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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...
Late Authigenic Pyrite – an Indicator of Oil Migration and Entrapment in the Bonaparte Basin, Timor Sea, Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: G. K. Ellis
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
Late authigenic pyrite cementation is common to abundant in the Middle Jurassic Laminaria and Plover Formation sandstone in numerous wells on the Laminaria High and in the Vulcan Sub-basin of the northern Bonaparte Basin. Pyrite cementation developed...
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
Abstract:
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...
Structural Architecture of Australia’s Southwest Continental Margin and Implications for Early Cretaceous Basin Evolution
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: L.S. Hall, A.D. Gibbons, G. Bernardel, J.M. Whittaker, C. Nicholson, N. Rollet, R.D. Müller
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
The southwest margin of Australia is a complex and relatively poorly studied offshore continental region that includes the Perth and Mentelle basins. Plate reconstruction models, in conjunction with regional seismic and potential field data, demonstr...
Integration of Seismic Stratigraphy and Seismic Geomorphology for Prediction of Lithology, Applications and Workflows
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: H.W. Posamentier
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
As high-quality 3D seismic data has become widely available, stratigraphic interpretation has significantly improved our ability to predict the subsurface distribution of lithologies. Stratigraphic interpretation of seismic data involves the integrat...
Evaluating the Role of Stress Factors in Tracefossil Distribution along Mixed-influence Deltaic Systems of an Embayed Shoreline (Middle Jurassic, Sunrise Field of the Timor Sea, Australia and Timor-Leste)
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: L. Buatois, F. Burns, R.B. Ainsworth
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
Emphasis has been traditionally placed in characterising ichnological signatures of the classical end members of the genetic ternary plot, namely river-, wave- and tide-dominated deltas. However, recent years have witnessed progress in the understand...
Present-day Seismicity and Potential Strike-slip Reactivation in Northwest WA
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: M. Keep
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
A number of sub-parallel, rhomboidal basinal features identified along the northwestern coastline of Western Australia occur in areas where present-day seismicity indicates strike-slip failure mechanisms dominate. This paper examines the rhomboidal f...
New insights into the evolution of the Barrow Delta from a multi-disciplinary interpretation of the Birdrong Sequence
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Jessica TRAINOR, Jeff GOODALL, Kathryn AMOS
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
The Early Cretaceous Birdrong Sequence (S. tabulata - P. burgeri) represents the final episode of coarse clastic sedimentation across the Barrow Sub-Basin prior to transgression and the deposition of the Mardie Greensand - the 'last gasp' of the Barr...
Precompetitive geophysical data by Geoscience Australia: Uncovering onshore basins in Western Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Pauline ENGLISH, Lidena CARR, Marina COSTELLOE, Ian ROACH, Josef HOLZSCHUH
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
Geoscience Australia’s Onshore Energy Security Program (OESP, 2006-2011) provided precompetitive geoscientific data and detailed assessments of the potential for onshore energy resources, including oil, gas, geothermal, uranium and thorium. With st...
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
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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 regional assessment of the CO2 storage potential of the Bonaparte Basin, offshore Northern Territory
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Andrew D. HEAP, Alfredo CHIRINOS, Christopher CONSOLI, Karen HIGGINS, , Diane JORGENSEN, Kamal KHIDER, David LESCINSKY, Robbie MORRIS, Victor NGUYEN
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
The Australian Government will complete a regional study of the greenhouse gas storage prospectivity for the southern Bonaparte Basin, offshore Northern Territory. The study identified a large storage capacity within a safe and secure stratigraphic s...
Sedimentary and Structural Features of the Plio-Pleistocene Timor Accretionary Wedge, Timor-Leste
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: S. Poynter, A. Goldberg, D. Hearty
- Date Published: August 2013
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The Timor accretionary wedge developed in response to the Neogene collision of the Australian Plate with the Banda Arc. New 2D and 3D seismic data acquired offshore Timor-Leste have been used to investigate the sedimentary and structural features of ...
Assessing Controls on Nearshore Clastic Deposition in the Plover and Elang Formations using Ichnology: Case Studies from the Bonaparte Basin (Timor Sea, Australia and Timor-Leste)
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: F. Burns, L. Buatois, R.B. Ainsworth
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
Deltaic settings are highly complex with regard to the interaction of wave, river and tidal processes. As benthic organisms respond differentially to these processes due to a variety of stress factors, this results in complex faunal behavior. This pa...
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
Abstract:
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...
Hydrocarbon potential of the Northern Australian Continental Margin – Arc Collision Zone – Insights from a new regional 2D survey
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Anand TRIPATHI, Rajesh RAJAGOPAL, Adrian WILLIAMS
- Date Published: August 2013
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Long offset regional 2D seismic surveysrecently acquired by PGS across the Timor/Tanimbar Trough have provided previously unseen detailed imaging of the continent/arc collision zone between northern Australia and Indonesia.New broadbandseismic data w...
Late Devonian–Early Carboniferous Tectonostratigraphic Framework for Northern Canning Basin Carbonate Platform Evolution
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: A.D. George, Z. Seyedmehdi, N. Chow
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
Mixed siliciclastic–carbonate depositional systems of the northern Canning Basin record platform development on synrift fault blocks related to opening and extension of the Fitzroy Sub-basin and subsequent thermal subsidence. The Lennard Shelf plat...
