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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...
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
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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...
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
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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...
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
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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...
Offshore West Australian Basins, Fuelling a Decade of Conventional Prosperity for Industry and Woodside
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: M.J. Thompson
- Date Published: August 2013
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This plenary paper reviews industry trends* and Woodside‟s achievements during the decade 2002 to end 2011 (the period since the last dedicated WABS Symposium)....
Biozonation and stratigraphy of the Canning Basin – updated to the 2012 timescale
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Tegan E. SMITH, Dianne S. EDWARDS, Andrew P. KELMAN, John R. LAURIE, Arthur J. MORY, Robert S. NICOLL, James G. OGG
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
The Canning Basin in northwestern Australia covers an area of over 506,000 sq. km, of which 430,000 sq. km are onshore. The maximum sediment thickness is over 15,000 m, concentrated in two north-west trending depocentres: the Fitzroy Trough – Grego...
The potential for an unexplored unconventional hydrocarbon play in the southern onshore Carnarvon Basin
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Matthew Silverman, David Warner, Catherine Campbell
- Date Published: August 2013
Submarine Slide and Slump Complexes, Exmouth Plateau, NW Shelf of Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: N. Scarselli, K. McClay, C. Elders
- Date Published: August 2013
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Analysis of 3D seismic data shows that the Neogene to near seabed section along the NW flank of the Exmouth Plateau Arch has been affected by numerous slope failures. Seabed collapses originated at water depths of ~1000 m and extend down dip to depth...
Depositional Analogues & Subsurface Uncertainty Management – Implications for Reservoir Characterisation and Modelling
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: S.P. Sadler, S.C. Lang, R.J. Seggie, K. Adamson, N.G. Marshall, D.P. Harris, J.A. Spilsbury-Schakel
- Date Published: August 2013
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Understanding and managing subsurface uncertainty is one of the key elements in project maturation and delivery for both exploration and field development. A variety of geostatistical processes and methodologies are employed to address this issue, co...
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
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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...
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
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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...
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...
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
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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...
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
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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...
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
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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...
Stable Carbon and Hydrogen Isotopic Compositions of Paleozoic Marine Crude Oils from the Canning Basin: Comparison with Other West Australian Crude Oils
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: D.S. Edwards, C.J. Boreham, J. Chen, E. Grosjean, A.J. Mory, J. Sohn, J.E. Zumberge
- Date Published: August 2013
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This study focuses on the stable carbon (δ13C) and hydrogen (δD) isotopic compositions of bulk, saturated and aromatic hydrocarbons in 19 Paleozoic marine crude oils from the Canning Basin, Western Australia....
Insights from the Automated Extraction of Surfaces from the Bunda 3D Seismic Survey
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: J.K. Dirstein, T. Rudge, R. Li, A.J. Stanley
- Date Published: August 2013
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The Lennard Shelf in the Canning Basin has long held the lure of commercial hydrocarbons. Home Energy discovered the Blina Oil Field in 1981, the first of several small fields found during the 1980’s on the shelf. Buru Energy’s predecessor ARC En...
Identification of Fluid Flow Features in the Seafloor and Subsurface and their Implications for Prospect and Geohazard Assessment: Examples from the Australian Northwest Shelf
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: J.K. Dirstein, J.V. Hengesh, A.J. Stanley
- Date Published: August 2013
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Automated data extraction and analysis techniques were applied to open-file 3D seismic volumes from the North West Shelf creating visual databases of virtually all peak and trough surfaces. Examples from the Gorgon, Glencoe and Bonaventure 3D seismic...
The Impact of Multi-Azimuth Seismic Over Tidepole
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: D. Dickinson, S. Gagen
- Date Published: August 2013
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The Tidepole gas field, located in WA-5-L on the North West Shelf, Australia was discovered in 1971. The field is covered by the high-resolution Demeter 3D seismic survey acquired over the central North West Shelf in 2003, but further appraisal of th...
A Regional Assessment of the CO2 Storage Potential of the Petrel Sub-basin (Bonaparte Basin), Offshore Northern Territory
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: C. Consoli, K. Higgins, D. Jorgensen, D. Lescinsky, K. Khider, R. Morris, V. Nguyen
- Date Published: August 2013
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Geoscience Australia has completed a regional study investigating the carbon dioxide geological storage potential for the Petrel Sub-basin (Bonaparte Basin), offshore Northern Territory. The aims were to acquire pre-competitive data and to evaluate t...
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
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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...
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...
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
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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...
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...
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
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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...
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
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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 ...
Stratigraphic Interpretation and Reservoir Modelling of the Barrow Group Below Barrow Island
- Publication Name: West Australian Basins Symposium 2013
- Authors: I. Barranco, E. Mahon, P. Sixsmith
- Date Published: August 2013
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An integral component of the Chevron operated Gorgon Project is the proposal to dispose of reservoir carbon dioxide by underground injection into the Dupuy Formation below Barrow Island. As part of this project, Chevron has undertaken a new assessmen...
Oil Exploration Potential in the Greater Northern Australian – New Guinea Super Gas Province
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: P.M. Barber
- Date Published: August 2013
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The Greater Northern Australia–New Guinea Super Gas Province lies on the Northern Australian continental margin, within which over 230 Tcf gas and 7.2 billion bbls oil have been discovered. The province extends from the Northern Carnarvon Basin, th...
Hunting for the Cracks: Identifying Fracture Permeability for Geothermal Exploration in the North Perth Basin
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: M. Ballesteros, R. Oppermann
- Date Published: August 2013
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Hot Sedimentary Aquifer (HSA) geothermal systems share many characteristics with petroleum systems, and similar data and work flows are used to define them. Key geological ingredients for a working geothermal system include a heat source and a heat t...