A gravity survey was carried out in the Mallala-Balaklava area located about 56 km north of Adelaide as shown on Fig. 1. Twelve days were spent in fieldwork. Reduction and interpretation of results occupied a further fourteen days.

The purpose of petroleum well log evaluation is quantitative determination of the possible presence of hydrocarbons. This necessitates making calculations of porosity and water saturation for many intervals within the well, using various log...

Exploration for a suitable underground gas storage target in the Northern Adelaide Plains was initiated in 1964. Prior to the present investigation, four other areas have been examined and rejected as target areas, mainly due to the shallow depth of...

This is a bibliographic compilation with index and key maps on petroleum potential, geology, geophysics and palaeontology of the Proterozoic-Palaeozoic Officer Basin, post-Palaeozoic geology, tectonics and other related topics.

The writer was privileged to travel overseas during the period 15th June-15th August, 1976 to study aspects of development and management of energy resources, particularly with regard to coal and uranium, and of rehabilitation of mined areas. In...

An experimental survey over the Lock coal prospect has demonstrated that vertical electrical soundings can be used to indicate the depth of a resistivity boundary which corresponds to the bottom of the main coal horizon. The actual presence or...

A refraction seismic survey was employed to determine depths to bedrock in the northern St. Vincent Basin. The aim was to assist siting drillholes of a coal exploration programme within a down faulted trough. Time-distance curves did not directly...

Wilkinson 1 stratigraphic well was drilled by the SA Department of Mines and Energy in mid-1978, about 250 km south-west of Coober Pedy, in the Tallaringa Trough. Here a thick section of Cambrian claystones, limestones and evaporites, at least 594 m...

SADME Toodla 1 stratigraphic/exploration well was drilled near the south-western margin of the Eromanga Basin, at a site 18 km ENE of Mount Dutton, in the area between SADME reflection seismic survey shotpoints DK6 and DK7 located at the northern end...

A promotional brochure for vacant offshore Otway Basin petroleum exploration acreage, designed for release overseas to potential corporate bidders, prior to gazettal of the area for permit applications in November 1992. Area S92-1 covering 4736 square...

This report summarises a program of sampling and analysis carried out by MESA in early 1994 on core samples from 7 holes by ETSA in 1988/89 through the Leigh Creek Lobe B Main Series overburden sequence. A total of 175 carbonaceous mudstone samples...

The Officer Basin covers some 350,000 square km of central southern Australia, extending from the Yilgarn Block in Western Australia east to the Gawler Craton in South Australia. During the early 1980s Comalco Aluminium Limited explored the eastern...

More than 400 samples (cuttings and core) from 26 petroleum wells in the South Australian part of the Gambier Basin were examined. Their lithology and foraminiferal fauna were recorded and their age and environment of deposition deduced where...

After a regional review of the absorbent clay mineral potential of known palygorskite and attapulgite - bearing Middle Tertiary palaeochannel sediments in an area centred 110 km south-west of Coober Pedy, a possibly economic partly-exposed attapulgite...

76 summaries were submitted to the Energy 2000 policy review. (Energy 2000, Canberra, 3rd and 4th September, 1986), including liquid fuels, natural gas, energy conservation, renewable energy sources, research and development, coal and electrical energy.

Comprises details of the operations, field acquisition, results and interpretation of the seismic survey. A total of 268 miles of conventional seismic and 6.5 miles of 3-fold data were recorded. The objectives were to improve the structural and...

The gravity pattern in the Investigator Strait area is dominated by 3 regional anomalies, namely the Investigator Strait Gravity Maximum, St Vincent Gravity Minimum and the Spencer Gulf Minimum Trend. The Investigator Strait Underwater Gravity Survey...

Comprises details of the operations, field acquisition, results and interpretation of the seismic and gravity survey. The seismic objectives were to obtain additional information on the structure of the Renmark Trough and to locate a stratigraphic...

The report deals primarily with the Andree Seismic Survey, examining the geophysical methods adopted and the consequent results. A number of small structures are evident near Tindilpie; small low relief features have been delineated W of Coopers Creek...

Comprises details of the operations, field acquisition, results and interpretation of the seismic survey. A total of 1295 profiles were shot along 533 miles. Results varied from good to poor; the poorer quality data are in the main attributable to...