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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 ...
Petroleum accumulations of the Eromanga Basin: a comparison with other Australian Mesozoic accumulations
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: V.L. Passmore
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
The rapidly growing number of oil and gas discoveries in the Eromanga Basin demonstrates that the Eromanga
Basin is one of the most prolific and important of the Australian Jurassic and Cretaceous petroleum basins.
Although most of its accumulations ...
Kerogen characterisation and organic and mineral diagenesis of potential source rocks in Jurassic units, southern Eromanga Basin, Queenland
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: P.J. Hawkins, C.S. Almond, D.C. Carmichael, R.J. Smith and L.J. Williams
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Source-rock richness, dominant kerogen types, levels of organic maturation and thermal histories have been used to highlight differences in potential Jurassic source rocks ('basal Jurassic' unit, Birkhead Formation and Westbourne Formation) east of t...
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 ...
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...
Regional diagenesis – an important influence in porosity development and hydrocarbon accumulations within the Hutton Sandstone, Eromanga Basin
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: P.M. Green, P.J. Eadington, P.J. Hamilton and D.C. Carmichael
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
The diagenetic history of the Hutton Sandstone in the southern Eromanga Basin in Queensland has been investigated using petrological, fluid inclusion and stable isotope techniques. Three distinct diagenetic zones were recognised according to whether ...
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...
A Permian origin for Jurassic reservoired oil in the Eromanga Basin
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: R. Heath, S. McIntyre and N. Gibbins
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Discoveries made in mid-1988 on the Taloola Trend in the Lake Hope Block marked a watershed for Eromanga
Basin oil exploration. The discoveries were made using an exploration model/play concept of sourcing from the
adjacent coaly Permian rocks of the...
Diagenetic alteration of Permian reservoir sandstones in the Nappamerri Trough and adjacent areas, southern Cooper Basin
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: J.P. Schulz-Rojahn and S.E. Phillips
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Preliminary results concerning the diagenesis of Permian reservoir sandstones in the Nappamerri Trough have
identified several authigenic mineral phases. A variety of techniques, namely thin section description, scanning
electron microscopy, X-ray di...
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...
The Stratigraphy and hydrocarbon potential of the northern Eromanga Basin
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: T. Scholefield
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Two areas with the potential to contain economic accumulations of hydrocarbons are recognised in the
northern Eromanga Basin region. In the east and south, on the crest of the Maneroo Platform, an
overbank/backswamp depositional environment for the B...
Possible stratigrphic controls on hydrocarbon distribution within the Jurassic – Early Cretaceous rocks, Eromanga Basin, southern Queenland
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: P.M. Green, T.J. Brain and B.H. John
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Results of detailed wire-line log correlations have enabled a uniform stratigraphic framework for the Jurassic-Early Cretaceous sequence in the Eromanga Basin in southern Queensland to be established. The broad regional pattern of basin development w...
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 ...
Revision of Triassic stratigraphy at the Cooper Basin to Eromanga Basin transition
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: G.D. Powis
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
In recent years it has become apparent that all of the Triassic-aged strata overlying the Cooper Basin cannot
adequately be placed into the only formally defined Triassic formation, the Nappamerri Formation. Not only do these strata not conform litho...
GSQ Thargominda-3: a stratigraphic test of a ‘canyon-like’ feature near the Tookoonooka complex, Eromanga Basin, Queenland
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: Ian F. Young, L.M. Gunther and O. Dixon
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
GSQ Thargomindah-3, a fully cored stratigraphic bore, was designed to investigate seismic evidence of superimposed post-Westbourne and post-Cadna-owie channelling at a location 25 km south-east of the Tookoonooka Complex (south-west Queensland). It w...
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 ...
Bonaparte Basin: Evolution and Structural Framework
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: P.J. Gunn
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
The Bonaparte Basin of northwestern Australia commenced development as a Devonian rift which underwent a pivot-type opening about a pole at its southern end.
When extension ceased in the Mid Carboniferous the bounding faults at the northern end of th...
