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Exploration for tight gas reservoirs enhanced by natural fracturing, Cooper Basin, South Australia.
This ARC SPIRT project aims to identify where natural fractures enhance reservoir permeability in the ‘tight’ gas reservoirs of the Nappamerri Trough. Year 2 of the project, reported herein, focuses on natural fracture “sweet spot” prediction with...-
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Published: 12 Feb 1901
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Reservoir Micro Analysis Yarrow 1 and 2 Tirrawarra and Merrimelia Formations.
An interpretation of reservoir properties has been carried out using washed and dried drill cuttings from the Yarrow 1 and Yarrow 2 wellbores. The intervals examined (adjusted to equivalent wireline depths) were from 2670 – 2724 metres in...-
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Petrology Report Differentiating Sediments of the Cooper & Warburton Basins.
Primary Industries and Resources SA submitted 50 thin sections of cuttings to PGPC for brief petrological description. Samples were selected by the late Dr David Gravestock from the Cooper and Warburton Basins. Four samples from Tarragon-1 included...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1900
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Zircon Fission Track Analysis of One Sample from Munyarai-1.
A single sample from the Munyarai-1 well, submitted for analysis by MESA, Adelaide. The principle objective was to obtain some constraint on the depositional age of the host unit. 2. Track counts from five grains gave a pooled fission track age of...-
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Source relationships of oils : analysis of 6 oils by molecular organic geochemistry.
Data compilation and interpretation.-
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Published: 15 Jun 1998
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Sequence Stratigraphic Subdivision and Palaeogeography of the Permian Cooper Basin.
In an area extending aerially for approximately 4100 km2, the Nappamerri Trough PPL's incorporate at least five distinct geological regions and contain large gas resources within the coal measure sequence of the Permian Cooper Basin. Due to sparse...-
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Published: 01 May 1999
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Blanchewater Hill. Progress and final reports for the period 11/8/80 to 10/8/82.
Drilling of two percussion holes (aggregate 400 metres) near Yerila, south of Lake Blanche, failed to give encouragement to the search for possible Permian coal and Tertiary uranium in the southern Eromanga Basin / Lake Blanche Lineament uplift area...-
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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 96/00031 Big Lake Suite not Tirrawarra Sandstone in the Moomba Field, Cooper Basin, SA.
Granodiorite core recovered from Moomba 72 has enabled recent recognition of an altered zone at the top of pre-Permian 'basement'. This altered zone has been previously misinterpreted as Early Permian Tirrawarra Sandstone. Consequently, the depth...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1996
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Measurement of Seal Lithologies from the Cooper Basin.
The main aim of the project was to investigate the mineralogical andpetrological characteristics of the seal types in the Cooper Basin by QemSCAN.These new data will be used to compliment existing information gained byoptical examination and XRD...-
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Petrology Report Differentiating Sediments of the Cooper & Warburton Basins.
Primary Industries and Resources SA submitted 50 thin sections of cuttings to PGPC for brief petrological description. Samples were selected by the late Dr David Gravestock from the Cooper and Warburton Basins. Four samples from Tarragon-1 included...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1900
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Petrology of Gidgealpa Formation of the Cooper Basin Progress Reports Nos 1, 2, and 3.
Nineteen sandstones from the lower member of the Gidgealpa formation have been examined petrographically with particular emphasis on the diagenetic features. The one sample of the underlying Merimelia formation is a conglomeratic siltstone and it may...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1972
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Special Core Analysis Final Report of Cooper Basin Paleozoics.
This final report presents the details of a Core Analysis Study performed on samples from the Cooper Basin, Paleozoic zone. The program was commissioned on 14th January 1999 by Primary Industries and Resources SA. Chapter 2 of this report summarizes...-
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Published: 16 Feb 1999
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National Centre for Petroleum Geology and Geophysics - Research data for SENRAC.
Contents comprise research grant applications and progress reports to SENRAC for the NCPGG Cooper Basin Project, jointly funded by SENRAC and NERDDP, entitled Factors relating to the development of porosity and permeability in Permian sandstones in...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1989
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Fluid inclusion study of Permian sandstones. Progress reports nos 1 and 2.
Fluid inclusions to quartz overgrowths occurring within 6 selected samples of Patchawarra Formation drill cores obtained from 3 deep Cooper Basin wells, were investigated using closely controlled heating/cooling cycles to determine past temperatures...-
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Published: 18 Sep 1978
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Aspects of coal type and rank variation, and their bearing on hydrocarbon potential in seven wells from the southern Cooper Basin.
Seven wells along a line of section in the southern Cooper Basin were studied. Examination of coals in Permian and Triassic sequences revealed marked vertical and lateral trends in vitrinite, inertinite and exinite content and their microlithotypes....-
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Petrological study of Mesozoic reservoirs in the Merrimelia Field, Cooper-Eromanga Basin.
Two drill core samples from each of the four reservoir units in the Merrimelia Field, the Murta Member, Namur Sandstone Member, Hutton Sandstone and Nappamerri Formation, were examined to determine their petrological and porosity characteristics and...-
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Published: 29 Nov 1983
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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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Strzelecki Field studies.
Contains results of whole oil analyses of Jurassic oil reservoir crude oil samples, obtained as DST recoveries, to determine detailed compositional parameters and aromatic maturity factors. Also includes a cross-reference to a student Honours thesis...-
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