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Use of aromatic compound distributions to evaluate organic maturity of the Proterozoic middle Velkerri Formation, McArthur Basin, Australia

Use of aromatic compound distributions to evaluate organic maturity of the Proterozoic middle Velkerri Formation, McArthur Basin, Australia

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: S.C. George & M. Ahmed
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 2002

 

Abstract:

The middle Velkerri Member is a rich Proterowic source rock in the McArthur Basin. A decrease in hydrogen index from > 500 mg pyrolysate/g TOC in shallow immature sediments to around 150 mg/g in deeper sediments has been suggested to coincide with th...

 

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Tags: Aromatic Australia. basin compound Distributions evaluate formation maturity McArthur middle organic Proterozoic Velkerri

Estimating formation water salinity from wireline pressure data: case study from the Vulcan Sub-basin

Estimating formation water salinity from wireline pressure data: case study from the Vulcan Sub-basin

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: J.R. Underschultz, G.K. Ellis, A. Hennig, E. Bekele & C. Otto
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 2002

 

Abstract:

Characterising the concentration of total dissolved solids (TDS) in formation water is important for wireline log analysis, reserves calculations, and understanding the hydrodynamic processes occurring in the subsurface. Unfortunately, measured TDS v...

 

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Tags: case data Estimating formation pressure salinity study Sub-basin wireline

Geochemical evolution of formation water in the Talisman Oil Field, North West Shelf, Australia: Implications for oil exploration and production

Geochemical evolution of formation water in the Talisman Oil Field, North West Shelf, Australia: Implications for oil exploration and production

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: G.K. Ellis
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 2002

 

Abstract:

Produced formation water &om the Angel Formation in the Talisman Oil Field, North West Shelf, Australia, was analysed on a regular basis during water production, from December 1989 to the termination of production in July 1992. Evaluation of these an...

 

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Tags: Australia. evolution exploration field formation Geochemical implications North oil production shelf. Talisman

Sedimentology of the Mungaroo Formation in the Echo-Yodel field: a borehole image perspective

Sedimentology of the Mungaroo Formation in the Echo-Yodel field: a borehole image perspective

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: A.A. Bal, J.D. Prosser & T.J. Magee
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 2002

 

Abstract:

The Echo-Yodel accumulation occurs within high reservoir quality fluviatile sandstones of the E Unit of the Triassic Mungaroo Formation. Porosities average approximately 21%, with permeabilities generally greater than 1 Darcy and occasionally as high...

 

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Tags: Borehole Echo field formation Image Mungaroo perspective Sedimentology Yodel

Petroleum Expulsion From Permian Coal Seams in the Patchawarra Formation, Cooper Basin, South Australia

Petroleum Expulsion From Permian Coal Seams in the Patchawarra Formation, Cooper Basin, South Australia

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: L. Kramer, K.R. Arouri and D.M. McKirdy
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

This study documents the generation and expulsion of liquid hydrocarbons from coal seams containing Type II/III kerogen in the Patchawarra Formation at Gidgealpa-52, southwest Cooper Basin. Two different drainage scenarios have been compared, one inv...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin coal Cooper expulsion formation Patchawarra Permian petroleum Seams

Volumetric Calculations Using 3D Seismic Calibrated Against Porosity Logs – Pretty Hill Formation Reservoirs, Onshore Otway Basin

Volumetric Calculations Using 3D Seismic Calibrated Against Porosity Logs – Pretty Hill Formation Reservoirs, Onshore Otway Basin

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: P.J. Boult and J. Donley
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

A 3D seismic volume of porosity logs, calibrated to wells, was generated by multi-attribute trace inversion of seismic data over an area containing five producing gas Fields in the Pretty Hill Formation of the onshore Otway Basin, South Australia. Fr...

 

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Tags: basin calculations Calibrated formation logs onshore Otway Porosity. Pretty Hill reservoirs Volumetric

Fluid Flow, Diagenesis and Hydrocarbon Entrapment History of the Plover Formation, Sahul Platform, Australia

Fluid Flow, Diagenesis and Hydrocarbon Entrapment History of the Plover Formation, Sahul Platform, Australia

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: Grant K. Ellis
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1998

 

Abstract:

An understanding of fluid flow, diagenesis and hydrocarbon entrapment history in the Middle Jurassic Plover Formation intersected in Naga 1, Hydra 1 and Basilisk 1A, on the Sahul Platform of the Bonaparte Basin, has been developed from an integrated ...

 

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Tags: Australia. diagenesis entrapment flow fluid formation history hydrocarbon platform Plover Sahul

A New Kinematic Model for the Formation and Evolution of the West and Northwest Australian Margin

A New Kinematic Model for the Formation and Evolution of the West and Northwest Australian Margin

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: R. Dietmar M?ller, Dona Mihut and Stephanie Baldwin
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1998

 

Abstract:

Satellite altimetry has revolutionised our knowledge of the tectonic structure of the ocean floor and the continental shelves where ship data are sparse. We have used existing and new ship magnetic, bathymetric and seismic data with satellite derived...

 

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Tags: Australian evolution formation Kinematic margin model Northwest

Exploration Drilling: Gas Flow New Technology Reduces Formation Damage, Cooper Basin Exploration Successes

Exploration Drilling: Gas Flow New Technology Reduces Formation Damage, Cooper Basin Exploration Successes

Publication Name: PESA News
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: August 1997

 

 

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Tags: basin Cooper Damage drilling exploration flow formation gas Reduces Successes technology

Technical articles: Modelling of petroleum formation associated with heat transfer due to hydrodynamic processes

Technical articles: Modelling of petroleum formation associated with heat transfer due to hydrodynamic processes

Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 24
Authors: R.H. Bruce, M.F. Middleton, P. Holyland, D. Loewenthal and I. Bruner
Reference Type: Journal Article
Date Published: December 1996

 

Abstract:

This paper presents the results of modelling the formation of petroleum in the framework of rapid hydrodynamic processes in sedimentary basins. The study is motivated by the observation that many Pb-Zn deposits occur within hydrocarbon prone sediment...

