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Lower Palaeozoic Facies in the Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia: Stratigraphy and Hydrocarbon Prospectivity
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: John D. Gorter, Robert S. Nicoll and Clinton B. Foster
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
Lower Palaeozoic sediments in the Carnarvon Basin of Western Australia have potential for commercial petroleum accumulations. Resampling of cores from exploration wells in the southeastern Carnarvon Basin for conodonts and palynomorphs has resulted i...
Transtensional Analogue Modelling applied to the Perth Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: L.B. Harris, R.I. Higgins, M.C. Dentith and M.F. Middleton
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
In order to investigate the temporal and spatial development of faults in the north-south trending Perth Basin of Western Australia, an analogue model was constructed using two silicone putties of different viscosity to represent ductile Mesoproteroz...
Triassic Sequence Stratigraphy of the Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: John D. Gorter
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
A new stratigraphic framework of the Triassic system in the Carnarvon Basin, established using new conodont
biostratigraphy, allows a more precise correlation of sea level events to the global chronostratigraphic schemes
than is available using palyn...
The Structural Architecture and Stratigraphy of the Offshore Northern Perth Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: P. Quaife, J. Rosser and S. Pagnozzi
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
The offshore northern Perth Basin is part of an extensive system of genetically -linked structural terrains which record the progressive rifting and Early Cretaceous breakup of the Australian and Greater Indian plates. At least two significant period...
Sequence Stratigraphy of the Lower Neocomian Barrow Delta, Exmouth Plateau, Northwestern Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Malcolm I. Ross and Peter R. Vail
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
During the Berriasian-early Valanginian (early Neocomian), the southern Exmouth Plateau is characterized by a northward-prograding clastic delta system: the Barrow Delta. An integrated sequence stratigraphic interpretation of the Barrow Delta based o...
The Neoproterozoic Savory Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: I.R. Williams
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
The Savory Basin is a newly recognised c. 820-550 Ma Proterozoic sedimentary basin in central Western Australia. Situated southeast of the Pilbara Craton and north of the Yilgarn Craton, the basin unconformably overlies the eastern part of the Mesopr...
Mid-Cretaceous Concretionary Carbonate Reservoirs at Barrow Island, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Glynn Ellis, Alan M. Tait and Peter J. Gibson
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
Carbonate concretions in the mid-Cretaceous Gearle Siltstone and Beedagong Claystone form unusual hydrocarbon reservoirs in the Barrow Island Oil Field in the Carnarvon Basin of Western Australia. Concretions recovered from cores vary in size, lithol...
The Neoproterozoic Centralian Superbasin in Western Australia: the Savory and Officer Basins
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: M.R. Walter and J.D. Gorter
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
In Neoproterozoic times two million square kilometres of Australia was occupied by a single depositional system, the Centralian Superbasin. This basin was disrupted at 540 to 600 Ma by a central uplift, and then dismembered by later Palaeozoic tecton...
Rankin Platform, Western Australia: Structural Development and Exploration Potential
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Alan Stein
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
The Rankin Platform on Australia's North West Shelf is, and will continue to be, a major source of gas and condensate to expanding markets in Australia and Asia. Based on current figures, recoverable reserves are estimated to be in excess of 25 TCF o...
From the Mines: Sedimentary Basins of Eastern Australia Project – Dr James Beeston
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Dr James Beeston
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: December 1993
Technical Articles: Hydrocarbon composition and origins of coastal bitumens from the Northern Territory, Australia
- Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 21
- Authors: Roger E. Summons, John Bradshaw, Deirdre M. Brooks, Angus K. Goody, Andrew P. Murray and Clinton B. Foster
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: July 1993
Case studies of stratigraphic and fault traps in the Cooper Basin, Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: P.J. Stanmore
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Exploration for hydrocarbons in the Permo-Triassic Cooper Basin has led to the discovery of oil and gas in both
structural and structural/stratigraphic traps. However, as the hydrocarbon potential of the Basin has largely been addressed by drilling t...
Petrophysics of oil reservoirs in the Eromanga Basin, South Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: D.I. Gravestock and E.M. Alexander
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Calculation of water saturation (Sw) in oil reservoirs requires accurate input of porosity, matrix (clay) properties
and formation brine resistivity. Shale volume and cation exchange models have evolved to account for clay volume and conductivity in ...
The prospects for Eromanga oil accumulations in the northern Cooper Basin region, Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: A.R. Gilby and I.R. Mortimore
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Although the Eromanga Basin where it overlies the northern Cooper Basin has not proved as prolific an oil
province as in the southern Cooper Basin, a number of key discoveries have been made in recent years which offer the prospect of further economi...
Petrophysics of Cooper Basin reservoirs in South Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: J.G.G. Morton
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Over 850 new core plugs from 46 wells in the Cooper Basin in South Australia were cut in an attempt to improve
log analysis (porosity and water saturation [Sw]) algorithms currently in use. All plugs were measured for porosity and permeability (both ...
