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Petroleum Potential of the Deepwater Taranaki Basin

Petroleum Potential of the Deepwater Taranaki Basin

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: V. Stagpoole, C. Uruski, R. Funnell and D. Darby
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2011

 

Abstract:

The petroleum potential of the Deepwater Taranaki Basin was recognised after a high quality multi-channel seismic reflection line was acquired over the basin in 1996. Interpretation and modelling of this line extends the prospective area of the Taran...

 

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Tags: basin deepwater petroleum potential Taranaki

The Permian Play Ground: Unlocking the Potential of the Tinowon Sandstone

The Permian Play Ground: Unlocking the Potential of the Tinowon Sandstone

Publication Name: PESA (QLD & NT) Petroleum Symposium 2003
Authors: Barry Smith
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: December 2003

 

Abstract:

In the period up to the mid 1990s, a substantial amount of petroleum exploration was carried out in the Surat-Bowen Basin of southeast Queensland, but most of the drilling programs focussed on Triassic and Jurassic sandstone objectives. Permian-speci...

 

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Tags: Ground Permian Play potential Sandstone Tinowon Unlocking

Assessing a basin’s potential for geological sequestration of carbon dioxide: an example from the Mesozoic of the Petrel Sub-basin, NW Australia

Assessing a basin’s potential for geological sequestration of carbon dioxide: an example from the Mesozoic of the Petrel Sub-basin, NW Australia

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: C.M. Gibson-Poole, S.C. Lang, J.E. Streit, G.M. Kraishan & R.R. Hillis
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 2002

 

Abstract:

Assessing the suitability of a sedimentary basin for C02 sequestration requires detailed geological and geophysical studies. An example is presented from the Mesozoic succession of the Petrel Snb-basin. Two stratigraphic intervals were investigated a...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin's carbon dioxide geological Mesozoic NW Petrel potential sequestration Sub-basin

The Walloon CSM Play – A Gas Resource with World-Class Potential

The Walloon CSM Play – A Gas Resource with World-Class Potential

Authors: Ron Prefontaine
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: December 2002

 

 

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Tags: Class CSM gas Play potential Resource World

New Ideas on the Petroleum Potential of the Southern Georgina Basin

New Ideas on the Petroleum Potential of the Southern Georgina Basin

Authors: Greg Ambrose
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: December 2002

 

 

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Tags: basin Georgina Ideas petroleum potential southern

Petroleum Potential of New Zealand’s Deepwater Basins

Petroleum Potential of New Zealand’s Deepwater Basins

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: C.I. Uruski and P. Baillie
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

The New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone contains at least six large deepwater basins. Structural styles vary from rift basins through strike-slip dominated basins to major accretionary prisms. Source rocks encountered include coal measures, black mar...

 

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Tags: basin's deepwater NewZealand's petroleum potential

Geology and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Jurassic-Cretaceous Maryborough Basin

Geology and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Jurassic-Cretaceous Maryborough Basin

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: P. Lipski
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

The Maryborough Basin is a mainly Mesozoic basin that straddles the coastline of southeastern Queensland. The sequence ranges in age from Late Triassic to Early Tertiary. Sequences generally can be correlated across the Surat and Eromanga basins to t...

 

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Tags: basin Cretaceous. geology hydrocarbon Jurassic Maryborough potential

Down and Out in Gippsland: Using Potential Fields to Look Deeper and Wider for New Hydrocarbons

Down and Out in Gippsland: Using Potential Fields to Look Deeper and Wider for New Hydrocarbons

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: D.H. Moore and D. Wong
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

Although aeromagnetic interpretations are not usual aids in detailed assessments of hydrocarbon provinces, they can provide insights into the deep structures that often control the distribution of hydrocarbons within the basin fill. This paper summar...

 

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Tags: Deeper fields Gippsland hydrocarbons potential Wider

An Integrated Structural and Palaeogeographic Investigation of Eocene Erosional Events and Related Hydrocarbon Potential in the Gippsland Basin

An Integrated Structural and Palaeogeographic Investigation of Eocene Erosional Events and Related Hydrocarbon Potential in the Gippsland Basin

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: E.M. Johnstone, C.C. Jenkins and M.A. Moore
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

This new revised structural/stratigraphic model for the Eocene erosional events in the Central/Eastern Gippsland Basin has delineated the key play elements of trap formation and seal development. Integrated structural and palaeogeographical studies h...

 

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Tags: basin Eocene Erosional Events Gippsland hydrocarbon integrated Investigation Palaeogeographic potential related structural

Character, Maturity and Distribution of Potential Cretaceous Oil Source Rocks in the Ceduna Sub-Basin, Bight Basin, Great Australian Bight

Character, Maturity and Distribution of Potential Cretaceous Oil Source Rocks in the Ceduna Sub-Basin, Bight Basin, Great Australian Bight

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: H.I.M. Struckmeyer, J.M. Totterdell, J.E. Blevin, G.A. Logan, C.J. Boreham, I. Deighton, A.A. Krassay and M.T. Bradshaw
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

The Ceduna Sub-basin of the Bight Basin is a frontier region containing only one petroleum exploration well. Therefore, our assessment of the distribution of potential source rocks in the area is based on an understanding of the regional sequence str...

