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Paleozoic to Triassic continental-scale sediment provenance of the Canning, Offcer and Northern Carnarvon Basins, Western Australia
- Publication Name: West Australian Basins Symposium 2019
- Authors: S. Morón, P.A.Cawood, P. W. Haines, S.J. Gallagher, S. Zahirovic, C.J. Lewis & L. Moresi
- Date Published: September 2019
Abstract:
The provenance of Paleozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary sequences in Western Australia remains controversial. Better understanding of sediment provenance has implications for the characterisation of reservoir quality and potential correlation between kn...
Unravelling the Lower Keraudren Petroleum System in the Bedout Sub-basin: Some Early Observations
- Publication Name: West Australian Basins Symposium 2019
- Authors: Melissa Thompson, Jack Woodward, Jon Minken & Rebecca Ryan
- Date Published: September 2019
Abstract:
Since 2014, Santos Limited (formerly Apache/Quadrant Energy Limited) has had considerable exploration success in the Bedout Sub-basin with the Phoenix South, Roc and Dorado hydrocarbon discoveries within what has historically been called the Lower Ke...
Development of a Regional Stratigraphic Framework For Upper Devonian Reef Complexes Using Integrated Chronostratigraphy: Lennard Shelf, Canning Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: T.E. Playton, R. Hocking, P. Montgomery, E. Tohver, K. Hillbun, D. Katz, P. Haines, K. Trinajstic, M. Yan, J. Hansma, S. Pisarevsky, J. Kirschvink, P. Cawood, K. Grice, S. Tulipani, K. Ratcliffe, D. Wray, S. Caulfield-Kerney, P. Ward, P. Playford
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
Questions regarding heterogeneity and architecture of reefal carbonate platform systems may be resolved by wellconstrained chronostratigraphic frameworks, developed from the integration of multiple independent signals in the rock record. This makes p...
Northern Carnarvon Basin Hydrocarbon Recoveries using WAPIMS
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: E. Kopsen
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
The production history of producing and abandoned hydrocarbon fields in the Northern Carnarvon Basin has been used to derive the likely Technical Ultimate Recoveries from all field developments to a reference date of 30 November 2011....
Insights on Upper Devonian Reef Complex Depositional Heterogeneity and Architecture Unraveled Through Integrated Chronostratigraphy: Lennard Shelf, Canning Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Ted Playton, Roger Hocking, David Katz, Peter Haines, Kelly Hillbun, Eric Tohver, Kate Trinajstic, Maodu Yan, Jeroen Hansma, Sergei Pisarevsky, Joseph Kirschvink, Paul Montgomery, Peter Cawood, Kliti Grice, Svenja Tulipani, Ken Ratcliffe, David Wray, Samuel Caulfield-Kerney, Peter Ward, Phillip Playford
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
High-resolution chronostratigraphic correlations are integral to meaningful stratigraphic frameworks in depositional systems, but may be difficult to achieve due to biostratigraphic limitations and geological complexity. In steep-sided carbonate plat...
An Integrated Regional Triassic Stratigraphic Framework for the Carnarvon Basin, NWS, Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: T.H.D. Payenberg, H. Howe, T. Marsh, P. Sixsmith, W.S. Kowalik, A. Powell, K. Ratcliffe, V. Iasky, A. Allgoewer, R.W. Howe, P. Montgomery, A. Vonk, M. Croft
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
Stratigraphic correlation in kilometres-thick Triassic fluvial successions of the Carnarvon Basin, Northwest Shelf (NWS), Australia, has traditionally been hindered by a lack of continuous seismic events, low biostratigraphic resolution and the pract...
Seismic Stratigraphic Relationships within a Lowstand Reservoir System – Examples from the Barrow Group, Southern Exmouth Sub-Basin, NW Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: G. O’Halloran, C. Hurren, T. O’Hara
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
The Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous Eskdale and Macedon members of the lower Barrow Group comprise some of the main oil-bearing reservoirs in the Exmouth Sub-basin. These high quality sandstones form the reservoirs in the Stybarrow and Eskdale oil f...
Reservoir Fluid Property Variation at the Metre-scale: Origin, Impact and Mapping in the Vincent Oil Field, Exmouth Sub-basin
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium 2013
- Authors: A.P. Murray , D.A. Dawson , D. Carruthers, S. Larter FRS3
- Date Published: August 2013
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Oil in the Vincent Field is uniformly derived from gas and light-oil prone Jurassic source rocks. However, fluid samples from different parts of the reservoir show highly variable solution GOR and in-situ viscosity.
The excellent reservoir qualit...
