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The western Amadeus Basin: revised stratigraphy and correlations

The western Amadeus Basin: revised stratigraphy and correlations

Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium III
Authors: P. W. Haines, H.-J. Allen, K. Grey, C. Edgoose
Date Published: July 2012

 

 

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Ooraminna-2, a gas discovery in the Neoproterozoic Pioneer Sandstone, eastern Amadeus Basin

Ooraminna-2, a gas discovery in the Neoproterozoic Pioneer Sandstone, eastern Amadeus Basin

Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium III
Authors: Ambrose, G.J, Heugh, J.P, Shortt, T
Date Published: July 2012

 

 

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Pre-Ordovician Source Rocks In Australia: A Compilation

Pre-Ordovician Source Rocks In Australia: A Compilation

Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium III
Authors: John R. Laurie
Date Published: July 2012

 

Abstract:

Petroleum systems have been defined as a mature source rock and all its generated hydrocarbon accumulations (Magoon & Dow, 1994). The system includes all the geological features necessary for petroleum accumulations to develop – source, reservoir, ...

 

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Horizontal drilling proves decisive for oil production from the Ordovician Stairway Sandstone Reservoir in Surprise Field, Amadeus Basin

Horizontal drilling proves decisive for oil production from the Ordovician Stairway Sandstone Reservoir in Surprise Field, Amadeus Basin

Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium III
Authors: D. Hallgren, D. Theseira, T. Shortt, J.P. Heugh
Date Published: July 2012

 

 

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Prospectivity of the Camel Flat Syncline region with emphasis on the Chandler Formation

Prospectivity of the Camel Flat Syncline region with emphasis on the Chandler Formation

Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium III
Authors: Dr John Bradshaw, Dr Jacques Sayers
Date Published: July 2012

 

 

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Conventional Hydrocarbon Plays in the SE Georgina Basin

Conventional Hydrocarbon Plays in the SE Georgina Basin

Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium III
Authors: Greg Ambrose, Emmanuel Cocodia
Date Published: July 2012

 

 

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Petroleum Geoscience of the Surprise Oil field in the Western Amadeus Basin: Implications for Regional Exploration

Petroleum Geoscience of the Surprise Oil field in the Western Amadeus Basin: Implications for Regional Exploration

Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium III
Authors: Heugh J.P., Askin, H., Dunmore, W., Ambrose G.J., Shortt, T., Hallgren, D., Alamiyo B.O., Sayers J., Boreham C.
Date Published: July 2012

 

 

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Recent Petroleum Exploration Results: Central Officer Basin, South Australia

Recent Petroleum Exploration Results: Central Officer Basin, South Australia

Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium III
Authors: Dr. Peter Boult, Annelise Freeman, Paul J. Bennett
Date Published: July 2012

 

 

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Formation evaluation challenges in the Amadeus Basin – lessons learnt from the Surprise-1 REH Discovery Well

Formation evaluation challenges in the Amadeus Basin – lessons learnt from the Surprise-1 REH Discovery Well

Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium III
Authors: Djisan Kho, Timothy Hopper, Sathees Krishnan, Greg Ambrose
Date Published: July 2012

 

 

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Structural and tectonic framework of the Amadeus Basin, with some deep seismic examples

Structural and tectonic framework of the Amadeus Basin, with some deep seismic examples

Publication Name: CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN BASINS WORKSHOP 1993 (CABS 1)
Authors: R.J. Korsch, R.D. Shaw, B.R. Goleby
Date Published: September 1993

 

Abstract:

In the Late Proterozoic, the Amadeus Basin developed during an initial period of subsidence due to an extensional and/or thermal event which was followed by subsidence driven by thermal relaxation of the lithosphere (Stage 1). A second, less intense,...

 

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The stratigraphy and significance of post-glacial carbonate horizons in the Amadeus Basin

The stratigraphy and significance of post-glacial carbonate horizons in the Amadeus Basin

Publication Name: CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN BASINS WORKSHOP 1993 (CABS 1)
Authors: M.J. Kennedy, M.W. Wallace
Date Published: September 1993

 

Abstract:

The Neoproterozoie was a period of dramatic change within the biosphere. This period marked the transition from a series of global ice ages to climatic warming. Deglaeiation was followed by the appearance of the Ediaearan fauna and culminated with th...

 

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Hydrocarbon prospectivity of the southern Georgina Basin, Northern Territory

Hydrocarbon prospectivity of the southern Georgina Basin, Northern Territory

Publication Name: CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN BASINS WORKSHOP 1993 (CABS 1)
Authors: J. Karajas
Date Published: September 1993

 

Abstract:

The southern Georgina Basin contains a thick, areally extensive, oil-prone, alginitic, black shale unit in a depocentre in the Middle Cambrian Arthur Creek Formation. Typical source rock intercepts range between 20 and 100 metres in thickness, with T...