 

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Tags: formation Heat Journal Modeling processes

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

Branch Activities: Structural Restoration of AGSO Deep Seismic Lines Across the Timor Sea, Using CeosecTM – Implications for Fault Style, Leakage and Basin Formation- Kevin C. Hill and Gareth T. Cooper, Queensland Symposium

Branch Activities: Structural Restoration of AGSO Deep Seismic Lines Across the Timor Sea, Using CeosecTM – Implications for Fault Style, Leakage and Basin Formation- Kevin C. Hill and Gareth T. Cooper, Queensland Symposium

Publication Name: PESA News
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: October 1995

 

 

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Tags: basin Branch CeosecTM deep fault formation Gareth Cooper implications Kevin Hill leakage. Lines Queensland Restoration Sea Seismic structural Style Symposium Timor

The Central Australian Basins Workshop: Abstracts: Ouldburra Formation as a potential source and reservoir for petroleum in the Manya Trough, eastern Officer Basin

The Central Australian Basins Workshop: Abstracts: Ouldburra Formation as a potential source and reservoir for petroleum in the Manya Trough, eastern Officer Basin

Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 22
Authors: M.R. Kamali, N.M. Lemon and D.M. McKirdy
Reference Type: Journal Article
Date Published: December 1994

 

 

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Tags: formation Journal reservoir. source

High Resolution Palynostratigraphy of the Tithonian Angel Formation in the Wanaea and Cossack Oil Fields, Dampier Sub-basin

High Resolution Palynostratigraphy of the Tithonian Angel Formation in the Wanaea and Cossack Oil Fields, Dampier Sub-basin

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: A.N. Bint and N.G. Marshall
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1994

 

Abstract:

Detailed palynological analysis of rich dinoflagellate assemblages from the upper Tithonian Angel Formation of the Wanaea - Cossack area has resulted in definition of a high resolution biostratigraphy. Nine dinoflagellate subzones are recognised with...

 

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Tags: Cossack Dampier fields formation High oil Palynostratigraphy Resolution Sub-basin Tithonian

Wandoo Oil Field: A Formation Evaluation Case History

Wandoo Oil Field: A Formation Evaluation Case History

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: E. Delfos
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1994

 

Abstract:

The Wandoo oil discovery in high porosity, unconsolidated, glauconitic sandstones challenged all forms of formation evaluation. The effects of glauconite on wireline logs, both electric and nuclear are difficult to determine because of its complex el...

 

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Tags: case evaluation field formation history oil

Deep Reflections on the North West Shelf: Changing Perceptions of Basin Formation

Deep Reflections on the North West Shelf: Changing Perceptions of Basin Formation

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: AGSO North West Shelf Study Group
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1994

 

Abstract:

The Australian Geological Survey Organisation has recently acquired a unique grid of regional, deep-seismic data across all of the major structural elements of the North West Shelf. Interpretation of a set of 'dip' profiles across the northern Carnar...

 

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Tags: basin Changing deep formation North Perceptions Reflections shelf.

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

 

Abstract:

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

Seismic character delineation of fluvial sandbody geometry, upper Toolachee Formation, central Patchawarra Trough, Cooper Basin, South Australia

Seismic character delineation of fluvial sandbody geometry, upper Toolachee Formation, central Patchawarra Trough, Cooper Basin, South Australia

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: R.J. Taylor and A.D. Thomas
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

Within the Late Permian Toolachee Formation of the central Patchawarra Trough a fluvial sandstone complex of low sinuosity can be traced by mapping a seismic anomaly. The anomaly is characterised by an additional seismic peak developed below the Tool...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin central character Cooper delineation fluvial formation geometry Patchawarra sandbody Seismic South Toolachee Trough upper

Recovery of oil from the basal Tertiary Pebble Point Formation at Lindon No. 1 – summary, results and implications

Recovery of oil from the basal Tertiary Pebble Point Formation at Lindon No. 1 – summary, results and implications

Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
Authors: A. Tabassi and L.K. Davey
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1986

 

Abstract:

Although oil fluorescence has been reported in the basal Tertiary Pebble Point Formation in two wells in the Port Campbell Embayment of the Otway Basin, no other positive indications had been encountered in this formation prior to drilling Lindon No....

 

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Tags: formation implications Lindon oil Pebble Point recovery results summary Tertiary

A Prospective Nita Formation Reservoir Trend on the Broome Platform

A Prospective Nita Formation Reservoir Trend on the Broome Platform

Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
Authors: J. Karajas and C.N. Kernick
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1984

 

Abstract:

The Broome Platform in the Canning Basin contains a prospective dolomite reservoir trend in the Ordovician Nita Formation. Eagle's Aquila No. 1 penetrated approximately 30 metres net of reservoir beds in the top of the formation. Core-derived porosit...

 

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Tags: Broome formation Nita platform Prospective reservoir. Trend

The Birkhead Formation – A Jurassic Petroleum Reservoir

The Birkhead Formation – A Jurassic Petroleum Reservoir

Publication Name: Eromanga Basin Symposium, Summary Papers
Authors: I M PATON
Reference Type: Conference Proceedings
Date Published: December 1982

 

 

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Tags: formation petroleum reservoir. Symposium

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