Mines and Energy South Australia (MESA) was commissioned by MFP Australia to undertake an investigation into the feasibility of establishing an Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) scheme at The Levels site. The programme is being carried out in two...

Relatively little exploration has been carried out due to the areas remoteness and the cost of exploration and because younger basin sediments have masked craton rocks more prospective for minerals. Recent work by SADME, COMALCO and others, has...

The Proterozoic tectonic evolution of the southern margin of the Eastern Officer Basin is closely related to evaporite mass movements and diapirism. Seismic interpretation suggests that these movements occurred when increased subsidence in the...

The aim was to derive a new method for the evaluation of porosity and water saturation for Pretty Hill Sandstone reservoirs, Otway Basin. Over 350 core plugs were measured for ambient and overburden porosity and permeability, and absolute grain...

Abstracts include: Conference presentation summary for the 1993 MESA BARTON and Colona drilling programmes (both forming part of the South Australian Exploration Initiative) - [technical rationale, planned drillholes and preliminary results]....

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...

A test aerial spectrometric and subsidiary aeromagnetic survey of the onshore Otway Basin in SA was proposed in 1991 by APIRA, the Commonwealth Government's petroleum research authority. Initially it was aimed at utilising possible signature responses...

This brochure includes a description of the status of the upstream petroleum industry in SA and includes historical highlights, SADME role statement, and basic advice regarding public sector geophysical services and data availability. There is a...

Three new observation wells monitoring the Tertiary confined limestone aquifer underlying the Angas-Bremer Irrigation Area have been completed.

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This report comprises a technical and promotional brochure written and updated on a semi-annual basis for distribution to explorers, usually at the annual conference of the Australian petroleum exploration industry, plus at other local and...

Two samples from Killarney 1 were analysed to determine whether basement (meta-sediments and/or meta-volcanics) are present in the lower part of the well. The samples contain palynofloras correlative with the F. wonthaggiensis Zone (the upper part)....

In January 1993, 15 water bores in the South-East were sampled for headspace gas. 7 of these bores provided sufficient gas for compositional analysis of hydrocarbons. Methane values ranged from 25% to 92% of the total gas for these bores, with...

Granodiorite core recovered from Moomba 72 has enabled recent recognition of an altered zone at the top of pre-Permian 'basement'. This altered zone has been previously misinterpreted as Early Permian Tirrawarra Sandstone. Consequently, the depth...

A project funded by Cultus Resources and SENRAC is investigating the possibility that coastal bitumen strandings result from seismic tremors which cause crude oil to be released from submarine seeps in the offshore Duntroon or Otway Basins. Objectives...

The objectives of this study were to establish permeability and effective porosity limits for a definition of tight gas, and to determine selection criteria for tight gas reservoir development candidates. The study forms Part 1 of a program to define...

Undiscovered (speculative and hypothetical) petroleum reserves and field sizes for sedimentary basins in SA have been estimated using methods that are appropriate to the level of previous exploration (and thus the data available). These methods range...

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Known magnesite beds existing within the Adelaidean Skillogalee Dolomite in the far north-western Flinders Ranges, and extending into the Willouran Ranges over a strike distance of 120 km heading north-westwards from Leigh Creek South township, have...

During the first three years of the subject reporting period, exploration carried out by Dominion Mining as Gawler Project sole owner and operator was concentrated in and around the Challenger gold mine, to assist in defining ore reserves within the...