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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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Architecture and petroleum potential of the Arrowie and Georgina Basins from deep seismic reflection data and petroleum systems maturation modelling

Architecture and petroleum potential of the Arrowie and Georgina Basins from deep seismic reflection data and petroleum systems maturation modelling

Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium III
Authors: L.K. Carr, R.J. Korsch, H. Struckmeyer
Date Published: July 2012

 

 

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Plays of the western Amadeus Basin – preliminary assessment

Plays of the western Amadeus Basin – preliminary assessment

Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium III
Authors: J. Sayers, T. Shortt, B. Alamiyo
Date Published: July 2012

 

 

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UNCONVENTIONAL HYDROCARBON POTENTIAL OF THE ARCKARINGA BASIN, SOUTH AUSTRALIA

UNCONVENTIONAL HYDROCARBON POTENTIAL OF THE ARCKARINGA BASIN, SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium III
Authors: S A Menpes
Date Published: July 2012

 

Abstract:

In South Australia, Early Permian sediments infill an erosional land surface shaped by the Late Carboniferous-Early Permian Gondwana glaciation. The Arckaringa Basin in South Australia comprises a number of deep erosional troughs recording Australiaâ...

 

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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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Preliminary results from the central Officer Basin seismic survey

Preliminary results from the central Officer Basin seismic survey

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

 

Abstract:

The Officer Basin occurs in one of the most arid and inaccessible regions of the Australian continent and for that reason is perhaps the most poorly understood of the continent's intracratonic basins. The Officer Basin Project is a five year basin st...

 

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CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN BASINS WORKSHOP

CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN BASINS WORKSHOP

Publication Name: CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN BASINS WORKSHOP 1993 (CABS 1)
Date Published: September 1993

 

 

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Seismic acquisition in the Mada area

Seismic acquisition in the Mada area

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

 

Abstract:

The 1993 Wallatinna seismic exploration programme is currently being conducted by the DME, on the Pitjantjatjara Lands within the eastern Officer Basin. The programme forms only one part of the multi-faceted South Australian Exploration Initiative. T...

 

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Sequence framework and key petroleum play elements of the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian succession of the Amadeus Basin

Sequence framework and key petroleum play elements of the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian succession of the Amadeus Basin

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

 

Abstract:

Sequence stratigraphic concepts are used to identify and analyse depositional sequences in theNeoproterozoic -Cambrian succession (Pertaoorrta Group) of the intracratonic Amadeus Basin. This analysis is based largely on the recognition of facies disc...

 

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