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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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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 60/00030 Report on reconnaissance seismic refraction survey in the South Australian portion of the Eucla Basin, 1964.
A reconnaissance seismic refraction survey was carried out in the South Australian portion of the Eucla Basin, to determine the general shape of the basin and to assess the feasibility of using seismic methods in the area. Some of the refractors...-
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Published: 18 Feb 1965
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RB 48/00119 Material from the western portion of the Eucla Basin.
Samples collected by J. O. Galloway, consultant for Oil Drilling and Exploration consist of Pleistocene fossiliferous sandy limestone and weathered mollusca from the Eyre Plain, Wilson Bluff Limestone from Wilson Bluff and Nullarbor Limestone from the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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RB 47/00020 Subsurface stratigraphy of the Maralinga area, South Australia
Logging of sludge samples taken from 18 water bores drilled in an area of previously unknown stratigraphy located between Watson and Maralinga has established a sequence of about 1000 feet of Marinoan shales and sandstones resting on diorite. These...-
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Published: 23 Jul 1958
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RB 79/00083 Ooldea no. 1 and Reid nos 1 and 1A. Well completion reports.
Three stratigraphic wells (Ooldea no. 1, Reid no. 1, and Reid no. 1A) were drilled by the South Australian Department of Mines during 1976 in an area that includes margins of the Officer, Arckaringa and Eucla basins. Principal objectives were to test...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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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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RB 92/00024 Aboriginal stone tools: a geological study of source, nature and distribution in the Nullarbor Plain region.
Examination of the lithologies of Aboriginal artefacts from western South Australia has been undertaken and the lithologies categorised. Stone tools were manufactured from a range of indurated silicified materials, derived from abundant local...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1992
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Permit EPP 26 - Duntroon Basin. Surrender report.
This EPP 26 surrender report has been furnished to the SA offshore Designated Authority as a result of the application made on 21/8/96 by BHP Petroleum for permission for the joint venture to surrender the permit, before committing to unwanted...-
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Published: 19 Feb 1997
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Murrawijinie, Denman, Koonalda and Cook [Wigunda]. Progress and final reports for the period 7/7/80 to 27/7/81.
Cretaceous sediments in the Eucla Basin portion lying within South Australia's far west were investigated for their oil shale potential. This search was prompted by a recorded occurrence of a thick, oily Cretaceous shale horizon intersected in a...-
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Published: 10 Jun 1981
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PEL 4, Eucla, Denman and Bight Basins. Progress and technical reports for the period 13/9/68 to 18/4/74.
PEL 4 was granted to Outback Oil Co. NL on 14/11/68 to succeed the onshore part of the former OEL 33 in the Eucla Basin region, and allow continuity of exploration in a little known petroleum province. Early in licence Year One Outback Oil succeeded...-
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Published: 08 Apr 1974
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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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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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1992 marine seismic survey, DH92, final report.
AIM: To confirm a number of prospects and leads outlined with the most recent interpretation of the existing seismic data over both permit areas. Due to the presence of shallow intrusives and difficulty in mapping the basement in certain areas,...-
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1991 marine seismic survey, DH91, final report.
AIM: The DH91 seismic survey programme was designed to provide new 2D coverage of potential prospects and leads in an offshore area with very little modern seismic data, especially in the southeastern part of the permit. Complementary 1983 and 1984...-
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Borda Prospect file, EPP 25, Duntroon Basin, offshore South Australia.
BHPP's Borda 1 well is herein proposed to test a faulted four-way dip closure in permit EPP 25 with an estimated fault dependent closure area of 26.2 square kilometres and height of 125 metres. The trap formed during the Late Eocene to Early...-
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Sensitivity analysis, [seismic] line DH91-131 2-D modelling, Duntroon Basin.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Published: 12 Aug 1996
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Eucla Basin Stratigraphic Drilling Project. Well completion reports.
Four wells, drilled within 36 km of the Hughes and Denman Railway Sidings, explored for a possible Palaeozoic section and/or Upper Proterozoic or older basement, that was expected from Outback's regional gravity survey data to occur at or around...-
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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
