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Exploration, Appraisal and Development Activities in the Cooper-Eromanga (SWQ), Surat and Bowen Basins: 2000-2001

Exploration, Appraisal and Development Activities in the Cooper-Eromanga (SWQ), Surat and Bowen Basins: 2000-2001

Authors: Stephen Kelemen
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: December 2001

 

 

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NGMA Cooper-Eromanga Basins Project – New Insights into Petroleum Systems

NGMA Cooper-Eromanga Basins Project – New Insights into Petroleum Systems

Authors: John Draper
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: December 2001

 

 

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Tags: basin's Cooper Eromanga insights NGMA petroleum Project systems

Migration and Mixing of Oils in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins, Central Australia

Migration and Mixing of Oils in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins, Central Australia

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: B.H. Michaelsen and D.M. McKirdy
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

The aromatic hydrocarbon contents of 62 terrestrially-derived oils from the Cooper and Eromanga Basins in South Australia and Queensland have been screened using whole-oil GC-MS. An earlier study (McKirdy et a!. 1997) had revealed the existence of at...

 

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Visualisation of Fluvial Stratagraphic Trap Opportunities in the Pondrinie 3D Survey, Cooper-Eromanga Basin

Visualisation of Fluvial Stratagraphic Trap Opportunities in the Pondrinie 3D Survey, Cooper-Eromanga Basin

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: T. Nakanishi and S.C. Lang
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

Exploration and development in the Cooper-Eromanga Basin have been predominantly focused on structural traps. However, the future for exploration and field development lies in exploration for stratigraphic traps. Using advanced visualisation techniqu...

 

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Tags: basin Cooper Eromanga fluvial Opportunities Pondrinie Stratagraphic trap Visualisation

Exploration, Development and Production Activities in the Cooper/Eromanga Basin: 1999-2000

Exploration, Development and Production Activities in the Cooper/Eromanga Basin: 1999-2000

Publication Name: PESA (QLD) Petroleum Symposium 2000
Authors: Rob Heath
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: December 2000

 

 

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Exploration, Development and Production Activities in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins: 1998-1999

Exploration, Development and Production Activities in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins: 1998-1999

Publication Name: PESA (QLD) Petroleum Symposium 1999
Authors: Bonnie Lowe-Young
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: December 1999

 

 

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Environmental Regulation of Exploration and Development in the Cooper/Eromanga Basins

Environmental Regulation of Exploration and Development in the Cooper/Eromanga Basins

Publication Name: PESA (QLD) Petroleum Symposium 1999
Authors: Andrew Walter
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: December 1999

 

 

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Exploration, Development and Production Activities in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins: 1997-1998

Exploration, Development and Production Activities in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins: 1997-1998

Publication Name: PESA (QLD) Petroleum Symposium 1998
Authors: Rob Heath
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: December 1998

 

 

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Exploration, Development and Production Activities in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins: 1996-1997

Exploration, Development and Production Activities in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins: 1996-1997

Publication Name: PESA (QLD) Petroleum Symposium 1997
Authors: Andrew Mayers
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: December 1997

 

 

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Application of Nonmarine Genetic Sequence Stratigraphic Concepts to Reservoir Characterisation in the Fluvial-lacustrine Westbourne Formation Eromanga Basin, Australia

Application of Nonmarine Genetic Sequence Stratigraphic Concepts to Reservoir Characterisation in the Fluvial-lacustrine Westbourne Formation Eromanga Basin, Australia

Publication Name: PESA (QLD) Petroleum Symposium 1996
Authors: Douglas S. Hamilton, Mark H. Holtz
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: September 1996

 

 

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Tags: Application Australia. basin characterisation Concepts Eromanga fluvial formation Genetic lacustrine Nonmarine reservoir. sequence stratigraphic Westbourne

Organic facies and petroleum geochemistry of the lacustrine Murta Member (Mooga Formation) in the Eromanga Basin, Australia

Organic facies and petroleum geochemistry of the lacustrine Murta Member (Mooga Formation) in the Eromanga Basin, Australia

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: B.H. Michaelsen and D.M. McKirdy
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

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The Murta Member (Mooga Formation) is a laterally extensive lacustrine unit, displaying some marine influence in its upper part, which was deposited across the southern Eromanga Basin under a moist cool temperate climatic regime during the Early Cret...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin Eromanga facies formation geochemistry lacustrine Member Mooga Murta organic petroleum

Petroleum accumulations of the Eromanga Basin: a comparison with other Australian Mesozoic accumulations

Petroleum accumulations of the Eromanga Basin: a comparison with other Australian Mesozoic accumulations

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: V.L. Passmore
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

The rapidly growing number of oil and gas discoveries in the Eromanga Basin demonstrates that the Eromanga Basin is one of the most prolific and important of the Australian Jurassic and Cretaceous petroleum basins. Although most of its accumulations ...

