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Natural fracture characterisation in a coal measure succession: an analogue for coal seam methane and tight gas reservoirs
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: D. Gillam, T. Flottmann and R. Hillis
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
Reliable characterisation of natural fracture networks can improve management of tight gas reservoirs typical of
onshore Australia. However, characterisation of natural fracture networks in tight gas reservoirs is often hindered due to poor sample av...
Geological sequestration of C02; Why, where and what role for geoscientists?
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: J. Bradshaw
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
There has been a marked shift amongst scientists in the international arena over the last decade as to the likelihood that anthropogenic emissions of C02 are affecting the world's climate. Not all scientists are necessarily convinced, quoting geologi...
Integration of AFTA and (U-Th)/He thermochronology to enhance the resolution and precision of thermal history reconstruction in the Anglesea-1 well, Otway Basin, SE Australia
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: P.F. Green, P.V. Crowhurst and I.R. Duddy
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
Apatite fission track analysis and vitrinite reflectance studies of the Otway Basin (Southeastern Australia) have revealed numerous mid-Cretaceous, mid-Tertiary and Late Tertiary tectono-thermal events, reflecting both temporal variation in basal hea...
Top seal and reservoir continuity: hydrodynamic evaluation of the Hutton-Birkhead Reservoir, Gidgealpa Oilfield
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: J. Underschultz and P. Boult
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
The Gidgealpa Oil Field of the Eromanga Basin is characterised by stacked hydrocarbon accumulations where the
principle control on column heights is considered to be variable top seal capacities. The Hutton Sandstone forms the main reservoir at Middl...
Interpretation of basin structure from high resolution aeromagnetic data: an example from the Officer Basin of South Australia
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: C.A. Foss, Z.S. Shi, J. Teasdale, L.L. Pryer, T.S. Loutit, P.G. Stuart-Smith and K. Romine
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
The aeromagnetic coverage over the Officer Basin has been used to map basement terranes and depth to basement beneath the basin. The fundamental ambiguities of non-uniqueness in magnetic field interpretation have been minimized by using geological so...
The seismic stratigraphy and petroleum potential of the Late Cretaceous Ceduna Delta, Ceduna Sub-Basin, Great Australian Bight
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: S.J. King and B.C. Mee
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
During the final phases of basin evolution in the Ceduna Sub-basin on the southern Australian margin, a massive influx of terrigenous sediments resulted in the development of a strongly progradational shelf-margin delta system, informally known as th...
Opportunities for geological storage of carbon dioxide in the offshore Gippsland Basin, SE Australia: an example from the Upper Latrobe Group
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: R.S. Root, C.M. Gibson-Poole, S.C. Lang, J.E. Streit, J. Underschultz and J. Ennis-King
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
Geological storage of carbon dioxide may be a practical option for reducing greenhouse gas emissiOns to the
atmosphere. The unique physical and chemical characteristics of CO, at reservoir conditions require integrated reservoir characterisation stud...
Petroleum systems and plays in their basin history context: Building a predictive framework for new opportunity identification
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: H. Doust
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
This presentation describes a methodology that relates plays and petroleum systems to their sedimentary cycle or basin stage. The approach clarifies the relationship between tectonostratigraphic basin evolution and hydrocarbon resources or prospects....
Did the exploration well Myall Creek-1, plugged and abandoned in 1964, actually find the biggest gas field in the Surat Basin? – Introducing the Tinowon Formation stratigraphic play
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: R.J. Willink, G.P. Pass, P. Horton, R. Taylor, G. Sutherland and B. Pidgeon
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
In 1964, Union Oil Development Corporation drilled the exploration well Myall Creek-1 on the south plunge of a large structural reversal located on the western flank of the Taroom Trough in Queensland. The company elected to plug and abandon the well...
Subsurface plumbing of the Crayfish Group in the Penola Trough: Otway Basin
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: P.J. Boult, P. Lyon, B. Camac, D. Edwards and D.M. McKirdy
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
The Penola Trough is host to five commercial gas fields containing an estimated 127 petajoules of gas, while seven, possibly eight, wells have intersected residual or palaeo-gas and oil columns. Most gas accumulations are, or have been, full to struc...
The geology and hydrocarbon potential of the glaciomarine Lower Parmeener Supergroup, Tasmania Basin
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: C.M. Reid and C.F. Burrett
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
The glaciomarine Lower Parmeener Supergroup, onshore Tasmania Basin, is currently targeted by hydrocarbon exploration and contains mature potential source, reservoir and seal rocks. Basal diamictites are overlain by organic siltstone of the Woody Isl...
The use of Foraminiferal Colouration Index (FCI) as a thermal indicator and correlation with vitrinite reflectance in the Sherbrook Group, Otway Basin, Victoria
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: S.J. Gallagher, I.R. Duddy, P.G. Quilty, A.J. Smith, M.W. Wallace, G.R. Holdgate and P.J. Boult
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
While palynomorph and conodont colour indices are widely used as thermal indices in rocks of various age,
enhancing more quantitatively understood analyses such as vitrinite reflectance and fission track data, it is not generally known that agglutina...
