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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...
CO2 storage prospectivity of the offshore Vlaming Sub-basin – evaluating containment
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Irina BORISSOVA, George BERNARDEL, Chris SOUTHBY, Megan LECH, Steven JOHNSTON, Nadege ROLLET, Chris LEWIS
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
As part of the National CO2 Infrastructure Plan (NCIP), Geoscience Australia is undertaking evaluation of the Vlaming Sub-basin, offshore Western Australia, for the long-term storage of CO2. The Early Cretaceous Gage Sandstone is a quality reservoir ...
Influence of Early Cretaceous paleotopography on deposition and the sealing potential of the South Perth Shale, Vlaming Sub-basin
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Stephen JOHNSTON, Chris SOUTHBY, Irina BORISSOVA, Megan LECH, Chris LEWIS, Diane JORGENSEN, Liuqi WANG
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
Geoscience Australia is currently conducting a study under the National CO2 Infrastructure Plan (NCIP) to assess suitability of the Vlaming Sub-basin for CO2 storage. It involves characterisation of the potential seal, the Early Cretaceous South Pert...
Magnetostratigraphy as a correlation tool for carbonate environments – Examples from the Lennard Shelf, Canning Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Eric TOHVER, Sergei PISAREVSKY, Maodu YAN, Jeroen HANSMA, Ted E. PLAYTON, Joseph KIRSCHVINK, Kate TRINAJSTIC, Peter HAINES, Roger HOCKING, Paul MONTGOMERY
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
The margins of the Canning Basin of Western Australia were the loci for extensive carbonate accumulation throughout Middle to Late Devonian times. The irregular coastline of the Lennard Shelf produced a variety of depostional settings, including isol...
Have We Deciphered the Canning? Discovery of the Ungani Oil Field
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: P.B. Edwards, E. Streitberg
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
The 2011 discovery of the Ungani oil field by Buru Energy has driven a far-reaching change in perceptions of the prospectivity of the Canning Basin of Western Australia. Previously the basin had been portrayed as ‘difficult’, with a number of pot...
The Gorgon Field: An Overview
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: A. Maftei, E.J. King, M.C. Flores
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
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...
Detrital Zircon U–Pb Ages from the Paleozoic of the Canning and Officer Basins, Western Australia: Implications for Provenance and Interbasin Connections
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: P.W. Haines, M.T.D. Wingate, C.L. Kirkland
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
The U–Pb age spectra of detrital zircons separated from sandstone were determined for twelve Canning Basin samples, two western Officer Basin samples, and one basement sample from the centre of the Canning Basin. The basement sample has an early Ne...
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...
Seismic Stratigraphy of a Plio-quaternary Intra-shelf Basin (Bonaparte Shelf, NW Australia)
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: J. Bourget, R. Nanson, R.B. Ainsworth, S. Courgeon, S.J. Jorry, H. Al-anzi
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
The Bonaparte Basin is marked by the development of a wide (ca. 630 km) continental shelf where carbonate and siliciclastic sediments accumulated during the Late Pliocene and Quaternary (ca. 3.5 Ma BP onwards). This unusually large platform is associ...
Analysis of Seabed Features and Shallow Stratigraphy for Indications of Fault Reactivation and Seepage: Results from the 2012 Marine Surveys in the Southern Perth and Bonaparte Basins
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: D. Jorgensen, I. Borissova, G. Bernardel, A. Carroll, C. Consoli, H. Dulfer, K. Higgins, T. Nicholas, K. Picard
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
In 2012, Geoscience Australia carried out marine surveys in the Vlaming Sub-basin (Perth Basin; GA0334) and Petrel Sub-basin (Bonaparte Basin; SOL5463). The purpose of these surveys was to gather pre-competitive geophysical and biophysical data on th...
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...
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
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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
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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
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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
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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...