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Petroleum Systems and Source Rocks in the Amadeus Basin, Northern Territory

Petroleum Systems and Source Rocks in the Amadeus Basin, Northern Territory

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

 

Abstract:

This paper briefly addresses the source rock characteristics and petroleum systems present in the Amadeus Basin. Previous work has shown that there is really only one quality source rock - the Ordovician Horn Valley Siltstone. New data from CSIRO (Ma...

 

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Tags: Amadeus basin northern petroleum rocks source systems Territory

Tertiary foundations and Quaternary evolution of coral reef systems of Australia’s North West Shelf

Tertiary foundations and Quaternary evolution of coral reef systems of Australia’s North West Shelf

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: L.B. Collins
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 2002

 

Abstract:

The North West Shelf is a modem tropical ramp, which is underlain by Cretaceous-Tertiary carbonates, with clastic reservoirs at depth. Coral reef systems, discontinuously developed during the Late Tertiary-Quaternary, vary from fringing reefs to isol...

 

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Tags: Australia's coral evolution foundations North Quaternary reef shelf. systems Tertiary

Subsidence and thermal history modelling: new insights into hydrocarbon expulsion from multiple petroleum systems in the Petrel Sub-basin, Bonaparte Basin

Subsidence and thermal history modelling: new insights into hydrocarbon expulsion from multiple petroleum systems in the Petrel Sub-basin, Bonaparte Basin

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: J.M. Kennard, I. Deighton, D.S. Edwards, C.J. Boreham & A.G. Barrett
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 2002

 

Abstract:

Subsidence and thermal history analysis of24 wells and seismically-defined depocentre sites has been undertaken to investigate the generation and expulsion history of the Early Carboniferous and Permian petroleum systems in the Petrel Sub-basin. Youn...

 

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Tags: basin Bonaparte expulsion history hydrocarbon insights modelling Multiple Petrel petroleum Sub-basin subsidence systems thermal

NGMA Cooper-Eromanga Basins Project – New Insights into Petroleum Systems

NGMA Cooper-Eromanga Basins Project – New Insights into Petroleum Systems

Authors: John Draper
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: December 2001

 

 

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Tags: basin's Cooper Eromanga insights NGMA petroleum Project systems

Miocene Turbidite Reservoir Systems in the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand: Established Plays and Analogues for Deep-Water Exploration

Miocene Turbidite Reservoir Systems in the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand: Established Plays and Analogues for Deep-Water Exploration

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: P.R. King and G.H. Browne
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

Two turbidite formations, Moki and Mount Messenger, represent discrete progradational sandy pulses in an otherwise mud-dominated regressive Miocene succession in the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand. The fairways for these formations overlap, with best de...

 

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Tags: Deep-Water Established exploration Miocene New Zealand plays reservoir. systems Taranaki Basin turbidite

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

 

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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

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

Analogue Modelling of Extensional Fault Architectures: Comparisons with Natural Rift Fault Systems

Analogue Modelling of Extensional Fault Architectures: Comparisons with Natural Rift Fault Systems

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
Authors: K.R. McClay, T. Dooley, R. Gloaguen, P. Whitehouse and S. Khalil
Reference Type: Magazine Article
Date Published: November 2001

 

Abstract:

This paper reviews the 4D development of extensional fault systems in analogue models of rift basins. In orthogonal and oblique analogue models stretching above a zone of ductile deformation at the base of the model produced initially segmented rift ...

 

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Tags: Architectures Comparisons Extensional fault modelling Natural Rift systems

Vagrant Oils: Geochemical Signposts to Unrecognised Petroleum Systems

Vagrant Oils: Geochemical Signposts to Unrecognised Petroleum Systems

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: Roger E. Summons, Marita Bradshaw, James Crowley, Dianne S. Edwards, Simon C. George and John E. Zumberge
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1998

 

Abstract:

Biodegraded oils and residual oil stains from wells in the Arafura, Bonaparte and Carnarvon basins have been chemically analysed and the data compared to a reference set for known petroleum systems of the western Australian margin. The biodegraded Wa...

