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RB 82/00072 Organic carbon and trace element investigations, Cooper Basin sediments. Fifth progress report - Carbon distribution.
Carbonate carbon and to a lesser extent organic carbon are persistent in their pattern of vertical distribution regardless of structural position. Detailed correlations may be made across the SE of the basin. Idealised chemostratigraphic successions...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1982
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RB 84/00020 Jurassic and Permian microfloral assemblages from Weena no. 1 well, southern Cooper Basin.
4 shale samples from 1299 metres to 1307 metres are probably late Early Jurassic to early Middle Jurassic age, (?Hutton Sandstone). Carbonaceous shale from 1526 metres produced an Early Permian microflora characteristic of Stage 3, possibly lower...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1984
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Petrological study of Mesozoic reservoirs in the Merrimelia Field, Cooper-Eromanga Basin.
Two drill core samples from each of the four reservoir units in the Merrimelia Field, the Murta Member, Namur Sandstone Member, Hutton Sandstone and Nappamerri Formation, were examined to determine their petrological and porosity characteristics and...-
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Published: 29 Nov 1983
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Merrimelia Field studies. Technical reports and data.
A petrological study was carried out on a number of drill cuttings and core samples from the gas and oil producing Merrimelia Field, Cooper-Eromanga Basin.-
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Organic petrology of a suite of samples from Merrimelia 15 and a comparison with Merrimelia 6 and 7.
Ten samples of drill cuttings from Merrimelia 15 were examined in polished section under normally incident white light and under reflected light UV fluorescence mode. Brief descriptions of the dispersed organic matter contained in each sample, plus...-
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Crude oil characterisation and correlation study of twenty crude oils from the Cooper-Eromanga Basin, South Australia.
Organic geochemical analyses of 20 crude oil samples from twelve wells were performed to determine if any genetic oil families could be identified within the Eromanga-Cooper Basin area. The results have been plotted graphically to demonstrate the...-
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Crude oil to parent source rock correlation study, Wancoocha Field.
Organic geochemical analyses were performed on 14 conventional core samples taken from the Epsilon, Murteree and Patchawarra formation intervals in Wancoocha 1 and on 3 similar samples from the Birkhead Formation in Wancoocha 4. The rock sample...-
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1980 seismic survey, Woolkanie, final report.
AIM:The 1980 Woolkanie Seismic Survey was primarily aimed at detailed gridding over areas of known commercial hydrocarbon accumulation, and more specifically was directed toward locating drilling exploration/appraisal sites on or near existing fields,...-
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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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1982 seismic survey, Christmas Creek, final report.
AIM:The 1982 Christmas Creek Seismic Survey was designed to cover a wide area of the sparsely explored western farmout blocks of PELs 5 and 6, where Eromanga Basin sediments thin and overly sub-basins of variously aged prospective sediments. Primary...-
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1979 Moonlight Flat Seismic Survey. Final report.
AIM: To mature several large structural leads, map possible stratigraphic traps on the flanks of regional highs and extend the regional Vibroseis coverage. METHODS: Survey dates: 10/4/79 - 23/11/79. Energy source: Vibroseis. CDP coverage: 1200%....-
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Special core analysis, Wancoocha 3 and Wancoocha 4.
Three core plug samples from the Birkhead Formation oil reservoir interval in Wancoocha 3 and Wancoocha 4 were subjected to special core analysis investigations of their electrical properties, after cleaning and pressure saturation with a simulated...-
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Published: 29 Jan 1985
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Vitrinite reflectance data from the Cooper and Eromanga Basins.
The vitrinite reflectance technique is considered by the PELs 5 and 6 and ATP259P licensees to be the most reliable means of measuring the maturity of a sedimentary sequence. This subject suite of isoreflectance maps was prepared using vitrinite...-
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Poolowanna Formation study report.
A review of the depositional setting, reservoir, seal and trapping potential of the Poolowanna Formation in the Eromanga Basin has been undertaken covering PELs 5 and 6. Extensive interpretation of wireline logs and available palynological data...-
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Lake Hope Block Stratigraphic Study: Stage 1.
Drilling of 39 exploration and appraisal/development wells to investigate potential oil reservoirs within the Lake Hope Block has resulted in the recovery of economic hydrocarbons from 26 of those wells, and has identified 7 reservoir units throughout...-
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Hydrologic constraints on petroleum generation and migration within the Cooper and Eromanga Basins, South Australia. CSIRO / University of New Hampshire, USA, collaborative study. Project initiation and progress reports.
The Cooper and Eromanga Basins region, Australia's most productive onshore petroleum province, has a regional groundwater flow system over 1500 km in length. While the present-day hydrology of the Cretaceous and Jurassic aquifer system is well...-
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Published: 02 Oct 1992
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Petrographic thin section descriptions of 78 selected drill core and cuttings samples from the Mesozoic sequence intersected in 4 wells.
Includes, as requested, the contractor petrologist's written determinations of sediment depositional facing for each drill core sample thin section, based on interpretation of observed microscopic scale bedding characteristics.-
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Published: 06 May 1982
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Liquid chromatography data available in PELs 5 and 6 and ATP 259P.
This report synthesises all existing Delhi-Santos' Cooper Basin area Mesozoic and Permian petroleum source rock geochemical data relating to liquid chromatography, providing a basis for further source rock work to be carried out on a...-
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Lake Hope Block, PELs 5 and 6. Poolowanna Formation forward modelling study.
The current original oil-in-place estimate for the Poolowanna Formation within the area covered by the 1992 Lake Hope 3-D Seismic Survey is 5.707 MMbbls (proved and probable), variously contained within the Tantanna, Taloola and Sturt/Sturt East Oil...-
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Merrimelia-Innamincka Farmout Block reports.
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