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Officer Basin (South Australian Sector), The Status of Hydrocarbon Exploration and A Strategy to Promote Further Exploration.
PIRSA Petroleum commissioned the following report seeking assistance in promoting further petroleum exploration activity in the South Australian sector of the Officer Basin. Oil and gas exploration and development activity in the Cooper - Eromanga and...-
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PELs 81 and 253 Geophysical Operations in the Officer Basin South Australia - Statement of Environmental Objectives - Archived.
Section 12 of the Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Regulations 2013 require any person proposing to undertake activities relevant to petroleum exploration to prepare a draft Statement of Environmental Objectives (SEO) prior to exploration commencing....-
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Published: 31 Jan 2009
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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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Mount Willoughby, Marla, Nicholson Hill, Hope, Manya, Emu, Moorefield, Lake Meramangye, Dingo Claypan and Alinya (Officer Basin). Progress, technical and partial relinquishment reports for the period 20/8/1980 to 19/8/1985.
TRONA EXPLORATION: Of the 9 rotary/diamond holes drilled, only the first, Meramangye 1, intersected a unit equivalent to the Observatory Hill Beds, which was the target horizon for trona. Drillholes Manya nos 2-6 and Marla 7 intersected Cambrian red...-
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Lake Dey Dey, Lake Maurice, Ooldea Range, Waldana, Lake Maurice West, Leemurra, Punthanna, Yadina and Lake Maurice East. Joint progress reports and final report to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/4/1979 to 15/11/1982.
The exploration concept was based on searching for secondary uranium mineralisation that might be derived from the Musgrave Block basement rocks and that could have become precipitated within calcrete horizons from ponded uraniferous surface drainage...-
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RB 60/00099 Testing of bores from the Eucla and Officer Basins for sedimentary phosphate.
Phosphate testing of bores from the Eucla and Officer basins showed that phosphate is distributed throughout the sediments in only small amounts, usually less than 1% P205. The highest values of P205 recorded were 1.65% obtained from Nullarbor no. 8...-
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Published: 18 May 1965
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RB 80/00022 Marla-1A, Marla-1B well completion report. Report no. 5 of the Officer Basin study group.
Marla 1A and 1B reached 215.30 metres and 379.40 metres respectively, penetrating aeolian sands overlying the Bulldog Shale, Cadna-owie Formation an d Observatory Hill Beds. In contrast to Byilkaoora 1, oil shows and calcite pseudomorphs after...-
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Published: 01 May 1980
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RB 86/00078 Summary of geophysical interpretations of the Everard Thrust, NE Officer Basin - South Australia.
This is a compilation of available geophysical data and review of interpretations of the Everard Thrust. It includes regional distribution maps of the Cambrian, Ordovician, Devonian and Permian rocks. Geophysical and geological interpretations pre...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1986
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RB 87/00062 Petrography and petroleum content of sandstones in the Officer Basin.
Detailed petrography of the Relief Sandstone and Murnaroo Formation in DDH Observatory Hill 1 indicated petroleum in the upper part of the Relief Sandstone. Good secondary porosity in both sediments is the result of dissolution of the matrix,...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1987
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RB 87/00058 Observatory Hill 1 well completion report, and geology of adjacent Observatory Hill Formation.
SADME stratigraphic drill hole, Observatory Hill 1, was located 270 km west of Coober Pedy to fully core the Observatory Hill Formation type section and the prognosed lithologies below it. The type section as intersected was successfully correlated...-
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Published: 01 May 1987
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RB 78/00152 Murnaroo 1. Well completion report.
During September-December 1976, Murnaroo 1 was drilled by the SA Department of Mines to TD 627.5 m near Observatory Hill in the central southern part of the Officer Basin, to investigate the local subsurface stratigraphy and economic potential, and...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1979
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RB 83/00003 Report on 1979 helicopter geological survey, western Officer Basin of South Australia.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Published: 01 Jan 1983
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RB 79/00115 Byilkaoora 1. Well completion report.
SADME Byilkaoora no. 1 was drilled on the northeastern margin of the Officer Basin, in the Mt Johns Range, with the principal objective of coring a complete stratigraphic section of the Observatory Hill Beds. Good hydrocarbon source-rock potential...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 79/00157 Cambrian alkali playa-lacustrine sequence in the northeastern Officer Basin, South Australia.
Byilkaoora 1, a stratigraphic well drilled in the northeastern part of the Officer Basin in South Australia, intersected aeolian and fluvial sandstones and mudstones overlying 224 m of fine-grained, dolomitic, calcareous and argillaceous sediments...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 79/00148 Review of recent geological work in the Officer Basin, South Australia.
The Officer Basin is an elongate intracratonic depression underlying western South Australia and eastern Western Australia, and bounded by the Musgrave, Gawler and Yilgarn Blocks. Its southern and eastern margins are overlapped by the Tertiary Eucla...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 80/00079 Lithologies and interpretations of the Observatory Hill Beds, Marla 1A and 1B.
A detailed description and interpretation of the carbonate lithologies present in drill cores recovered from two recently completed SADME stratigraphic wells have revealed that the Observatory Hill Beds in the Marla area were deposited in a shallow...-
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Published: 01 May 1980
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RB 79/00038 Summary of geophysical exploration of the eastern and western Officer Basin in South Australia, 1954 to 1978.
This report is a chronological record of geophysical surveys carried out in the eastern and western portions of the Officer Basin region within South Australia, from 1954 to 1978. It contains references to all known documents relating to the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 80/00005 Source book for the Officer Basin area in South Australia.
This is a bibliographic compilation with index and key maps on petroleum potential, geology, geophysics and palaeontology of the Proterozoic-Palaeozoic Officer Basin, post-Palaeozoic geology, tectonics and other related topics.-
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Published: 01 Feb 1980
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RB 79/00088 Wilkinson 1. Well completion report.
Wilkinson 1 stratigraphic well was drilled by the SA Department of Mines and Energy in mid-1978, about 250 km south-west of Coober Pedy, in the Tallaringa Trough. Here a thick section of Cambrian claystones, limestones and evaporites, at least 594 m...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1979
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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
