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A Permian origin for Jurassic reservoired oil in the Eromanga Basin

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...

 

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Tags: basin Eromanga Jurassic oil Origin. Permian reservoired

Diagenetic alteration of Permian reservoir sandstones in the Nappamerri Trough and adjacent areas, southern Cooper Basin

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...

 

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Tags: areas basin Cooper Diagenetic Nappamerri Permian reservoir. Sandstones southern Trough

The geometry of Toolachee Unit “C” fluvial sand trends, Moomba Field, Permian Cooper Basin, South Australia

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...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin C Cooper field fluvial geometry Moomba Permian sand South Toolachee Trends Unit

The Stratigraphy and hydrocarbon potential of the northern Eromanga Basin

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...

 

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Tags: basin Eromanga hydrocarbon northern potential stratigraphy

Possible stratigrphic controls on hydrocarbon distribution within the Jurassic – Early Cretaceous rocks, Eromanga Basin, southern Queenland

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...

 

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Tags: basin controls Cretaceous. distribution early Eromanga hydrocarbon Jurassic Queenland rocks southern Stratigrphic

The Mulkarra Structure: a possible buried impact crater in the western Eromanga Basin, Australia

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 ...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin buried crater Eromanga impact Mulkarra structure

Revision of Triassic stratigraphy at the Cooper Basin to Eromanga Basin transition

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...

 

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Tags: basin Cooper Eromanga Revision stratigraphy Transition Triassic

GSQ Thargominda-3: a stratigraphic test of a ‘canyon-like’ feature near the Tookoonooka complex, Eromanga Basin, Queenland

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...

 

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Tags: basin canyon-like Complex Eromanga feature GSQ Queenland stratigraphic Test Thargominda Tookoonooka

Casing design in relation to blowout prevention and well control in the Cooper Basin, South Australia

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 ...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin blowout Casing Control Cooper Design prevention relation South

Applications of new cement technology in the Cooper and Eromanga Basin, Australia

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....

 

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Tags: Applications Australia. basin cement Cooper Eromanga technology

The influence of pre-Jurassic tectonic regimes on the structural development of the southern Eromanga Basin, Queensland

The influence of pre-Jurassic tectonic regimes on the structural development of the southern Eromanga Basin, Queensland

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: K.L. Hoffmann
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

A structural study, including detailed seismic interpretation, of the southern Eromanga Basin, Queensland, has allowed determination of a sequence of structural events which have been age-correlated with plate tectonics. Widespread extension occurred...

 

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Tags: basin development Eromanga influence pre-Jurassic Queensland regimes southern structural tectonic

Aspects of the hydrogeology of the southern Eromanga Basin, Queenland

Aspects of the hydrogeology of the southern Eromanga Basin, Queenland

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: P.J. Muller
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

The Eromanga Basin consists essentially of a multilayered aquifer system which contains two distinct groups of aquifers, namely those in the pre-Wallumbilla Formation units, and those in the Wallumbilla Formation and ounger units. The two groups ref...

 

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Tags: Aspects basin Eromanga hydrogeology Queenland southern

Subsidence history of the Eromanga basin, Australia

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...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin Eromanga history subsidence

Thermal maturity and other geological controls on the distribution and composition of Cooper Basin hydrocarbons

Thermal maturity and other geological controls on the distribution and composition of Cooper Basin hydrocarbons

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: J.W. Hunt, R.S. Heath, and P.F. McKenzie
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

The Permo-Triassic Cooper Basin is Australia's major onshore hydrocarbon province. Hydrocarbons discovered in the Basin to date comprise mainly gas (approximately 6 TCF recoverable) although one large oil pool, in the Tirrawarra Sandstone of the Tirr...

 

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Tags: basin composition controls Cooper distribution geological hydrocarbons maturity thermal

The occurrence and search for Permian oil in the Cooper Basin, Australia

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...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin Cooper Occurrence oil Permian Search

Organic facies and petroleum geochemistry of the lacustrine Murta Member (Mooga Formation) in the Eromanga Basin, Australia

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...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin Eromanga facies formation geochemistry lacustrine Member Mooga Murta organic petroleum

Gas Fields of the Browse Basin

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...

 

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Tags: basin Browse fields gas

Hydrocarbon Discoveries in the Bonaparte Basin

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...

 

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Tags: basin Bonaparte discoveries hydrocarbon

A Case Study of Seismic Exploration in the Offshore Bonaparte Basin

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...

 

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Tags: basin Bonaparte case exploration offshore Seismic study

Heat Flow Regime and Implications for Oil Maturation and Migration in the Offshore Northern Carnarvon Basin

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...

 

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Tags: basin Carnarvon flow Heat implications maturation migration northern offshore oil Regime

Geochemistry of the Turtle Oil Accumulation, Offshore Southern Bonaparte Basin

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...

 

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Tags: basin Bonaparte geochemistry offshore oil southern Turtle

Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Basal Winning Group, Northern Carnarvon Basin

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...

 

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Tags: basin Carnarvon Group northern Sedimentology stratigraphy Winning

Upper Triassic Palynofacies and Environmental Interpretations for the Rankin Trend, Northern Carnarvon Basin, W.A.

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 ...

 

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Tags: basin Carnarvon environmental Interpretations northern Palynofacies Rankin Trend Triassic upper

The Offshore Canning Basin – A Review

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...

 

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Tags: basin Canning offshore Review

Regional Geology of the Northern Carnarvon Basin

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...

 

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Tags: basin Carnarvon geology northern Regional

Results of Exploration, Browse Basin, North West Shelf, Western Australia

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...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin Browse exploration North results shelf.

Bonaparte Basin: Evolution and Structural Framework

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...

 

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Tags: basin Bonaparte evolution Framework structural

Regional Geology of the Offshore Bonaparte Basin

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 ...

 

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Tags: basin Bonaparte geology offshore Regional

Bonaparte Basin Petroleum Accumulations

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 ...

 

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Tags: basin Bonaparte petroleum

Middle-Late Cambrian facies analysis and implications for reservoir prediction, eastern Warburton Basin, South Australia

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...

 

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Tags: basic volcanics basin carbonate facies Journal MiddletoLateCambrian. potential reservoirs shelf. slope Structural trap Warburton-Cooper Basins

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