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...
Analysis of Geobody Geometries within the Fluvio-Deltaic Mungaroo Formation, NW Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: G. Heldreich, J. Redfern, K. Gerdes, B. Legler, S. Taylor, D. Hodgetts, B. Williams
- Date Published: August 2013
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The Triassic fluvio-deltaic Mungaroo Formation is the main reservoir in the multi-TCF gas play offshore North Carnarvon Basin, NW Shelf, Western Australia. The study area is located NW of the Exmouth and Barrow sub-basins and lies within the Kangaroo...
Vertebrate biostratigraphy from the Devonian and Carboniferous in the Canning Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Brett ROELOFS, Kate TRINAJSTIC, Ted E. PLAYTON, Eric TOHVER, Peter HAINES, Roger HOCKING, Milo BARHAM, Jeroen HANSMA, Kelly HILLBUN, Kliti GRICE, Maodu YAN, Ken RATCLIFFE, Sergei PISAREVSKY, Paul MONTGOMERY
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
The Devonian Reef complexes of the Canning Basin record a change in vertebrate diversity and evolution from the Late Devonian to the Early Carboniferous and encompass two significant faunal overturns. The first being the Frasnian/Famennian mass extin...
Upper Devonian Elemental Chemostratigraphy of the Lennard Shelf, Canning Basin, Western Australia – Indications of Global-to-Local Environmental Changes & Utilization as a Correlation Tool
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Samuel Caulfield-Kerney, David Wray, Ken Ratcliffe, Ted Playton, Paul Montgomery, Eric Tohver, Roger Hocking, Peter Haines, Maodu Yan, Joseph Kirschvink, Kliti Grice, Kate Trinajstic, Kelly Hillbun, David Katz, Jeroen Hansma, Sergei Pisarevsky, Peter Cawood, Peter Ward
- Date Published: August 2013
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The Canning Basin Chronostratigraphy Project (CBCP) aims at developing alternative methods for high-resolution chronostratigraphic correlation to address problems such as subsurface data limitations and poor biostratigraphic resolution. One type of c...
Northern Carnarvon Basin Hydrocarbon Recoveries using WAPIMS
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: E. Kopsen
- Date Published: August 2013
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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....
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...
Petroleum Systems of the Canning Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: K.A.R. Ghori
- Date Published: August 2013
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The recent discovery of oil at Ungani, gas at Valhalla, and emerging shale plays have revived exploration in the Canning Basin. A compilation and review of various data from the onshore Canning Basin including petroleum geochemistry, organic petrolog...
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
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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...
Understanding the Late Triassic Mungaroo and Brigadier Deltas of the Northern Carnarvon Basin, North West Shelf, Australia
- Publication Name: West Australian Basins Symposium 2013
- Authors: K.R. Adamson, S.C. Lang, N.G. Marshall, R.J. Seggie, N.J. Adamson & K.L. Bann
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
The Triassic fill of the pre-rift Northern Carnarvon Basin was deposited during a period of tectonic quiescence in a broadly ramp-type or intracratonic setting with gentle depositional gradients....
Petrel Sub-basin 3D Geological Modelling and Simulation for CO2 Storage Assessment
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Karen HIGGINS, Victor NGUYEN, Alfredo CHIRINOS, Christopher CONSOLI, Diane JORGENSEN, Kamal KHIDER, David LESCINSKY, Robbie MORRIS
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
Geoscience Australia has recently completed the Bonaparte CO2 Storage project, a regional assessment of the CO2 storage potential of the Petrel Sub-basin. In 2009, two greenhouse gas assessment areas were released, PTRL-01 and PTRL-02, under the Offs...
Northern Extension of Active Petroleum Systems in the Offshore Perth Basin— an Integrated Stratigraphic, Geochemical, Geomechanical and Seepage Study
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: N. Rollet, M. Pfahl, A. Jones, J. Kennard, C. Nicholson, E. Grosjean, D. Mantle, D. Jorgensen, G. Bernardel, R. Kempton, L. Langhi, Y. Zhang, L. Hall, R. Hackney, S. Johnston, C. Boreham, D. Robertson, P. Petkovic, M. Lech
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
A prospectivity assessment of the offshore northern Perth Basin was undertaken, as part of the Australian Government’s Offshore Energy Security Program, to provide new insights into the petroleum prospectivity of the basin and to reduce exploration...
The prospectivity for CO2 storage in the Mesozoic formations of the Petrel Sub-basin (Bonaparte Basin): results from a regional-scale geological assessment
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Christopher CONSOLI, Alfredo CHIRINOS, Karen HIGGINS, Diane JORGENSEN, Kamal KHIDER, Rob KIRK, , David LESCINSKY, Robbie MORRIS, Victor NGUYEN
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
A regional assessment of the Petrel Sub-basin has identified Mesozoic formations highly prospective for CO2 storage. The CO2 storage play comprises the Lower to Middle Jurassic Plover Formation and Lower Cretaceous Sandpiper Sandstone reservoirs, whi...
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....