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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
Abstract:
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...
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
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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
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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...
Coal seam gas prospectivity of the Ipswich and Clarence-Moreton Basins
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: B.J. Pinder
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
The Triassic Ipswich Basin and Triassic to Cretaceous Clarence-Moreton Basin, located in southeast Queensland and northeast New South Wales, both contain sequences highly prospective for Coal Seam Gas (CSG). Although a number of prospects have been i...
Cambro-Ordovician conodont biostratigraphy and thermal maturation of the eastern Warburton Basin, South Australia
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: X. Sun and R.S. Nicoll
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
The Warburton Basin has been one of the least studied Early Palaeozoic basins in Australia. The recent recovery of Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician conodonts from cores in four wells, Charo-1, Coongie-1, Wantana-1 and
Packsaddle-!, have confirmed t...
Water issues for hot dry rock geothermal power generation at Moomba
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: B.T. Armstrong and S.S. Rahman
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
The use and availability of water is one of the key issues for the Moomba hot dry rock (HDR) geothermal power
generation project in the Cooper Basin, South Australia. This study estimates the volume of water required during the development life-cycle...
A regional tectonostratigraphic framework for the Otway Basin
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: A.A. Krassay, D.L. Cathro and D.J. Ryan
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
A new sequence stratigraphic framework has been developed for the Otway Basin based on the interpretation and integration of offshore wells, key onshore wells, new biostratigraphic results and a regional grid of 2D seismic data.
In the new tectonostr...
Petroleum geology of New Zealand’s Northwest Frontier: The Northland sector of the greater Taranaki Basin
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: C.I. Uruski
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
In recent years, data have been gathered and knowledge accumulated about the geology of the Taranaki Basin frontier. Historically, Taranaki Basin has been considered to consist of the Taranaki Peninsula and the adjacent continental shelf, out to the ...
Constraints on the hydrocarbon charge history of sandstone reservoirs in the Strzelecki Field, Eromanga Basin, South Australia
- Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
- Authors: L. Kramer, D.M. McKirdy, K.R. Arouri, L. Schwark and D. Leythaeuser
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2004
Abstract:
The Strzelecki oil and gas field is located on the southern margin of the Nappamerri Trough, a major hydrocarbon
kitchen in the Cooper/Eromanga petroleum province of central Australia. Its oil-bearing sandstones (Hutton, Birkhead, Namur) are all of M...