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Automated facies classification in borehole log data
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Roman Beloborodov, James Gunning, et al.
- Date Published: September 2021
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Seismic facies inversion relies on accurate facies-specific elastic parameter models determined from borehole log data. Typically, velocity depth trends and corresponding standard errors are manually determined for each of the facies by using cross-p...
Impacts of Uncertainty in Minimum Horizontal Stress Determination on Wellbore Stability
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Matthew Musolino, Simon Holford, Rosalind King
- Date Published: September 2021
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The purpose of this study is to highlight sources of uncertainty in the determination of minimum horizontal stress estimates from leak-off tests (LOTs) and their effect on wellbore stability modelling. To achieve this, we use petroleum datasets from ...
Petroleum Source Rocks, Generation and Primary Migration: insights using new direct nano-scale Tof-Sims SEM analysis and Re-Os radiometric dating
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Greg Smith, William Rickard, Zhen Li, Svetlana Tessalina
- Date Published: September 2021
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Exactly how maturation, generation and primary migration in and from source rocks works at the nano-scale remains largely a mystery. The theories and concepts rely mostly on destructive analytical techniques that by their nature do not allow direct o...
Constraining regional-scale groundwater transport predictions using multiple geophysical techniques
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Chris Li, Rebecca Doble, Michael Hatch, Graham Heinson, Ben Kay
- Date Published: September 2021
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Due to often spatially discontinuous and sparse datasets from traditional geohydrological techniques, it is becoming more common to incorporate geophysical data in groundwater models. Not only are the geophysical data sets more continuous, but they c...
Closing the gap between ground and airborne IP data modelling
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: A. Viezzoli, G. Fiandaca
- Date Published: September 2021
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Modelling of Induced Polarization in AEM data (AIP) has recently been used more often in exploration. Which demands for more research to address the fundamental question “how does AIP compare to ground IP?”. Beside some of the well-known differen...
Controls on organic matter accumulation in the Mesoproterozoic: Insights from the stratigraphic modelling of the Velkerri Formation of the Beetaloo Basin (Northern Territory, Australia)
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Vincent Crombez, Mohinudeen Faiz, Claudio Delle Piane, Marcus Kunzmann
- Date Published: September 2021
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The ability to understand and predict the distribution of the primary organic content in a basin is key when exploring for unconventional hydrocarbons. Many pathways lead to the formation of organic-rich rocks through combinations of primary producti...
MobileMT for porphyry exploration – model studies and field examples
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Alexander Prikhodko, Andrei Bagrianski
- Date Published: September 2021
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Resistivity methods are an important part of the arsenal of geophysical techniques for the exploration of porphyry-style mineralization. One of the geophysical techniques that could be used to detect the porphyry targets, or its attributes is MobileM...
H2- From Scientific Research to Commercialised Energy
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Max Williamson
- Date Published: September 2021
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H2 has been and is a tantalising opportunity against which companies and Governments around the world are throwing serious research dollars and resources. Our Federal Government has followed with its National Hydrogen Strategy, plus current start-up ...
Ground Penetrating Radar Investigation as Part of a Multidisciplinary Archaeological Project, The Plain of Jars, Lao PDR.
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Jamie Speer, Dr. Dougald O’Reilly, Dr. Louise Shewan
- Date Published: September 2021
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The Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) investigation was undertaken within the multidisciplinary team undertaking the “Plain of Jars Archaeological Research Project”, a joint Lao-Australian project funded by the Australian Research Council. The inter...
The resistivity structure of the Gidyea Suture and its relationship to the Carpentaria Conductivity Anomaly
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Janelle Simpson, Dominic Brown, Karen Connors
- Date Published: September 2021
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The Gidyea Suture is a structure that lies on the eastern margin of the Mount Isa Province. It was first recognised in deep crustal seismic, and subsequent authors have used magnetotelluric (MT) data to further support its existence. It is considered...
