The Great Australian Bight An Emerging Global Hotspot
Scale and ambition are accurate words to describe new oil exploration underway in the Great Australian Bight, but they do not quite do it justice. To get a real sense…
Australasia
Dynamic Topography Sheds New Light
The new field of dynamic topography is changing our understanding of the sedimentary record. Australia is at the centre of its own tectonic plate and a safe distance from the powerful…
Shaping a Nation: A Geology of Australia
Shaping a Nation: A Geology of Australia. Geoscience Australia, 2012, Richard Blewitt, Chief Editor, 571 pages Australia’s defining moment came 34 million years ago when the continent rifted from Gondwana.…
Zeus and Zeebries
Zeus and Zeebries: Significant exploration insights High-quality 3D data could provide new exploration opportunities in this highly prospective part of the Northern Carnarvon Basin, where underexplored areas exist within close…
Australia: Expand LNG projects?
Chevron has made two deepwater gas discoveries in the Carnarvon Basin off Western Australia that the company believes have the potential to drive expansions of its Gorgon and Wheatstone LNG…
A Significant Milestone
Santos has declared itself to be on track to produce Australia’s first commercial shale gas after its Moomba-191 shale gas well in the Cooper Basin licence PPL 7 flowed at…
What’s the Future for LNG in Australia?
Barely a year ago, Australia was predicted to become the biggest global producer of LNG – but things have changed. According to a study published by GBI Research, Australia’s offshore…
Zeebries: new high quality data in Australia’s most prospective basin
Map of the Zeebries 3D. The survey name Zeebries means sea breeze in Dutch, a homage to Fugro’s Dutch origins. Significant insights from new survey The offshore part of the…
The Age of Uncertainty
Maximizing resolution from integrated seismic and quantitative biostratigraphy using CONOP Biostratigraphic correlation based on the geological succession of fossil species remains one of the fundamental workhorse approaches to geological correlation…
The Submerged Continent of New Zealand
Are there continent-scale resources to be found offshore? New Zealand has produced petroleum for nearly 100 years since oil first flowed from the Moturoa field in Taranaki Basin. Discovery of…
The Earth’s Oldest Fossils
On a splendid white beach in Shark Bay, Western Australia, I finally found the worlds oldest fossils. They are commonly referred to as living rock, and they have ruled the…
Joint petroleum development area Timor Sea
Treaty brings fresh enthusiasm The signing of a boundary dispute treaty between Australia and East Timor in 2005 has resulted in a resurgence in exploration vigour, both in the JPDA…