A Paleozoic Perspective of Western Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: A.J. Mory, P.W. Haines
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
Inter-basinal correlations for the Cambrian to Carboniferous successions of Western Australia are mostly poorly constrained, largely due to unfavourable biogeographic factors, but also because biostratigraphic studies have been skewed to certain basi...
Neotectonic Evidence for a Rustal Strain Gradient on the Central-west Western Australian Margin
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: A. McPherson, D. Clark, B. Whitney
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
Compressional deformation is a common phase in the post-rift evolution of passive margins and rift systems. The central-west Western Australian margin, between Geraldton and Karratha, provides an example of a strain gradient between inverting passive...
Structural Architecture of the Gorgon Platform, North West Shelf, Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: K.D. McCormack, K. McClay
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
The paper summarises a structural analysis of the NNEtrending Gorgon Platform, which hosts the Gorgon Gas Field, using the Triton 3D seismic survey. Located approximately 130 km offshore in water depths of 100-200 m the Gorgon Platform forms the sout...
Structural architecture of the outer Beagle Sub-basin, North West Shelf, Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Kenneth D. McCormack, Ken McClay
- Date Published: August 2013
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The Mesozoic Beagle Sub-basin covers ~30,000 km2 and comprises a series of north-south-trending horsts and grabens crosscut by subordinate northeast-trending faults. The Outer Beagle Platform forms the peripheral and structurally transitional northwe...
Igneous Intrusions in the Carnarvon Basin, NW Shelf, Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: K. McClay, N. Scarselli, S. Jitmahantakul
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
Many rifts and passive margin basins are characterised by dykes and sills that intrude the both pre-rift and syn rift strata. In the southern part of the northern Carnarvon Basin sills and dykes are well imaged in a number of 3D seismic surveys. This...
A New Sequence Stratigraphic Framework for the North West Shelf, Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: N.G. Marshall, S.C. Lang
- Date Published: August 2013
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The Mesozoic and Cenozoic of the North West Shelf can be subdivided into 18 broad stratigraphic intervals that show a remarkable degree of geological similarity from basin to basin. These intervals are termed “regional play intervals” and are rel...
The Gorgon Field: An Overview
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: A. Maftei, E.J. King, M.C. Flores
- Date Published: August 2013
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The Gorgon Field, a giant gas accumulation discovered in 1980, remained undeveloped for over three decades due to challenging subsurface and commercial factors. Situated in the Northern Carnarvon basin in 200–300 m of water, the Gorgon Field lies 1...
Use of U-Pb geochronology to delineate provenance of North West Shelf sediments, Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: C.J. Lewis, K.N. Sircombe
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
Australia’s North West Shelf (NWS) has been the premier hydrocarbon exploration and production province for over 30 years. Despite the large number of geological studies completed in this region, numerous geological questions remain to be answered ...
THE DEPOSITIONAL STYLES OF THE CAMPANIAN – MAASTRICHTIAN INTERVAL, BROWSE – BONAPARTE BASINS
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Marcus Lemberger, David Little
- Date Published: August 2013
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TGS has completed a sequence stratigraphic study of the Browse and Bonaparte Basins on the North West Shelf, Australia. The aim of the study was to create one, consistent interpretation for both basin’s depositional history. Interpretations from 26...
New Observations of the Post-Triassic Succession in the Central Beagle Sub-basin, Northern Carnarvon Basin, North West Shelf, Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: M.E. Lech
- Date Published: August 2013
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In this study detailed mapping of seismic data from the 1529 km2 Beagle multi-client 3D seismic survey was undertaken to provide a better understanding of the geological history of the central Beagle Sub-basin. Situated in the Northern Carnarvon Basi...
CO2 storage potential of the Gage Sandstone, Vlaming Sub-basin, offshore southern Perth Basin: A case study based on seismic facies mapping and well log interpretation
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Megan E LECH, Diane C. JORGENSEN, Liuqi WANG, David LESCINSKY, Irina BORISSOVA, Chris SOUTHBY, Stephen JOHNSTON, Danielle ROBERTSON
- Date Published: August 2013
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Geoscience Australia is conducting a study under the National Carbon Infrastructure Plan (NCIP) to assess the suitability of the Vlaming Sub-basin for CO2 storage. It involves characterisation of the Valanginian reservoir (Gage Sandstone) and the Ear...
Acme Field Discovery, Carnarvon Basin WA
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: R. Lawrence
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
The Acme Field was discovered in July 2010 by the Acme 1 well in permit WA-42-R in the North Carnarvon Basin by Chevron and its partner at the time, Shell. The discovery well was drilled in 878 m of water, and targeted a
27 km2 horst block located 5...
