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Bundulla. Progress reports for the period 24/5/79 to 19/10/82.
Airborne and ground magnetic surveys were conducted in the Bundulla area of the Nullarbor Plain (SA), prior to drilling a prominent circular aeromagnetic feature. 2 percussion/rotary mud holes, each drilled to TD 369.5 m, penetrated crystalline...-
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Watson Siding (South). Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 11/12/81 to 10/10/82.
In a search for possible concealed Olympic Dam type base metal deposits within an area located 80 km north-west of Yalata, the licensee investigated several previously identified contiguous magnetic and gravity anomalies by performing ground magnetic...-
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Published: 16 Dec 1982
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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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Koonalda. Progress reports for the period 7/8/79 to 18/7/82.
Following an airborne magnetic/radiometric survey, two rotary percussion holes totalling 819 m were drilled on negative magnetic anomalies to reach pre-Mesozoic basement (gabbro and meta-sandstone) in the Koonalda area of the Nullarbor Plain. No...-
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RB 90/00029 Seismic study of the offshore Denman and Eucla Basins.
Four horizons were mapped (top of basement, top of Permian, top of Cretaceous and Sea Floor). The Denman Basin is a 50 km wide, north-south trending depression in Early Palaeozoic - Precambrian bedrock, infilled with up to 400 metres of Permian...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1991
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Proposal to relinquish permit EPP 21, South Australia.
A complete re-evaluation of all known prospects and leads within EPP 21 was undertaken by the permittees in order to define any prospects worthy of drilling in permit Year 4, ending 28 June 1986, by which time a commitment to drill one well and...-
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Fission track analysis of samples from Duntroon 1, Duntroon Basin.
Eight samples of unwashed cuttings from 1500-3510 metres (Aptian to late Eocene) were measured to determine thermal history. A major jump in the apatite grain age profile between the Tertiary and Cretaceous is attributed to a major shift in sediment...-
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Sedimentology of the Cretaceous Platypus Formation in well Duntroon 1, offshore South Australia.
An 18 metre core from the lower part of the Early Cretaceous Platypus Formation in Duntroon 1 was described and interpreted sedimentologically to assist regional depositional modelling of oil search target formations within the Duntroon Basin. The...-
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Stratigraphy and palynology of the Great Australia Bight Basin, offshore South Australia.
This frontier basin lithostratigraphic and biostratigraphic correlation study is largely based on the petrographic examination of 104 thin sections of samples from rocks intersected in the three Shell offshore exploration wells drilled on the northern...-
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Final report, South Australia offshore permits SA.10 and SA.11.
The R 10 Marine Seismic Survey was conducted during March, 1976 within EPPs 10 and 11 to detail the previously indicated Galah, Kookaburra and Rosella-Jabiru leads. This survey defined three structurally sound closures, Galah, Kookaburra East and...-
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Great Australian Bight Basin, offshore South Australia.
EPPs 10 and 11 currently comprise 239 graticular blocks (approximately 17 000 sq km) in the Great Australian Bight Basin. No wells have yet been drilled in these permits which lie entirely in water depths greater than 200 m and ranging down to 1 500...-
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Geological and petroleum engineering completion report, BP Duntroon 1.
Duntroon 1 was drilled to test the petroleum potential of the Cenomanian Platypus Formation sandstone reservoir within a large tilted Late Cretaceous horst block, the Numbat prospect. A secondary target was the underlying Barremian to Aptian Madura...-
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PEL 33, Eucla and Denman Basins. Progress reports for the period 25/6/85 to 18/4/89.
Contains interpretation reports on satellite imagery remote sensing and reprocessed aeromagnetic data, plus other brief interpretative statements by the contract operator contained within some quarterly tenement reports.-
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Published: 18 Apr 1989
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ELs 730 - 739, Great Victoria Desert (CRAE Wyola Project). Progress and final reports for the period 6/10/1980 to 14/9/1981.
Compilation and re-interpretation of open file data from the Eucla Basin - southern Officer Basin region preceded exploratory and stratigraphic percussion drilling undertaken in an area north of the Trans Australian Railway (6 holes, total 1032 m)....-
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Published: 09 Jul 1981
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1987 seismic surveys, Denman and Denman 'B', final reports.
Denman Seismic Survey - AIM: This seismic survey of 4 lines totalling 40.0 line kms coverage was conducted in the southern Denman Trough, in the vicinity of Outback Oil's Denman 1 well drilled in 1966, in order to fulfil the Licence Year 2 work...-
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Coastal bitumen and potential source rocks, Duntroon Basin, South Australia.
This study, for which the supporting data was obtained between August 1983 and April 1984 and reported to the client Getty as Amdel report nos 5769/84 Parts 1-7, was prompted by a renewed exploration effort in the Duntroon Basin after some 9 years of...-
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Published: 31 May 1984
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RB 00663 Exoil Eyre no. 1 and Gambanga no. 1 wells, Western Australia. Subsurface stratigraphy and micropalaeontological study.
Eyre 1 (total depth 1719 feet KB) and Gambanga 1 (TD 1283 feet KB) oil exploration wells, drilled in WA in the western part of the Eucla Basin, penetrated a succession of marine mainly Upper Eocene and Cretaceous rocks before entering crystalline...-
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Published: 06 Dec 1960
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RB 00780 Brief study of the Eucla Basin, with recommendations for further petroleum work.
This report provides a brief summary of the geology and petroleum potential of the onshore, South Australian portion of the Eucla Basin at the time of termination of PEL 4, with the aim of providing a starting point for more thorough studies.-
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Published: 31 Jan 1900
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RB 2007/00011 Original full content version of] OOLDEA, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH52-12. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The OOLDEA 1:250 000 map area, in the far west of SA, includes portions of the Maralinga Tjarutja Aboriginal Lands, Maralinga Prohibited Area, and Nullarbor Regional Reserve. It is traversed by the Trans-Australian Railway. There is no significant...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2007
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RB 2017/00044 PACE Copper Coompana Drilling Project: Drillhole CDP007 preliminary field-data report.
The Geological Survey of South Australia, in partnership with Geoscience Australia, is undertaking a regional pre-competitive geoscience research drilling program in the far west of South Australia called the Coompana Drilling Project. The Coompana...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2017
