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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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Geochemical Comparisons Between Asphaltites on the Southern Australian Margin and Cretaceous Source Rock Analogues

Geochemical Comparisons Between Asphaltites on the Southern Australian Margin and Cretaceous Source Rock Analogues

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: C.J. Boreham, A.A. Krassay and J.M. Totterdell
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

Evidence for a mid-Cretaceous source for southern Australian asphaltites is presented, based on geochemical and carbon isotopic comparisons of the asphaltites with onshore source rock analogues from the Albian-Cenomanian Blue Whale Superseguence in t...

 

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Anomalous Tectonic Subsidence of the Southern Australian Passive Margin: Response to Cretaceous Dynamic Topography or Differential Lithospheric Stretching?

Anomalous Tectonic Subsidence of the Southern Australian Passive Margin: Response to Cretaceous Dynamic Topography or Differential Lithospheric Stretching?

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: B.J. Brown, R.D. M?ller and H.I.M. Struckmeyer
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

The southern Australian margin is unique as it is the only known passive margin that formed over and orthogonal to a Mesozoic subducted slab in the mantle. The tectonic subsidence pattern observed along the southern Australian margin primarily reflec...

 

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Tags: Anomalous Australian Cretaceous. Differential Dynamic Lithospheric margin passive southern Stretching subsidence tectonic Topography

Evidence of Lower Triassic Reservoirs with Possible Hydrocarbon Charge in the Southern Bonaparte Basin

Evidence of Lower Triassic Reservoirs with Possible Hydrocarbon Charge in the Southern Bonaparte Basin

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: John D. Gorter, Victor Ziolkowski and Steward W. Bayford
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1998

 

Abstract:

A sandstone within the Lower Triassic Mt Goodwin Formation in wells in the southern Bonaparte Basin is commonly associated with a mappable seismic reflector. Several seismic profiles show brightening of this event, and direct hydrocarbon indicators s...

 

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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

A Structural Interpretation of the Gascoyne Platform, Southern Carnarvon Basin, WA

A Structural Interpretation of the Gascoyne Platform, Southern Carnarvon Basin, WA

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: Robert P. Iasky, Arthur J. Mory and Sergey I. Shevchenko
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1998

 

Abstract:

The Gascoyne Platform is a sub-basin with relatively shallow basement in the Southern Carnarvon Basin, extending for 600 km between the Northampton Complex to the south and the Exmouth Sub-basin to the north. The platform contains mainly ?Ordovician-...

 

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The Palaeozoic Play in the Southern Canning Basin – Results of Looma 1

The Palaeozoic Play in the Southern Canning Basin – Results of Looma 1

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: M. R. King
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1998

 

Abstract:

Looma 1 was drilled as an exploration well targeting the Ordovician Nita Formation and Acacia Sandstone in EP 353 of the south Canning Basin. The main predrill risks and uncertainties were identified as structural validity, reservoir quality and char...

 

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Regional Focus – Southern Queensland: Geological Setting of Southern Queensland Petroleum Basins – Peter Green, History of the Bowen – Surat Basins – Lindsay Elliot

Regional Focus – Southern Queensland: Geological Setting of Southern Queensland Petroleum Basins – Peter Green, History of the Bowen – Surat Basins – Lindsay Elliot

Publication Name: PESA News
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: August 1995

 

 

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Tags: basin's Bowen Focus geological history Lindsay Elliot Peter Green petroleum Queensland Regional Setting southern Surat

Sequence stratigraphy of the Flamingo Group, Southern Bonaparte Basin

Sequence stratigraphy of the Flamingo Group, Southern Bonaparte Basin

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: B.E.J. Messent, A.K. Goody, E.Collins and S. Tobias
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1994

 

Abstract:

The Flamingo Group comprises two second-order cycles, the Lower Flamingo cycle and the Upper Flamingo cycle, which are themselves divided into a total of eight third-order sequences on the basis of integrated seismic and well sequence stratigraphy. T...

 

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A Uniquely Attractive Area for Oil Exploration in the Southern Bowen Basin

A Uniquely Attractive Area for Oil Exploration in the Southern Bowen Basin

Publication Name: New Petroleum Symposium 1993
Authors: Dennis Morton, Michelle Smyth and Neil Sherwood
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: December 1993

 

Abstract:

The Late Permian Back Creek Group and its age equivalents generally underlie Late Permian coal measures in all eastern Australian Permian basins. The Permian sequence has been a prolific gas and oil producer in central and eastern Australian sediment...

