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Bass Basin geology and petroleum exploration

Bass Basin geology and petroleum exploration

Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
Authors: G.C. Smith
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1986

 

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The Bass Basin is an intracratonic rift basin located offshore between Victoria and Tasmania. The tectonosedimentary history is controlled by Otway rifting between Australia and Antarctica and to a lesser extent by Tasman Sea rifting. A Lower Cretace...

 

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Hydrological anomalies and hydrocarbon exploration

Hydrological anomalies and hydrocarbon exploration

Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
Authors: C.I. Sharpe and R.J.W. McLaughlin
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1986

 

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Hydrocarbons may be present in groundwaters above a hydrocarbon reservoir and several factors have been identified that influence the extent of hydrocarbon seepage through the intervening cap rock. The analysis of trace amounts of heavy fraction hydr...

 

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Barracouta: history of exploration and development, and geology of the field

Barracouta: history of exploration and development, and geology of the field

Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
Authors: G.H. Roder and M.W. Sloan
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1986

 

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The Barracouta Field represents a bench-mark in Australia's oil and gas industry. The Barracouta 'Top of Latrobe' gas, in Upper Eocene fluvio-deltaic sands, was Australia's first discovered commercial offshore hydrocarbon accumulation. The discovery ...

 

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Systematic Landsat Interpretation in Arid Environments – A Cost Effective Aid to Petroleum Exploration

Systematic Landsat Interpretation in Arid Environments – A Cost Effective Aid to Petroleum Exploration

Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
Authors: A. C. Theron, C. R. Nash, N. H. Lockett and M. C. Baker
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1984

 

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Efficient utilisation of Landsat imagery in petroleum exploration depends upon methodical gathering of structural and geomorphic data, integration of these data with existing geophysical and geological information, and ultimately the construction of ...

 

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Environmental Aspects of Petroleum Exploration in the Canning Basin Arid Zone

Environmental Aspects of Petroleum Exploration in the Canning Basin Arid Zone

Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
Authors: Ralf Buckley
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1984

 

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In the arid dunefields which cover most of the onshore Canning Basin, the main environmentally significant aspects of petroleum exploration are tracks and drillholes. Tracks provide uncontrolled access to tourists who may spread weeds and light fires...

 

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The Geological Evolution of the Canning Basin – Implication for Petroleum Exploration

The Geological Evolution of the Canning Basin – Implication for Petroleum Exploration

Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
Authors: S.A. Brown, I.M. Boserio, K.S. Jackson and K.W. Spence
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1984

 

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The northern Canning Basin contains a large northwest-trending rift, the Fitzroy Graben, which is flanked by down-faulted and tilted basement blocks. The rift is bounded on its southern margin by the remnants of a pre-rift arch of shallow basement. T...

 

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Development of Exploration Philosophies in the Onshore Canning Basin and the Need for a Pragmatic Approach

Development of Exploration Philosophies in the Onshore Canning Basin and the Need for a Pragmatic Approach

Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
Authors: M.A. Reynolds and A.J. Flavelle
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1984

 

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This paper reviews the progress in development of geological ideas in the search for petroleum since the discovery of traces of oil in the Canning Basin in 1919, and the various factors which have influenced exploration since then. The introduction o...

 

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Igneous Intrusions in the North-West Canning Basin and their Impact on Oil Exploration

Igneous Intrusions in the North-West Canning Basin and their Impact on Oil Exploration

Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
Authors: S.A. Reeckmann and A.J. Mebberson
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1984

 

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Igneous intrusions dated as Late Carboniferous to Jurassic, but believed to be Permian in age, have been intersected by six wells in the north-west Canning Basin. Both seismic and magnetic interpretation suggest these intrusions are common over a lar...

 

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Exploration for Primary Diamond Deposits with Special Emphasis on the Lennard Shelf, W.A.

Exploration for Primary Diamond Deposits with Special Emphasis on the Lennard Shelf, W.A.

Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
Authors: G.P. Gregory
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1984

 

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Economic primary deposits of diamond to date have only been found in kimberlite and olivine lamproite. Economic kimberlites are concentrated in areas underlain by cratons older than 2500 m.y. They occur in clusters, whose location is controlled by fu...

 

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Uranium Exploration in the Canning Basin: A Case Study

Uranium Exploration in the Canning Basin: A Case Study

Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
Authors: Peter Botten
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1984

 

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AFMECO Pty.Ltd. carried out an extensive exploration programme for uranium mineralisation in the northern Canning Basin between 1978 and 1983. A major reconnaissance programme was conducted over several years to provide basic geological information a...

 

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