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Emperor and Golden Beach Subgroups: The Onset of Late Cretaceous Sedimentation in the Gippsland Basin, SE Australia

Emperor and Golden Beach Subgroups: The Onset of Late Cretaceous Sedimentation in the Gippsland Basin, SE Australia

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: T. Bernecker and A.D. Partridge
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

The Emperor and Golden Beach subgroups, new subdivisions of the lower part of the Latrobe Group in the Gippsland Basin, are interpreted as basin-wide unconformity-bounded depositional systems that record the key break-up events in the basin during it...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin Beach Cretaceous. Emperor Gippsland Golden Late Onset Sedimentation Subgroups

Character, Maturity and Distribution of Potential Cretaceous Oil Source Rocks in the Ceduna Sub-Basin, Bight Basin, Great Australian Bight

Character, Maturity and Distribution of Potential Cretaceous Oil Source Rocks in the Ceduna Sub-Basin, Bight Basin, Great Australian Bight

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: H.I.M. Struckmeyer, J.M. Totterdell, J.E. Blevin, G.A. Logan, C.J. Boreham, I. Deighton, A.A. Krassay and M.T. Bradshaw
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

The Ceduna Sub-basin of the Bight Basin is a frontier region containing only one petroleum exploration well. Therefore, our assessment of the distribution of potential source rocks in the area is based on an understanding of the regional sequence str...

 

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Tags: basin Bight Ceduna character Cretaceous. distribution Great Australian Bight maturity oil potential rocks source Sub-basin

Fluid Flow Histories and Diagenesis in Permo-Triassic Sediments of the Sydney Basin, SE Australia – Isotope and Fluid Inclusion Constraints

Fluid Flow Histories and Diagenesis in Permo-Triassic Sediments of the Sydney Basin, SE Australia – Isotope and Fluid Inclusion Constraints

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: G-P. Bai, P.J. Hamilton, P.J. Eadington and J.B. Keene
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

A petrographic, isotopic and fluid inclusion investigation of sandstones from the Permian Wilton Formation and Triassic Narrabeen Group in the Sydney Basin was undertaken in order to document the fluid flow history of pore waters and hydrocarbons. F...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin Constraints diagenesis flow fluid Histories Inclusion Isotope Permo sediments Sydney Triassic

An Integrated Structural and Palaeogeographic Investigation of Eocene Erosional Events and Related Hydrocarbon Potential in the Gippsland Basin

An Integrated Structural and Palaeogeographic Investigation of Eocene Erosional Events and Related Hydrocarbon Potential in the Gippsland Basin

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: E.M. Johnstone, C.C. Jenkins and M.A. Moore
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

This new revised structural/stratigraphic model for the Eocene erosional events in the Central/Eastern Gippsland Basin has delineated the key play elements of trap formation and seal development. Integrated structural and palaeogeographical studies h...

 

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Tags: basin Eocene Erosional Events Gippsland hydrocarbon integrated Investigation Palaeogeographic potential related structural

Re-Evaluating Thermal History Models for the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand Using Apatite Fission Track and (U-Th)/He Data From Well Sections

Re-Evaluating Thermal History Models for the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand Using Apatite Fission Track and (U-Th)/He Data From Well Sections

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: P.V. Crowhurst, P.F. Green and P.J.J. Kamp
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

Reliable reconstruction of thermal histories in sedimentary basins is a key aspect of reducing exploration risk, e.g. In defining the timing of hydrocarbon generation in source kitchens and identifying tectonic episodes which may have caused disrupti...

 

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Tags: Apatite basin data Fission history Models New Zealand Sections Taranaki thermal Track

Geology and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Jurassic-Cretaceous Maryborough Basin

Geology and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Jurassic-Cretaceous Maryborough Basin

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: P. Lipski
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

The Maryborough Basin is a mainly Mesozoic basin that straddles the coastline of southeastern Queensland. The sequence ranges in age from Late Triassic to Early Tertiary. Sequences generally can be correlated across the Surat and Eromanga basins to t...