Regional Geology of the Offshore Bonaparte Basin
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: A.J. Mory
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
The offshore portion of the Bonaparte Basin extends under the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf to Ashmore Reef to the northwest and Flinders Shoal to the north, and covers an approximately triangular area of about 250 000 km2.
The oldest sediments which can be ...
Bonaparte Basin Petroleum Accumulations
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: I.H. Lavering and S. Ozimic
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
The thirty-three known petroleum accumulations in the Bonaparte Basin comprise oil, oil/ gas, and gas/
condensate in reservoirs of Devonian to Tertiary age. The largest of these oil accumulations, Challis, Jabiru,
Puffin and Skua, occur in fault and ...
Gas Fields of the Browse Basin
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: A.N. Bint
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
The Browse Basin is located on the North West Shelf of Australia, between the offshore Canning Basin to the
southwest and the Bonaparte Basin to the northeast. Two large gas fields have been discovered in the central
part of the basin, Scott Reef and...
Hydrocarbon Discoveries in the Bonaparte Basin
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: P.J. Gunn
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
Thirty three wells have been drilled in the Bonaparte Basin, and hydrocarbon indications have been found in formations ranging in age from Devonian to Jurassic. The most significant discoveries to date are the Petrel
and Tern gas fields, with late Pe...
A Case Study of Seismic Exploration in the Offshore Bonaparte Basin
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: J. Durrant and A. Young
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
Exploration permit NT/P40, operated by Western Mining Corporation Limited (WM C), is situated in the north-eastern Bonaparte Basin.
Early seismic exploration failed to delineate the primary objective section because of its significant depth of buria...
Heat Flow Regime and Implications for Oil Maturation and Migration in the Offshore Northern Carnarvon Basin
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: M.G. Swift, H.M.J. Stagg and D.A. Falvey
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
The present day heat-flow distribution in the Exmouth Plateau region has now been compiled from 74 direct seabed measurements on the plateau and over the Kangaroo Syncline, and from bottom hole and seabed temperatures of23 offshore oil exploration we...
Geochemistry of the Turtle Oil Accumulation, Offshore Southern Bonaparte Basin
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: P.J. Jefferies
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
Turtle 1 was drilled in 1984 in the offshore southern Bonaparte Basin. The well encountered numerous oil shows in sands of the Late Carboniferous to Early Permian Kulshill Group, but an extensive testing programme failed to produce hydrocarbons at co...
Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Basal Winning Group, Northern Carnarvon Basin
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: R.M. Hocking, J.W.K. Voon and L.B. Collins
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
Sands at the base ofthe Winning Group, immediately beneath the Muderong Shale, can be assigned to three broad groups, on the basis of core, outcrop and electric log data. The groups are distinct lithofacies associations, and correspond to established...
Upper Triassic Palynofacies and Environmental Interpretations for the Rankin Trend, Northern Carnarvon Basin, W.A.
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: A.N. Bint and R. Helby
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
The Upper Triassic sequence penetrated on the Rankin Trend consists of the upper part of the Mungaroo Formation and the Brigadier Formation. Palynological and lithofacies subdivision of the sequence have provided a framework for recognition of seven ...
The Offshore Canning Basin – A Review
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: E.L. Horstman and P.G. Purcell
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
The offshore Canning Basin is located on Australia's North West Shelf. Northwest-trending Palaeozoic structures of the onshore Canning Basin extend into the offshore area, deepening to the northwest and buried under a seaward thickening wedge of Meso...
Regional Geology of the Northern Carnarvon Basin
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: R.M. Hocking
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
The Carnarvon Basin has two distinct parts: a southern, onshore, north-trending group of sub-basins which contain up to 7 km of predominantly Palaeozoic sediments, and a northern, largely offshore, northeasttrending
group of sub-basins which are up t...
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...
Middle-Late Cambrian facies analysis and implications for reservoir prediction, eastern Warburton Basin, South Australia
- Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 25
- Authors: Xiaowen Sun
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: December 1987
Abstract:
Detailed facies analysis of the lower Kalladeina Formation,
by interpreting well and seismic data, leads to the
reconstruction of Middle to Late Cambrian carbonatedominated
depositional environments in the eastern
Warburton Basin. Two contrasting sha...