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Carbon dioxide storage in Australia – the current state of play
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: W. Muir
- Date Published: September 2008
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Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) is the new paradigm to address the effects of global warming due to the emission of anthropogenic CO2 into the atmosphere. There are numerous projects and studies currently underway in Australia. Th...
Basker Field, Gippsland Basin: Assessing reservoir connectivity with the aid of complementary technologies
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: B.E.J. Messent and L.E. Farmer
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
The Basker oil and gas field comprises Intra-Latrobe sandstone reservoirs in a hanging-wall, fault-dependent structure reliant upon cross-fault seal. The hydrocarbon reservoirs are relatively thin (generally less than 5 m) channel sands developed in ...
Organofacies controls on the oil potential of coaly source rocks in the Late Cretaceous North Cape Formation, Taranaki Basin
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: R. Sykes and J.I. Raine
- Date Published: September 2008
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Late Cretaceous coaly rocks are the primary source of petroleum in the offshore Taranaki Basin and have sourced medium-sized, black (i.e. non-volatile) oil accumulations in the Tui (50 MMbbl), Maari (49 MMbbl) and Maui-B (30 MMbbl) fields. The Rakopi...
Coal seam gas distribution in the Hunter Coalfield, Sydney Basin
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: K.L. Pinetown, M.M. Faiz, A. Saghafi, L. Stalker and J. van Holst
- Date Published: September 2008
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In research directed at understanding the potential of coal to sequester anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2), the CSIRO’s Energy Transformed Flagship and the CO2CRC have been investigating the geological factors controlling the distributi...
Fault dilatation behaviour in the Kupe field, Taranaki Basin, offshore New Zealand
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: B.R Ilg, S. Ellis, M. Arnot and A. Nicol
- Date Published: September 2008
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Many petroleum fields are located somewhat paradoxically on or adjacent to heavily faulted active plate boundaries. One such example is the Kupe field in the offshore eastern Taranaki Basin. When fields are cut by active faults they are commonly thou...
Geothermal systems assessment: understanding risks in geothermal exploration in Australia
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: G.T. Cooper and G.R. Beardsmore
- Date Published: September 2008
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The conventional emphasis on temperature risks as the key aspect of geothermal exploration has resulted in other areas of risk being overlooked. This paper identifies four critical risk areas which must be considered when undertaking a holistic Geoth...
Sediment stacking patterns in coal measure sequences: examples from the Permian Bowen Basin
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: J. Esterle and R. Sliwa
- Date Published: September 2008
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Data compiled from some 32,000 coal exploration borehole records were used to demonstrate the inter-relationship between the distribution patterns of thick coal seams, their splitting patterns and thick interburden relative to depositional environmen...
Structural modelling, tectonostratigraphic evolution and basin development model of the Woolsthorpe-Cobden area (Otway Basin), western Victoria, Australia
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: Minarwan and M. Hall
- Date Published: September 2008
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Backstripping and restoration of structural cross-sections combined with interpretations of seismic and well data reveal that the structural evolution in the Woolsthorpe-Cobden area, central onshore Otway Basin, can be separated into seven phases. Th...
CO2 storage potential and mixed gas conditions of eastern Australian coals
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: A. Saghaf
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
Large volumes of coal seam gas (CSG) occur in Australian coal seams, with the majority of reserves located within the coalfields of the Sydney and Bowen basins in the eastern states of Australia. A peculiarity of these coalfields is that mixed gas co...
Distribution, dating and origin of magmatism in the Bight and Eucla basins
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: A. Schofield and J. Totterdell
- Date Published: September 2008
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The breakup of Gondwana during the Mesozoic resulted in widespread basin formation along Australia’s southern margin, of which the Bight Basin is a component. In contrast to many other extensional margins, the Australian southern margin has been cl...
The structural and sedimentary histories and hydrocarbon potential of the Pelican and Dondu Troughs, Bass Basin
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: D.P. Leech, C. Kernick and A.M. Iwaniw
- Date Published: September 2008
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The Bass Basin is located in the central Bass Strait region between Tasmania and Victoria (Fig. 1). The basin records complex geodynamic and hydrocarbon charge histories. Unlike the adjacent prolific Gippsland Basin which has undergone a similar geol...
