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Bernecker, T.
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It appears that the hydrocarbon exploration industry will be able to enjoy today's vibrant times for years to come. In the current climate of high oil prices and ongoing expansion of global energy needs, many companies find themselves in the pursuit of new prospective acreage. It has long been acknowledged that Australia's early Palaeozoic sedimentary basins are largely under-explored. This may be partly due to the lack of infrastructure and partly due to the perceived high risk involved in committing to an expensive exploration program in remote areas. From a regional geological perspective however, several provinces can be earmarked as candidates that may emerge as future hydrocarbon producers. These include the western extension of the prolific Cooper/Eromanga hydrocarbon province (Pedirka and Warburton basins in SA, NT), the Georgina Basin (NT, Qld), the Amadeus Basin (NT, WA), the Officer Basin (SA, WA) and the southern Canning Basin (Kidson-Sub-basin, WA). As part of Geoscience Australia's Onshore Energy Security Program, new radiometric and aeromagnetic data have been acquired with the aim to better image crustal features such as regional tectonic lineaments that control basin evolution. A significant part of the program is devoted to the acquisition of deep seismic surveys over key areas in which petroleum systems are known to exist. Such surveys will target major basin-bounding lineaments and basinal deeps in order to improve the understanding of basin-fill processes. The effects of tectonism on the occurrence and preservation of petroleum systems elements is of particular interest. While source rocks are likely to be available in virtually all target areas, the distribution of permeable reservoir facies needs to be delineated. Moreover, trap configurations are crucially important to assess and the integrity of the sealing facies needs to be ascertained.
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- External PublicationConference Paper
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- hydrocarbons
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- petroleum exploration
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- petroleum reserves
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- petroleum geology
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- Earth Sciences
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2008-01-01T00:00:00
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