 

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Tags: basin Cretaceous. geology hydrocarbon Jurassic Maryborough potential

Volumetric Calculations Using 3D Seismic Calibrated Against Porosity Logs – Pretty Hill Formation Reservoirs, Onshore Otway Basin

Volumetric Calculations Using 3D Seismic Calibrated Against Porosity Logs – Pretty Hill Formation Reservoirs, Onshore Otway Basin

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: P.J. Boult and J. Donley
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

A 3D seismic volume of porosity logs, calibrated to wells, was generated by multi-attribute trace inversion of seismic data over an area containing five producing gas Fields in the Pretty Hill Formation of the onshore Otway Basin, South Australia. Fr...

 

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Tags: basin calculations Calibrated formation logs onshore Otway Porosity. Pretty Hill reservoirs Volumetric

Structural Evolution and Charge History in the Bass Basin – Preliminary Results

Structural Evolution and Charge History in the Bass Basin – Preliminary Results

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: A. Cummings, R. Hills and P. Tingate
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

 

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Tags: basin Bass charge evolution history preliminary results structural

Visualisation of Fluvial Stratagraphic Trap Opportunities in the Pondrinie 3D Survey, Cooper-Eromanga Basin

Visualisation of Fluvial Stratagraphic Trap Opportunities in the Pondrinie 3D Survey, Cooper-Eromanga Basin

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: T. Nakanishi and S.C. Lang
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

Exploration and development in the Cooper-Eromanga Basin have been predominantly focused on structural traps. However, the future for exploration and field development lies in exploration for stratigraphic traps. Using advanced visualisation techniqu...

 

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Tags: basin Cooper Eromanga fluvial Opportunities Pondrinie Stratagraphic trap Visualisation

3D Rift Fault Systems of the Western Otway Basin, SE Australia

3D Rift Fault Systems of the Western Otway Basin, SE Australia

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: S. Chantraprasert, K.R. McClay and C. Elders
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

2D and 3D seismic data from the western Otway basin, South Australia have been used to analyse the 3D geometries of the Late Jurassic- Early Cretaceous rift fault systems in the central Penola Trough. NW and WNW striking rift fault systems in the cen...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin fault Otway Rift systems

Interpretation of Burial and Diagenetic History of Northland Allochthon Rocks, Northland Basin, New Zealand

Interpretation of Burial and Diagenetic History of Northland Allochthon Rocks, Northland Basin, New Zealand

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: N. Aadil, P. Black and P.F. Ballance
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

Northland Allochthon is a structurally displaced rock unit comprising an originally fining-upwards passive margin wedge which accumulated adjacent to northeastern New Zealand between the Middle Cretaceous and Late Oligocene. The wedge was obducted on...

 

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Tags: basin Burial Diagenetic history Interpretation New Zealand Northland Allochthon rocks

Triassic Seals in the Cooper Basin

Triassic Seals in the Cooper Basin

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: R. Dragomirescu, J. Kaldi, N. Lemon and E. Alexander
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

The seal potential of four lithofacies from the Early - Middle Triassic Nappameni Group and Late Triassic Cuddapan Formation, Cooper Basin is evaluated. Historically, the Nappameni Group has been regarded as a 'regional seal' . This study is a detail...

 

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Tags: basin Cooper seals Triassic

New Insights into the Structural Development of the Onshore Otway Basin

New Insights into the Structural Development of the Onshore Otway Basin

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: A.N. Aburas and P.J. Boult
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

A refined structural interpretation of the onshore Otway Basin, based on modelling of lateral transfer faults, using 2D seismic acquired in 2000, has identified potential petroleum traps that may have been overlooked. Gravity images of the central pa...

 

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Tags: basin development insights onshore Otway structural

Effect of Magmatism on the Northern Taranaki Basin Petroleum System

Effect of Magmatism on the Northern Taranaki Basin Petroleum System

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: V. Stagpoole, R. Funnell and D. Darby
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

Volcanic activity and the effects of magmatism have often been considered detrimental to the prospectivity of petroleum basins. In the northern Taranaki Basin, Middle to Late Miocene andesitic arc magmatism associated with the Mohakatino Volcanic Cen...

