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The Cliff Head Oil Discovery – Offshore Perth Basin

The Cliff Head Oil Discovery – Offshore Perth Basin

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: N.T. Jones & A.D. Hall
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 2002

 

Abstract:

The intersection of a 36 m gross oil column in Cliff Head 1 in the offshore North Perth Basin has proven that an established onshore play-type is valid offshore and has confirmed the hydrocarbon potential of the Beagle Ridge. The play concept, Permo-...

 

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Effects of igneous activity in the offshore northern Perth Basin – evidence from petroleum exploration wells, 2D seismic and magnetic surveys

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...

 

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Tags: basin Effects evidence exploration igneous Magnetic northern offshore Perth petroleum Seismic Surveys

The Offshore Clarence-Moreton Basin in New South Wales – A New Petroleum Play?

The Offshore Clarence-Moreton Basin in New South Wales – A New Petroleum Play?

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: R.D. Shaw, J.D. Alder and N. Aadil
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

The Clarence-Moreton Basin is a major Late Triassic to Jurassic/EarlyCretaceous depocentre in northeastern New South Wales and southern Queensland. Its eastern extent was believed to lie close to, and form a minor part of, the present-day coastline. ...

 

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Tags: Clarence-Moreton Basin offshore petroleum

New Perspectives on Structural Style and Petroleum Prospectivity, Offshore Eastern Otway Basin

New Perspectives on Structural Style and Petroleum Prospectivity, Offshore Eastern Otway Basin

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: G.C. Geary, A.E. Constantine and I.S.A. Reid
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

The recognition of syn-depositional NNE to NE trending folds within the Upper Cretaceous syn-rift Sherbrook Group of the eastern Otway Basin, led to the development of a new structural model for application to seismic interpretation. Earlier recognit...

 

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Tags: basin eastern offshore Otway Perspectives petroleum prospectivity structural Style

Evidence for a Submarine Oil Seep in the Offshore Northern Perth Basin

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...

 

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Tags: basin evidence northern offshore oil Perth Seep Submarine

New Zealand: North Island – Onshore & Offshore Activity

New Zealand: North Island – Onshore & Offshore Activity

Publication Name: PESA News
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: October 1998

 

 

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Tags: Island New Zealand North offshore onshore

Legal Ease: Offshore Exploration Permits – No Compensation for Nationalisation – Peter O’Donahoo, Security of Title Essential for Offshore Leases – Parer

Legal Ease: Offshore Exploration Permits – No Compensation for Nationalisation – Peter O’Donahoo, Security of Title Essential for Offshore Leases – Parer

Publication Name: PESA News
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: June 1998

 

 

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Tags: Compensation Ease Essential exploration Leases Legal Nationalisation offshore Parer Permits PeterO'Donahoo Security

1998 Release of Offshore Areas

1998 Release of Offshore Areas

Publication Name: PESA News
Authors: Mike Woollands
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: April 1998

 

 

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Tags: areas offshore Release

1998 Exploration Opportunities in Offshore Gippsland Basin

1998 Exploration Opportunities in Offshore Gippsland Basin

Publication Name: PESA News
Authors: Maher Megallaa
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: April 1998

 

 

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Tags: basin exploration Gippsland offshore Opportunities

Exploration Opportunities in the Offshore Otway Basin, Victoria

Exploration Opportunities in the Offshore Otway Basin, Victoria

Publication Name: PESA News
Authors: Mike Woollands and Ciaran Lavin
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: April 1998

 

 

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Tags: basin exploration offshore Opportunities Otway Victoria

A New Perspective on the Offshore Sydney Basin: New Release Offshore Sydney Basin

A New Perspective on the Offshore Sydney Basin: New Release Offshore Sydney Basin

Publication Name: PESA News
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: February 1998

 

 

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Tags: basin New offshore perspective Release Sydney

Technical articles: Recent changes in the regulation of safety in the Australian offshore petroleum industry

