams
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
A study of the Sorell Basin, and especially the Strahan Sub-basin, on the west Tasmanian margin, has revealed the presence of an active hydrocarbon generation, migration, leakage and seepage system. Source rock mapping, combined with 2D basin modelli...
Sequence stratigraphy of the intra-Latrobe Group, Flounder Field, Gippsland Basin. Implications for the building and upscaling of 3D geological models
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: S.J. Riordan, S.C. Lang and T.H.D. Payenberg
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
The intra-Latrobe Group in the Flounder Field of the Gippsland Basin is used to study the depositional controls on
possible cell architecture in 3D geological models that are to be upscaled for reservoir simulation. The aim is to
demonstrate the crit...
Devonian petroleum systems in Queensland
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: J.J. Draper, C.J. Boreham, K.L. Hoffmann and J.L. McKellar
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
Devonian, marine, sedimentary rocks are common throughout Queensland, but petroleum potential is restricted to the Adavale Basin system (grouping of the Adavale Basin, Warrabin Trough and Barrolka Trough), the Belyando Basin (newly named) and the Bur...
Horizontal microfractures and core discing in sandstone reservoirs, Cooper Basin, Australia
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: T. Flottmann, D.J. Campagna, R. Hillis and D. Warner
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
Core discing is common in gas wells in the Cooper Basin, central Australia. The occurrence of discing is consistent
with the high in situ horizontal stresses that prevail in the basin. Thin sections in intervals of disced core reveal the occurrence o...
Hot dry rock geothermal exploration in Australia
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: R.R. Hillis, M. Hand, S. Mildren, J. Morton, P. Reid and S. Reynolds
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
Hot dry rock (HDR) geothermal energy is obtained by circulating water between injection and production wells
through hot subsurface rocks. The recovered hot water should be around 250?C for efficient electricity generation. South Australia has become...
4D Evolution of fault systems in sedimentary basins: a review
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: K.R. McClay, P.S. Whitehouse, A. Amilibia, J. De Vera and T. Djebbar
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
Understanding the four dimensional evolution of faults is fundamental in the exploration for, and exploitation of,
hydrocarbons in basin systems. This evolution of fault systems in rifts, inverted extensional basins and in foreland fold and thrust be...
Structural styles and hydrocarbon traps in the onshore Taranaki Fold Belt, New Zealand
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: K.C. Hill, N. Hoffman, G. Channon, S. Courteney, R.D. Kendrick and J.T. Keetley
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
The Taranaki Basin was formed by Late Cretaceous eastern Australasian rifting, followed by deposition of syn- to post-rift Palaeogene coal measures, which contain both source rock and reservoir horizons. During Oligocene regional subsidence, turbidit...
Marine clays and porosity evolution in the Nullawarre Greensand, Otway Basin, southeastern Australia
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: G.A. Boyd, M.W. Wallace, G.R. Holdgate and S.J. Gallagher
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
The Nullawarre Greensand of the Late Cretaceous Sherbrook Group, Otway Basin, has an unusual diagenetic history that has produced significant volumes of early marine clay minerals. Together with glauconite grains, siderite, carbonate fluor-apatite ce...
The structure and hydrocarbon potential of the northern Drummond Basin and northeastern Galilee Basin, central Queensland, Australia
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: A. Van Heeswijck
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
The Late Devonian-Early Carboniferous northern Drummond Basin developed as a back-arc intracontinental rift basin. The overlying Late Carboniferous-Middle Triassic northeastern Galilee Basin commenced development as a sag basin controlled by extensio...
Improving fault geometry interpretation through ‘pseudo-depth’ conversion of seismic data in the Penola Trough, Otway Basin
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: P.J. Lyon, P.J. Boult, A. Mitchell and R.R. Hillis
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
Accurate interpretation of fault geometry is essential to the assessment of fault seal integrity in the Penola Trough, Otway Basin. Fault geometries in the Penola Trough are variable with complex kinematic interactions between younger, Early Cretaceo...
