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Constraints on the oil prospectivity of the Penola Trough, onshore Otway Basin

Constraints on the oil prospectivity of the Penola Trough, onshore Otway Basin

Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
Authors: M. Lisk
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 2004

 

Abstract:

The oil charge history of the Penola Trough has been described using fluid inclusion data from a selection of currently gas and water-bearing traps within reservoirs of the Pretty Hill Formation and Sawpit Sandstone. Grains with Oil Inclusions (GOI?)...

 

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Tags: gasdisplacement. GOI Otway Basin palaeo-oil column Penola Trough trap breach

The use of Foraminiferal Colouration Index (FCI) as a thermal indicator and correlation with vitrinite reflectance in the Sherbrook Group, Otway Basin, Victoria

The use of Foraminiferal Colouration Index (FCI) as a thermal indicator and correlation with vitrinite reflectance in the Sherbrook Group, Otway Basin, Victoria

Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
Authors: S.J. Gallagher, I.R. Duddy, P.G. Quilty, A.J. Smith, M.W. Wallace, G.R. Holdgate and P.J. Boult
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 2004

 

Abstract:

While palynomorph and conodont colour indices are widely used as thermal indices in rocks of various age, enhancing more quantitatively understood analyses such as vitrinite reflectance and fission track data, it is not generally known that agglutina...

 

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Tags: Foraminiferal Colouration Index Late Cretaceous Otway Basin Sherbrook Group VitriniteReflectance.

4D Evolution of fault systems in sedimentary basins: a review

4D Evolution of fault systems in sedimentary basins: a review

Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
Authors: K.R. McClay, P.S. Whitehouse, A. Amilibia, J. De Vera and T. Djebbar
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 2004

 

Abstract:

Understanding the four dimensional evolution of faults is fundamental in the exploration for, and exploitation of, hydrocarbons in basin systems. This evolution of fault systems in rifts, inverted extensional basins and in foreland fold and thrust be...

 

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Tags: extension fault segmentation fold and thrust belts Inversion North Sea Otway Basin rifting thrusts Zagros.

Tertiary ‘deep lead’ palaeoriver systems and their relationship to basin evolution, Victoria

Tertiary ‘deep lead’ palaeoriver systems and their relationship to basin evolution, Victoria

Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
Authors: G.R. Holdgate, K.A. Cunningham, M.W. Wallace, S.J. Gallagher and D.H. Moore
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 2004

 

Abstract:

Basalt flows across the central highlands of Victoria have sealed in-place early to middle Tertiary palaeodrainage systems that once provided clastic sediments to the flanking Otway, Murray and Gippsland basins. Gravels of the palaeorivers were mined...

 

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Tags: central highlands deep leads Gippsland Basin Murray Basin Otway Basin palaeovalleys uplifthistory. Victoria Basin

4D Evolution of fault systems in sedimentary basins: a review

4D Evolution of fault systems in sedimentary basins: a review

Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
Authors: K.R. McClay, P.S. Whitehouse, A. Amilibia, J. De Vera and T. Djebbar
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 2004

 

Abstract:

Understanding the four dimensional evolution of faults is fundamental in the exploration for, and exploitation of, hydrocarbons in basin systems. This evolution of fault systems in rifts, inverted extensional basins and in foreland fold and thrust be...

 

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Tags: extension fault segmentation fold and thrust belts Inversion North Sea Otway Basin rifting thrusts Zagros.

Structural-stratigraphic styles and evolution of the offshore Otway Basin-a structural seismic analysis

Structural-stratigraphic styles and evolution of the offshore Otway Basin-a structural seismic analysis

Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
Authors: D. Palmowski, K.C. Hill and N. Hoffman
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 2004

 

Abstract:

A regional structural analysis of the offshore Otway Basin, largely based on the GA137 2D seismic survey, revealed substantial differences in structural styles between the eastern and western part. 15 km of sediments are underlain by southward-thinni...

 

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Tags: Otway Basin RegionalSeismicInterpretation. Structural Basin Analysis

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

A regional tectonostratigraphic framework for the Otway Basin

A regional tectonostratigraphic framework for the Otway Basin

Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
Authors: A.A. Krassay, D.L. Cathro and D.J. Ryan
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 2004

 

Abstract:

A new sequence stratigraphic framework has been developed for the Otway Basin based on the interpretation and integration of offshore wells, key onshore wells, new biostratigraphic results and a regional grid of 2D seismic data. In the new tectonostr...

