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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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RB 43/00064 Notes on early oil bores in the Lower South-East of South Australia.
Some material from oil bores in the possession mainly of the Bureau of Mineral Resources was cursorily examined to relate the bore sequences to the reference column established for the Murray Basin. The bores were Enterprise Oil Co. No. 2 (Salt Creek...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1956
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RB 77/00080 Kalangadoo town water supply. Well completion report, Kalangadoo TWS no. 1 (MA 94).
Kalangdoo Town Water Supply (T.W.S.) No. 1 well was drilled cable tool during February - May, 1977, and subsequently production tested. The unconfined Gambier Limestone aquifer was encountered between 5.5 and 86m, and was later cemented off down to...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 80/00024 Kalangadoo town water supply. Completion report well no. 2.
This second well into the confined aquifer was drilled to 117.5 metres completed with a well screen in an unconsolidated sand interval between 104.2 and 115.6 metres. A yield of 1 200 kl/day was obtained with potential for greater yields without...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1980
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RB 88/00014 Petroleum exploration and development in South Australia (5th edition).
In South Australia since 1958, 140,400 km of seismic have been recorded (75,500 onshore) and 882 wells drilled (of which 16 are offshore wildcats and 238 are development wells). Exploration and development have taken place in three distinct phases....-
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Published: 01 Mar 1988
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RB 78/00034 Mount Gambier town water supply - Completion report for well no. 8.
Water well was drilled to 250 metres into the confined aquifer Dilwyn Formation.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 78/00036 Kingston town water supply completion report for well no. 11 - EWS Department.
New production water well was drilled to 71 metres.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 92/00070 Geology and petrophysics of petroleum reservoirs from the Otway Group, Otway Basin.
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...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1992
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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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RB 95/00040 Otway Basin aeromagnetic/radiometric test survey.
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...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1995
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RB 89/00018 Petroleum exploration and development in South Australia (6th edition).
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Published: 01 Apr 1989
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RB 93/00047 Palynological dating and correlation of samples from Killarney 1 and Robertson 2, Otway Basin, South Australia.
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)....-
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Published: 01 Nov 1993
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RB 95/00017 Gas sampling from water bores in the northern Gambier Basin, South Australia.
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...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1995
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RB 90/00072 First report on the project. Location of oil seeps by micro-tremor analysis.
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...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1990
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RB 91/00104 Undiscovered petroleum. Assessments of the potential of the Officer and Otway Basins in South Australia.
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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Published: 01 Nov 1991
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Lochaber. Data release : final report at licence full surrender, for the period 29/8/2006 to 6/7/2009.
EL 3623 is located 220 km south-east of Adelaide, and lies to the west of the township of Naracoorte. The tenement is also located ~35 km to the south-east of the much larger Kingston lignite deposit contained within the subject licencee's related EL...-
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Published: 02 Sep 1909
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Killanoola-1 & Killanoola- DW-1 Well Post Audit.
A Sawpit Sandstone Reservoir Quality and Distribution Study was completed in January 1998 (Davids & Doyle, 1998). The purpose of that original report was to compile and review the available geological and geophysical data for the Sawpit Sandstone...-
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PPL 62 Katnook and Ladbroke Grove Gas Fields. Technical study reports. Katnook Pretty Hill Initial Reservior Pressure and Gas in Place.
Contains a report describing how MESA estimated the initial pressure and gas-in-place of the Pretty Hill Sandstone reservoir in the Katnook Field.-
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Published: 18 Apr 1990
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Blackford and Lochaber (the Kingston Lignite Project). Individual licence reports and a joint annual report, plus final report at the full surrender of the remaining (Blackford) licence, for the period 3/8/2005 to 20/2/2015.
The Kingston coal (lignite) deposit, delineated by Western Mining Corp. in the early 1980s, has been re-assessed for the energy generation potential its coal represents, viewed in the context of recent increased demand for liquid transport fuels and...-
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Published: 02 Mar 1915
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Final Report Project 1357 EPP 18 Geochemical and Sniffer Survey - 7/81.
Project 1357 was a Mini-Ranger controlled marine sidescan and sparker operation that was conducted off the coast of South Australia, in the Southern Ocean. The principal and prime contractor was Ultramar Australia Ltd. Included reports: - Report:...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1981