 

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Diagenetic alteration of Permian reservoir sandstones in the Nappamerri Trough and adjacent areas, southern Cooper Basin

Diagenetic alteration of Permian reservoir sandstones in the Nappamerri Trough and adjacent areas, southern Cooper Basin

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: J.P. Schulz-Rojahn and S.E. Phillips
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

Preliminary results concerning the diagenesis of Permian reservoir sandstones in the Nappamerri Trough have identified several authigenic mineral phases. A variety of techniques, namely thin section description, scanning electron microscopy, X-ray di...

 

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Tags: areas basin Cooper Diagenetic Nappamerri Permian reservoir. Sandstones southern Trough

Possible stratigrphic controls on hydrocarbon distribution within the Jurassic – Early Cretaceous rocks, Eromanga Basin, southern Queenland

Possible stratigrphic controls on hydrocarbon distribution within the Jurassic – Early Cretaceous rocks, Eromanga Basin, southern Queenland

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: P.M. Green, T.J. Brain and B.H. John
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

Results of detailed wire-line log correlations have enabled a uniform stratigraphic framework for the Jurassic-Early Cretaceous sequence in the Eromanga Basin in southern Queensland to be established. The broad regional pattern of basin development w...

 

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Tags: basin controls Cretaceous. distribution early Eromanga hydrocarbon Jurassic Queenland rocks southern Stratigrphic

The influence of pre-Jurassic tectonic regimes on the structural development of the southern Eromanga Basin, Queensland

The influence of pre-Jurassic tectonic regimes on the structural development of the southern Eromanga Basin, Queensland

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: K.L. Hoffmann
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

A structural study, including detailed seismic interpretation, of the southern Eromanga Basin, Queensland, has allowed determination of a sequence of structural events which have been age-correlated with plate tectonics. Widespread extension occurred...

 

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Tags: basin development Eromanga influence pre-Jurassic Queensland regimes southern structural tectonic

Aspects of the hydrogeology of the southern Eromanga Basin, Queenland

Aspects of the hydrogeology of the southern Eromanga Basin, Queenland

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: P.J. Muller
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

The Eromanga Basin consists essentially of a multilayered aquifer system which contains two distinct groups of aquifers, namely those in the pre-Wallumbilla Formation units, and those in the Wallumbilla Formation and ounger units. The two groups ref...

 

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Tags: Aspects basin Eromanga hydrogeology Queenland southern

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

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

Establishing the elusive paleo-play – a case study of the Kahurangi Fault Zone, Southern Taranaki, New Zealand

Establishing the elusive paleo-play – a case study of the Kahurangi Fault Zone, Southern Taranaki, New Zealand

Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
Authors: B.A. Sissons and R.D. Walsh
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1986

 

Abstract:

Main hydrocarbon sources and reservoirs within the Taranaki Basin are Upper Cretaceous through Lower Tertiary fluvial to paralic sediments deposited in and around fault-angle depressions associated with the breakaway of New Zealand from eastern Austr...

 

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Tags: elusive Establishing fault Kahurangi New Zealand paleo-play southern Taranaki Zone

Geology and Petroleum Potential of the Southern Canning Basin

Geology and Petroleum Potential of the Southern Canning Basin

Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
Authors: J. Conolly, M. Falvey, D. Kingsley, B. Melton and T. Russell
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1984

 

Abstract:

Only 10 wildcat wells and 7 stratigraphic wells have been drilled in the South Canning Basin where encouraging oil and gas shows occur throughout the Paleozoic sequence. Palaeogeographic reconstructions are made from this well data for the mid to upp...

 

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Possible Major Diapiric Structures in the Southern Canning and Northern Officer Basins

Possible Major Diapiric Structures in the Southern Canning and Northern Officer Basins

Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
Authors: J. Craig, J.W. Downey, A. D. Gibbs and J.R. Russell
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1984

 

Abstract:

The lithology of the Precambrian basement beneath much of the Canning Basin is uncertain, and can only be inferred from geophysical data. The latter suggests that a thick sequence of Precambrian sedimentary rocks exists along an approximately east-we...

 

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Tags: basin's Canning Diapiric Major northern Officer southern structures

Southern Surat Basin Exploration Results

Southern Surat Basin Exploration Results

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

 

 

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Tags: basin exploration results southern Surat

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