References

Online Technical Papers

The Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA) sponsored online document search and delivery website PROFDOCS contains many of the technical papers referenced below, and can be found at http://www.profdocs.com.


Van AARSSEN, R., ALEXANDER, R. AND KAGI, R.I., 1996-The origin of Barrow Sub-basin crude oils: a geochemical correlation using land-plant biomarkers. The APPEA Journal, 36(1), 131-144.

ALCOCK, M.B., STAGG, H.M.J., COLWELL, J.B., BORISSOVA, I., SYMONDS AND BERNARDEL, G., 2006-Seismic transects of Australia's frontier continental margins. Geoscience Australia Record 2006/004

ARDITTO, P.A., 1993-Depositional sequence model for the post-Barrow Group Neocomian succession, Barrow and Exmouth Sub-basins, Western Australia. The APEA Journal, 33 (1), 152-160.

AULD, K., THOMAS, B., GOODALL, J., ELLIOTT, L. AND BENSON, J., 2002-John Brookes Gas - the voyage to discovery. In: Keep, M. and Moss, S.J. (editors), The Sedimentary Basins of Western Australia 3: Proceedings of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Symposium, Perth, 491-509.

BACKHOUSE, J., BALME, B.E., HELBY, R., MARSHALL, N.G. AND MORGAN, R., 2002-Palynological zonation and correlation of the latest Triassic Northern Carnarvon Basin. . In: Keep, M. and Moss, S.J. (editors), The Sedimentary Basins of Western Australia 3: Proceedings of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Symposium, Perth, 179-201.

BACKHOUSE, J., 2006-Triassic biostratigraphic study of greater Exmouth Plateau, synthesis report. Geoscience Australia Repository Destructive Analysis Report 1297 unpublished.

BAILLIE, P.W. AND JACOBSON, E.P., 1997-Prospectivity and exploration history of the Barrow Sub-basin, Western Australia. The APPEA Journal, 37(1), 117-135.

BARBER, P., 1988-The Exmouth Plateau deepwater frontier: a case study. In: Purcell, P.G. and Purcell, R.R. (editors), The North West Shelf, Australia: Proceedings of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Symposium, Perth, 173-187.

BARRETT, A. G. 2004-Opportunity for growth, Medium-term potential for the Exmouth Sub-basin. Chapter 3 in Oil and Gas Resources of Australia 2004. Geoscience Australia.

BLEVIN, J.E., STEPHENSON, A.E. AND WEST, B.G., VUCKOVIC, V., MIYAZAKI, S. AND LAVERING, I.H., 1994a-Beagle Sub-basin Petroleum Prospectivity Bulletin, 2nd edition, Bureau of Resource Sciences, AGPS, Canberra.

BLEVIN, J.E., STEPHENSON, A.E. AND WEST, B.G., 1994b-Mesozoic structural development of the Beagle Sub-basin - Implications for the petroleum potential of the Northern Carnarvon Basin. In: Purcell, P.G. and Purcell, R.R. (editors), The Sedimentary Basins of Western Australia: Proceedings of Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Symposium, Perth, 479-495.

BHP PTY LTD, 2001-Coniston 1, Well Completion Report, Interpretative Volume, unpublished

BHP BILLITON, 2007-Pyrenees Oil Field Development, Exmouth Sub-basin. Boucher June 2007. BHP Billiton.

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BOOTE, D.R.D. & KIRK, R.B., 1989- Depositional wedge cycles on evolving plate margin, western and northwestern Australia. AAPG Bulletin 73(2), 216-243.

BRADSHAW, J., SAYERS, J., BRADSHAW, M., KNEALE, R., FORD, C., SPENCER, L. & LISK, M., 1998-Palaeogeography and its impact on the Petroleum Systems of the North West Shelf, Australia, In: Purcell, P.G. & R.R. (Eds), 1998, The Sedimentary Basins of Western Australia 2: Proceedings of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Symposium, Perth, 1998, 95-121

BRADSHAW, M.T., FOSTER, C.B., FELLOWS, M.E. AND ROWLAND, D.C., 1999-The Australian search for petroleum-patterns of discovery. The APPEA Journal, 39 (1), 1-18.

