Please note that we are still in the process of re-tagging our library items. This means searches using Author, Year, Publication Type and Title may not show complete matches.
LIST
TILES
Petroleum Systems and Source Rocks in the Amadeus Basin, Northern Territory
- Publication Name: PESA (QLD & NT) Petroleum Symposium 2003
- Authors: Torey Marshall
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: December 2003
Abstract:
This paper briefly addresses the source rock characteristics and petroleum systems present in the Amadeus Basin. Previous work has shown that there is really only one quality source rock - the Ordovician Horn Valley Siltstone. New data from CSIRO (Ma...
Tidally influenced deposition on the delta plain: Lower Cretaceous Barrow Group sandstones, Barrow Sub-basin, Northern Carnarvon Basin
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: A.J. Bond, N. Mader, F.E. Burns, M. Thompson & A.D. George
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2002
The Tectono-stratigraphic history of the northern margins of the Australian Plate from the Carnarvon Basin to Papua New Guinea
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: M.S. Norvick
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2002
Conodont biostratigraphy and palaeogeography of the Triassic on the western, northwestern and northern margins of the Australian Plate
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: R.S. Nicoll
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2002
Abstract:
In the Triassic the northern margin of Gondwanan Pangea opened onto the Meso-Tethys Ocean. The then continental margin was formed by the Lhasa and West Burma Blocks and the New Guinea portion of the Australian Plate. Along what would become the margi...
Palynological zonation and correlations of Latest Triassic in the Northern Carnarvon Basin
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: J. Backhouse, B.E. Balme, R. Helby, N.G. Marshall & R. Morgan
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2002
Abstract:
A revised palynological wnation for the latest Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) of the North West Shelf is presented. The definition of the AshmoripoUis reducta Spore-pollen wne is modified and three subrones are recognised within both the Minutosaccus cre...
Integrated approach to platform- basin correlation and deciphering the evolution of Devonian reefs, northern Canning Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: A.D. George, N. Chow & K.M. Trinajstic
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2002
Abstract:
Upper Devonian reef complexes are well exposed in a number of ranges along the Kimberley margin of the Fitzroy Trough in the northern Canning Basin. The Napier Range exposes predominantly fore-reef strata with remnants of older and coeval platform re...
Effects of igneous activity in the offshore northern Perth Basin – evidence from petroleum exploration wells, 2D seismic and magnetic surveys
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: J.D. Gorter & I. Deighton
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2002
Abstract:
Two and possibly three periods of Phanerozoic igneous activity, involving extrusive and intrusive events, are documented from the offihore northern Perth Basin, Western Australia. A Late Permian-earliest Triassic intrusive event is proved by intersec...
A New Tectonic Model for the Evolution of the Northern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Falih M. Daim and Paul G. Lennox
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
Continental-scale lineaments, including the configuration of the sedimentary basins, show that Australia is subdivided by master west-northwesttrending transcurrent faults, which have been active intermittently since the Proterozoic.
Differential mob...
Structural Evolution and Charge History of the Exmouth Sub-basin, Northern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: K. Tindale, N. Newell, J. Keall and N. Smith
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
The Exmouth Sub-basin forms part of the Exmouth-Barrow- Dampier intra-cratonic rift system of the Northern Carnarvon Basin. These sub-basins contain significant thicknesses of Upper Jurassic Dingo Claystone, which constitutes the principal hydrocarbo...
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...
Evidence for a Submarine Oil Seep in the Offshore Northern Perth Basin
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: T. J. Currie, R. Alexander and R. I. Kagi
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
Coastal bitumens collected from the Western Australian coastline have been analysed for chemical fossils and the results combined with similar data for crude oils from the western continental margin. One group of asphaltic bitumens that occur along t...
Late Tertiary-Quaternary Geological Evolution of the Houtman Abrolhos Carbonate Platforms, Northern Perth Basin
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Lindsay B. Collins, Zhong Rong Zhu and Karl-Heinz Wyrwoll
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
The Houtman Abrolhos coral reefs are three shelf-edge carbonate platforms which together form the discontinuously rimmed Abrolhos Shelf. During the Tertiary to Quaternary there was a vertical transition from cool-water ramp sedimentation to reefal pl...
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...
Abstracts of Talks: Structural Evolution and Charge History of the Exmouth Sub-basin, Northern Carnarvon Basin – Noel Newell
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Noel Newell
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: December 1998
New Gas Discoveries in the Northern Cooper Basin
- Publication Name: PESA (QLD) Petroleum Symposium 1996
- Authors: Wecker, H.R.B., Ziolkowski, V., & Powis, G.D.