 

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Tags: basin Magmatism petroleum system Taranaki

K-Ar Dating, Petrographic and Thermal Modelling Constraints on Illite Origin in the Cooper Basin, South Australia

K-Ar Dating, Petrographic and Thermal Modelling Constraints on Illite Origin in the Cooper Basin, South Australia

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: H. Zwingmann, P.R. Tingate, N.M. Lemon and P.J. Hamilton
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

Petrographic observations of Late Carboniferous and Early Permian sandstones of the Cooper Basin in South Australia indicate illite to be present in abundance. It occurs with different morphologies comprising detrital grains, authigenic grains with p...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin Constraints Cooper Illite K-Ar Dating modelling Origin. Petrographic thermal

Revised Stratigraphy of the Sherbrook Group, Otway Basin

Revised Stratigraphy of the Sherbrook Group, Otway Basin

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: A.D. Partridge
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

Upper Cretaceous sediments were first discovered along the Southern Margin of Australia in the Otway Basin during the 1950' s, and the principal formations assigned to the Sherbrook Group were first described from early petroleum exploration wells in...

 

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Tags: basin Group Otway Revised Sherbrook stratigraphy

Petroleum Expulsion From Permian Coal Seams in the Patchawarra Formation, Cooper Basin, South Australia

Petroleum Expulsion From Permian Coal Seams in the Patchawarra Formation, Cooper Basin, South Australia

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: L. Kramer, K.R. Arouri and D.M. McKirdy
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

This study documents the generation and expulsion of liquid hydrocarbons from coal seams containing Type II/III kerogen in the Patchawarra Formation at Gidgealpa-52, southwest Cooper Basin. Two different drainage scenarios have been compared, one inv...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin coal Cooper expulsion formation Patchawarra Permian petroleum Seams

Cenozoic Submarine Canyon Systems in Cool Water Carbonates from the Otway Basin, Victoria, Australia

Cenozoic Submarine Canyon Systems in Cool Water Carbonates from the Otway Basin, Victoria, Australia

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: A.S. Leach and M.W. Wallace
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

Well preserved submarine canyon systems are present in the Oligocene-Miocene cool water carbonates of the Heytesbury Group and the Pliocene-Recent Whalers Bluff Formation of the offshore Otway Basin. From seismic profiles, two morphologically distinc...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin Canyon Carbonates Cenozoic Cool Otway Submarine systems Victoria

Migration of Oil and Gas into the Maui Field, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand

Migration of Oil and Gas into the Maui Field, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: R.H. Funnell, V.M. Stagpoole, A. Nicol, S.D. Killops, A.G. Reyes and D. Darby
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

The oil and gas/condensate Maui Field in the Taranaki Basin lies 30 km off the west coast of the North Island, New Zealand. The field consists of two broad anticlinal closures formed by Miocene compression, and structurally enhanced by Plio-Pleistoce...

 

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Tags: basin gas Maui Field migration New Zealand oil Taranaki

CBM – A New Play for the Cooper Basin?

CBM – A New Play for the Cooper Basin?

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: D. Poynton and G. Simon
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

Coal bed methane (CBM) is one of the products of coalification - the process by which peat is transformed into coal during progressive burial. The initial product is biogenic gas. Thermogenic gas is produced with increasing pressure and temperature a...

 

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Tags: basin CBM Cooper Play

The Sedimentology and Palaeoenvironments of the Late Cretaceous Sherbrook Group in the Otway Basin

The Sedimentology and Palaeoenvironments of the Late Cretaceous Sherbrook Group in the Otway Basin

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: G.A. Boyd and S.J. Gallagher
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

The first marine incursions that flooded the Otway Basin, southern Australia, during the Late Cretaceous are preserved in the Sherbrook Group. The purpose of this preliminary study is to describe the depositional environments of the sediments of the ...

 

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Tags: basin Cretaceous. Group Late Otway Palaeoenvironments Sedimentology Sherbrook

The Plate Tectonic Evolution of Eastern Australasia Guided by the Stratigraphy of the Gippsland Basin

The Plate Tectonic Evolution of Eastern Australasia Guided by the Stratigraphy of the Gippsland Basin

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: M.S. Norvick, M.A. Smith and M.R. Power
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

Stratigraphic changes in eastern Australasia illustrate north to south variations in tectonic evolution. Common themes include TriassicJurassic subduction from the Papuan Fold Belt to New Zealand. Also, Late Barremian-Albian volcanogenic sedimentatio...