Assessing reservoir volcanic risk in the Browse Basin using integrated seismic and potential field workflows
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Nicholas G. DIREEN, Andrew A. KRASSAY, Jane BLEVIN, Donna CATHRO, Zhiqun SHI, Yvette POUDJOM-DJOMANI
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
The Devonian - Cainozoic Browse Basin, offshore Western Australia, is a poly-phase basin situated in a volcanic rifted margin. It is a proven hydrocarbon province, with major gas and condensate discoveries, and minor oil....
The Exploration History of the Laurel BasinCentred Gas System Canning Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: D. Kingsley, E. Streitberg
- Date Published: August 2013
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Although evidence for a major gas resource in the onshore Canning Basin was present in wells drilled as early as the 1960s, the opportunity to develop these resources was not recognised until increasing oil and domestic gas prices stimulated a resurg...
Depositional and Volcanic History of the Early to Middle Jurassic Deltaic Reservoirs in Calliance and Brecknock Fields (Plover Formation), Browse Basin, North West Shelf, Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: F. Tovaglieri, A.D. George, T. Jones, H. Zwingmann
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
The Early to Middle Jurassic Plover Formation in the Browse Basin hosts reservoirs currently targeted for gas exploration and development. Integration of core-based sedimentology, igneous petrology, borehole image and wireline log analysis, with bios...
Structural Interpretation of the Northern Canning Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Y. Zhan, A.J. Mory
- Date Published: August 2013
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Seismic profiles in the northern Canning Basin reveal a major WNW-oriented strike-slip fault zone in the Fitzroy Trough. The zone bisects the trough and was generated during the Triassic–Jurassic Fitzroy Transpression. It contains likely flower str...
The Stratigraphy of the Pyrenees Member of the Ravensworth, Crosby and Stickle Fields, Exmouth Sub-Basin, Northwest Australia – A Wave- and Storm-Dominated Shelf-Margin Delta
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: M. Woodall, C. Stark
- Date Published: August 2013
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The Pyrenees Member of the Lower Barrow Group within the Exmouth Sub-basin, offshore Western Australia, forms part of the Pyrenees Shelf Margin Delta which constitutes the highly productive reservoirs of the Ravensworth, Crosby and Stickle oil and ga...
Newly-recognised Continental Fragments Rifted from the West Australian Margin
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: S.E. Williams, J.M. Whittaker, R. D. Müller
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
The southwest Australian margin formed at the nexus of rifting and breakup between India, Australia and Antarctica in the Early Cretaceous. Studying the basin evolution along this margin has been hampered by a lack of data from the offshore Perth Aby...
Tectonic Evolution and Continental Fragmentation of the Southern West Australian Margin
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: J.M. Whittaker, J.A. Halpin, S.E. Williams, L.S. Hall, R. Gardner, M.E. Kobler, N.R. Daczko, R.D. Müller
- Date Published: August 2013
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Continental rocks dredged in 2011 show that the Batavia Knoll and Gulden Draak Knoll, two prominent bathymetric features located ~1600 km offshore Perth, are micro-continents. Plate tectonic modeling reconstructs the pre-rift position of these knolls...
Discovery to Development – A Subsurface Case History of the Kitan Oil Field, Timor Sea
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: D. Wheller, G. Ellis, Y. Suhardiman, R. Yokote, D. Selvaggi, J. Derrij, G. Maniscalco
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
The Kitan Oil Field is located in the northern Bonaparte Basin within the Joint Petroleum Development Area (JPDA), an area jointly administered by Timor-Leste and Australia. The Kitan structure is a Jurassic E-W trending tilted fault block. The Kitan...
Changes in palaeoenvironmental conditions in Late Devonian reef systems from the Canning Basin, WA – A biomarker and stable isotope approach
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Svenja TULIPANI, Kliti GRICE, Paul F. GREENWOOD, Peter HAINES, Roger E. SUMMONS, Michael E. BÖTTCHER, Clinton B. FOSTER, Martijn WOLTERING, Ted PLAYTON
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
During the Late Devonian one of the biggest mass extinctions in Earth’s history wiped out the extensive reef systems prominent in that era. The most severe loss of speciesoccurred at the Frasnian –Famennian (F-F) boundary; however also the Giveti...
A review of the seismic stratigraphy and hydrocarbon potential of the Triassic sequence inthe Timor Sea region
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Anand TRIPATHI, Rajesh RAJAGOPAL, Adrian WILLIAMS
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
The petroleum potential of the Triassic section has long been established in the Carnarvon Basin, as demonstrated by giant gas/condensate discoveries on the Rankin Platform and Exmouth Plateau.Elsewhere on the Northwest Shelf, however, exploration ef...