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Source Rock Studies - SA Sedimentary Basins Progress Report No 1.
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Published: 02 Nov 1978
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Petroleum geochemistry of the Otway Basin, and the significance of coastal bitumen strandings on adjacent southern Australian beaches. Volumes 1 to 5 source rock studies.
The standing of crude oil on the beaches of southern Australia was first recorded approximately 150 years ago. This material, known locally as coastal bitumen, was used by the early maritime visitors and settlers to caulk their vessels and is the...-
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RB 78/00093 End uses of energy in South Australia 1976-1977.
Preliminary study of end uses according to fuel types, economic sector and purpose.-
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Published: 01 Sep 1978
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RB 78/00013 Northern Adelaide Plains gas storage study. Barabba gravity low.
The Barabba Gravity Low in the Northern Adelaide Plains has been interpreted as a southerly dipping trough-like depression in Precambrian bedrock, infilled with Tertiary and covered by a blanket of Quaternary sediments. All margins of this feature are...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 79/00062 Investigation of a possible site for underground gas storage in the Northern Adelaide Plains.
Exploration for a suitable underground gas storage target in the Northern Adelaide Plains was initiated in 1964. Prior to the present investigation, four other areas have been examined and rejected as target areas, mainly due to the shallow depth of...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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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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Oil-source characterisation and correlation, Spencer 3 and Spencer 4, Eromanga/Cooper Basin.
Two oil samples from the Birkhead Formation oil reservoir in Spencer 3 and Spencer 4, and five sidewall cores taken from the Bulldog Shale, Murta Member, Hutton Sandstone, Poolowanna Formation and Patchawarra Formation in Spencer 3 were subjected to...-
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Published: 24 Dec 1986
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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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Whole oil analysis, Merrimelia 15, Merrimelia 12 and Merrimelia 9.
Comprises results only of detailed molecular composition, aromatic maturity and GC/MS abundance ratio analyses of three crude oil samples obtained from DSTs run in three separate Mesozoic formations in the wells.-
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SADME source rock analysis research and development (project 1/1/237). Progress reports nos 1-6, 21 December 1979 to 26 May 1981.
These reports describe the development of an innovative analytical system for petroleum source rock assessment, using both pyrolysis - gas chromatography and pyrolysis - flame ionization detection methods, plus gas condensate and drill cuttings gas...-
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Published: 26 May 1981
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Marree, Mount Alford, Meta Hill and Etadunna. Joint first progress and joint final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 20/6/1980 to 19/12/1980.
An assessment of the oil shale potential of marginal Great Artesian Basin sediments in South Australia was carried out, due mainly to their perceived stratigraphic and lithological similarity to Cretaceous strata in Queensland which host the very...-
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Published: 25 Nov 1980
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Source rock evaluation of 2 Cambrian drillhole samples from wells (Amoco-Duval) KD-2A and (Getty) Yarle Lakes 1, Officer Basin, South Australia.
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Published: 28 Apr 1986
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Stevenson Creek and Mount Bagot. Joint progress reports and technical reports to licences' joint expiry/renewal, for the period 25/11/1980 to 24/11/1981.
Possible high-yielding oil shales of the Middle Cretaceous Toolebuc Formation, believed to be present within 125 m of the ground surface along the Dalhousie Anticline in the vicinity of previously drilled Pedirka Basin petroleum exploration wells...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1981
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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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Wilkatana area. Miscellaneous bore sample analyses.
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Petroleum geochemistry and source-rock potential of the Arrowie, Pedirka, Cooper and Eromanga Basins, central Australia.
Samples of ?Ordovician to Cretaceous sediments taken from 5 Pedirka Basin petroleum exploration wells, and of crude oils recovered from the Jurassic Poolowanna and Triassic Peera Peera Formations intersected in Poolowanna 1, were examined. The...-
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Gas chromatographic analysis of Tirrawarra oil, and chemical analysis of Tirrawarra and Moorari coals.
In September 1971, CSIRO was supplied by the Delhi International Oil Corporation with eight coal samples and one oil sample from the Moorari No.l, Tirrawarra No.l and Tirrawarra No.2 ·Wells. The hydrocarbons extracted from the coal samples were...-
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Cooper Basin hydrocarbon characteristics and gas-liquids composition.
This report summarises basic data relating to the stratigraphic and geographic distribution, composition and recovery efficiency of Cooper Basin hydrocarbons. Their possible geological controls are discussed, with the aim of refining pre-drill...-
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Progressive report on the PhD research project entitled: Source rock and petroleum geochemistry of the Poolowanna Formation (basal Jurassic), Eromanga Basin.
This report describes the work performed during the first year of a 3-year PhD research project, which commenced on 24/2/93. To start with the author carried out a literature review of previous work on petroleum geochemistry in the Cooper and Eromanga...-
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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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