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A geological framework to support play-based resource assessments in the Pedirka and Simpson basins
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Barry E. Bradshaw, Jeremy Iwanec, Anita Doig, Paul C. Strong, Tom Bernecker
- Date Published: August 2024
Abstract:
The Permian and Triassic Pedirka and Simpson basins in central Australia have proven petroleum potential with a non-commercial oil discovery in the Poolowanna Trough and several wells showing evidence for residual oil columns. However, these basins r...
Reassessing stromatolite biostratigraphy in the East Tennant region, Northern Territory: Implications for regional mineral prospectivity
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Amber J.M. Jarrett, Heidi J. Allen, Timothy J. Munson, Andy D. Clark, Anthony Schofield
- Date Published: August 2024
Abstract:
The East Tennant region in the Northern Territory is a mineral systems exploration fairway situated between Tennant Creek in the west and the Murphy Province in the east. Intersected stratigraphy in the East Tennant drillhole CRA DD79 AL2 has been va...
The Hydrogen Economy: Can it be based on Mineral (Natural) Hydrogen?
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: M.C. Clarke
- Date Published: August 2024
Abstract:
The world has been eagerly seeking to have hydrogen as the principal energy carrier and energy source. Government leaders, world identities and gradually the general populace have come to the consensus that something must be done to rein in real (or ...
Facies Analysis of Regressive-Transgressive Deltaic Cycles from the Mesoproterozoic Roper Group, Greater McArthur Basin, Australia
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: H.D. Johnson, D.R. Johns, S. Menpes, M. Sheridan, K.L. Bann
- Date Published: August 2024
Abstract:
The Velkerri-Moroak (V-M) sequence typifies one of several single large-scale (up to ca. 2000 m thick), mudstone-dominated regressive clastic coastal to fluvio-deltaic cycles in the Mesoproterozoic Roper Group (Greater McArthur Basin). A sedimentolog...
The Hunt for Residual Oil Zones in Central Australia
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: M. Ben Clennell, Richard Kempton, Paul Strong, Martin Kennedy, Eric Tenthorey, Aleksandra Kalinowski, Claire Patterson
- Date Published: August 2024
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Residual oil zones (ROZs) are zones of oil at residual saturation below identified oil–water contacts that are typically immovable and not included in normal reserve calculations. Where reservoir conditions are suitable for miscible displacement, R...
New geomechanical and petrophysical data from NDI Carrara 1; implications for Carrara Sub-basin unconventional prospectivity
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Bailey, AHE, Wang, L, Grosjean, E, Carson, CJ, Butcher, GA, Jarrett, AJM, Henson, PA
- Date Published: August 2024
Abstract:
NDI Carrara 1 is the first stratigraphic test of the Carrara Sub-basin, a newly discovered depocentre in the South Nicholson region that was identified on newly acquired seismic surveys undertaken as part of the Exploring for the Future program. NDI ...
An Improved Depositional Model for the Organic Rich Shales of the Amungee Member of the Velkerri Formation in the Beetaloo Sub-basin, Northern Territory, Australia
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: David Close, Andrew Wilson
- Date Published: August 2024
Abstract:
The geology of the Beetaloo Sub-basin, a component part of the thick and geographically extensive greater McArthur Basin, remains relatively poorly described due to limited outcrop, seismic data and well penetrations. Since around 2010, however, ther...
CABS IV Special Publication Volume 2
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Date Published: August 2024
Abstract:
Volume 2 of the full papers presented at the 2022 Central Australian Basins Symposium IV (a PESA Special Publication)....
The importance of understanding basement and structural inheritance: insights on basin evolution in the greater McArthur and South Nicholson region
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Karen Connors, Jane Blevin, Lynn Pryer
- Date Published: August 2024
Abstract:
Structural inheritance has played a key role in the long evolution of the Paleo- to Mesoproterozoic basins of the McArthur and South Nicholson region. As a result, a reliable geological model of the nature of basement and variations in its rheology a...
New insights to the stratigraphy and petroleum potential of the Pedirka Basin in the Northern Territory
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Anita Doig, Amber J. M. Jarrett, Charles Verdel
- Date Published: August 2024
Abstract:
The Permian to Triassic aged Pedirka Basin in the Northern Territory has been a focus of a multidisciplinary precompetitive geoscience study that aims to understand the lithology, stratigraphy and petroleum potential of the region as part of the Reso...
A Multidisciplinary Resource Assessment of the Adavale Basin: Part 1 Conventional and Unconventional Resources
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: D. Ferdinando, C. Wainman, D. Jorgensen, M. Orr, S. Hostetler, C. Gouramanis, M. Bouma, S.R.B. McAlpine
- Date Published: August 2024
Abstract:
The Adavale Basin underlies the Galilee, Eromanga and Lake Eyre basins in central Queensland and has a sedimentary record spanning the Early Devonian to Late Devonian/Early Carboniferous. A range of depositional environments existed across the Adaval...