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: September 1996
Northern Carnarvon Basin Hydrocarbon Distribution and Future Petroleum Potential
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: E. Kopsen
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
To date, exploration in the greater northern Carnarvon Basin has resulted in at least 80 wildcat discoveries, including four giant fields and seven major fields. With indicated total basin reserves of some 9.1 BBOE, this is
Australia's richest oil an...
The Structural Foundations of the Northern Carnarvon Basin
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: H.M.J. Stagg and J.B. Colwell
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
In 1991-92, the Australian Geological Survey Organisation (AGSO) acquired approximately 4500 km of deep-seismic data over the northern Carnarvon Basin on the North West Shelf. These data image basin-forming events down to depths of 10-12 seconds (15-...
Mesozoic Structural Development of the Beagle Sub-basin – Implications for the Petroleum Potential of the Northern Carnarvon Basin
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: J.E. Blevin, A.E. Stephenson and B.G. West
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
The Beagle Sub-basin is a complex, Mesozoic wrench basin that is transitional between the outer offshore Canning Basin and the Barrow and Dampier sub-basins of the Carnarvon Basin. Regional mapping of seismic data undertaken by the Bureau of Resource...
A Proposed Third-order Sequence Framework for the Upper Devonian Outcrops of the Northern Canning Basin
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: D.B. Whittam, J.M. Kennard, R.B. Kirk, J.F. Sarg and P.N. Southgate
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
Preliminary outcrop studies of the Devonian reef complexes exposed at the northern margin of the Canning Basin have identified six third-order sequences within a second-order, transgressive-regressive sequence. Significant lowstand events that result...
Structural Evolution of the Onshore Northern Perth Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: A.J. Mory and R.P. Iasky
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
Analysis of fault trends from seismic, and aeromagnetic and gravity images, shows that the onshore northern Perth Basin has a complex tectonic history. Two major phases of tectonism are recognised:
1) extension in a northerly direction in the Permia...
The Structural Architecture and Stratigraphy of the Offshore Northern Perth Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: P. Quaife, J. Rosser and S. Pagnozzi
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
The offshore northern Perth Basin is part of an extensive system of genetically -linked structural terrains which record the progressive rifting and Early Cretaceous breakup of the Australian and Greater Indian plates. At least two significant period...
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...
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...
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...
Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Basal Winning Group, Northern Carnarvon Basin
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: R.M. Hocking, J.W.K. Voon and L.B. Collins
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
Sands at the base ofthe Winning Group, immediately beneath the Muderong Shale, can be assigned to three broad groups, on the basis of core, outcrop and electric log data. The groups are distinct lithofacies associations, and correspond to established...
Gas and Oil Fields of the Rankin Trend and Northern Barrow-Dampier Sub-basin
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: P. Vincent and L. Tilbury
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
Several large gas fields and numerous small oil accumulations have been discovered within the northern Barrow-Dampier Sub-basin and along the Rankin Trend. The majority of these fields occur in Upper Triassic to lowermost Jurassic fluvial and margina...
Heat Flow Regime and Implications for Oil Maturation and Migration in the Offshore Northern Carnarvon Basin
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: M.G. Swift, H.M.J. Stagg and D.A. Falvey
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
The present day heat-flow distribution in the Exmouth Plateau region has now been compiled from 74 direct seabed measurements on the plateau and over the Kangaroo Syncline, and from bottom hole and seabed temperatures of23 offshore oil exploration we...
Upper Triassic Palynofacies and Environmental Interpretations for the Rankin Trend, Northern Carnarvon Basin, W.A.
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: A.N. Bint and R. Helby
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
The Upper Triassic sequence penetrated on the Rankin Trend consists of the upper part of the Mungaroo Formation and the Brigadier Formation. Palynological and lithofacies subdivision of the sequence have provided a framework for recognition of seven ...
Behaviour of Petroleum in Northern Australian Waters
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: R.I. Kagi, S.J. Fisher and R. Alexander
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
Australian light crudes or ondensates released on the warm waters of northern Australia will be dispersed rapidly by spreading and evaporation. These processes also occur with No.2 fuel oil (diesel), but at a reduced
rate. Under favourable conditions...
Some Results of High Resolution Seismic Surveying in the Sundown Area, Northern Canning Basin, W.A.
- Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
- Authors: D. Norris, D. Taylor, J. Hall
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1984
Abstract:
In 1983 a 51 km Vibroseis3 survey was conducted over the Sundown Field and environs. Careful selection of field parameters resulted in a dramatic improvement in data quality and greatly increased understanding of the structure and stratigraphy of the...