BURNS, B., 1981-Geochemical Report. In: Esso Australia Limited, 1981-Eendracht 1 Well Completion Report, unpublished.

BUSSELL, M.R., JABLONSKI, D., ENMAN, T., WILSON, M.J. AND BINT, A.N., 2001-Deepwater exploration: northern Western Australia compared with Gulf of Mexico and Mauritania. The APPEA Journal 41(1), 289-319.

CHEVRON 2007-[Web page] www.chevron.com/countries/australia/?view=3 (last accessed 25 January 2008)

COOK, A.C., SMYTH, M. AND VOS, R.G., 1985-Source potential of Upper Triassic fluvio-deltaic systems of the Exmouth Plateau. The APEA Journal 25 (1), 204-215.

CRAIG, A., SIT, H., SHERIDAN, P. AND MacLEAN, 1997-A geophysical appraisal of the east Spar gas/condensate field. The APPEA Journal 37(1), 12-30.

DoIR. 14 June 2007-[Web page] Production http://www.doir.wa.gov.au/mineralsandpetroleum/Publications.asp (last accessed 24 January 2008)

Department of Resources Energy and Tourism (DRET) 2007-[Web page] Australian Petroleum News, April 2007 (last accessed 5 February 2007).

EDWARDS, D. AND ZUMBERGE, J., 2005-The Oils of Western Australia II: Regional Petroleum Geochemistry and Correlation of Crude Oils and Condensates from Western Australia and Papua and New Guinea. Geoscience Australia and GeoMark Research Ltd., unpublished report.

EDWARDS, D.S., ZUMBERGE, J.E., BOREHAM, C.J., KENNARD, J.M., BARRETT, A. AND BRADSHAW, M.T., 2007-Petroleum Systems and Supersystems of the Australian North West Shelf: A Geochemical Approach. Abstract, Geological Society of London: Emerging Plays in Australasia Symposium July 2007.

ELLIS, G.K., PITCHFORD, A. AND BRUCE, R.H., 1999-Barrow Island oil field. The APPEA Journal 39 (1), 158-175.

ESSO AUSTRALIA LIMITED, 1979-Zeewulf 1 Well Completion Report, unpublished.

ESSO AUSTRALIA LIMITED, 1980a-Resolution 1 Well Completion Report, unpublished.

ESSO AUSTRALIA LIMITED, 1980b-Vinck 1 Well Completion Report, unpublished.

ESSO AUSTRALIA LIMITED, 1981-Eendracht 1 Well Completion Report, unpublished.

ESSO AUSTRALIA LIMITED, 1983-Novara 1 Well Completion Report, unpublished.

EXON, N.F., COLWELL, J.B., WILLIAMSON, P.E. AND BRADSHAW, M.T., 1991-Reefal complexes in Mesozoic sequences: Australia's North West Shelf Region. 1991 Indonesian Petroleum Association Conference Proceedings, 51-66.

FERDINANDO, D., 2004-Review of 2004 Upstream Petroleum Activity in Western Australia. Petroleum in Western Australia Magazine, April 2004. Available at: Department of Industry and Resouces

GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA AND GEOMARK, 2005-The Oils of Western Australia II. Geoscience Australia and GeoMark Research, Ltd., Proprietary report, Canberra and Houston, unpublished.

HAQ, B.U., von RAD, U., O'CONNELL, S. ET AL., 1990-Proceedings of Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, 122. Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, Texas, 862 pp.

HEARTY, D.J. AND BATTRICK, M.A., 2002-Woollybutt 2001: a geoscience odyssey. Hearty and Battrick, 2002. In: Keep, M. and Moss, S.J. (editors), The Sedimentary Basins of Western Australia 3: Proceedings of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Symposium, Perth, 551-576.

HEARTY, D.J., ELLIS, G.K. AND WEBSTER, K.A., 2002-Geological history of the western Barrow Sub-basin: implications for hydrocarbon entrapment at Woollybutt and surrounding oil and gas fields. In: Keep, M. and Moss, S.J. (editors), The Sedimentary Basins of Western Australia 3: Proceedings of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Symposium, Perth, 577-598.