 

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Tags: Geochemical Oil's petroleum Signposts systems Unrecognised Vagrant

Tectonostratigraphic Framework and Petroleum Systems of the Browse Basin, North West Shelf

Tectonostratigraphic Framework and Petroleum Systems of the Browse Basin, North West Shelf

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: J. E. Blevin, H. I. M. Struckmeyer, D. L. Cathro, J. M. Totterdell, C. J. Boreham, K. K. Romine, T. S. Loutit and J. Sayers
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1998

 

Abstract:

A regional study of the Browse Basin, undertaken at AGSO during 1996-97, sought to develop a structural and stratigraphic model for the evolution of the basin, with particular emphasis on the evolution of petroleum systems in the prospective Mesozoic...

 

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Tags: basin Browse Framework North petroleum shelf. systems Tectonostratigraphic

Palaeogeography and its Impact on the Petroleum Systems of the North West Shelf, Australia

Palaeogeography and its Impact on the Petroleum Systems of the North West Shelf, Australia

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: J. Bradshaw, J. Sayers, M. Bradshaw, R. Kneale, C. Ford, L. Spencer and M. Lisk
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: December 1998

 

Abstract:

Palaeogeographic studies of the North West Shelf region give insights into the operation of a number of prolific petroleum systems. Some systems are currently being exploited (Dampier Sub-basin) while others have yet to fulfil their potential (Exmout...

 

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Tags: Australia. impact North palaeogeography petroleum shelf. systems

Apologies to…Hyperbolic Survey Systems

Apologies to…Hyperbolic Survey Systems

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

 

 

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Tags: Apologies Hyperbolic Survey systems

Depositional Sequences and Associated Petroleum Systems of the Canning Basin, WA

Depositional Sequences and Associated Petroleum Systems of the Canning Basin, WA

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: J.M. Kennard, M.J. Jackson, K.K. Romine, R.D. Shaw and P.N. Southgate
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1994

 

Abstract:

The concepts of petroleum systems and play element fairways provide an effective means to guide future exploration of the Canning Basin. Analysis of these systems is based on a new structural elements map, refined tectonic and stratigraphic framework...

 

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Tags: basin Canning depositional petroleum Sequences systems

Petroleum Systems in West Australian Basins

Petroleum Systems in West Australian Basins

Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
Authors: M.T. Bradshaw, J. Bradshaw, A.P. Murray, D.J. Needham, L. Spencer, R.E. Summons, J. Wilmot and S. Winn
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1994

 

Abstract:

Five of the seven petroleum supersystems recognised in Australian Phanerozoic basins are represented in the western half of the continent, and there is also potential for petroleum systems in Proterozoic sequences. The most productive supersystem is ...

 

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Tags: Australian basin's petroleum systems

Drilling fluid systems and practices in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins, Australia

Drilling fluid systems and practices in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins, Australia

Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
Authors: Tun H. Aung
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: June 1989

 

Abstract:

Since the first commercial hydrocarbon discovery in the Cooper Basm m December 1963, a variety of drilling fluid systems have been used. The most economically viable are the three systems currently in operation, namely gellignosulfonate, salt-polymer...

 

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Tags: Australia. basin's Cooper drilling Eromanga fluid practices systems

Seismic-stratigraphic interpretation of coastal barrier systems of Late Eocene age, offshore Gippsland Basin

Seismic-stratigraphic interpretation of coastal barrier systems of Late Eocene age, offshore Gippsland Basin

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

 

Abstract:

Three seismic-stratigraphic sequences were mapped within the uppermost Latrobe Group at the western end of the offshore Gippsland Basin. The three sequences are interpreted to be Upper Eocene coastal barrier complexes deposited under conditions of lo...

 

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Tags: basin coastal Eocene Gippsland Interpretation Late offshore Seismic-stratigraphic systems

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