This report is the first in a series of coastal bitumen fieldwork studies being carried out in South Australia over the duration of one year by the Organic Geochemistry Unit, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Adelaide and the South...

The target was lignite or oil shale hosted by Tertiary sediments possibly preserved on top of a series of tilted fault blocks bordering the western shoreline of Spencer Gulf, due south-west of Whyalla. 29 vertical rotary mud drillholes (total 2729...

Includes reports on: - Aromatic maturity of Jurassic, Permian and Cambrian sediments in Gidgealpa 1, Eromanga / Cooper / Warburton Basins, SA. - Aromatic maturity of Wirrealpa Limestone, Arrowie Basin, SA. - Chemical analysis of 6 drill cuttings...

As part of a MESA-led reappraisal of the source rock potential of the Eringa Trough, Pedirka Basin, this study was commissioned to carry out an organic geochemical and petrographic investigation of coals and carbonaceous sediments from the margins of...

Investigation of the composition and origin of a wellhead sample of black oil. Its origin from terrestrial (land plant) organic matter is confirmed by aspects of its biomarker geochemistry.

Reports include a description of a non-commercial oil show observed during exploratory percussion drilling in a Cretaceous fossiliferous sandy shale at 190 feet depth in Santos' Oodnadatta 1 wildcat well. Trace amounts of oil and wax of unknown...

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A relatively new technology of treating oil spills in marine and inland environments is bioremediation. This technique is based on the break down of the petroleum hydrocarbons to biomass and carbon dioxide by indigenous microorganisms, which are...

The PARACHILNA map area (31 to 32°S, 138 to 139.5°E) occupies the central Flinders Ranges which are made up of folded, mostly marine sedimentary Neoproterozoic and Cambrian rocks of the Adelaide Geosyncline, and adjoining plains underlain by Cainozoic...

Licensee Agenco Resources Pty Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nasaco Holdings Pty Ltd. The company is focussed on the development of a very large buried Tertiary lignite resource located near Kingston in the South-East district of South Australia....

Tasman Resources' ("Tasman") Central Gawler Project tenement acreage, originally comprising seven exploration licences ELs 3339 to 3345, was initially applied for on the basis of perceived prospectivity for diamonds: however, following Tasman's...

An area centred ~ 80 km north of Tarcoola was taken under licence to explore for possible economic buried precious and base metallic mineralisation hosted by Archaean and Proterozoic basement rocks. The area was selected on the basis of it having...

Marsden 1 is located regionally on the eastern edge of the Battunga Trough, approximately 25 km south-west of the Toolachee Gasfield and 22 km east south-east of the Limestone Creek / Biala Oilfield. It was drilled as an exploration well to evaluate...

EL 3511 Eucolo Creek, of 528 square km, is situated near the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton within the Olympic Dam Domain, approximately 90 km south-west of the Olympic Dam IOCG-U deposit (3.98 billion tonnes at 1.1% Cu, 0.4 kg/t U3O8 and 0.5 g/t...