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Forward prediction of spatial temperature variation from 3D geology models
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: H. Gibson, K. Stüwe, R. Seikel, D. FitzGerald, P. Calcagno, D. Argast, P. McInerney and A. Budd
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
An accessible method is now available for rapid calculation of the spatial variation of temperature directly from a 3D geology model. The need for a tool of this nature stems from Australia’s emerging industries in the exploration and production of...
A new generation of digital structure and facies maps for Taranaki Basin: Progress towards a 4D Taranaki Model
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: M. Arnot, J. Baur, K. Bland, H. Bushe, R. Funnell, B. Ilg, C. Jones, P. King, B. Leitner, M. Masey, M. Milner, H.E. Morgans, L. Roncaglia and H. Zhu
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
The Taranaki Basin covers an area of approximately 100,000 km2 and is currently New Zealand’s only petroleum producing basin (Fig.1). In the mid-1990s a series of structural and paleogeographic maps were constructed from available seismic and well ...
Aquifers and coal: storing Queensland’s carbon dioxide
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: J.J. Draper
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
Assessment of the state’s potential for geological carbon dioxide (CO2) storage will underpin the future commercial deployment of large-scale clean coal technology projects in Queensland. In particular, the integration of carbon capture ...
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
Abstract:
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...
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
Abstract:
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...
Investigation of the relationship between gas content, composition and permeability in coal seams, and the structural and geological history of the Bohena Trough, Gunnedah Basin
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: L.F. Budd and A.V. Edgar
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
The Bowen-Gunnedah-Sydney basins form one large foreland basin depositional system marked by a number of prominent structural subdivisions. Despite having a similar structural history, coal seam gas (CSG) exploration results over the last three decad...
Australian-Antarctic rifting
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: J.M. Whittaker, R.D. Müller and A. Goncharov
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
Rifting between Australia and Antarctic began as early as 140 MM years ago. However, the timing of continental breakup and the manner in which rifting proceeded have remained controversial. A major reason for the ambiguity surrounding the Australian-...
Introducing the Jacaranda Ridge Sandstone: A new play in the Penola Trough: Otway Basin, Australia
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: B.A. Camac, and P.J. Boult
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
The informally named Sawpit Sandstone Member, Upper and Lower Sawpit Shale members and the Jacaranda Ridge Sandstone Member occur within lower part of the Berriasian–Valanginian Pretty Hill Formation of the Otway Basin. The Jacaranda Ridge Sandston...
A minimum-strain approach to reducing the structural uncertainty in poor 2D seismic data, Gambier Embayment, Otway Basin, Australia
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: P. Boult, B. Freeman, G. Yielding, S. Menpes and L.J. Diekman
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
In faulted reservoirs, structural uncertainty arises from two major sources of error; the systematic error of the seismic method and the human error of the interpreter. When the magnitude of fault displacements is greater than the distance between sa...
Evaluating the hydrocarbon potential of the western Cooper/Eromanga region: Can ‘old’ oil be preserved?
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: T. Bernecker
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
In the context of declining oil supply, the Australian Government provided Geoscience Australia with funding for the 2006–2011 Energy Security Programme. The purpose of this programme is to supply pre-competitive data and information to stimulate e...
Palaeo-oil zones in Eastern View Coal Measures reservoirs from the Bass Basin
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: R.H. Kempton, P.J. Eadington, K. Liu, C.J. Boreham, S. Gong and H. Volk
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
Current interest in the oil potential of the Bass Basin is challenged by the predominance of gas accumulations at Yolla, White Ibis, Pelican and Trefoil. A signifi cant role for oil in the petroleum systems of the Eastern View Coal Measures (EVCM) is...
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
Abstract:
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...
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
Abstract:
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...
A new stratigraphic/structural interpretation helps focus exploration in the Poolowanna Trough, Eromanga Basin, South Australia
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: P. Boult
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
The Poolowanna Trough is a Jurassic to Late Cretaceous trending intra-cratonic depocentre which straddles the border between South Australia and the Northern Territory. It overlies the Permo-Triassic Pedirka and Simpson basins and is characterised by...
Hydrocarbon potential of the northern extension of the Oaklands Basin, Griffith, NSW
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: M. Fahey
- Date Published: September 2008
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In 2006, the NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) acquired two 25 km long seismic lines (DPI 06-01 and DPI 06-02) to the west and southwest of Griffi th, NSW, to investigate the northern extension of the Oaklands Graben as interpreted by Gunn (...
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
Abstract:
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...
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
Abstract:
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...
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...
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 ...
Geophysical characterisation of the Elk reservoir, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: J. Storey, S. Sioni and M. Kiele
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
The Elk reservoir is an approximately 200 km2 carbonate reservoir situated in the Gulf Province of Papua New Guinea. The reservoir was discovered in 2006 when the Elk-1 exploration well flowed gas while drilling a structural high identifie...
Re-evaluation of structure and sedimentary packages in the eastern Surat Basin
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: R. Sliwa and J. Esterle
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
After a long, well-established history of conventional gas exploration, the eastern Surat Basin has now re-emerged as an active regional exploration target for thermal coal, coalbed methane, underground coal gasification and carbon dioxide sequestrat...
Paleogeographic reconstructions for the Oligocene transition from extension to contraction along the eastern Taranaki Basin margin, New Zealand
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: A. Tripathi and P.J.J. Kamp
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
Structures associated with the wedge of basement overthrust into the Taranaki Basin along the Taranaki Fault are regarded as hydrocarbon plays and have been tested by drilling through the tip of the overthrust. The timing of initiation of reverse dis...
Subtidal origin of the Hawkesbury Sandstone, Middle Triassic, Sydney Basin
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: P.J. McCabe
- Date Published: September 2008
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The Hawkesbury Sandstone of the Sydney Basin is widely regarded as the deposit of a large sandy braided river system. A detailed examination of the sedimentary facies suggests, however, that most, if not all, of the sediments were deposited in a subt...
Mellish Rise and adjacent deep water plateaus off northeast Australia: new evidence for continental basement from Cenozoic micropalaeontology and sedimentary geology
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: K.L. Hoffmann, N.F. Exon, P.G. Quilty and C.S. Findlay
- Date Published: September 2008
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The east coast of Australia was dominated by prolonged periods of subduction and accretion during the Palaeozoic–Mesozoic (Scheibner & Veevers 2000). Widespread rifting and seafloor spreading replaced the compressional regime from around 120 Ma (Ea...
Unravelling the complex structural history of the Penola Trough – revealing the St George Fault
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
- Authors: P. Boult, P. Lyon, B. Camac, S. Hunt and H. Zwingmann
- Date Published: September 2008
Abstract:
The Penola Trough is a NW–SE trending half-graben structure bounded to the south by the large Hungerford / Kalangadoo (H/K) fault system. Several major basement cutting faults within the Penola Trough including the St George Fault have exerted sign...
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
Abstract:
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...
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
Abstract:
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...
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
Abstract:
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 ...
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...
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
Abstract:
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...