Lacustrine Petroleum Systems in the Papua New Guinea Foreland
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: S. Wood, H. Volk, N. Sherwood and C.J. Boreham
- Date Published: September 2008
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Oil production in Papua New Guinea (PNG) is entirely sourced from the PNG Foldbelt, and the source rocks for these oils are likely to be marine Upper Jurassic shales of the Imburu Formation. In the PNG Foreland, commercial oil accumulations are yet t...
Evaluating seal capacity of caprocks and intraformational barriers for the geosequestration of CO2
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: R.F. Daniel and J.G. Kaldi
- Date Published: September 2008
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The petrophysical properties of cap rocks and intraformational barriers can constrain the carbon dioxide (CO2) containment volumes of potential geosequestration sites. Characterisation of regional seals and intraformational barriers requir...
Capel and Faust basins: Preliminary assessment of an offshore deepwater frontier region
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: T. Hashimoto, N. Rollet, K. Higgins, G. Bernardel and R. Hackney
- Date Published: September 2008
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The Capel and Faust basins are located in the northern Tasman Sea between eastern Australia and New Caledonia at water depths of 1,300–2,500 m (Fig. 1). Geoscience Australia has recently completed data acquisition surveys that provide new insights ...
The IntraCONtinental basinS (ICONS) atlas – applications in eastern Australia
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: C. Heine and R. D. Müller
- Date Published: September 2008
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We have used a combination of openly available regional and global crustal and lithosphere datasets to create a framework for intracontinental basin evaluation. In this paper, we focus on the intracontinental Murray and Eromanga basins in eastern Aus...
CO2-related diagenesis in the Tuna field, Gippsland Basin: A natural analogue study for geosequestration
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: U. Schacht
- Date Published: September 2008
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Anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are one of the major contributors to current global warming, thus technological solutions to reduce these emissions are subject of increasing worldwide interest (e.g. Faiz 2007). Presently, the ...
The Galilee Basin: a potential CO2 storage site in Queensland
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: S. Edwards, B. Ainsworth, B. Vakarelov and J. Kaldi
- Date Published: September 2008
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The carbon dioxide storage sites closest to the industrial and population emission sources in Queensland are located along the east coast of Queensland. These basins (including the Bowen and Surat basins and the Dennison Trough) are also the sites of...
Subthrust plays along the Hunter-Mooki Thrust Fault System, northern NSW
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: A.M. Mantaring
- Date Published: September 2008
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The Hunter-Mooki Thrust Fault (HMTF) in northern New South Wales is part of a long thrust fault system that continues into southeastern Queensland as the Moonie-Goondiwindi Fault. The HMTF acts as the eastern structural boundary of the Sydney and Gun...
Oil-oil and oil-source rock correlations for selected oils and gas condensates from several New Zealand basins
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: K.-G. Zink and R. Sykes
- Date Published: September 2008
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Oil–oil and oil–source rock correlations are an essential tool for assisting petroleum exploration in basins with multiple petroleum systems. To evaluate these relationships in several New Zealand basins, a set of 10 oils and gas condensates were...
Petroleum potential of the easternmost Surat Basin in Queensland
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: R.W. Day, P.J. Bubendorfer and B.J. Pinder
- Date Published: September 2008
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The Jurassic sequence in the easternmost part of Surat Basin is underlain by sedimentary rocks of the Horrane Trough. This feature has previously been interpreted as an analogue of the Late Triassic Tarong Basin. An alternative interpretation of the ...
First order sealing and hydrocarbon migration processes, Gippsland Basin, Australia: implications for CO2 geosequestration
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: G.W. O’Brien, P.R. Tingate, L.M. Goldie Divko, M.L. Harrison, C.J. Boreham, K. Liu, N. Arian and P. Skladzien
- Date Published: September 2008
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The petroleum systems of the Gippsland Basin have been evaluated to provide insights into how hydrocarbons have migrated and accumulated and how injected CO2 could migrate and be either retained or lost from the system. This study has prov...