Regional chemostratigraphic framework of the Neoproterozoic and Middle Ordovician mega-sequences of the Officer Basin, Australia
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: David A. Riley, Tim J. Pearce, Stuart Munday, Dianne S. Edwards, Alex Fuerst, Liuqi Wang
- Date Published: August 2024
Abstract:
The Neoproterozoic to Middle Ordovician sedimentary rocks of the Officer Basin, Australia, are difficult to correlate, in part because biostratigraphic studies of acritarchs and stromatolites are localised, stable isotope studies are rare, and seismi...
A new view of the evolution of the Beetaloo Sub-basin and its surrounds
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Daniela Garrad
- Date Published: August 2024
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The Beetaloo Sub-basin is a major Proterozoic depocentre in the central region of the informally named greater McArthur Basin in the Northern Territory, Australia. Paleoproterozoic Glyde package sediments of the greater McArthur Basin are present to ...
Revised Jurassic and Cretaceous stratigraphic correlations across the Great Artesian Basin: Improving hydrogeological conceptualisations
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Nadege Rollet, John Vizy, Catherine Norton, Carey Hannaford, Andrew McPherson, Kok Piang Tan, Luke Wallace
- Date Published: August 2024
Abstract:
The Great Artesian Basin (GAB) is the largest groundwater basin in Australia, underlying approximately one fifth of the continent, including parts of Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and the Northern Territory. The GAB consists of four hy...
The Murraba Basin revisited – interpretations refined by detrital zircon data
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: PW Haines, H.J. Allen, MTD Wingate, LS Normore, Y. Lu, IOH Fielding
- Date Published: August 2024
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The Murraba Basin is a poorly known component of the Centralian Superbasin that extends across the Western Australia – Northern Territory border. An earlier reconnaissance reinterpretation by some of the authors significantly changed the inferred a...
Play analysis in the Pedirka Basin-Poolowanna-Trough region
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Paul C. Strong
- Date Published: August 2024
Abstract:
The Pedirka Basin-Poolowanna Trough region in central Australia covers over 100,000 km2, just over half of which is in South Australia and most of the remainder in the Northern Territory. Petroleum exploration commenced in the 1950s when licences cov...
A Multidisciplinary Resource Assessment of the Adavale Basin: Part 2 Groundwater Resources
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: S. Hostetler, C. Gouramanis, D. Ferdinando, C. Wainman, M. Orr, D. Jorgensen, M. Boum, M. Woods, S.R.B. McAlpine
- Date Published: August 2024
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The Australian Government’s Trusted Environmental and Geological Information (TEGI) program is a scientific study led by Geoscience Australia. Geoscience Australia is collaborating with CSIRO to deliver regional geological and environmental assessm...
New insights into the stratigraphy, structure and architecture of the Amadeus Basin
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Charles Verdel, Nigel Donnellan, Anett Weisheit, Christine Edgoose
- Date Published: August 2024
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Projects conducted by the Northern Territory Geological Survey over the last several years have been aimed at improved understanding of the stratigraphy, structure and architecture of the Northern Territory portion of the Amadeus Basin. Of particular...
Post-drill analysis to assess the prospectivity and geological risks for energy resources in the Pedirka, Simpson and western Eromanga basins
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: J. Iwanec,, B.E. Bradshaw, T. Bernecker, A. Doig, D. Ferdinando, A. Jarrett, P. Strong, Z. Yarmohammadtooksi
- Date Published: August 2024
Abstract:
The Permian Pedirka, the Triassic Simpson and the Jurassic–Cretaceous western Eromanga basins in central Australia have undergone a sporadic exploration history which commenced in the 1950s. Exploration drilling initially focused on conventional hy...
The Proterozoic greater McArthur Basin – New ways of looking at a frontier resource-rich basin
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: A.S. Collins, M.L. Blades, J. Farkaš, D. Subarkah, A. Nixon, S. Glorie, B. Yang, S. Holford, R. King, C. Spandler, S. Gilbert, A. Deepak, J. Soares, Y. Madavan, A. Jarrett, T. Munson, X. Cao, N. Flament, D. Hasterok, R.D. Müller, S. Pisarevsky, Sanzhong Li, R. Frei
- Date Published: July 2023
Abstract:
The greater McArthur Basin of northern Australia is a vast frontier exploration province for basin-hosted resources, both hydrocarbons (oil and natural gas) and metals (critical metals [e.g. rare earth elements, Co], Cu, Pb, Zn and Au). This basin sy...
