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Modelling and associated data analysis of Ordovician petroleum systems of the southern Canning Basin: The Kidson and Willara sub-basins and the Barnicarndy Graben

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This Geoscience Australia Record reports the findings of the Canning Basin Petroleum Systems Modelling Project. The southern, frontier portions of the Canning Basin have numerous potential hydrocarbon play opportunities, in particular unconventional gas plays, which remain untested. Of particular interest are Ordovician-aged petroleum systems. Geoscience Australia in collaboration with the Geological Survey of Western Australia acquired an 872 km long 2D seismic line across the south and south-west Canning Basin in 2018, and drilled the 2680 m stratigraphic hole Barnicarndy 1 in the Barnicarndy Graben to further develop the understanding of hydrocarbon prospectivity in these frontier regions. As part of the Exploring for the Future program Geoscience Australia contracted GNS Science to construct ten 1D petroleum systems models and one 2D model across the frontier southern parts of the basin. The aim was to combine interpretation of the newly acquired seismic data with interpretation of legacy and new well data, in particular organic geochemical data, to improve the understanding of the burial and thermal history, trap formation, generation and migration of hydrocarbons in the southern, frontier parts of the Canning Basin. This Record is a compilation of the work completed by GNS Science International Limited and the reports containing new data collected and analyzed relevant to the petroleum systems modelling.

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Title Modelling and associated data analysis of Ordovician petroleum systems of the southern Canning Basin: The Kidson and Willara sub-basins and the Barnicarndy Graben
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/0f292e57-2783-4596-bd1a-7b49486ab00a
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Reference Period 08/04/2019
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Modelling and associated data analysis of Ordovician petroleum systems of the southern Canning Basin: The Kidson and Willara sub-basins and the Barnicarndy Graben". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/modelling-and-associated-data-analysis-of-ordovician-petroleum-systems-of-the-southern-canning-