Case Studies using Loupe – Mapping Geology in Near-Surface
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Gregory Street, Andrew Duncan
- Date Published: September 2021
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Surveys were conducted over five prospects in the southwest of Western Australia with aims of mapping, geology, sulphides, graphite and clay. The high resolution of the Loupe system lends itself to a role similar to ground magnetic data in mapping ge...
Overburden measurement for coal mine management with 3D high resolution compressional and shear velocity seismic inversion
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Claudio Strobbia, Martin Bayly, Denis Sweeney, et al.
- Date Published: September 2021
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High resolution surface seismic surveys can provide useful images of coal bed reflections to depths as shallow as 50 to 100 metres. There is also a need, to gain information of the overburden properties above these depths. This information gap can be...
Attenuation of ice-sheet reverberations in teleseismic P-wave receiver functions
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Dale Harpley, Steve Hearn, Shaun Strong
- Date Published: September 2021
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Teleseismic P-wave receiver functions (PRFs) in icecovered regions are contaminated by reverberations within the ice-sheet. The crustal conversion events which are commonly used for identifying lithospheric structure are concealed by these ice reverb...
Lithospheric-scale magnetotellurics over the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane, Yilgarn Craton
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Kate Selway, Mike Dentith, Klaus Gessner
- Date Published: September 2021
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Long-period magnetotelluric (MT) data were collected in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, in a ~200 x 250 km grid that crosses parts of the heavily mineralised Eastern Goldfields Superterrane and parts of the adjacent, less mineralised Youanmi T...
Practical aspects of wavefield decomposition for permanent seismic rotatory sources
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Roman Isaenkov, Sinem Yavuz, Roman Pevzner, Konstantin Tertyshnikov, Julia Correa, Barry Freifeld
- Date Published: September 2021
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Continuous reservoir surveillance requires permanent seismic sources. One such source is a seismic orbital vibrator (SOV). An SOV excites a circularly polarised seismic signal by the rotation of an eccentric mass alternately clockwise and counter-clo...
New mineral system vectors for revitalised copper-gold discovery in the Gawler Craton
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: John Anderson
- Date Published: September 2021
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Combination of a new strato-tectonic model for the Olympic Metallogenic Event (OME) and a zircon-based geochemical tool offers a significant step-change for ore target vectoring for a spectrum of IOCG and coeval copper-gold deposit styles in the Gawl...
Seismic network modelling and design in an interactive web-based environment
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Pavel Golodoniuc, Januka Attanayake, Abraham Jones, Samuel Bradley
- Date Published: September 2021
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To detect and locate earthquakes effectively and accurately, seismologists must design and install a network of seismometers that can capture small seismic signals originating in the sub-surface. A major challenge when deploying an array of seismomet...
Why we should not report unconstrained inversion output in densities or magnetic susceptibilities
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Clive Foss, James Austin
- Date Published: September 2021
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Unconstrained gravity and magnetic inversions are too readily accepted as justified representations of the ground structure. Reliable estimates from unconstrained inversions are mostly restricted to discrete anomalies which can be reasonably separate...
Reversible Jump Sequential Monte Carlo for Model Inference in Airborne Induced Polarisation
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Laurence Davies, Christopher Drovandi, Matthew Sutton, Alan Yusen Ley-Cooper
- Date Published: September 2021
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Exact methods of Bayesian model selection require exhaustive computation of normalising constants or sampling of the joint posterior of parameters and models via reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo (RJMCMC). Until recently, the latter has been f...
Laboratory study of temperature variation effects on Distributed Acoustic Sensing measurements
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Sidenko E., Pevzner R., Tertyshnikov K. and Lebedev M.
- Date Published: September 2021
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Fibre-Optic sensing is being actively used nowadays in various exploration and monitoring applications. Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) is used for measurements and monitoring of the temperature. Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) is used to re...
Petroleum systems model for source-rock-reservoir evaluation in the Beetaloo Sub-basin
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Mohinudeen Faiz, Vincent Crombez, Claudio Delle Piane
- Date Published: September 2021
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The Beetaloo Sub-basin comprises one of the oldest petroleum systems in the world with the Middle Velkerri and Lower Kyalla shales considered as key unconventional source-rock-reservoir targets. The basin is relatively under-explored with only few we...