The hidden Proterozoic successions of the Barkly region
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Chris Southby, Nadege Rollet, Chris Carson, Lidena Carr, Paul Henson, Grace Butcher, Tanya Fomin, Ross Costelloe, Michael Doublier, and Dorothy Close
- Date Published: July 2023
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The Barkly 2D Deep Crustal Reflection Seismic Survey (L212) was acquired in 2019 by Geoscience Australia as a major objective of the Australian Governments’ multi-year $225m Exploring for the Future (EFTF) program in partnership with, and co-funded...
Quick-look core-logging, a cost-effective way to develop a regional depositional model, Patchawarra Formation, Cooper Basin
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: C. Cubitt, Rob Kirk, and Sharon Tiainen
- Date Published: July 2023
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The early Permian Patchawarra Formation is one of the principal gas producing intervals of the South Australian Cooper Basin (Government of South Australia., 2022). The gross depositional environment (GDE) for this interval is reported to be dominant...
Geothermal parameters of in situ Rb–Sr dating on Proterozoic shales and its applications
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Darwinaji Subarkah, Angus L. Nixon, Monica Jimenez, Alan S. Collins, Morgan L. Blades, Juraj Farkas, Sarah E. Gilbert, and Simon Holford
- Date Published: July 2023
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Recent developments in tandem laser ablation-mass spectrometer technology have been shown to be capable of separating parent and daughter isotopes of the same mass online. Consequently, beta decay chronometers can now be applied to the geological arc...
On the origin of quartz in the Velkerri Fm: implications for exploration and production in the Beetaloo Sub-basin and the Si cycle in the Mesoproterozoic
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Claudio Delle Piane, Kitty L. Milliken, Vincent Crombez, Laure Martin, and William Rickard
- Date Published: July 2023
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The Beetaloo Sub-basin is a concealed, composite depocenter and a component of a group of intra-cratonic Paleoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic sedimentary basins collectively described as the Greater McArthur Basin. The Sub-basin hosts unconventional a...
Understanding the interplay between basin architecture, depositional environments and sediment pathways in the Cooper Basin
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Carmine C. Wainman, Peter J. McCabe
- Date Published: July 2023
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The late Carboniferous to Middle Triassic Cooper Basin is Australia’s premier onshore petroleum province hosting a range of conventional and unconventional resources (Hall et al., 2019). Despite being considered a mature petroleum basin with over 1...
Base Metal Mineralisation of the Rover Field, Northern Territory
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Farias P, Whelan J, Reno B, Cross A, Huston D, Maas R, Mernagh T, Danyushevsky L
- Date Published: July 2023
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The Warramunga Province of the Palaeoproterozoic North Australian Craton, in the central Northern Territory, represents a prospective terrane for mineral exploration. A well-known example is the Tennant Creek mineral field, which has a rich history o...
Borehole image features map depositional environment change in Mesoproterozoic deltas: insights from the Beetaloo Sub-Basin
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Andrew Wilson, Alexander Côté, Brenton Richards, Carl Altmann
- Date Published: July 2023
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The Beetaloo Sub-Basin in the Northern Territory is a Proterozoic basin filled predominantly with siliciclastics rocks, the deeper sections only found in sub-crop (Munsen, 2016). The Beetaloo Sub-Basin hosts significant unconventional hydrocarbon res...
New metal isotope techniques to explore past depositional environments of the Centralian Superbasin, Australia
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Juraj Farkas, Alan Collins, Stefan Löhr, Charles Verdel, Morgan Blades, Chris Holmden, Susanne Schmid, Yuexiao Shao, Darwinaji Subarkah, Robert Klaebe, and Shaun Yardley
- Date Published: July 2023
Abstract:
The Centralian Superbasin (CSB) is a ~ 2 million km2 Neoproterozoic to early Palaeozoic (ca. 850−400 Ma) intracratonic depositional system, which stretches across four states (WA, NT, SA and QLD) and is of fundamental scientific and economic signif...
Amadeus Basin’s H2 Geo-Storage capacity
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: C. Loyola, K. Amrouch, M. Bunch
- Date Published: July 2023
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In recent years, there has been increased interest in Hydrogen’s production and use, not only for ammonia production but also as an energy carrier (IEA, 2017). It could be produced from carbon-abated fossil fuels, as well as renewable and clean ene...
Possible Late Mesoproterozoic or earliest Neoproterozoic glacial deposits, Beetaloo Sub-basin, Northern Territory
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: John D. Gorter, Darren Ferdinando
- Date Published: July 2023
Abstract:
In the Beetaloo Sub-basin, the Kyalla Formation is unconformably overlain by a late Mesoproterozoic to early Neoproterozoic sandstone to mudstone succession comprising three formations/units: the lower Jamison sandstone, the upper Jamison sandstone, ...