The Mulkarra Structure: a possible buried impact crater in the western Eromanga Basin, Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: M. Flynn
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Geophysical data suggest the presence of a possible buried meteoritic impact site, known as the Mulkarra
Structure, within the Mulka Block of Petroleum Exploration Licences 5 and 6 in the western Eromanga Basin South Australia. An anomalous zone, 17 ...
A review of seismic acquisition trials and procedures in the Cooper Basin, South Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: J.R. Hughes and N.A. Fitzgerald
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
During recent years, as the exploration phase in the Cooper Basin has reached a mature level, it has become
necessary for the seismic data to achieve increased structural and stratigraphic resolution while subject to the economic constraints brought ...
Applications of new cement technology in the Cooper and Eromanga Basin, Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: B.H. Gray
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
This paper summarises the 'state of the art' of cementing practices in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins, in particular cementing materials and their potential application by engineers involved in the design and execution of cementing operations....
Drilling fluid systems and practices in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins, Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: Tun H. Aung
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Since the first commercial hydrocarbon discovery in the Cooper Basm m December 1963, a variety of drilling fluid
systems have been used. The most economically viable are the three systems currently in operation, namely gellignosulfonate, salt-polymer...
Organic facies and petroleum geochemistry of the lacustrine Murta Member (Mooga Formation) in the Eromanga Basin, Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: B.H. Michaelsen and D.M. McKirdy
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
The Murta Member (Mooga Formation) is a laterally extensive lacustrine unit, displaying some marine influence
in its upper part, which was deposited across the southern Eromanga Basin under a moist cool temperate climatic regime during the Early Cret...
Seismic character delineation of fluvial sandbody geometry, upper Toolachee Formation, central Patchawarra Trough, Cooper Basin, South Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: R.J. Taylor and A.D. Thomas
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Within the Late Permian Toolachee Formation of the central Patchawarra Trough a fluvial sandstone complex of
low sinuosity can be traced by mapping a seismic anomaly. The anomaly is characterised by an additional seismic peak developed below the Tool...
Palaeogeothermometry of the Cooper and Eromanga Basin, South Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: N.J. Russell and Y. Bone
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
The relationship between vitrinite reflectivity, fluid inclusion homogenization temperature and present-day
formation temperature provides a guide to the palaeogeothermometry of siliciclastic sedimentary rocks in
the Cooper and Eromanga Basins in Sou...
The geometry of Toolachee Unit “C” fluvial sand trends, Moomba Field, Permian Cooper Basin, South Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: W.A. Fairburn
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Based on detailed core facies analyses, the depositional environment for the Toolachee Unit 'C' sand reservoirs is interpreted to be a moderate to high sinuosity channel system. Core studies have shown that the Toolachee Unit 'C' sediments are domina...
Mesozoic stratigraphy and palaeogeography, eastern Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: M. J. Wiltshire
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Detailed time-stratigraphic and palaeogeographic analysis of contemporaneous Permo-Triassic, Mid to Late
Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous sequences in the Eromanga, Surat, Carpentaria, Laura, Clarence-Moreton,
and Sydney Basins is currently being un...
Casing design in relation to blowout prevention and well control in the Cooper Basin, South Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: K.B. English
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Regulations under the South Australian Petroleum Act 1940 regarding casing shoe setting depths have been
redrafted. The new Regulations do not alter the preexisting intent with regard to casing design in relation to
well control. The need to redraft ...
Subsidence history of the Eromanga basin, Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: S. Zhou
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
The Eromanga Basin, possibly owing its initial formation to deep crustal metamorphism due to crustal heating, was subject to abnormally large subsidence from the Aptian to the Cenomanian, during which time a thick sequence of marine to non-marine sed...
The occurrence and search for Permian oil in the Cooper Basin, Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: C.C. Yew and A.A. Mills
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Exploration efforts in PELs 5 and 6 in South Australia and in ATP 259P in Queensland have been directed traditionally towards the search for gas in the Permian Cooper Basin and for oil in the overlying Jurassic Cretaceous Eromanga Basin. These effort...
Environmental Impact Assessments of Three Offshore Oilfields, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: W. Carr
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
Environment impact assessments of petroleum exploration off the Western Australian coast is guided by the State Conservation Strategy and procedures designed to protect environmentally significant coastal areas. The process may involve staged non-pub...
Holocene Sediments and Environments, Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: R.G. Brown
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
Exmouth Gulf is a shallow embayment of the North West Shelf in which Holocene sediment facies reflect
bioturbation, mangrove activities, storm events, a semiarid tropical climate, and a tectonically-elevated borderland. The sediments comprise part of...
Results of Exploration, Browse Basin, North West Shelf, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: I. Willis
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
The Browse Basin lies entirely offshore, beneath the remote northwestern continental shelf of Australia. It
occupies an area of approximately 100,000 square kilometres, most of which lies in water depths exceeding 200 metres. The Browse Basin existed...