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Casino Gas Field, offshore Otway Basin, Victoria – the appraisal story and some stratigraphic enlightenment

Casino Gas Field, offshore Otway Basin, Victoria – the appraisal story and some stratigraphic enlightenment

Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
Authors: N.C. Sharp and G.R. Wood
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 2004

 

Abstract:

The drilling of two wells on the Casino structure in the offshore Otway Basin, Victoria, in 2002 proved the presence of gas in two separate Cretaceous Waarre Formation sands, the Waarre A and C. Uncertainty regarding the pressure regime of the Waarre...

 

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Tags: Casino gas field drilling results geology Mussel Platform Otway Basin palynology. Shipwreck Trough stratigraphy Waarre Formation

Geology and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Jurassic-Cretaceous Maryborough Basin

Geology and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Jurassic-Cretaceous Maryborough Basin

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: P. Lipski
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

The Maryborough Basin is a mainly Mesozoic basin that straddles the coastline of southeastern Queensland. The sequence ranges in age from Late Triassic to Early Tertiary. Sequences generally can be correlated across the Surat and Eromanga basins to t...

 

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Tags: basin Cretaceous. geology hydrocarbon Jurassic Maryborough potential

lnternational: India at War Still Hopes for Foreign Investment, Geology of India, Australian Based Geotrack International Sheds New Light on Prospectivity of West of Shetland Region

lnternational: India at War Still Hopes for Foreign Investment, Geology of India, Australian Based Geotrack International Sheds New Light on Prospectivity of West of Shetland Region

Publication Name: PESA News
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: June 1999

 

 

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Tags: Australian Foreign geology Geotrack Hopes India International Investment Light lnternational New prospectivity region Sheds Shetland Still

Petroleum Geology of the Peedamulah Shelf, Northern Carnarvon Basin

Petroleum Geology of the Peedamulah Shelf, Northern Carnarvon Basin

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: A. R. Yasin and R. P. Iasky
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1998

 

Abstract:

Five main tectonic phases are recorded as unconformities in the ?Ordovician-Tertiary succession of the Peedamullah Shelf: Lower-Middle Devonian rifting, Upper Carboniferous rift rejuvenation, Upper Jurassic breakup movements, Neocomian and Lower Midd...

 

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Tags: basin Carnarvon geology northern Peedamulah petroleum shelf.

Reservoir Geology of the Perseus Field, North West Shelf, Australia

Reservoir Geology of the Perseus Field, North West Shelf, Australia

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: N. B. Thompson, M. L. Taylor and N. C. Taylor
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1998

 

Abstract:

The Perseus Field is a giant gas accumulation in a complex structural/stratigraphic trap. Gas is reservoired in Bathonian to Callovian deltaic sandstones of the Legendre Formation, which subcrop the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous 'Main Unconformity'...

 

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Tags: Australia. field geology North Perseus reservoir. shelf.

Contributions to the Geology of the Wiso Basin (Middle Cambrian to Ordovician), Northern Territory

Contributions to the Geology of the Wiso Basin (Middle Cambrian to Ordovician), Northern Territory

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: John D. Gorter, Robert S. Nicoll, Robyn Purcell and Sally E. Phillips
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1998

 

Abstract:

For an almost completely unexplored basin, the Lander Trough has the 'correct address' containing source and reservoir rocks of the same age as those known in surrounding petroliferous areas, like the Amadeus and Georgina basins. The basin needs at l...

 

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Tags: basin Cambrian Contributions geology middle northern Ordovician Territory Wiso

Bits & Bytes: Computers In Geology – Grant Jacquier

Bits & Bytes: Computers In Geology – Grant Jacquier

Publication Name: PESA News
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: June 1996

 

 

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Tags: Bits Bytes Computers geology Grant Jacquier

Skill Share: Application of Geostatistical Estimation and Simulation to Petroleum Geology – John Vann

Skill Share: Application of Geostatistical Estimation and Simulation to Petroleum Geology – John Vann

Publication Name: PESA News
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: August 1994

 

 

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Tags: Application Estimation geology Geostatistical John Vann petroleum Share Simulation Skill

The Reservoir Geology of the Wanaea and Cossack Oil Fields

The Reservoir Geology of the Wanaea and Cossack Oil Fields

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: Giovanni A.E. di Toro
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1994

 

Abstract:

The reservoir in the Wanaea and Cossack fields is the Upper Jurassic Angel Formation which was deposited in the eastern Dampier Sub-basin as a sand-dominated submarine fan sequence. Log-correlation between the Wanaea wells show a good degree of later...

 

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Tags: Cossack fields geology oil reservoir.

The Brown Coal Geology of the Gippsland Basin

The Brown Coal Geology of the Gippsland Basin

Publication Name: Gippsland Basin Symposium, Melbourne, 22 ? 23 June 1992
Authors: C M BARTON, P F BOLGER, G R HOLDGATE, B R THOMPSON, R L WEBSTER
Reference Type: Conference Proceedings
Date Published: December 1992

 

 

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Tags: geology Gippsland Symposium

The 1988 PESA Lectures: Geology, Risk Analysis and Economics in Prospect Evaluation

The 1988 PESA Lectures: Geology, Risk Analysis and Economics in Prospect Evaluation

Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 13
Authors: Robert Megill
Reference Type: Journal Article
Date Published: September 1988

 

 

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Tags: geology Journal Lecturer Prospect Evaluation Risk Analysis

A Review of the Petroleum Geology and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Barrow-Dampier Sub-basin and Environs

A Review of the Petroleum Geology and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Barrow-Dampier Sub-basin and Environs

Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
Authors: Woodside Offshore Petroleum
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1988

 

Abstract:

Petroleum exploration in the Barrow-Dampier Sub-basin was initiated in 1954 by a reconaissance geological survey of Barrow Island which recognised its anticlinal character. But it was not until 1962 that permission was granted to revisit the island b...