 

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Tags: basin Bight Ceduna character Cretaceous. distribution Great Australian Bight maturity oil potential rocks source Sub-basin

Depositional and Rank Controls on the Petroleum Potential of Coaly Source Rocks

Depositional and Rank Controls on the Petroleum Potential of Coaly Source Rocks

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: R. Sykes
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

Integrated assessment of the Rock-Eval and coal chemical properties of Late Cretaceous-Tertiary coaly sediments in the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand, has revealed complex stratigraphic variations in bulk petroleum potential and provided insights of the...

 

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Tags: Coaly controls depositional petroleum potential Rank rocks source

Coalbed Methane Potential of the Surat Basin – A powder River Basin USA Lookalike

Coalbed Methane Potential of the Surat Basin – A powder River Basin USA Lookalike

Publication Name: PESA (QLD) Petroleum Symposium 2000
Authors: Norm Zillman
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: December 2000

 

 

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Tags: basin Coalbed Lookalike Methane potential Powder River Surat USA

Potential Unconventional Gas Resources in the Lord Howe Rise Region

Potential Unconventional Gas Resources in the Lord Howe Rise Region

Publication Name: PESA (QLD) Petroleum Symposium 1999
Authors: Phillip Symonds, Howard Stagg, Ingo Pecher, Neville Exon, Sabrina Van de Beuque, Irina Borissova, and Jean-Marie Auzende
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: December 1999

 

 

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Tags: gas Howe Lord potential region Resources Rise Unconventional

Petroleum Generating Potential and Thermal History of the Palaeozoic, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia

Petroleum Generating Potential and Thermal History of the Palaeozoic, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: K. A. R. Ghori
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1998

 

Abstract:

Geochemical analyses confirm the presence of Silurian, Upper Devonian, Lower Permian and Upper Permian source rock intervals within the Carnarvon Basin. Oil-prone source beds within the Silurian Dirk Hartog Group on the Gascoyne Platform have fair to...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin Carnarvon Generating history Palaeozoic petroleum potential thermal

Sequence Stratigraphy and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Middle to Upper Devonian Sequences in the Southern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia

Sequence Stratigraphy and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Middle to Upper Devonian Sequences in the Southern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: John D. Gorter, Arthur Mory and Robert S. Nicoll
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1998

 

Abstract:

This new interpretation of the facies relationships within the Nannyarra, Gneudna and Munabia formations illustrates the distribution of source, reservoir and seal within the latest Middle and lower Upper Devonian (latest Givetian to Famennian) seque...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin Carnarvon Devonian hydrocarbon middle potential sequence Sequences southern stratigraphy upper

Petroleum Generating Potential and Thermal History of the Neoproterozoic Officer Basin, Western Australia

Petroleum Generating Potential and Thermal History of the Neoproterozoic Officer Basin, Western Australia

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: K. A. R. Ghori
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1998

 

Abstract:

Geochemical analyses confirm the presence of good quality but thin oil source rocks within the Neoproterozoic succession of the western Officer Basin. The available geochemical dataset, however, is insufficient to positively identify the source of oi...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin Generating history Neoproterozoic Officer petroleum potential thermal

Technical Focus: The North West Shelf Stress Map – Richard Hillis, Scott Mildren, Chris Pigram and Don Willoughby, Seismic Data – Are We Realising Its Full Potential? – Phil Williams and Mick Cook

Technical Focus: The North West Shelf Stress Map – Richard Hillis, Scott Mildren, Chris Pigram and Don Willoughby, Seismic Data – Are We Realising Its Full Potential? – Phil Williams and Mick Cook

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

 

 

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Tags: Chris Pigram data Don Willoughby Focus Full Map Mick Cook North Phil Williams potential Richard Hillis Scott Mildren Seismic shelf. Stress Technical

Accent on APEA: Political Expediency KO’s Ningaloo Potential, PESA a Lobbying Organisation? – Dick Wells

Accent on APEA: Political Expediency KO’s Ningaloo Potential, PESA a Lobbying Organisation? – Dick Wells

Publication Name: PESA News
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: October 1994

 

 

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Tags: APEA Dick Wells Expediency KO's Lobbying Ningaloo Organisation Political potential

Northern Carnarvon Basin Hydrocarbon Distribution and Future Petroleum Potential

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...

