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Development of the Dullingari Murta Oil Field

Development of the Dullingari Murta Oil Field

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: P.A. Robinson and G.F. Butler
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

The Dullingari Murta Field was discovered in 1979 at Dullingari North-1, seventeen years after Dullingari-1 was drilled. The two main Murta reservoirs are the 48-5 and 48-6 sands of Cretaceous age. The 48-5 sand was deposited as a shoreline-bar sand ...

 

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Tags: development Dullingari field Murta oil

Tirrawarra and Moorari Oil Fields enhanced oil recovery schemes – further developments

Tirrawarra and Moorari Oil Fields enhanced oil recovery schemes – further developments

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: J.S. Rodda and T.G. Paspaliaris
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

The Tirrawarra and Moorari Oil Fields, discovered in 1970 and 1971 respectively, are located in the South Australian portion of the Cooper Basin, with the Tirrawarra Field being the largest onshore Permian oil field in Australia. Primary oil producti...

 

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Tags: developments enhanced fields Moorari oil recovery schemes Tirrawarra

Petrophysics of oil reservoirs in the Eromanga Basin, South Australia

Petrophysics of oil reservoirs in the Eromanga Basin, South Australia

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: D.I. Gravestock and E.M. Alexander
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

Calculation of water saturation (Sw) in oil reservoirs requires accurate input of porosity, matrix (clay) properties and formation brine resistivity. Shale volume and cation exchange models have evolved to account for clay volume and conductivity in ...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin Eromanga oil Petrophysics reservoirs South

Aspects of recent oil discoveries in ATP 299P(2), south-west Queenland

Aspects of recent oil discoveries in ATP 299P(2), south-west Queenland

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: S. Greaves and E. Surka
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

Authority to Prospect (ATP) 299P(2) is located in the south-west Queensland portion of the Eromanga Basin. Since the initial commercial oil discovery at Tintaburra in 1983, a discovery success rate of 60 per cent has been achieved by the Operator, Ha...

 

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Tags: Aspects discoveries oil Queenland recent south-west

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

Gas and Oil Fields of the Rankin Trend and Northern Barrow-Dampier Sub-basin

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...

 

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Tags: Dampier fields gas northern oil Rankin Sub-basin Trend

Oil and Gas Fields in the Barrow Sub-basin

Oil and Gas Fields in the Barrow Sub-basin

Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
Authors: I.M. McClure, D.N. Smith, A.F. Williams, L.J. Clegg and C.C. Ford
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1988

 

 

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Tags: fields gas oil Sub-basin

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

YEARS OF DRAMATIC CHANGE – THE GROWTH IN EXPERTISE IN AUSTRALIAN OIL EXPLORATION 1950-1986

YEARS OF DRAMATIC CHANGE – THE GROWTH IN EXPERTISE IN AUSTRALIAN OIL EXPLORATION 1950-1986

Publication Name: PESA Journal
Authors: M.H. Johnstone
Date Published: March 1987

 

Abstract:

The low world price for oil has had a serious effect on the oil exploration industry in Australia. We have had to reassess the economic viability of many of our exploration and development prospects, and revise our estimates of the minimum size of wh...

 

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Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium – Technical Papers

Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium – Technical Papers

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

 

 

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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

The role of coal as a source rock for oil

The role of coal as a source rock for oil

Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
Authors: A.C. Cook and H. Struckmeyer
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1986

 

Abstract:

Until recently, most authors have dismissed coal as a potential source for hydrocarbons other than methane. This has been either on the grounds that coals are incapable of generating hydrocarbons other than methane or, that such alkanes, if generated...

 

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Tags: coal oil rock Role source

Oil Migration in the Northern Canning Basin – A Regional Review

Oil Migration in the Northern Canning Basin – A Regional Review

Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
Authors: E.J. (Ted) Ellyard
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1984

 

Abstract:

Oil generation and migration in the Fitzroy Trough and adjacent shelf regions of the northern Canning Basin has been reviewed. Optical maturity indicators were used to define the maturity versus depth relationship at well locations between Lake Betty...

 

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Tags: basin Canning migration northern oil Regional Review

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

 

Abstract:

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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Tags: basin Canning exploration igneous impact Intrusions North-West oil

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