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Exploration opportunity - Nappamerri Trough - Geothermal energy (hot dry rocks) - Acreagae Release Blocks HDR2000A to C.
Three areas are being offered for the issue of geothermal exploration licences (GELs) in the Nappamerri Trough region, northeastern South Australia, on the basis of competitive work program bids. The stratigraphic sequence here comprises thick...-
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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 77/00150;RB 00804 Resource analysis of Cooper Basin using prospect-by-prospect method. Report to November, 1977.
24 selected anticlinal and fault trap prospects in the Cooper Basin, that do not include certain prospects which are small or which contain discovered but as yet undefined fields, have been evaluated by the SADM Petroleum Geology Section using a new...-
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Published: 20 Dec 1977
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RB 79/00112 Forecasts for gas supplies from the Cooper Basin of South Australia.
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 77/00016 Soil hydrocarbon geochemistry. A potential exploration tool, in the Cooper Basin. 25th International Geological Congress, Sydney, 1976.
The ethane, propane, butanes, and pentanes concentrations of shallow soil samples collected in 1975 from 1070 sites over the Permian Cooper Basin have been analysed. The samples were taken at a spacing of 300m along two regional traverses; on a widely...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 90/00081 Cooper Basin core and log analysis for gas reserves assessment
Due to substantial funding by NERDDC of this project, over 850 new core plugs from 46 wells in the Cooper Basin in South Australia were analysed to provide a database for improvement of porosity and water saturation log analysis algorithms currently...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1990
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RB 91/00096 Probabilistic method for estimating gas reserves.
The Departments method for estimating and reporting gas reserves has been revised to include estimates of tight gas as well as providing more accurate estimates of conventionally recoverable gas reserves. This has included a new method for...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1991
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RB 94/00035 Cooper Basin aeromagnetic / radiometric test survey.
As part of the South Australian Exploration Initiative, the use of high resolution aeromagnetic and radiometric surveying in petroleum exploration was tested in Block B5 west of Moomba. A number of associated studies were undertaken to utilise the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1994
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RB 94/00036 Computer modelling of magnetic data from Cooper Basin, South Australia - South Australian Exploration Initiative.
Computer modelling of magnetic anomalies from the South Australian Exploration Initiative aerial magnetic surveys of the Cooper Basin in April 1993 was undertaken with the following objectives: - use measured susceptibilities to calculate theoretical...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1994
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RB 97/00038 Criteria for picking Cooper Basin formation tops from wireline logs.
A complete and consistent set of interpreted formation tops has been compiled for the Cooper Basin, representing wireline log picks that are based on criteria designed to reflect regionally mappable lithological breaks. In addition, some units were...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1997
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RB 97/00031 Response to the review of the Cooper Basin (Ratification) Act.
A public review of the Cooper Basin (Ratification) Act, 1975 and Indenture (the Ratification Act) has been initiated by the South Australian Government. The review fulfils obligations under the February 1994 CoAG Agreement for Free and Fair Trade in...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1997
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RB 97/00034 Economics of gas gathering and processing in the Cooper Basin.
The Petroleum Division of Mines and Energy South Australia (MESA) engaged GPA Engineering to provide cost estimates to feasibility study level for processing and transporting products from new gas discoveries in the Cooper Basin, both on a stand-alone...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1997
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RB 98/00016 Statement of environmental objectives for seismic operations in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins, South Australia.
This document contains the environmental objectives relating to seismic exploration activities required to be achieved by any licensee operating in the South Australian part of the Cooper and Eromanga Basins (i.e. any operator). Objectives have been...-
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Published: 01 May 1998
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RB 98/00033 Cooper 99 Symposium, Australian Mineral Foundation, Adelaide, South Australia, 15-16 October 1998. Extended abstracts, plenary sessions.
The two-day Cooper 99 petroleum symposium organised by PIRSA's Petroleum Group was attended by 160 local and overseas delegates. The prime intent was to announce the release, for competitive tender, of 11 exploration blocks within the soon-to-expire...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1998
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RB 98/00030 Lineament associations in the Cooper Basin region, South Australia - Basement controls on hydrocarbon distribution.
Detailed lineament analysis of the Cooper Basin area has established the presence of two lineament networks. A gas-prone network of NW and NE trending lineaments shows strong correlation with the presence of gas in alternating blocks, but no gas...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1998
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RB 91/00014 Estimating recovery factors in a heterogeneous gas reservoir using a tank model.
Tank model simulations have shown that regardless of the permeability, if a gas saturated sand is sufficiently thick it is capable of gas recovery. The extent of recovery is dependent on the sand thickness, degree of stimulation via hydraulic...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1991
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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 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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RB 97/00040 Western Prospects Seismic Survey application in the Coongie Lakes Control Zone. Assessment report and recommendations.
The high environmental values of the Coongie Lakes area are recognised through their inclusion in the Register of the National Estate, their inclusion as a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention, and wider acknowledgement that...-
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Published: 31 Jul 1997
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RB 97/00039 Lineament tectonic data, South Australia, with a focus on the Cooper Basin.
The lineament mapping methods used by E.S.T. (Tim) O'Driscoll, which were a crucial factor in the discovery of Olympic Dam, the world's largest known Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, and of several other lesser Australian metallic orebodies, have now been applied...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1997