HOCKING, R.M., 1990-Carnarvon Basin. In: Geology and Mineral Resources of Western Australia. Western Australia Geological Survey, Memoir 3, 457-495.

INGRAM, B., 1990-Review of Twelve Wells from the Beagle Sub-basin, Palynology Report WP11/90. Kufpec Australia Pty. Ltd., unpublished.

JABLONSKI, D., 1997-Recent advances in the sequence stratigraphy of the Triassic to Lower Cretaceous succession in the Northern Carnarvon Basin, Australia. The APPEA Journal 37 (1), 429-454.

JABLONSKI, D AND SAITTA, A.J., 2004-Permian to Lower Cretaceous plate tectonics and its impact on the tectono-stratigraphic development of the western Australian margin. The APPEA Journal 44 (1) 287-327.

JENKINS, C.C., MAUGHAN, D.M., ACTON, J.H., DUCKETT, A., KORN, B.E. AND TEAKLE, R.P., 2003-The Jansz gas field, Carnarvon Basin, Australia. The APPEA Journal 43 (1), 303-324.

JOURNAL OF PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGY, 2007-Regional Update, Australia. Journal of Petroleum Technology, volume 59, Number 11, November 2007, page 10.

KOPSEN, E. AND McGANN, G., 1985-A review of the hydrocarbon habitat of the eastern and central Barrow-Dampier Sub-basin, Western Australia. The APEA Journal 25 (1), 154-176.

KORN, B.E., TEAKLE, R.P., MAUGHAN, D.M., & SIFFLEET, P.B., 2003-The Geryon, Orthrus, Maenad and Urania gas fields, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. APPEA Journal 43 (1), 285-301.

LONGLEY, I.M., BRADSHAW, M.T. AND HEBBERGER, J., 2001-Australia petroleum provinces of the twenty-first century. In DOWNEY, M.W., THRETT, J.C. AND MORGAN, W.A., (editors) Petroleum Provinces of the Twenty-first Century; AAPG Memoir 74, 87-317.

LONGLEY, I.M., BUESSENSCHUETT, C., CLYDSDALE, L., CUBITT, C.J., DAVIS, R.C., JOHNSON, M.K., MARSHALL, N.M., MURRAY, A.P., SOMERVILLE, R., SPRY, T.B. AND THOMPSON, N.B., 2002-The North West Shelf of Australia - a Woodside perspective. In: Keep, M. and Moss, S.J. (editors), The Sedimentary Basins of Western Australia 3: Proceedings of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Symposium, Perth, 27-88.

MALCOLM, R.J., POTT, M.C. AND DELFOS, E., 1991-A new tectono-stratigraphic synthesis of the North West Cape area. The APEA Journal 31(1), 154-176.

MALEK, R., 2006-Western Australia's developing hydrocarbon potential. In Australia in Focus, PESA News October/November 2006. Petroleum Exploration society of Australia.

MOBIL EXPLORATION AND PRODUCING AUSTRALIA, 1999-John Brookes 1/ST1 Well Completion Report, unpublished.

MOSS, S., BARR, D., KNEALE, R., CLEWS, P. AND CRUSE, T., 2003-Mid to Late Jurassic shallow marine sequences of the eastern Barrow Sub-basin: the role of low-stand deposition in new exploration concepts. The APPEA Journal 43 (1), 231-255.

NEWMAN, S., 1994-Clues to the structural history of the Rankin Trend, from 3-D seismic data. In: Purcell, P.G. and Purcell, R.R. (editors), The Sedimentary Basins of Western Australia: Proceedings of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Symposium, Perth, 497-507.

NICOLL, R.S., 2002-Conodont biostratigraphy and palaeogeography of the Triassic on the western, northwestern and northern margins of the Australian Plate. In: Keep, M. and Moss, S.J. (editors), The Sedimentary Basins of Western Australia 3: Proceedings of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Symposium, Perth, 168-177.

NORVICK, M.S., 2002-Palaeogeographic Maps of the Northern Margins of the Australian Plate: Final Report. Unpublished report for Geoscience Australia.

