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Otway Basin Rifting to Sea-Floor Spreading – Hydrocarbon Implications

Otway Basin Rifting to Sea-Floor Spreading – Hydrocarbon Implications

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: D. Palmowski, K.C. Hill, N. Hoffman and T. Bernecker
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

The Otway Basin is part of the Southern Ocean Rift System between Australia and Antarctica. Balancing and restoring deep seismic profiles, this paper presents a new look at the tectonic development of the basin and its petroleum implications. The dev...

 

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Tags: basin hydrocarbon implications Otway rifting Sea-floor Spreading

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

New Impetus for Otway Exploration

New Impetus for Otway Exploration

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: J.S. Evanochko
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

The combination of commercial opportunity and technological advancements has revitalised hydrocarbon exploration in the onshore Otway Basin. Until 1999, small field size, poor exploration success and lack of markets ensured only modest drilling activ...

 

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Tags: exploration Impetus Otway

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

3D Rift Fault Systems of the Western Otway Basin, SE Australia

3D Rift Fault Systems of the Western Otway Basin, SE Australia

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: S. Chantraprasert, K.R. McClay and C. Elders
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

2D and 3D seismic data from the western Otway basin, South Australia have been used to analyse the 3D geometries of the Late Jurassic- Early Cretaceous rift fault systems in the central Penola Trough. NW and WNW striking rift fault systems in the cen...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin fault Otway Rift systems

New Insights into the Structural Development of the Onshore Otway Basin

New Insights into the Structural Development of the Onshore Otway Basin

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

 

Abstract:

A refined structural interpretation of the onshore Otway Basin, based on modelling of lateral transfer faults, using 2D seismic acquired in 2000, has identified potential petroleum traps that may have been overlooked. Gravity images of the central pa...

 

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Tags: basin development insights onshore Otway structural

Revised Stratigraphy of the Sherbrook Group, Otway Basin

Revised Stratigraphy of the Sherbrook Group, Otway Basin

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: A.D. Partridge
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

Upper Cretaceous sediments were first discovered along the Southern Margin of Australia in the Otway Basin during the 1950' s, and the principal formations assigned to the Sherbrook Group were first described from early petroleum exploration wells in...

 

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Tags: basin Group Otway Revised Sherbrook stratigraphy

Cenozoic Submarine Canyon Systems in Cool Water Carbonates from the Otway Basin, Victoria, Australia

Cenozoic Submarine Canyon Systems in Cool Water Carbonates from the Otway Basin, Victoria, Australia

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: A.S. Leach and M.W. Wallace
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

Well preserved submarine canyon systems are present in the Oligocene-Miocene cool water carbonates of the Heytesbury Group and the Pliocene-Recent Whalers Bluff Formation of the offshore Otway Basin. From seismic profiles, two morphologically distinc...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin Canyon Carbonates Cenozoic Cool Otway Submarine systems Victoria

The Sedimentology and Palaeoenvironments of the Late Cretaceous Sherbrook Group in the Otway Basin

The Sedimentology and Palaeoenvironments of the Late Cretaceous Sherbrook Group in the Otway Basin

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: G.A. Boyd and S.J. Gallagher
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

The first marine incursions that flooded the Otway Basin, southern Australia, during the Late Cretaceous are preserved in the Sherbrook Group. The purpose of this preliminary study is to describe the depositional environments of the sediments of the ...

 

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Tags: basin Cretaceous. Group Late Otway Palaeoenvironments Sedimentology Sherbrook

AFTA-Calibrated 2-D Modelling of Hydrocarbon Generation and Migration Using Temispack: Preliminary Results from the Otway Basin

AFTA-Calibrated 2-D Modelling of Hydrocarbon Generation and Migration Using Temispack: Preliminary Results from the Otway Basin

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: I.R. Duddy and B. Erout
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

Commercial hydrocarbon discoveries in the Otway Basin are currently limited to the Victorian Port Campbell Embayment, both onshore and offshore and the onshore Penola Trough in South Australia. Previous AFTA -based studies have shown that the regiona...