Technical articles: Recent changes in the regulation of safety in the Australian offshore petroleum industry

Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 24
Authors: Cameron Robinson and B. Juris
Reference Type: Journal Article
Date Published: December 1996

 

 

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Book Review: The Offshore Field Development Atlas of North West Europe, 1996-97 Publications For The Petroleum Industry

Book Review: The Offshore Field Development Atlas of North West Europe, 1996-97 Publications For The Petroleum Industry

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

 

 

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Tags: Book development Europe field Industry North offshore petroleum Publications Review

Book Review: The Abandonment of Offshore Oil & Gas Fields

Book Review: The Abandonment of Offshore Oil & Gas Fields

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

 

 

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Tags: Book fields gas offshore oil Review

Regional Focus – Canning Basin: Speculation on the Origin of the Bedout High – a large, Circular Structure of Pre Mesozoic Age in the Offshore Canning Basin, Western Australia – John D. Gorter

Regional Focus – Canning Basin: Speculation on the Origin of the Bedout High – a large, Circular Structure of Pre Mesozoic Age in the Offshore Canning Basin, Western Australia – John D. Gorter

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

 

 

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Tags: Australia. basin Bedout Canning Circular Focus High John Gorter Large Mesozoic offshore Origin. Pre Regional Speculation structure

Acreage Release: 1996 Release Of Australian Offshore Acreage, Offshore Western Australia Acreage Release – Peter Baillie

Acreage Release: 1996 Release Of Australian Offshore Acreage, Offshore Western Australia Acreage Release – Peter Baillie

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

 

 

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Oil and Gas Accumulations of the Offshore Barrow – Exmouth Sub-basins – Trends in Hydrocarbon Habitat

Oil and Gas Accumulations of the Offshore Barrow – Exmouth Sub-basins – Trends in Hydrocarbon Habitat

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: M.L. Zaunbrecher
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1994

 

Abstract:

Four main observations can be made concerning the hydrocarbon accumulations discovered to date in the Barrow and Exmouth sub-basins: 1. most oil accumulations occur in Cretaceous reservoirs, whereas gas accumulations occur in reservoirs of various ag...

 

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Tags: Exmouth gas Habitat hydrocarbon offshore oil sub-basins Trends

Structure of the Offshore Canning Basin: First Impressions from a New Regional Deep-seismic Data Set

Structure of the Offshore Canning Basin: First Impressions from a New Regional Deep-seismic Data Set

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: J.B. Colwell and H.M.J. Stagg
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1994

 

Abstract:

In mid-1993, the Australian Geological Survey Organisation (AGSO) acquired approximately 3600 km of high-quality regional deep (16-second record length) seismic reflection data over the offshore Canning Basin. This data-set is linked to the previousl...

 

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Tags: basin Canning data deep first Impressions New offshore Regional Seismic Set structure

The Structural Architecture and Stratigraphy of the Offshore Northern Perth Basin, Western Australia

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...

 

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Tags: architecture Australia. basin northern offshore Perth stratigraphy structural

Evolution and Hydrocarbon Prospectivity of the Offshore Sydney Basin – NSW /P10

Evolution and Hydrocarbon Prospectivity of the Offshore Sydney Basin – NSW /P10

Publication Name: New Petroleum Symposium 1993
Authors: Graham Bradley
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: December 1993

 

Abstract:

The Permo-Triassic offshore Sydney Basin is dominated by three structural elements : The Offshore Syncline, Offshore Uplift, and Offshore Newcastle Syncline. The eastern edge of the Offshore Syncline is a complex fault zone formed by extensional over...