 

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Tags: Australian basin comparison Eromanga Mesozoic petroleum

Palaeogeothermometry of the Cooper and Eromanga Basin, South Australia

Palaeogeothermometry of the Cooper and Eromanga Basin, South Australia

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: N.J. Russell and Y. Bone
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

The relationship between vitrinite reflectivity, fluid inclusion homogenization temperature and present-day formation temperature provides a guide to the palaeogeothermometry of siliciclastic sedimentary rocks in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins in Sou...

 

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The prospects for Eromanga oil accumulations in the northern Cooper Basin region, Australia

The prospects for Eromanga oil accumulations in the northern Cooper Basin region, Australia

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: A.R. Gilby and I.R. Mortimore
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

Although the Eromanga Basin where it overlies the northern Cooper Basin has not proved as prolific an oil province as in the southern Cooper Basin, a number of key discoveries have been made in recent years which offer the prospect of further economi...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin Cooper Eromanga northern oil Prospects region

Kerogen characterisation and organic and mineral diagenesis of potential source rocks in Jurassic units, southern Eromanga Basin, Queenland

Kerogen characterisation and organic and mineral diagenesis of potential source rocks in Jurassic units, southern Eromanga Basin, Queenland

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: P.J. Hawkins, C.S. Almond, D.C. Carmichael, R.J. Smith and L.J. Williams
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

Source-rock richness, dominant kerogen types, levels of organic maturation and thermal histories have been used to highlight differences in potential Jurassic source rocks ('basal Jurassic' unit, Birkhead Formation and Westbourne Formation) east of t...

 

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Tags: basin characterisation diagenesis Eromanga Jurassic Kerogen mineral organic potential Queenland rocks source southern units

A Permian origin for Jurassic reservoired oil in the Eromanga Basin

A Permian origin for Jurassic reservoired oil in the Eromanga Basin

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: R. Heath, S. McIntyre and N. Gibbins
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

Discoveries made in mid-1988 on the Taloola Trend in the Lake Hope Block marked a watershed for Eromanga Basin oil exploration. The discoveries were made using an exploration model/play concept of sourcing from the adjacent coaly Permian rocks of the...

 

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Tags: basin Eromanga Jurassic oil Origin. Permian reservoired

Surface facilities for South Australian Cooper and Eromanga Basins’ oil fields – changing with the times

Surface facilities for South Australian Cooper and Eromanga Basins’ oil fields – changing with the times

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: S. Bruland
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

The first oil production from the South Australian Cooper and Eromanga Basins went on stream between December 1982 and March 1983. This was processed through field facilities at Strzelecki, Dullingati, Merrimelia and Tirrawarra prior to being pumped ...

 

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Tags: Australian basin's Cooper Eromanga facilities fields oil South Surface

Petrophysics of oil reservoirs in the Eromanga Basin, South Australia

Petrophysics of oil reservoirs in the Eromanga Basin, South Australia

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: D.I. Gravestock and E.M. Alexander
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

Calculation of water saturation (Sw) in oil reservoirs requires accurate input of porosity, matrix (clay) properties and formation brine resistivity. Shale volume and cation exchange models have evolved to account for clay volume and conductivity in ...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin Eromanga oil Petrophysics reservoirs South

The Stratigraphy and hydrocarbon potential of the northern Eromanga Basin

The Stratigraphy and hydrocarbon potential of the northern Eromanga Basin

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: T. Scholefield
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

Two areas with the potential to contain economic accumulations of hydrocarbons are recognised in the northern Eromanga Basin region. In the east and south, on the crest of the Maneroo Platform, an overbank/backswamp depositional environment for the B...

 

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Regional diagenesis – an important influence in porosity development and hydrocarbon accumulations within the Hutton Sandstone, Eromanga Basin

Regional diagenesis – an important influence in porosity development and hydrocarbon accumulations within the Hutton Sandstone, Eromanga Basin

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: P.M. Green, P.J. Eadington, P.J. Hamilton and D.C. Carmichael
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

The diagenetic history of the Hutton Sandstone in the southern Eromanga Basin in Queensland has been investigated using petrological, fluid inclusion and stable isotope techniques. Three distinct diagenetic zones were recognised according to whether ...