Geosequestration investigations – offshore New South Wales, Australia
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: J. Sayers, A. Kernich and T. Dance
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
Greenhouse gas emissions from large stationary emission point sources in the Sydney region represent 15% of the total Australian emissions. In contrast, the potential for onshore geological CO, storage sites to accommodate this source is relatively ...
Sedimentary basins and petroleum systems of the Southern Rift System
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: J.E. Blevin
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
The rifted margins of eastern and southern Australia formed during multiple periods of extension associated with the fragmentation and dispersal of Gondwana in the Late Jurassic to Early Eocene (Veevers & Ettreim 1988; Veevers et al. 1991). The sedim...
New perspectives on the structural evolution of the Bass Basin: implications for petroleum prospectivity
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: A.M. Cummings, R.R. Hills and P.R. Tingate
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
Despite periodic exploration in the Bass Basin since the mid 1960s, a number of questions remain concerning the deeper architecture of the basin, the timing and nature of major structural events and the influence of structural activity on trap format...
Deepwater outcrop analogue study: basal Bunkers Sandstone, Donkey Bore Syncline, Northern Flinders Ranges, Australia
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: N. Ceglar, M.R.W. Reilly, T.H.D. Payenberg and S.C. Lang
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
Outcrop analogues are important for providing quantitative data on reservoir geometry and connectivity at a scale below seismic resolution. The Donkey Bore Syncline of the Northern Flinders Ranges, Australia, hosts outcropping Early Cambrian deepwate...
Review, Recent, Conventional, Petroleum, Exploration, Field, Gas, Reserves, Growth, Denison, Trough, Queensland
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: D.P. Anthony
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
Whilst exploration for gas in conventional reservoirs in the Denison Trough has been comparatively quiescent over the last decade, significant reserves growth has been achieved in this same period by underbalanced drilling, fracture stimulation, dril...
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...
Geochemical modelling of CO2-water-rock interaction in the Pretty Hill Formation, Otway Basin
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: D.M. Kirste, M.N. Watson and P.R. Tingate
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
Petrological and geochemical studies of a natural analogue for geological storage of C02 have highlighted the
potential of the Pretty Hill Formation from the Katnook area in the Otway Basin for gas-water-rock interaction
experiments and geochemical m...
Deepwater exploration challenges
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: T.J. Brown
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
The ever-increasing world demand for hydrocarbons drives the search for significant new reserves in previously
inaccessible areas. Deepwater areas of continental margins are attracting increasing industry attention as companies are lured by the large...
The structural history of Tasmania: a review for petroleum explorers
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: A.R. Stacey and R.F. Berry
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
The Mesoproterozoic basement ofTasmania is overlain by a Neoproterozoic passive margin sequence. Deposition was interrupted by a major Cambrian arc-continent collision. Ordovician to early Devonian, shallow-water sedimentation dominated across the We...
Fraser Island and Hervey Bay-a classic modern sedimentary environment
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: R. Boyd, K. Ruming, S. Davies, T. Payenberg and S. Lang
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
Facies models built on a range of examples from modern and ancient sedimentary environments are often used as the basis for petroleum exploration and production strategies. Many of the examples have been traditionally drawn from Northern Hemisphere l...
Oil on the Patchawarra Flank – some implications from the Sellicks and Christies oil discoveries
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: M.J. Altmann and H.M. Gordon
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
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This paper presents some aspects of hydrocarbon habitat along the southwestern flank of the Patchawarra Trough in the Cooper-Eromanga Basin, South Australia. The interpretations are based upon the Sellicks-1 and Christies-1 oil discoveries within the...
A critical review of data quality and content applied to FWS and similar tools
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: M. Wiltshire
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
Acoustic waveform data routinely acquired during logging operations is subsequently processed for extraction of P and S wave velocities. The emergent data is then widely used as a basis for interpretation of reservoir properties and fluid content, fr...
The structural framework and tectonic evolution of the Bight Basin
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: J.M. Totterdell and B.E. Bradshaw
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
The Jurassic-Cretaceous, largely offshore, Bight Basin is situated along the western and central parts of the southern Australian continental margin, extending from the southern tip of Western Australia, to just south of Kangaroo Island. The thickest...
Late Cretaceous-Eocene basin evolution in the SW Pacific from integrated geology; marine geophysics, and global mantle convection models
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: R. Sutherland, P. King and R. Herzer
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
There are two significant events during the evolution of the South Pacific since 100 Ma that allow its history to be
subdivided. The first event was the Late Cretaceous final fragmentation of Gondwana. Seafloor magnetic anomalies show that oceanic se...
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...