 

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Geochemical tools for finding the oil window in Proterozoic and early Palaeozoic petroleum source rocks

Geochemical tools for finding the oil window in Proterozoic and early Palaeozoic petroleum source rocks

Publication Name: CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN BASINS WORKSHOP 1993 (CABS 1)
Authors: Roger E. Summons, Dennis Taylor, Christopher J. Boreham
Date Published: September 1993

 

Abstract:

There is a perception that maturity estimates based on geochemical investigations need to be assessed against the "yardstick' of the more conventional vitrinite reflectance. However, in Proterozoic and Early Palaeozoic sediments, which pre-date the e...

 

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Magnetic susceptibility of Cooper and Warburton Basin sedimentary and igneous rocks

Magnetic susceptibility of Cooper and Warburton Basin sedimentary and igneous rocks

Publication Name: CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN BASINS WORKSHOP 1993 (CABS 1)
Authors: L.R. Tucker
Date Published: September 1993

 

Abstract:

Magnetic susceptibility measurements of cuttings and core for twenty eight petroleum wells in the Cooper and Warburton Basins were completed in three stages. The first stage, a pilot study of drill hole cuttings from twenty wells found variations in ...

 

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24-1sopropylcholestanes: possible sponge biomarkevs in sediments and petroleum

24-1sopropylcholestanes: possible sponge biomarkevs in sediments and petroleum

Publication Name: CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN BASINS WORKSHOP 1993 (CABS 1)
Authors: M.A. McCaffrey, .M. Moldowan, A. Lipton, E. Summons, E. Peters, A. Jeganathan, D.S Watt
Date Published: September 1993

 

Abstract:

24-Propylcholesterols, a class of C30 sterols, are rare lipids found mainly in marine chrysophyte algae and in some sponges. In the chrysophytes (order Sarcinoehrysidales) which have been examined to date, there is a strong preference for the straigh...

 

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Cambrian biostratigraphic events within central and northern Australian basins

Cambrian biostratigraphic events within central and northern Australian basins

Publication Name: CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN BASINS WORKSHOP 1993 (CABS 1)
Authors: J. H. Shergold
Date Published: September 1993

 

Abstract:

There is a demonstrated relationship between biostratigraphic and sequence stratigraphic units. Undoubtedly, sequence stratigraphic analysis is enhanced by the presence of a detailed biostratigraphy developed either within a basin or correlated to it...

 

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Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the CambroOrdovician succession, eastern Warburton Basin, South Australia

Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the CambroOrdovician succession, eastern Warburton Basin, South Australia

Publication Name: CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN BASINS WORKSHOP 1993 (CABS 1)
Authors: X. Sun
Date Published: September 1993

 

Abstract:

Early Palaeozoic Warburton Basin underlies the gas and oil productive Cooper and Eromanga Basins; three wells flowed commercial oil and gas from Warburton Basin sediments in 1990. The Middle and Late Cambrian Kalladeina Formation is about 1600 metres...

 

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A closer look at the petroleum potential of the Ngalia Basin, Northern Territory

A closer look at the petroleum potential of the Ngalia Basin, Northern Territory

Publication Name: CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN BASINS WORKSHOP 1993 (CABS 1)
Authors: J. A. Deckelman, J. K. Davidson
Date Published: September 1993

 

Abstract:

The Ngalia Basin is an elongate intracratonic basin encompassing 16,000 square kilometres of the southern part of the Northern Territory (Fig. 1). It is situated 80 km north of the Amadeus Basin which hosts over 55 million barrels of proven original ...

 

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Review of Neoproterozoic and Early Palaeozoic acritarch biostratigraphy

Review of Neoproterozoic and Early Palaeozoic acritarch biostratigraphy

Publication Name: CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN BASINS WORKSHOP 1993 (CABS 1)
Authors: W. Zang
Date Published: September 1993

 

Abstract:

Acritarchs (phytoplankton) and cyanobacteria probably dominated the biosphere before explosion of the Ediaeara Fauna in the Neoproterozoic. Their distribution was generally related to sedimentary environments and shows secular variation through geolo...

 

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Oil shows and source rocks of the eastern Officer Basin – a geochemical overview

Oil shows and source rocks of the eastern Officer Basin – a geochemical overview

Publication Name: CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN BASINS WORKSHOP 1993 (CABS 1)
Authors: D.M. McKirdy
Date Published: September 1993

 

Abstract:

For a frontier intracratonic basin with no identified petroleum reserves, the Officer Basin (at least in its eastern part) is remarkably well endowed with oil shows. These occur within six different formations and belong to four genetically distinct ...

 

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Oil shows and source rocks of the eastern Officer Basin – a geochemical overview

Oil shows and source rocks of the eastern Officer Basin – a geochemical overview

Publication Name: CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN BASINS WORKSHOP 1993 (CABS 1)
Authors: D.M. McKirdy
Date Published: September 1993

 

Abstract:

For a frontier intracratonic basin with no identified petroleum reserves, the Officer Basin (at least in its eastern part) is remarkably well endowed with oil shows. These occur within six different formations and belong to four genetically distinct ...

 

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The Larapintine petroleum system

The Larapintine petroleum system

Publication Name: CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN BASINS WORKSHOP 1993 (CABS 1)
Authors: M. Bradshaw
Date Published: September 1993

 

Abstract:

Phanerozoic Australian sedimentary sequences can be grouped into six broad petroleum systems: termed the Larapintine, Gondwanan, Westralian, Austral, Capricorn and Murta systems. Establishing a petroleum system framework stresses the linkages between...