Development of Australia’s first hot fractured rock (HFR) underground heat exchanger, Cooper Basin, South Australia
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: D. Wyborn, L. de Graaf, S. Davidson and S. Hann
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
Geodynamics Limited has successfully completed the first half of its 'Proof of Concept' hot fractured rock (HFR)
program to extract hot water for electricity generation from granite buried beneath the Cooper Basin, South Australia. Difficult drilling...
Advances in stratigraphic trap identification
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: S.C. Lang
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
Stratigraphic trap identification will play a vital role in new hydrocarbon discoveries this century. The potential for large discoveries will make the risk-reward ratio worth the investment in an environment of declining reserves and increasing ener...
Overview of the structure and associated petroleum prospectivity of the Taranaki Fault, New Zealand
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: V. Stagpoole, R. Funnell and A. Nicol
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
The Taranaki Fault is a crustal scale thrust fault forming the eastern margin of the Taranaki Basin. The fault, extending for over 400 km with 5-10 km of vertical and 10 km of horizontal displacement, has been the target of intensive petroleum explor...
Leaf biomass – a new paradigm for sourcing the terrestrial oils of Taranaki Basin
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: R. Sykes, L.R. Snowdon and P.E. Johansen
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
Late Cretaceous-Eocene coal measures have sourced waxy, paraffinic crude oils in the otherwise gas-rich Taranaki Basin, but incomplete understanding of organofacies controls on the generation and expulsion of non-volatile oil has hindered prediction ...
An appraisal of the hydrocarbon potential of the southeast Clarence-Moreton Basin in Queensland
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: R. Haselwood, I. Deighton and L. Hamilton
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
The presence of relatively large volumes of hydrocarbons in the Surat and Eromanga Basins in western Queensland has commonly led to speculation about the hydrocarbon potential of the adjacent Clarence-Moreton Basin. It forms the easternmost extension...
Tertiary ‘deep lead’ palaeoriver systems and their relationship to basin evolution, Victoria
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: G.R. Holdgate, K.A. Cunningham, M.W. Wallace, S.J. Gallagher and D.H. Moore
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
Basalt flows across the central highlands of Victoria have sealed in-place early to middle Tertiary palaeodrainage systems that once provided clastic sediments to the flanking Otway, Murray and Gippsland basins. Gravels of the palaeorivers were mined...
The in situ stress field of the Cooper Basin and its implications for hot dry rock geothermal energy development
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: S.D. Reynolds, S.D. Mildren, R.R. Hillis and J.J. Meyer
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
Hot dry rock (HDR) geothermal energy resources are currently being investigated in the Cooper Basin, an area with a high geothermal gradient. The in situ stress field and natural fracture network are critical to the design of the subsurface circulati...
Structural-stratigraphic styles and evolution of the offshore Otway Basin-a structural seismic analysis
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: D. Palmowski, K.C. Hill and N. Hoffman
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
A regional structural analysis of the offshore Otway Basin, largely based on the GA137 2D seismic survey, revealed substantial differences in structural styles between the eastern and western part. 15 km of sediments are underlain by southward-thinni...
Petroleum prospectivity of Cretaceous strata in the deepwater Taranaki Basin, New Zealand
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: P. Baillie and C. Uruski
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
The 6,200 km Astrolabe non-exclusive 2D seismic survey, acquired during 2001 over the deepwater extension of the Taranaki Basin from the shelf-edge to the 2,000 m isobath, revealed a Cretaceous section, thicker and probably older than any previously ...
Novel petroleum systems in Papua New Guinea indicated by terpane and methylhopane distributions
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: S.C. George, H. Volk, M. Ahmed, H. Middleton, T. Allan and D. Holland
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
Virtually all current oil production in Papua New Guinea is from the Fold belt in the western Papuan Basin, where
mainly Jurassic-sourced oils are reservoired. Jurassic-sourced oils contain low abundances of methylhopanes (2a and 3B isomers), and are...