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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Structural style of the White Pointer and Hammerhead delta - deepwater fold-thrust belts, Bight Basin, Australia |
Author: | MacDonald, J. King, R. Hillis, R. Backe, G. |
Citation: | Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal, 2010; 2010(1):487-510 |
Publisher: | Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association |
Issue Date: | 2010 |
ISSN: | 1326-4966 |
Statement of Responsibility: | J. D. MacDonald, R. C. King, R. R. Hillis and G. Backé |
Abstract: | <jats:p> GeoScience Victoria and partners have undertaken the first detailed basin-wide study of the regional top seal in the Gippsland Basin. The Gippsland Basin is an attractive site for geological carbon storage (GCS) because of the close proximity to emission sources and the potential for large-scale storage projects. This top seal assessment involved the analysis of seal attributes (geometry, capacity and mineralogy) and empirical evidence for seal failure (soil gas geochemical anomalies, gas chimneys, hydrocarbon seepage and oil slicks). These datasets have been integrated to produce a qualitative evaluation of the containment potential for GCS, and also hydrocarbons, across the basin. Mineralogical analysis of the top seal has revealed that the Lakes Entrance Formation is principally a smectite-rich claystone. The geometry of the top seal is consistent with deposition in an early post-rift setting where marine sediments filled palaeo-topographic lows. The seal thickness and depth to seal base are greatest in the Central Deep and decrease toward the margins. There is a strong positive relationship between seal capacity column heights, seal thickness, depth to seal base and smectite content. At greater burial depths (below 700 m) and where smectite content is greater than 70%, seal capacity is increased (supportable column heights above 150 m). Natural hydrocarbon leakage and seepage onshore and offshore is correlated with fault distribution and areas of poor seal capacity. This study provides a framework for qualitatively evaluating seal potential at a basin scale. It has shown that the potential of the regional top seal over the Central Deep, Southern Terrace, central eastern Lake Wellington Depression and the southern to central near shore areas in the Seaspray Depression are most suitable for the containment of supercritical CO2. Further toward the margin of the regional seal in both onshore and offshore areas, containment of supercritical CO2 is less likely. </jats:p> |
Keywords: | Great Australian Bight Bight Basin Ceduna Sub-basin Hammerhead Delta White Pointer Delta hydrocarbon trap geometry structural geometry detachment |
Rights: | Copyright: APPEA owns or has the right to use the copyright in the APPEA Journal 2010 and Conference Proceedings. |
DOI: | 10.1071/aj09029 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj09029 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest Australian School of Petroleum publications |
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