PETROLEUM AND ROYALTIES DIVISION AND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, 2007-The Petroleum Explorer's Guide to Western Australia, Third Edition: Department of Industry and Resources of Western Australia, page 47.

POLOMKA, S.M., BRUINS, J., SPANNINGA, G.A. AND MENNIE, J.P., 1999-WA-271-P, Exmouth Sub-basin - integrated prospectivity evaluation. The APPEA Journal 39 (1), 115-127.

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ROBERTSON RESEARCH, 1986-Petroleum Geology and Geochemistry, Northwest Shelf, Australia: Phase II. Robertson Research Australia Pty. Ltd. Report, unpublished.

ROSS, M.I. AND VAIL, P.R., 1994-Sequence stratigraphy of the lower Neocomian Barrow Delta, Exmouth Plateau, northwestern Australia. In: Purcell, P.G. and Purcell, R.R. (editors), The Sedimentary Basins of Western Australia: Proceedings of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Symposium, Perth, 435-447.

SAYERS, J., BORISSOVA, I, RAMSEY, D, AND SYMONDS, P. A., 2002- Geological framework of the Wallaby Plateau and adjacent areas. Geoscience Australia Record 2002/21.

SCIBIORSKI, J.P., MICENKO, M. AND LOCKHART, D., 2005-Recent discoveries in the Pyrenees Member, Exmouth Sub-basin: a new oil play fairway. The APPEA Journal 45 (1), 233-251.

SCOTT, J. AND HARTUNG-KAGI, B., 1998-Oil families and effective source rocks of Western Australia. PESA Journal, No 26, 22-36.

SEGGIE, R.J., LAND, S.C., MARSHALL, N.M., CUBITT, C.J., ALSOP, D., KIRK, R. AND TWARTZ, S., 2007-Integrated multi-disciplinary analysis of the Rankin Trend gas reservoirs, North West Shelf, Australia. The APPEA Journal, 47 (1), 53-67.

SIBLEY, D., HERKENHOFF, F., CRIDDLE, D. & McLERIE, M., 1999- Reducing resource uncertainty using seismic amplitude analysis on the southern Rankin Trend, northwest Australia. APPEA Journal 39(1), 128-147.

SIT, K.H., HILLOCK, P.M., AND MILLER, N.W.D., 1994-The Maitland gas discovery - a geophysical/petrophyscial case history. In: Purcell, P.G. and Purcell, R.R. (editors), The Sedimentary Basins of Western Australia: Proceedings of Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Symposium, Perth, 597-613.

SMITH, N., DEMPSEY, C., JACKSON, M., AND PRESTON, J., 2003- Overcoming historical bias: an integrated geological and engineering assessment of the Coniston prospect, Exmouth Sub-basin. The APPEA Journal 43(1), 363-383.

STAGG, H.M.J., ALCOCK, M.B., BERNARDEL, G., MOORE, A.M.G., SYMONDS, P.A. AND EXON, N.F., 2004-Geological framework of the Outer Exmouth Plateau and adjacent ocean basins. Geoscience Australia Record 2004/13.

TINAPPLE, W., 2007-Exploration picks up in WA. Petroleum in Western Australia, April 2007. Department of Industry and Resources, Western Australia, page 12. Available at: BHP Billiton Announces Gas Discovery At Thebe-1 Offshore Australia

TINDALE, K., NEWELL, N., KEALL, J. AND SMITH, N., 1998-Structural evolution and charge history of the Exmouth Sub-basin, Northern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. In: Purcell, P.G. and Purcell, R.R.(editors), The Sedimentary Basins of Western Australia 2: Proceedings of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Symposium, Perth, 447-472.

U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WORLD ENERGY ASSESSMENT TEAM, 2000-Northwest Shelf Geologic Province 3948. U.S. Geological Survey World Petroleum Assessment 2000.

WALKER, T.R., 2007-Deepwater and frontier exploration in Australia - historical perspectives, present environment and likely future trends. The APPEA Journal 47(1), 15-38.

WAPET, 1983-Bluebell 1 Well Completion Report, unpublished

WAPET, 1997-Dionysus 1 Well Completion Report, unpublished

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