Reconstructing the junction between Panthalassa and Tethys since the Early Cretaceous
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: M. Seton and R.D. Müller
- Date Published: September 2008
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The junction between the Tethys and Panthalassa oceans is one of the most ill-constrained portions of Cretaceous palaeogeographic maps due to a lack of preserved in-situ oceanic crust from this region. Yet the development of this junction along the n...
Late Cretaceous–Paleocene evolution of the East Gondwana margin, a new dynamic model for the formation of marginal basins
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: P.F. Rey and R.D. Müller
- Date Published: September 2008
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Late Cretaceous–Paleocene evolution of the east Gondwana margin
Plate reconstructions in a mantle reference frame show that from 140 to 105 Ma Gondwana moved eastward toward the Pacific Plate. This convergence was largely acco...
The application of new geophysical data to the study of the Capel-Faust basins – Lord Howe Rise
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: K. Higgins, G. Bernardel, R. Hackney, T. Hashimoto, G. Logan, P. Petkovic and N. Rollet
- Date Published: September 2008
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Geoscience Australia is currently investigating the geology and petroleum prospectivity of the Remote Eastern Frontier region, offshore eastern Australia using funding provided to the organisation under the Australian Government’s Offshore Energy S...
Coal seam methane potential, resources, and exploration targets in the Sydney-Gunnedah Basin, Australia
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: A. Scott, D.S. Hamilton, A.M. Mantaring, S. Cozens and D.F. Balin
- Date Published: September 2008
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A coalbed methane exploration model integrating six key hydrogeologic factors affecting coalbed methane potential was applied to the Upper Permian Coal Measures of the SydneyGunnedah Basin. Data were collected only from public sources, and the resul...
Miocene–Pliocene paleogeographic reconstructions of the eastern Taranaki Basin, New Zealand
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: A.J. Vonk and P.J.J. Kamp
- Date Published: September 2008
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Paleogeographic reconstructions of New Zealand’s central-western North Island sedimentary basins (Taranaki, Wanganui and King Country basins) are illustrated in a series of paleogeographic maps that span the Early Miocene (Otaian Stage, c. 20 Ma) t...
Birkhead Formation chronostratigraphy on the Murteree Horst, South Australia: identifying and correlating reservoirs and seals
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: S.M. Gallagher, G.R. Wood and N.L. Lemon
- Date Published: September 2008
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The Murteree Horst is located in the southern Eromanga Basin, South Australia. It is a long-lived basement high that has been subject to Tertiary reactivation, hosting a substantial number of oil fields at several stratigraphic intervals. The large J...
Bowen Basin structural geology 2007 – A new interpretation based on airborne geophysics
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: R. Sliwa, S. Hamilton, J. Hodgkinson and J. Draper
- Date Published: September 2008
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The Bowen Basin Structural Geology 2007 map is a collaborative research project between CSIRO Exploration & Mining and the Queensland Department of Mines & Energy (DME), conducted during 2003 and 2007. Its aim was to work towards a new solid geology ...
New insights into the evolution of the Lord Howe Rise (Capel and Faust basins), offshore eastern Australia, from terrane and geophysical data analysis
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: M.S. Norvick, R.P. Langford, T. Hashimoto, N. Rollet, K.L. Higgins and M. P. Morse
- Date Published: September 2008
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New seismic, gravity and magnetic data over the Capel and Faust basins have allowed improved resolution of the basin architecture and a better appreciation of the stratigraphy, terrane evolution and palaeogeography. Preliminary interpretation suggest...
A model for gas distribution in coals of the Lower Hunter, Sydney Basin
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: S. Thomson, P. Hatherly, S. Hennings and J. Sandford
- Date Published: September 2008
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Gas content and gas composition in the Permian coals of the Lower Hunter, Sydney Basin, show evidence of distinct layering that can be attributed to the tectonic history of the coal measures and the effects of meteoric waters. Essentially, coals clos...