Australia's Future Energy Resources project, the untapped potential of onshore low carbon energy resources

<div>The “Australia’s Future Energy Resources” (AFER) project, funded under the Government’s “Exploring for the Future” (EFTF) program has been completed. The project’s four modules have evaluated a mixture of energy resource commodities, including natural gas, hydrogen, subsurface storage opportunities for carbon dioxide and hydrogen. They are complimented by several targeted basin inventories which outline the current geological knowledge of energy resources in underexplored, data-poor regions. Several publicly available data sets have been generated and published under the AFER project, including 3,750&nbsp;line-km of reprocessed 2D seismic data, acquired in the Pedirka and western Eromanga basins, of which key lines have been interpreted and integrated with geological and petrophysical well log data. Relative prospectivity maps have been produced for five energy resource commodities from 14&nbsp;play intervals to show the qualitative variability in prospectivity of these resources, including quantitative resource assessments where warranted. Results from the AFER project have helped to identify and geologically characterise the required energy resource commodities to accelerate Australia’s path to net zero emissions.</div>

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2024-01-26T03:00:00
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2024-06-20T02:18:18
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Bernecker, T.

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Bradshaw, B.

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Iwanec, J.

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Bradey, K.

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Owens, R.

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Feitz, A.

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Kalinowski, A.

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Carr, L.

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Australian Energy Producers (AEP) Conference & Exhibition 20-23 May 2024, Perth WA

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Extended abstract in support of presentation of the results of Australia's Future Energy Resources project, under the Exploring for the Future program, at the Australia's Energy Producers Conference and Exhibition, 2024.

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Owens, R.

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  • EFTF – Exploring for the Future

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  • energy resources

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  • Pedirka Basin

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Assessment of the geological storage potential for carbon dioxide, Pedirka and western Eromanga basins. Australia's Future Energy Resources (AFER) Project, Exploring For The Future Program.

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The potential for CO2 storage in residual oil zones in onshore Australian basins

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Hydrocarbon Resources Assessment, Pedirka and western Eromanga basins. Australias Future Energy Resources (AFER) Project, Exploring For The Future Program

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149673

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<div>This extended abstract presents a high level summary of the results of the AFER project, with a focus on the energy resource assessment component. The energy resource assessment was centred on the Pedirka and western Eromanga basins and involved post drill analysis, mapping of gross depositional environments, structural and stratigraphic analysis and mapping, petrophysical analysis and property modelling and mapping, and common risk segment mapping.</div>

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Australia’s Future Energy Resources EFTF – Exploring for the Future
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