 

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Tags: onshore-offshore Otway Basin seismic interpretation sequence stratigraphy supersequence

Integration of AFTA and (U-Th)/He thermochronology to enhance the resolution and precision of thermal history reconstruction in the Anglesea-1 well, Otway Basin, SE Australia

Integration of AFTA and (U-Th)/He thermochronology to enhance the resolution and precision of thermal history reconstruction in the Anglesea-1 well, Otway Basin, SE Australia

Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
Authors: P.F. Green, P.V. Crowhurst and I.R. Duddy
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 2004

 

Abstract:

Apatite fission track analysis and vitrinite reflectance studies of the Otway Basin (Southeastern Australia) have revealed numerous mid-Cretaceous, mid-Tertiary and Late Tertiary tectono-thermal events, reflecting both temporal variation in basal hea...

 

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Tags: Anglesea-1 basin modelling Early Cretaceous heat flow Mioceneexhumation. Neogene Tectonics Otway Basin

Seal evaluation of a fluvio-lacustrine rift to post-rift succession, the Eumeralla Formation, Otway Basin, Australia

Seal evaluation of a fluvio-lacustrine rift to post-rift succession, the Eumeralla Formation, Otway Basin, Australia

Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
Authors: L. Svendsen, T.H. Payenberg, P.J. Boult and J.G. Kaldi
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 2004

 

Abstract:

The Early Cretaceous Eumeralla Formation is regarded as an ineffective regional top seal in the Otway Basin, largely due to sand interbeds providing preferential hydrocarbon migration pathways. A deep-water lacustrine unit consisting of interbedded s...

 

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Tags: Eumeralla Formation lacustrine sediments Otway Basin seal capacity TantanoolaTrough. transgressive systems tract Windermere Sandstone Member

Marine clays and porosity evolution in the Nullawarre Greensand, Otway Basin, southeastern Australia

Marine clays and porosity evolution in the Nullawarre Greensand, Otway Basin, southeastern Australia

Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
Authors: G.A. Boyd, M.W. Wallace, G.R. Holdgate and S.J. Gallagher
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 2004

 

Abstract:

The Nullawarre Greensand of the Late Cretaceous Sherbrook Group, Otway Basin, has an unusual diagenetic history that has produced significant volumes of early marine clay minerals. Together with glauconite grains, siderite, carbonate fluor-apatite ce...

 

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Tags: Berthierine diagenesis Nullawarre Greensand Ooidal facies Otway Basin Porosity.

Gas-oil-source correlations in the Otway Basin, southern Australia

Gas-oil-source correlations in the Otway Basin, southern Australia

Publication Name: PESA's Eastern Australasian Basin Symposium II
Authors: C.J. Boreham, J.M. Hope, P. Jackson, R. Davenport, K.L. Earl, D.S. Edwards, G.A. Logan and A.A. Krassay
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 2004

 

Abstract:

Genetic relationships have been found between natural gases, oils, oil stains and potential source rocks in the Otway Basin using a combination of molecular and isotopic (carbon and hydrogen) compositions. These correlations re-enforce the strong com...

 

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Tags: biodegradation Biomarkers carbon and hydrogen isotopes gas- gas Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous source rocks oil-oil oil-source correlations organic geochemistry Otway Basin

Enigmatic asphaltites from the southern Australian margin: molecular and carbon isotopic composition

Enigmatic asphaltites from the southern Australian margin: molecular and carbon isotopic composition

Publication Name: PESA Journal
Authors: Dianne Edwards, David M. McKirdy and Roger E. Summons
Reference Type: Journal Article
Date Published: December 1998

 

Abstract:

Jet black asphaltite ( 4-18 o API) recovered from the shores of Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania is the least common but most spectacular variety of Australian coastal bitumen. It typically strands in the form of large (u...

 

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Tags: Bight Basin Biomarkers Carbon isotopes Coastal bitumen oil seeps Otway Basin Perth Basin

Technical articles: Petroleum maturation and subsidence history of the offshore Otway Basin, southeastern Australia implications for exploration

Technical articles: Petroleum maturation and subsidence history of the offshore Otway Basin, southeastern Australia implications for exploration

Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 24
Authors: P.E. Williamson, G.W.O'Brien and M.G. Swift
Reference Type: Journal Article
Date Published: December 1996

 

Abstract:

The Otway Basin is one of a series of Late Jurassic to midCretaceous depocentres which developed along the southeastern Australian margin during the rifting which ultimately led to the separation of Australia and Antarctica. This rifting took place i...

 

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Tags: Cretaceousrifting. Otway Basin petroleum maturation subsidence

Technical Articles: The western Otway Basin: an overview of the rift and drift history using serial composite seismic profiles

Technical Articles: The western Otway Basin: an overview of the rift and drift history using serial composite seismic profiles

Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 21
Authors: Kathy A. Hill and Christopher Durrand
Reference Type: Journal Article
Date Published: July 1993

 

 

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Tags: extension Journal Otway Basin passive margin reflection seismic structure tectonics

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