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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...
Sequence Stratigraphy and Petroleum Potential of Upper Jurassic – Lower Cretaceous Depositional System in the Dampier Sub-basin, North West Shelf, Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Peter Barber
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
A diminishing prospect-inventory, based on traditional structural targets, has placed increasing emphasis upon
finding commercially-viable stratigraphic traps. This is especially true in the Dampier Sub-basin where recent drilling has identified at l...
Recent Gas Discoveries on the Rankin Trend, North West Shelf, Australia: The Echo/Yodel and North Rankin West Fields
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Larry Tilbury
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
Several large gas fields have been discovered along the Rankin Trend on the Northwest Shelf. In recent years a further two significant gas discoveries have been made: the Echo/Yodel and the North Rankin West fields.
The Echo/Yodel Field occurs in Up...
Carbonate Breccias and Quartzo-feldspathic Sandstones of the Marginal Slope, Devonian Reef Complex, Canning Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Annette D. George, Phillip E. Playford and Christopher McA. Powell
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
Carbonate breccias and coarse quartzo-feldspathic sandstones are conspicuous lithofacies within the marginal-slope succession of the Devonian Napier Range reef complex in the northern Canning Basin. Rigid application of sequence-stratigraphic models ...
Sequence Stratigraphy and the North West Shelf of Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: V.R. Labutis
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
An abundance of papers based on various approaches to sequence stratigraphy has appeared in the international and Australian literature in recent years. That not all have shown a thorough understanding of
the basic concepts is understandable, given t...
A Review of the Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the Permo-Carboniferous Grant Group, Canning Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Jonathan Redfern and Emma Millward
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
Detailed analysis of fully cored sections from exploration wells drilled by Western Mining Corporation on the Barbwire Terrace has allowed a better understanding of the sedimentology and depositional history of the Permo-Carboniferous Grant Group. H...
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
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...
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 ...
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...
The North West Shelf, Australia – An Introduction
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: P.G. & R.R. Purcell
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
The North West Shelf of Australia extends c2400 km along the northwest margin of the continent. It is a geographic province rather than a physiographic feature sensu stricto, and includes the continental shelf proper and the marginal platforms and pl...
The Geology of the Challis Oilfield – Timor Sea, Australia
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: G.B. Wormald
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
The Challis oilfield, discovered in October 1984, is located within the Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands Licence AC/L3 in the Vulcan Sub-basin. Following the Challis-1 discovery well, a reconnaissance 3D seismic survey was conducted over the ...