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Karoonda. Final report at licence full surrender, combined with related partial surrender reports for Peake, Swan Reach, Waikerie and Malinong, covering the period 7/7/1980 to 6/7/1981.
Within the surrendered sections of the subject exploration licences in the Karoonda, Marmon Jabuk, Swan Reach, Blanchetown and Cooke Plains areas, following the conduct there of a 45.4 line km gravity survey and the drilling and geophysical logging of...-
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Published: 12 Jun 1981
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Bunabie Rockhole, Hughes and Nullarbor Plain. Progress reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 20/10/1980 to 19/10/1982.
Roxby Downs - type base metal deposits, potentially associated with linear and discrete magnetic anomalies of unknown origin in the basement, were the prime targets of exploration in an area extending between Koonalda and Hughes, adjacent to the SA/WA...-
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Petroleum geochemistry of the Otway Basin, and the significance of coastal bitumen strandings on adjacent southern Australian beaches. Volumes 1 to 5 source rock studies.
The standing of crude oil on the beaches of southern Australia was first recorded approximately 150 years ago. This material, known locally as coastal bitumen, was used by the early maritime visitors and settlers to caulk their vessels and is the...-
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Exploration opportunity - Cooper Basin, third round - Acreage Release Blocks CO2000-A to H.
The South Australian part of the Cooper Basin had been under licence continuously since 1954, however on 27 February 1999 Petroleum Exploration Licences (PELs) 5&6 expired. The former PEL 5&6 area is being released in four bidding rounds over...-
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Exploration opportunity - Otway Basin - Acreage Release Blocks OT2000-A to G.
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Exploration opportunity - Cooper Basin, second round - Acreage Release Blocks CO2000-A to H March 1999.
The South Australian part of the Cooper Basin had been under licence continuously since 1954, however on 27 February 1999 Petroleum Exploration Licences (PELs) 5&6 expired. The former PEL 5&6 area is being released in four bidding rounds over...-
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RB 76/00150 Report on overseas visit June-August 1976.
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...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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RB 80/00128 Toodla no. 1 well completion report. Report no. 3 of the Eromanga Basin Study Group.
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...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 92/00066 South Australia - Otway Basin Area S92-1 petroleum prospects.
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...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1992
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Oil-source characterisation and correlation, Spencer 3 and Spencer 4, Eromanga/Cooper Basin.
Two oil samples from the Birkhead Formation oil reservoir in Spencer 3 and Spencer 4, and five sidewall cores taken from the Bulldog Shale, Murta Member, Hutton Sandstone, Poolowanna Formation and Patchawarra Formation in Spencer 3 were subjected to...-
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Published: 24 Dec 1986
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Source rock evaluation of 2 Cambrian drillhole samples from wells (Amoco-Duval) KD-2A and (Getty) Yarle Lakes 1, Officer Basin, South Australia.
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Published: 28 Apr 1986
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Otway Basin, an emerging petroleum province.
Promotional booklet intended to give oil industry analysts an up-to-date overview of the Otway Basin, plus separately some in-depth views of the hydrocarbon prospectivity of 5 (3 in SA) current Otway Basin petroleum exploration tenements in which the...-
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Stevenson Creek and Mount Bagot. Joint progress reports and technical reports to licences' joint expiry/renewal, for the period 25/11/1980 to 24/11/1981.
Possible high-yielding oil shales of the Middle Cretaceous Toolebuc Formation, believed to be present within 125 m of the ground surface along the Dalhousie Anticline in the vicinity of previously drilled Pedirka Basin petroleum exploration wells...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1981
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1969 marine reflection seismic survey, Troubridge Island, final report.
Comprises details of the operations, field acquisition, results and interpretation of the seismic survey. A total of 114 miles of 6-fold CDP stack data was recorded. The lines crossed anomalous areas defined in a 1968 survey. Two principal structures...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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Novel approaches to the determination of the origins of petroleum hydrocarbons in the Cooper-Eromanga Basin system.
In June 1996 MESA commissioned the Centre for Petroleum and Environmental Organic Geochemistry at Curtin University with $30 000 to investigate the applications to the Cooper-Eromanga Basin system of new molecular geochemical concepts recently...-
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Notes on the source affinity and thermal maturity of Eromanga Basin crude oils.
Gasoline range hydrocarbon analysis, carbon isotope analysis of C12+ saturates and aromatics and GC-MS analysis of C12+ naphthenes provide a consistent picture of the source affinity and thermal maturity of Cretaceous (Murta Member-type) and Jurassic...-
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Published: 06 Apr 1984
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The Murray Basin Project. Joint progress reports and joint final report to remnant licences' full surrender, for the period 7/10/1980 to 6/12/1984.
Thirteen contiguous exploration licences located along the western margin of the Tertiary Murray Basin were taken up by CRA to search for economic buried brown coal / lignite deposits of the type already known from small discoveries that had been made...-
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Published: 07 Mar 1985
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Petroleum geochemistry and source-rock potential of the Arrowie, Pedirka, Cooper and Eromanga Basins, central Australia.
Samples of ?Ordovician to Cretaceous sediments taken from 5 Pedirka Basin petroleum exploration wells, and of crude oils recovered from the Jurassic Poolowanna and Triassic Peera Peera Formations intersected in Poolowanna 1, were examined. The...-
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EPP 26, Duntroon Basin, [migration trap] lead summaries. Fairways: Platypus-Duntroon, Greenly, Outer Basin.
Report summarises the risked volumetric oil potential of leads in the post - Greenly 1 highgraded petroleum migration fairways (Duntroon-Platypus, Greenly and Outer Basin) that were identified in the BHPP Duntroon Basin regional study of December...-
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Published: 25 Jul 1995
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Cooper Basin hydrocarbon characteristics and gas-liquids composition.
This report summarises basic data relating to the stratigraphic and geographic distribution, composition and recovery efficiency of Cooper Basin hydrocarbons. Their possible geological controls are discussed, with the aim of refining pre-drill...-
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