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Bailey, A.H.E. | Henson, P.
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A key focus of the Exploring for the Future program was the Kidson Sub-basin, a large, underexplored and poorly understood depocentre in the southern part of the Canning Basin of Western Australia. The Canning Basin hosts proven petroleum systems and has recently become an area of interest for unconventional hydrocarbon exploration. Several formations within deeper basin depocentres are under investigation. Unconventional petroleum resource evaluation is generally dependent on an understanding of both local and regional stresses, as these exert a control over subsurface fluid flow pathways, as well as the geomechanical properties of reservoir units. Gaps exist in our understanding of these factors within the Canning Basin, and particularly the Kidson Sub-basin where wellbore coverage is sparse. This study identifies a generally NE–SW-oriented regional maximum horizontal stress azimuth from interpretation of borehole failure in five petroleum wells, and a broadly strike–slip faulting stress regime from wireline data and wellbore testing. Variations in stress regime at different crustal levels within the basin are highlighted by one-dimensional mechanical earth models that show changes in the stress regime with depth as well as by lithology, with a general shift towards a normal faulting stress regime at depths greater than ~2.5 km. <b>Citation:</b> Bailey, A.H.E. and Henson, P., 2020. Present-day stresses of the Canning Basin, WA. In: Czarnota, K., Roach, I., Abbott, S., Haynes, M., Kositcin, N., Ray, A. and Slatter, E. (eds.) Exploring for the Future: Extended Abstracts, Geoscience Australia, Canberra, 1–4.
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- theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
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- EARTH SCIENCES
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- Canning Basin
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- Present-day Stress
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- In-situ stress
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- stress magnitudes
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- stress regime
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- vertical stress
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- horizontal stress
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- basin wide stresses
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- breakout model
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- wellbore failure
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- mechanical earth model
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- 1D MEM
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- Australian stress map
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- stress orientation
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- Exploring for the Future
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- EFTF
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- Energy systems
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This study was completed under the Exploring for the Future initiative, as part of the Canning Basin Onshore Energy component. Wireline logs were acquired from open-file petroleum and stratigraphic wells hosted by the Western Australian Government through the Western Australian Petroleum and Geothermal Information Management System. Logs and well data were analysed to interpret regional stress characteristics including orientation and magnitudes of the horizontal and vertical stresses, stress regimes, and variation in these by depth and lithology.
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