Examination of the Creaming Methods of Assessment Applied to the Gippsland Basin, Offshore Australia

1986 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Forman ◽  
A. L. Hinde
Keyword(s):  
Gippsland Basin

Characterisation of a microbial community associated with a deep, coal seam methane reservoir in the Gippsland Basin, Australia

2010 ◽  
Vol 82 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 232-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Midgley ◽  
Philip Hendry ◽  
Kaydy L. Pinetown ◽  
David Fuentes ◽  
Se Gong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Community ◽  
Coal Seam ◽  
Gippsland Basin ◽  
Coal Seam Methane

scholarly journals Oil generation from coal source rocks: the influence of depositional conditions and stratigraphic age

2005 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 9-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrik I. Petersen
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Liquid Hydrocarbon ◽  
Source Rocks ◽  
Hydrocarbon Generation ◽  
Oil Generation ◽  
Generation Capacity ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Coal Composition ◽  
Gippsland Basin ◽  
Australasian Region

Although it was for many years believed that coals could not act as source rocks for commercial oil accumulations, it is today generally accepted that coals can indeed generate and expel commercial quantities of oil. While hydrocarbon generation from coals is less well understood than for marine and lacustrine source rocks, liquid hydrocarbon generation from coals and coaly source rocks is now known from many parts of the world, especially in the Australasian region (MacGregor 1994; Todd et al. 1997). Most of the known large oil accumulations derived from coaly source rocks have been generated from Cenozoic coals, such as in the Gippsland Basin (Australia), the Taranaki Basin (New Zealand), and the Kutei Basin (Indonesia). Permian and Jurassic coal-sourced oils are known from, respectively, the Cooper Basin (Australia) and the Danish North Sea, but in general only minor quantities of oil appear to be related to coals of Permian and Jurassic age. In contrast, Carboniferous coals are only associated with gas, as demonstrated for example by the large gas deposits in the southern North Sea and The Netherlands. Overall, the oil generation capacity of coals seems to increase from the Carboniferous to the Cenozoic. This suggests a relationship to the evolution of more complex higher land plants through time, such that the highly diversified Cenozoic plant communities in particular have the potential to produce oil-prone coals. In addition to this overall vegetational factor, the depositional conditions of the precursor mires influenced the generation potential. The various aspects of oil generation from coals have been the focus of research at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) for several years, and recently a worldwide database consisting of more than 500 coals has been the subject of a detailed study that aims to describe the oil window and the generation potential of coals as a function of coal composition and age.

Mass Transport Complexes on a Cenozoic paleo-shelf edge, Gippsland basin, southeastern Australia

2018 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
pp. 783-801 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.E. O'Brien ◽  
C.H. Mitchell ◽  
D. Nguyen ◽  
R.P. Langford
Keyword(s):  
Mass Transport ◽  
Shelf Edge ◽  
Southeastern Australia ◽  
Gippsland Basin

Australia's Potential for Petroleum

1986 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 255-283
Author(s):  
P. R. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Substantial Contribution ◽  
Mature Stage ◽  
Present Position ◽  
Local Markets ◽  
Canning Basin ◽  
The Past ◽  
Timor Sea ◽  
Gippsland Basin ◽  
Eromanga Basin

The viability and direction of future exploration for petroleum in Australia appear to have been set, particularly by the results of the petroleum industry's endeavours over the past four years. The limited local markets for the abundance of natural gas, with which Australian basins are characterised, will control the direction and rate of exploration for many years. Even so, the local markets for petroleum should provide a continued incentive to search for oil. The Gippsland Basin is at a mature stage of exploration, and a replacement for it is still required in order that Australia maintain its present position of supplying the bulk of its needs for crude oil into the 1990s. Sectors of the Timor Sea are the most likely areas of relatively untested continental shelf to produce the requisite large fields. The previously disregarded Mesozoic plays of the Eromanga Basin hold promise for continued small discoveries that cumulatively may provide a substantial contribution to the nation's needs. The Canning Basin is the most promising of the still generally non-productive basins, but realisation of its potential will be expensive.

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