Data geo-Science Approach for Modelling Unconventional Petroleum Ecosystems and their Visual Analytics
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Shastri L Nimmagadda, Andrew Ochan, Christine Namugenyi, Torsten Reiners
- Date Published: September 2021
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Storage, integration and interoperability are critical challenges in the unconventional exploration data management. With a quest to explore unconventional hydrocarbons, in particular, shale gas from fractured-shales, we aim at investigating new petr...
Optimising slip-sweep for high-productivity Vibroseis coal surveys
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Shaun Strong, Dale Harpley, Steve Hearn
- Date Published: September 2021
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The increased scale of 3D seismic surveys in the Australian Coal industry has necessitated the use of high-production slip-sweep surveys. A method is provided which provides a quantitative visualisation of harmonic noise expected for different slip p...
Simultaneous inversion of teleseismic P- and converted S-waves to constrain the seismic structure of the crust
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Mehdi Tork Qashqai, Erdinc Saygin
- Date Published: September 2021
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Traveltimes of P and mode-converted S-waves and their reverberations place a tight constraint on the Vp/Vs ratio and their amplitude ratio provides tight bounds on the P and S wave velocity jumps across the main discontinuities in the subsurface stru...
Continental shelf marine MT feasibility study in the Spencer Gulf, South Australia
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Graham Heinson, Kate Robertson, Goran Boren, Steven Constable, Jacob Perez, Stephan Thiel, Jingming Duan, Darren Kyi
- Date Published: September 2021
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Data from 12 new marine magnetotelluric (MT) stations have been acquired on the ocean-bottom of the Spencer Gulf, extending the land MT profile that crosses the Eyre Peninsula. The primary goal of the project was to determine the feasibility of colle...
Inferring geological features masked by artefacts in core photography using neural networks
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Yasin Dagasan, Harvey Nguyen, Mark Grujic
- Date Published: September 2021
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The application of computer-vision technologies to geological datasets has previously been shown to objectively verify existing datasets (e.g., automated calculation of geotechnical parameters) as well as the creation of new datasets (e.g., fracture ...
A time-lapse feasibility workflow incorporating core calibrated 4D rock physics models
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Christian Proud, Ask Frode Jakobsen, Rob Ross, Jason McKenna
- Date Published: September 2021
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Rock physics analysis is a useful tool in time-lapse seismic feasibility studies and can help to assess the effect of pressure and saturation changes on the elastic parameters which the seismic data is sampling. Calibration using velocity measurement...
Noble gases: a versatile exploration tool for water, minerals and hydrocarbons
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Axel Suckow, Cornelia Wilske, Christoph Gerber, Alec Deslandes, Punjehl Crane, Dirk Mallants
- Date Published: September 2021
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Noble gases exist mainly as stable and some radioactive isotopes and are amongst the most versatile geoscientific exploration tools. Popular applications across nearly all areas involving fluid movement in the geosphere include: groundwater and its r...
The uplift history of the Kidson Sub-Basin
- Publication Name: AECG 2021
- Authors: George Marfo, Stuart R. Clark, Tehani Palu
- Date Published: September 2021
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The Canning Basin, onshore Western Australia, is highly prospective for conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons, as well as Uranium and sediment-hosted base metal deposits. The basin has evolved since the Early Ordovician undergoing both extensi...
Estimate elastic moduli of arenites from micro-tomographic images with digital rock physics
- Publication Name: AEGC 2021
- Authors: Jiabin Liang, Boris Gurevich, Maxim Lebedev, Stephanie Vialle, Alexey Yurikov, Stanislav Glubokovskikh
- Date Published: September 2021
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Numerical computation from high resolution 3D microtomographic (micro-CT) images of rocks (known as digital rock physics) has the potential to predict elastic properties more accurately. However, successful examples are limited to samples with simple...