 

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Tags: Dampier Environs geology hydrocarbon petroleum potential Review Sub-basin

Regional Geology of the Offshore Bonaparte Basin

Regional Geology of the Offshore Bonaparte Basin

Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
Authors: A.J. Mory
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1988

 

Abstract:

The offshore portion of the Bonaparte Basin extends under the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf to Ashmore Reef to the northwest and Flinders Shoal to the north, and covers an approximately triangular area of about 250 000 km2. The oldest sediments which can be ...

 

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Tags: basin Bonaparte geology offshore Regional

The Geology of the Challis Oilfield – Timor Sea, Australia

The Geology of the Challis Oilfield – Timor Sea, Australia

Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
Authors: G.B. Wormald
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1988

 

Abstract:

The Challis oilfield, discovered in October 1984, is located within the Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands Licence AC/L3 in the Vulcan Sub-basin. Following the Challis-1 discovery well, a reconnaissance 3D seismic survey was conducted over the ...

 

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Tags: Australia. Challis geology Oilfield Sea Timor

Regional Geology of the Northern Carnarvon Basin

Regional Geology of the Northern Carnarvon Basin

Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
Authors: R.M. Hocking
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1988

 

Abstract:

The Carnarvon Basin has two distinct parts: a southern, onshore, north-trending group of sub-basins which contain up to 7 km of predominantly Palaeozoic sediments, and a northern, largely offshore, northeasttrending group of sub-basins which are up t...

 

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Tags: basin Carnarvon geology northern Regional

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

 

Abstract:

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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Tags: development exploration field geology history

The Portland Trough, Otway Basin – geology and petroleum potential

The Portland Trough, Otway Basin – geology and petroleum potential

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

 

Abstract:

The Portland Trough in the central Otway Basin contains over 2.5 km of Tertiary sediments (two-thirds Wangerrip Group, one-third Heytesbury-Nirranda Groups). They unconformably overlie a similarly thick but largely undrilled Upper Cretaceous sediment...

 

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Tags: basin geology Otway petroleum Portland potential Trough

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

 

Abstract:

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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Tags: basin Bass exploration geology petroleum

Geology and Petroleum Potential of the Southern Canning Basin

Geology and Petroleum Potential of the Southern Canning Basin

Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
Authors: J. Conolly, M. Falvey, D. Kingsley, B. Melton and T. Russell
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1984

 

Abstract:

Only 10 wildcat wells and 7 stratigraphic wells have been drilled in the South Canning Basin where encouraging oil and gas shows occur throughout the Paleozoic sequence. Palaeogeographic reconstructions are made from this well data for the mid to upp...

 

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Tags: basin Canning geology petroleum potential southern

Petroleum Geology of EP’s 205 & 252 – South Canning Basin

Petroleum Geology of EP’s 205 & 252 – South Canning Basin

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

 

Abstract:

EP's 205 and 252 cover a relatively unexplored area of 30,000 square kilometres in the Southern Canning Basin. To date, no wells have been drilled in either permit, subsurface data therefore being limited to reconnaissance gravity and magnetic survey...

 

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Tags: basin Canning EP's geology petroleum South

Petroleum Geology of the Central Broome Platform

Petroleum Geology of the Central Broome Platform

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

 

Abstract:

The Broome Platform is a major faulted basement ridge which separates the Fitzroy Trough and the southern Canning sub-basins. In the EP 175 area Ordovician basal sands, platform carbonates and shales rest on basement and are overlain by an undated ev...

 

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Tags: Broome central geology petroleum platform

Regional Geology of the Onshore Canning Basin, W.A. (Keynot Paper)

Regional Geology of the Onshore Canning Basin, W.A. (Keynot Paper)

Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
Authors: A.N. Yeates, D.L. Gibson, R.R. Towner and R.W.A. Crowe
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1984

 

Abstract:

The 430,000 sq. km onshore segment of the Phanerozoic Canning Basin lies mainly within the Great Sandy and Gibson Deserts. Reconnaissance mapping combined with subsurface data reveals that the basin contains up to 18 km of shallow marine, paralic and...

 

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Tags: basin Canning geology onshore Regional

Geology of the Blina Oilfield

Geology of the Blina Oilfield

Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
Authors: H.T. Moors, W.E. Gardner and J. Davis
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1984

 

Abstract:

The discovery of the Blina Field, after a long period of disappointment, has proved the potential of the Canning Basin to contain commercial sized oil accumulations. Although not large, the Blina Field has shown that geological conditions for generat...

 

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Tags: Blina geology Oilfield

The Geology and Genesis of the Narlarla Lead-Zinc Deposits, Napier Range, W.A.

The Geology and Genesis of the Narlarla Lead-Zinc Deposits, Napier Range, W.A.

Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
Authors: C.R. Ringrose
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1984

 

Abstract:

The ore bodies at Narlarla are located within the marginal-slope facies of a Devonian reef complex. They are situated just below the modern erosion surface which is approximately coincident with the Late Carboniferous erosion surface. The main ore bo...

 

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Tags: Deposits Genesis geology Lead Napier Narlarla Range Zinc

Geology Of The Dullingari Murta Oilfield

Geology Of The Dullingari Murta Oilfield

Publication Name: Eromanga Basin Symposium, Summary Papers
Authors: T J MOUNT
Reference Type: Conference Proceedings
Date Published: December 1982

 

 

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Tags: geology Symposium

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