 

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Tags: basin development diagenesis Eromanga Hutton hydrocarbon Important influence Porosity. Regional Sandstone

Drilling fluid systems and practices in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins, Australia

Drilling fluid systems and practices in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins, Australia

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: Tun H. Aung
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

Since the first commercial hydrocarbon discovery in the Cooper Basm m December 1963, a variety of drilling fluid systems have been used. The most economically viable are the three systems currently in operation, namely gellignosulfonate, salt-polymer...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin's Cooper drilling Eromanga fluid practices systems

The Mulkarra Structure: a possible buried impact crater in the western Eromanga Basin, Australia

The Mulkarra Structure: a possible buried impact crater in the western Eromanga Basin, Australia

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: M. Flynn
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

Geophysical data suggest the presence of a possible buried meteoritic impact site, known as the Mulkarra Structure, within the Mulka Block of Petroleum Exploration Licences 5 and 6 in the western Eromanga Basin South Australia. An anomalous zone, 17 ...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin buried crater Eromanga impact Mulkarra structure

Possible stratigrphic controls on hydrocarbon distribution within the Jurassic – Early Cretaceous rocks, Eromanga Basin, southern Queenland

Possible stratigrphic controls on hydrocarbon distribution within the Jurassic – Early Cretaceous rocks, Eromanga Basin, southern Queenland

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: P.M. Green, T.J. Brain and B.H. John
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

Results of detailed wire-line log correlations have enabled a uniform stratigraphic framework for the Jurassic-Early Cretaceous sequence in the Eromanga Basin in southern Queensland to be established. The broad regional pattern of basin development w...

 

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Tags: basin controls Cretaceous. distribution early Eromanga hydrocarbon Jurassic Queenland rocks southern Stratigrphic

GSQ Thargominda-3: a stratigraphic test of a ‘canyon-like’ feature near the Tookoonooka complex, Eromanga Basin, Queenland

GSQ Thargominda-3: a stratigraphic test of a ‘canyon-like’ feature near the Tookoonooka complex, Eromanga Basin, Queenland

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: Ian F. Young, L.M. Gunther and O. Dixon
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

GSQ Thargomindah-3, a fully cored stratigraphic bore, was designed to investigate seismic evidence of superimposed post-Westbourne and post-Cadna-owie channelling at a location 25 km south-east of the Tookoonooka Complex (south-west Queensland). It w...

 

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Tags: basin canyon-like Complex Eromanga feature GSQ Queenland stratigraphic Test Thargominda Tookoonooka

Revision of Triassic stratigraphy at the Cooper Basin to Eromanga Basin transition

Revision of Triassic stratigraphy at the Cooper Basin to Eromanga Basin transition

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: G.D. Powis
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

In recent years it has become apparent that all of the Triassic-aged strata overlying the Cooper Basin cannot adequately be placed into the only formally defined Triassic formation, the Nappamerri Formation. Not only do these strata not conform litho...

 

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Tags: basin Cooper Eromanga Revision stratigraphy Transition Triassic

Applications of new cement technology in the Cooper and Eromanga Basin, Australia

Applications of new cement technology in the Cooper and Eromanga Basin, Australia

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: B.H. Gray
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

This paper summarises the 'state of the art' of cementing practices in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins, in particular cementing materials and their potential application by engineers involved in the design and execution of cementing operations....

 

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Tags: Applications Australia. basin cement Cooper Eromanga technology

Lineament-hydrocarbon associations in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins

Lineament-hydrocarbon associations in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: I.B. Campbell and E.S.T. O'Driscoll
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

New petroleum discoveries in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins have added greatly to the resolution of the!r relationship to structural patterns governing the occurrence of oil and gas,and have provided additional evidence of the lineament-hydrocarbon a...

 

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Tags: basin's Cooper Eromanga hydrocarbon Lineament

The Talundilly anomaly and its implications for hydrocarbon exploration of Eromanga astroblemes

The Talundilly anomaly and its implications for hydrocarbon exploration of Eromanga astroblemes

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: I.M. Longley
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

In the Talundilly area of the Eromanga Basin there is a circular area 95 km across with disturbed seismic character. This disturbance is most readily recognized by the absence of the strong 'C' horizon (top Cadna-owie Formation) seismic reflector. Th...

 

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Tags: anomaly Eromanga exploration hydrocarbon implications Talundilly

The exploration history and status of the Cooper and Eromanga basins

The exploration history and status of the Cooper and Eromanga basins

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: R.J.S. Hollingsworth
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

The Cooper and Eromanga Basins comprise the largest and most prolific onshore hydrocarbon province in Australia. Systematic exploration commenced in 1958 and is continuing strongly even in the present climate. The history of exploration in the Basins...

 

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Aspects of the hydrogeology of the southern Eromanga Basin, Queenland

Aspects of the hydrogeology of the southern Eromanga Basin, Queenland

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: P.J. Muller
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

The Eromanga Basin consists essentially of a multilayered aquifer system which contains two distinct groups of aquifers, namely those in the pre-Wallumbilla Formation units, and those in the Wallumbilla Formation and ounger units. The two groups ref...

 

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