 

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Thermal history reconstruction of the Yowalga-3 and Kanpa-1A wells, western Officer Basin

Thermal history reconstruction of the Yowalga-3 and Kanpa-1A wells, western Officer Basin

Publication Name: CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN BASINS WORKSHOP 1993 (CABS 1)
Authors: S. J. Marshallsea
Date Published: September 1993

 

Abstract:

The western Officer Basin forms the western end of a belt of Proterozoic to Palaeozoic sub-basins which extend across Western Australia and South Australia. The oldest rocks recognised are Lower to Middle Proterozoie sediments, overlain by thick Uppe...

 

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The Neoproterozoic Centralian Superbasin

The Neoproterozoic Centralian Superbasin

Publication Name: CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN BASINS WORKSHOP 1993 (CABS 1)
Authors: M. R. Walter, J. J. Veevers, C. R. Calver, K. Grey
Date Published: September 1993

 

Abstract:

In Neoproterozoic times 2 million km2 of Australia were occupied by a single depositional system, the Centralian Superbasin. The Superbasin was disrupted 590-530 Ma ago by a central uplift, and then dismembered by late Palaeozoic tectonism to form nu...

 

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Ouldburm Formation as a potential source and reservoir for petroleum in the Manya Trough, eastern Officer Basin

Ouldburm Formation as a potential source and reservoir for petroleum in the Manya Trough, eastern Officer Basin

Publication Name: CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN BASINS WORKSHOP 1993 (CABS 1)
Authors: M.R. Kamali, N.M. Lemon, D.M. McKirdy
Date Published: September 1993

 

Abstract:

The petroleum potential of the Ouldburra Formation in the Manya Trough of the eastern Officer Basin has not been adequately investigated. The present study addresses the topic by focussing on the sedimentary history, porosity and permeability trends,...

 

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Regional controls on Australia’s intracmtonic basins

Regional controls on Australia’s intracmtonic basins

Publication Name: CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN BASINS WORKSHOP 1993 (CABS 1)
Authors: J.F. Lindsay, R.J. Korsch
Date Published: September 1993

 

Abstract:

In the Late Proterozoic, several broad shallow intracratonic depressions appeared across a large area of central Australia (Fig. 1). The basins, which all contain Neoproterozoic to early Palaeozoic shallow marine to fluvial successions, appear to hav...

 

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Early Cambrian trilobites from the Ouldburra Formation Manya-6, eastern Officer Basin

Early Cambrian trilobites from the Ouldburra Formation Manya-6, eastern Officer Basin

Publication Name: CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN BASINS WORKSHOP 1993 (CABS 1)
Authors: J.B. Jago, Lin Tian-rui, J.N. Dunster
Date Published: September 1993

 

Abstract:

Well preserved trilobites were discovered in 1985 by Comalco during the drilling of Manya-6, eastern Officer Basin, between 967.70 and 970.13 metres depth. They occur within the Ouldburra Formation which in Manya-6 extends from a depth of 571.4m to 1...

 

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Basement tectonic framework to central Australian basins, based on 1:5 000 000 potential field data

Basement tectonic framework to central Australian basins, based on 1:5 000 000 potential field data

Publication Name: CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN BASINS WORKSHOP 1993 (CABS 1)
Authors: R.D. Shaw, C.V. Reeves, M.P. Morse, C. Tarlowski
Date Published: September 1993

 

Abstract:

This paper brings up to date our understanding of basement geology in the region of the central Australian basins as a result of an ongoing AGSO project to produce a Basement Tectonic Map of Australia at 1:5 000 000 scale based on regional magnetic a...

 

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Sandstone reservoirs in the eastern Officer Basin

Sandstone reservoirs in the eastern Officer Basin

Publication Name: CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN BASINS WORKSHOP 1993 (CABS 1)
Authors: A. Sansome, D. Gravestock
Date Published: September 1993

 

Abstract:

Four wells (Conoco Munyarai 1; Comalco Giles 1, Ungoolya 1, Karlaya l) are the only on-structure tests of sandstone reservoirs in the eastern Officer Basin, an area of almost 100 000 sq km. Six potential sandstone reservoirs occur in the Officer Basi...

 

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South Australian record of a Rodinian epicontinental basin and its mid-Neoproterozoic breakup to form the PalaeoPacific Ocean

South Australian record of a Rodinian epicontinental basin and its mid-Neoproterozoic breakup to form the PalaeoPacific Ocean

Publication Name: CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN BASINS WORKSHOP 1993 (CABS 1)
Authors: C. McA. Powelll, C.G. Gatehouse, B. Krapez, Z.X. Li, W.V. Preiss
Date Published: September 1993

 

Abstract:

Synthesis of available palaeomagnetic data shows that between 1050 Ma and 725 Ma the palaeomagnetie poles for Laurentia and East Gondwanaland overlap when the continents are reconstructed as the Rodinia supereontinent (Fig. 1). By 580 Ma Laurentia an...

 

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