 

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Tags: basin Carnarvon distribution Future hydrocarbon northern petroleum potential

A Review of the Petroleum Potential of the Browse Basin

A Review of the Petroleum Potential of the Browse Basin

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: Tun U Maung, Steve Cadman and Barry West
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1994

 

Abstract:

The Browse Basin is located in offshore northwestern Australia, west of the Precambrian Kimberley Block. Although 29 wells have been drilled, the basin is still considered to be sparsely explored. One of the main impediments to exploration of this ba...

 

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Tags: basin Browse petroleum potential Review

The Hydrocarbon Potential of the Onshore Carnarvon Basin

The Hydrocarbon Potential of the Onshore Carnarvon Basin

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: B.J. Warris
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1994

 

Abstract:

There are four main Palaeozoic sub-basins in the onshore Carnarvon Basin of Western Australia: the Gascoyne (Ordovician-Permian), the Merlinleigh (Ordovician-Permian), the Byro (Permian only) and the Ashburton (Devonian-Permian). The Gascoyne Subbasi...

 

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Tags: basin Carnarvon hydrocarbon onshore potential

Mesozoic Structural Development of the Beagle Sub-basin – Implications for the Petroleum Potential of the Northern Carnarvon Basin

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...

 

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Tags: basin Beagle Carnarvon development implications Mesozoic northern petroleum potential structural Sub-basin

Rankin Platform, Western Australia: Structural Development and Exploration Potential

Rankin Platform, Western Australia: Structural Development and Exploration Potential

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: Alan Stein
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1994

 

Abstract:

The Rankin Platform on Australia's North West Shelf is, and will continue to be, a major source of gas and condensate to expanding markets in Australia and Asia. Based on current figures, recoverable reserves are estimated to be in excess of 25 TCF o...

 

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Tags: Australia. development exploration platform potential Rankin structural

Sequence Stratigraphy and Petroleum Potential of Upper Jurassic – Lower Cretaceous Depositional System in the Dampier Sub-basin, North West Shelf, Australia

Sequence Stratigraphy and Petroleum Potential of Upper Jurassic – Lower Cretaceous Depositional System in the Dampier Sub-basin, North West Shelf, Australia

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: Peter Barber
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1994

 

Abstract:

A diminishing prospect-inventory, based on traditional structural targets, has placed increasing emphasis upon finding commercially-viable stratigraphic traps. This is especially true in the Dampier Sub-basin where recent drilling has identified at l...

 

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Tags: Australia. Cretaceous. Dampier depositional Jurassic Lower North petroleum potential sequence shelf. stratigraphy Sub-basin system upper

The Potential Role of Gas for Electricity Generation in New South Wales

The Potential Role of Gas for Electricity Generation in New South Wales

Publication Name: New Petroleum Symposium 1993
Authors: Lindsay Oates
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: December 1993

 

Abstract:

The role of gas for electricity generation has been significantly enhanced in recent years through advances in gas turbine technology. Gas turbines are larger and more efficient and this has resulted in improved economics of gas turbine generation, p...

 

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Tags: Electricity gas Generation New South Wales potential Role

The Stratigraphy and hydrocarbon potential of the northern Eromanga Basin

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...

 

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Tags: basin Eromanga hydrocarbon northern potential stratigraphy

Kerogen characterisation and organic and mineral diagenesis of potential source rocks in Jurassic units, southern Eromanga Basin, Queenland

Kerogen characterisation and organic and mineral diagenesis of potential source rocks in Jurassic units, southern Eromanga Basin, Queenland

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: P.J. Hawkins, C.S. Almond, D.C. Carmichael, R.J. Smith and L.J. Williams
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

Source-rock richness, dominant kerogen types, levels of organic maturation and thermal histories have been used to highlight differences in potential Jurassic source rocks ('basal Jurassic' unit, Birkhead Formation and Westbourne Formation) east of t...

 

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Tags: basin characterisation diagenesis Eromanga Jurassic Kerogen mineral organic potential Queenland rocks source southern units

A Review of the Petroleum Geology and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Barrow-Dampier Sub-basin and Environs

A Review of the Petroleum Geology and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Barrow-Dampier Sub-basin and Environs

Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
Authors: Woodside Offshore Petroleum
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1988

 

Abstract:

Petroleum exploration in the Barrow-Dampier Sub-basin was initiated in 1954 by a reconaissance geological survey of Barrow Island which recognised its anticlinal character. But it was not until 1962 that permission was granted to revisit the island b...

 

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Tags: Dampier Environs geology hydrocarbon petroleum potential Review Sub-basin

The Petroleum Potential of the Peedamullah Shelf

The Petroleum Potential of the Peedamullah Shelf

Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
Authors: E. Delfos and R. Dedman
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1988

 

Abstract:

The incentive for additional exploration on the Peedamullah Shelf is provided by hydrocarbon shows in some stratigraphic holes in the area. The close proximity to producing and existing oil and gas accumulations, including Barrow Island, Harriet, Sou...

 

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Tags: Peedamullah petroleum potential shelf.

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

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