 

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Tags: basin evolution hydrocarbon NSW offshore prospectivity Sydney

Technical Articles: Hydrocarbon gases, heat-flow and development of the offshore Otway Basin

Technical Articles: Hydrocarbon gases, heat-flow and development of the offshore Otway Basin

Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 13
Authors: David Heggie, David McKirdy, Neville Exon & Chao-Shing Lee
Reference Type: Journal Article
Date Published: September 1988

 

 

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Tags: Heat-Flow Hydrocarbon Gases Journal offshore

The Offshore Canning Basin – A Review

The Offshore Canning Basin – A Review

Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
Authors: E.L. Horstman and P.G. Purcell
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1988

 

Abstract:

The offshore Canning Basin is located on Australia's North West Shelf. Northwest-trending Palaeozoic structures of the onshore Canning Basin extend into the offshore area, deepening to the northwest and buried under a seaward thickening wedge of Meso...

 

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Tags: basin Canning offshore Review

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

A Case Study of Seismic Exploration in the Offshore Bonaparte Basin

A Case Study of Seismic Exploration in the Offshore Bonaparte Basin

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

 

Abstract:

Exploration permit NT/P40, operated by Western Mining Corporation Limited (WM C), is situated in the north-eastern Bonaparte Basin. Early seismic exploration failed to delineate the primary objective section because of its significant depth of buria...

 

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Tags: basin Bonaparte case exploration offshore Seismic study

Heat Flow Regime and Implications for Oil Maturation and Migration in the Offshore Northern Carnarvon Basin

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...

 

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Tags: basin Carnarvon flow Heat implications maturation migration northern offshore oil Regime

Geochemistry of the Turtle Oil Accumulation, Offshore Southern Bonaparte Basin

Geochemistry of the Turtle Oil Accumulation, Offshore Southern Bonaparte Basin

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

 

Abstract:

Turtle 1 was drilled in 1984 in the offshore southern Bonaparte Basin. The well encountered numerous oil shows in sands of the Late Carboniferous to Early Permian Kulshill Group, but an extensive testing programme failed to produce hydrocarbons at co...

 

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Tags: basin Bonaparte geochemistry offshore oil southern Turtle

Environmental Impact Assessments of Three Offshore Oilfields, Western Australia

Environmental Impact Assessments of Three Offshore Oilfields, Western Australia

Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
Authors: W. Carr
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1988

 

Abstract:

Environment impact assessments of petroleum exploration off the Western Australian coast is guided by the State Conservation Strategy and procedures designed to protect environmentally significant coastal areas. The process may involve staged non-pub...

 

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Tags: Australia. environmental impact offshore Oilfields

Offshore Gippsland Silver Jubilee

Offshore Gippsland Silver Jubilee

Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
Authors: B. R. Brown
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1986

 

Abstract:

During the past twenty-five years, since BHP acquired the Victorian offshore permits PEP 38 and PEP 39, over 71,000 km of seismic data have been collected and 136 exploration and appraisal wells drilled excluding junked wells. BHP and Esso have colle...

 

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Tags: Gippsland Jubilee offshore Silver

Seismic-stratigraphic interpretation of coastal barrier systems of Late Eocene age, offshore Gippsland Basin

Seismic-stratigraphic interpretation of coastal barrier systems of Late Eocene age, offshore Gippsland Basin

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

 

Abstract:

Three seismic-stratigraphic sequences were mapped within the uppermost Latrobe Group at the western end of the offshore Gippsland Basin. The three sequences are interpreted to be Upper Eocene coastal barrier complexes deposited under conditions of lo...

 

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Tags: basin coastal Eocene Gippsland Interpretation Late offshore Seismic-stratigraphic systems

Seismic stratigraphy and crustal structure of offshore Wilkes Land, Antarctica

Seismic stratigraphy and crustal structure of offshore Wilkes Land, Antarctica

Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
Authors: H.M.J. Stagg, J.J. Veevers, S.L. Eittreim and J.R. Childs
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1986

 

Abstract:

Multichannel seismic and other geophysical data from the Wilkes Land continental margin reveal that continental crust thins oceanwards by extension in fault-blocks of the lowermost strata. Near the mid Cretaceous continent-ocean boundary, the contine...

 

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Tags: Antarctica Crustal land offshore Seismic stratigraphy structure Wilkes

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