RB 98/00030 Lineament associations in the Cooper Basin region, South Australia - Basement controls on hydrocarbon distribution.
Published: 01 Sep 1998 Created: 07 Nov 2024 Revised: 07 Nov 2024

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...

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 occurs on or near the lineaments themselves. A Tethyan primary and orthogonal network of WNW and NNE trending lineaments similarly has no hydrocarbon occurrences at lineament intersections. Some significant oil fields do lie on 300 degrees True trending lineaments, however, 290 degrees True trending lineaments are unprospective along their entire length. It has proven too difficult to correlate any of the lineament attributes to the DST results or CO2 content of Cooper Basin gas fields, primarily because of the many uncertainties encountered in working with these data. Some of the many abandoned exploration and development wells within the study area nevertheless show good correlations with certain lineaments, so these locales should perhaps be avoided by future drilling.

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Record No rb9800030
Topic Geoscientific Information
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Document Type Departmental Publication - Energy Geoscience
Contributor Whitehorse Geoscience Pty Ltd
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Geological Province
Mine Name Merrimelia Oil and Gas Field;Toolachee Gas Field;Moomba Gas Field;Gidgealpa South Gas Field;Tantanna Oil and Gas Field
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    Geographic Locality: North-eastern South Australia;Fly Lake - Burruna lineament;Nulla - Moolion lineament;Dullingari - Bookabourdie lineament;Wonominta Block lineament (NSW-SA)
    Doc No: RB 98/00030

    Geographic Locality: North-eastern South Australia;Fly Lake - Burruna lineament;Nulla - Moolion lineament;Dullingari - Bookabourdie lineament;Wonominta Block lineament (NSW-SA) Doc No: RB 98/00030

    Language English
    Metadata Standard ISO 19115-3

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    License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
    Persistent identifier https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/rb9800030
    Citation Boucher, R.K. 1998. RB 98/00030 Lineament associations in the Cooper Basin region, South Australia - Basement controls on hydrocarbon distribution. Departmental Publication - Energy Geoscience. Government of South Australia.
    https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/rb9800030

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    Geographic Reference GDA2020 (EPSG:7844)
    Geo bounding box {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[139.5,-29],[141,-29],[141,-27],[139.5,-27],[139.5,-29]]]}
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