 

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Tags: basin Gippsland Plate Tectonic

Late Cretaceous Rift Volcanics of the Gippsland Basin, SE Australia – New Insights from 3D Seismic

Late Cretaceous Rift Volcanics of the Gippsland Basin, SE Australia – New Insights from 3D Seismic

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: G.J. O'Halloran and E.M. Johnstone
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

While both ancient and modern subaerial basaltic successions have been well studied in the field, the detailed three dimensional subsurface architecture of a basaltic volcanic rift terrain has rarely been directly imaged. Recent 3D seismic data have ...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin Cretaceous. Gippsland insights Late Rift Volcanics

AFTA-Calibrated 2-D Modelling of Hydrocarbon Generation and Migration Using Temispack: Preliminary Results from the Otway Basin

AFTA-Calibrated 2-D Modelling of Hydrocarbon Generation and Migration Using Temispack: Preliminary Results from the Otway Basin

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: I.R. Duddy and B. Erout
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

Commercial hydrocarbon discoveries in the Otway Basin are currently limited to the Victorian Port Campbell Embayment, both onshore and offshore and the onshore Penola Trough in South Australia. Previous AFTA -based studies have shown that the regiona...

 

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Tags: basin Calibrated Generation hydrocarbon migration Otway preliminary results seismic interpretation Temispack

Cook Strait, New Zealand – A New Frontier Basin

Cook Strait, New Zealand – A New Frontier Basin

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: G.R. Holdgate and R. Shaw
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

Cook Strait lies between the North and South Islands of New Zealand. Understanding the basin geology beneath Cook Strait has been hampered by a lack of modern seismic, as all existing petroleum seismic was shot before 1974. In 1998 NIWA obtained over...

 

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Tags: basin Cook Strait Frontier New Zealand

The Structural and Tectonic Evolution of the Gippsland Basin: Results from 2D Section Balancing and 3D Structural Modelling

The Structural and Tectonic Evolution of the Gippsland Basin: Results from 2D Section Balancing and 3D Structural Modelling

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: M.R. Power, K.C. Hill, N. Hoffman, T. Bernecker and M. Norvick
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

The Gippsland Basin has been Australia's main hydrocarbon producing province since the mid- 1960's, yet many questions remain concerning the basin's evolution. Interpretation and depth conversion of more than 4,000 km of 2D regional seismic, inclndin...

 

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Tags: basin evolution Gippsland modelling results section structural tectonic

Otway Basin Rifting to Sea-Floor Spreading – Hydrocarbon Implications

Otway Basin Rifting to Sea-Floor Spreading – Hydrocarbon Implications

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: D. Palmowski, K.C. Hill, N. Hoffman and T. Bernecker
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

The Otway Basin is part of the Southern Ocean Rift System between Australia and Antarctica. Balancing and restoring deep seismic profiles, this paper presents a new look at the tectonic development of the basin and its petroleum implications. The dev...

 

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Tags: basin hydrocarbon implications Otway rifting Sea-floor Spreading

Interplay of Sedimentology & Structure in the Moranbah Coal Measures, Bowen Basin, Australia

Interplay of Sedimentology & Structure in the Moranbah Coal Measures, Bowen Basin, Australia

Publication Name: PESA (QLD) Petroleum Symposium 2000
Authors: J.S. Esterle, G. Le Blanc Smith and J.V.R. Yago
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: December 2000

 

 

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Tags: Australia. basin Bowen coal Interplay Measures Moranbah Sedimentology structure

Coalbed Methane Potential of the Surat Basin – A powder River Basin USA Lookalike

Coalbed Methane Potential of the Surat Basin – A powder River Basin USA Lookalike

Publication Name: PESA (QLD) Petroleum Symposium 2000
Authors: Norm Zillman
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: December 2000

 

 

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Tags: basin Coalbed Lookalike Methane potential Powder River Surat USA

Exploration, Development and Production Activities in the Cooper/Eromanga Basin: 1999-2000

Exploration, Development and Production Activities in the Cooper/Eromanga Basin: 1999-2000

Publication Name: PESA (QLD) Petroleum Symposium 2000
Authors: Rob Heath
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: December 2000

 

 

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Tags: basin Cooper development Eromanga exploration production

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