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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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A Review of the Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the Permo-Carboniferous Grant Group, Canning Basin, Western Australia

A Review of the Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the Permo-Carboniferous Grant Group, Canning Basin, Western Australia

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: Jonathan Redfern and Emma Millward
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1994

 

Abstract:

Detailed analysis of fully cored sections from exploration wells drilled by Western Mining Corporation on the Barbwire Terrace has allowed a better understanding of the sedimentology and depositional history of the Permo-Carboniferous Grant Group. H...

 

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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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The1993 PESA Symposium- The petroleum industry in Australia, Papua New Guinea and NewZealand in 1992: Environment update: 1992 in review, outlook for 1993

The1993 PESA Symposium- The petroleum industry in Australia, Papua New Guinea and NewZealand in 1992: Environment update: 1992 in review, outlook for 1993

Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 21
Authors: Tracey Winters
Reference Type: Journal Article
Date Published: July 1993

 

 

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Technical Articles: Timing of deformation and thermal history in Papua New Guinea; a review

Technical Articles: Timing of deformation and thermal history in Papua New Guinea; a review

Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 19
Authors: Kevin Hill
Reference Type: Journal Article
Date Published: September 1991

 

 

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Technical Articles: A review of ‘Petrophysics of Cooper Basin Reservoirs in South Australia’

Technical Articles: A review of ‘Petrophysics of Cooper Basin Reservoirs in South Australia’

Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 16
Authors: Chris Porter
Reference Type: Journal Article
Date Published: March 1990

 

 

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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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Morphotectonics of Australia’s Northwestern Margin – A Review

Morphotectonics of Australia’s Northwestern Margin – A Review

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

 

Abstract:

The North West Shelf is part of Australia's north-western continental margin. This margin evolved from a Mesozoic rifted-arch system that developed along the Gondwanaland/Tethyan margin, the successor to rifted-arch systems of Cambrian and Carbonifer...

 

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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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Source Rocks in the Canning Basin: A Review

Source Rocks in the Canning Basin: A Review

Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
Authors: E.L. Horstman
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1984

 

Abstract:

Source rock analyses are not available with adequate sampling density in either an areal or vertical sense to draw reasonable conclusions with respect to oil and gas potential in the Canning Basin. Only Total Organic Carbon analyses are available in ...

 

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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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Conodont Studies in the Canning Basin – A Review and Update

Conodont Studies in the Canning Basin – A Review and Update

Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
Authors: Robert S. Nicoll
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1984

 

Abstract:

Conodonts have been recovered from all marine sedimentary sequences in the Canning Basin from the Ordovician to the Triassic. Used primarily for biostratographic studies in the past they are now also being used for studies of palaeoecology and therma...

 

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Review of Fracture Stimulation Treatment in the Denison Trough

Review of Fracture Stimulation Treatment in the Denison Trough

Publication Name: PESA(QLD)-ODCAA-SPE Petroleum Symposium - Exploration and Development
Authors: R.J. Theriault
Reference Type: Journal Article
Date Published: September 1984

 

 

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Book Review – A Thirst For Burning

Book Review – A Thirst For Burning

Publication Name: PESA Journal
Authors: Rick Wilkinson
Reference Type: Journal Article
Date Published: March 1984

 

Abstract:

In 1959 McGraw Hill published a book entitled The Greatest Gamblers by Ruth Sheldon Knowles. This is a history of oil exploration in the USA; it is exciting, and it was an instant success. Now we have just such a work in A Thirst for Burning...

 

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Margin Of The Eromanga Basin South Australia: A Review

Margin Of The Eromanga Basin South Australia: A Review

Publication Name: Eromanga Basin Symposium, Summary Papers
Authors: B G FORBES
Reference Type: Conference Proceedings
Date Published: December 1982

 

 

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A Review Of The Early Cretaceous Murta Member In The Southern Eromanga Basin

A Review Of The Early Cretaceous Murta Member In The Southern Eromanga Basin

Publication Name: Eromanga Basin Symposium, Summary Papers
Authors: G AMBROSEL, R SUTTILL, I LAVERING
Reference Type: Conference Proceedings
Date Published: December 1982

 

Abstract:

In the study area the Murta Member (Mooga Formation) was deposited in an asymm.etric basin formed by compaction of the underlying Cooper Basin sequence. It is a mainly fine grained lacustrine sequence intervening between braided fluvial sediments of ...

 

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Galilee Basin – Prospect Review

Galilee Basin – Prospect Review

Publication Name: Petroleum in Queensland - A Stocktake for the Future
Authors: P.J. Hawkins
Reference Type: Journal Article
Date Published: November 1977

 

Abstract:

Hydrocarbon prospects of the Galilee Basin, an extensive Late Carboniferous to Middle Triassic intracratonic basin, are reviewed with special reference to the northern area. Results of recent stratigraphic and facies investigations together with avai...

 

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Seismic Prospecting – Review and Reflections on Future Events

Seismic Prospecting – Review and Reflections on Future Events

Publication Name: Petroleum in Queensland - A Stocktake for the Future
Authors: L. W. Pfitzner
Reference Type: Journal Article
Date Published: November 1977

 

Abstract:

A little over 1000 crew months of seismic exploration has been conducted in Queensland from its start, in 1958, until the end of 1976. Eighty six percent of this work was done prior to 1967 - a period when field and nterpretation methods were unsoph...

 

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