 

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Tags: basin Calibrated Generation hydrocarbon migration Otway preliminary results seismic interpretation Temispack

South Australia Otway Basin News

South Australia Otway Basin News

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

 

 

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Tags: Australia. basin Otway South

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

South Australia: Seismic Surveying By Hovercraft, Otway Basin, South Australia – Lindsay Horn

South Australia: Seismic Surveying By Hovercraft, Otway Basin, South Australia – Lindsay Horn

Publication Name: PESA News
Authors: Lindsay Horn
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: April 1998

 

 

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Tags: Australia. basin Hovercraft Lindsay Horn Otway Seismic South Surveying

Exploration Opportunities in the Onshore Otway Basin – C. Lavin & T. Muscatello

Exploration Opportunities in the Onshore Otway Basin – C. Lavin & T. Muscatello

Publication Name: PESA News
Authors: C. Lavin & T. Muscatello
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: April 1997

 

 

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Tags: basin C Lavin exploration onshore Opportunities Otway T Muscatello

Gravity in the Otway Basin – S. Haydon

Gravity in the Otway Basin – S. Haydon

Publication Name: PESA News
Authors: S. Haydon
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: April 1997

 

 

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Tags: basin Gravity Otway S Haydon

Evaluation of the Cretaceous Source Rocks of the Otway Basin – K. Mehin and A. Link

Evaluation of the Cretaceous Source Rocks of the Otway Basin – K. Mehin and A. Link

Publication Name: PESA News
Authors: K. Mehin and A. Link
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: April 1997

 

 

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Tags: basin Cretaceous. evaluation K Mehin Otway rocks source

New Upper Cretaceous Palynology of the Sherbrook Group, Otway Basin – A. Partridge

New Upper Cretaceous Palynology of the Sherbrook Group, Otway Basin – A. Partridge

Publication Name: PESA News
Authors: A. Partridge
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: April 1997

 

 

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Tags: basin Cretaceous. Group Otway palynology. Sherbrook upper

From the Mines: Otway Basin Aeromagnetic Survey – David Denham, Government Releases the Report of the Richards Review of AGSO – Jane Slevin

From the Mines: Otway Basin Aeromagnetic Survey – David Denham, Government Releases the Report of the Richards Review of AGSO – Jane Slevin

Publication Name: PESA News
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: August 1993

 

 

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Tags: basin David Denham Government Jane Slevin Mines Otway Releases Report Review Richards Survey

A history of the search for commercial hydrocarbons in the Otway Basin complex

A history of the search for commercial hydrocarbons in the Otway Basin complex

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

 

Abstract:

Botryococcus algal scums (coorongite) on sub-coastal lagoons and offshore oil seeps, resulting in the stranding of 'coastal bitumen' at not infrequent intervals along the southern Australian coasts, initiated the first oil drilling in Australia in 18...

 

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Tags: basin commercial Complex history hydrocarbons Otway Search

Tectonic development of Victoria’s Otway Basin – a seismic interpretation

Tectonic development of Victoria’s Otway Basin – a seismic interpretation

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

 

Abstract:

This paper is essentially an extract from the author's contribution in a recent appraisal of regional seismic mapping in the Victorian sector of the Otway Basin by the Department of Industry, Technology and Resources (Megallaa, in press). Geological ...

 

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Tags: basin development Interpretation Otway Seismic tectonic Victoria's

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

The Cretaceous vegetation, and palaeoenvironment of Otway Group sediments

The Cretaceous vegetation, and palaeoenvironment of Otway Group sediments

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

 

Abstract:

Fossil assemblages (principally plants) in the Early Cretaceous non-marine and later Cretaceous marginal marine sediments of the Otway Basin, south-eastern Australia, are examined. Their usefulness for alaeoenvironmental, palaeoclimate and source roc...

 

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Tags: Cretaceous. Group Otway palaeoenvironment sediments vegetation

A comparison of hydrocarbon plays in the Bass, Gippsland, Otway and Taranaki Basins

A comparison of hydrocarbon plays in the Bass, Gippsland, Otway and Taranaki Basins

Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
Authors: J.K. Davidson and K.C. Morrison
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1986

 

Abstract:

A modified version of the Global Basin Classification (Kingston et al., 1983) can be used to identify the geological controls of hydrocarbon plays in, and between, sedimentary basins. The input data are descriptive, requiring minimal interpretation w...

 

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Tags: basin's Bass comparison Gippsland hydrocarbon Otway plays Taranaki

Non-petroleum gas accumulations, Gippsland, Bass and Otway Basins

Non-petroleum gas accumulations, Gippsland, Bass and Otway Basins

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

 

Abstract:

The Mesozoic and Tertiary sequences of the Gippsland, Bass and Otway Basins contain concentrations of non-petroleum gases, principally carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulphide and helium, ranging in purity from trace to 98.9 per cent. Normally the...

 

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Tags: basin's Bass gas Gippsland Non-petroleum Otway

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