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2013 PETROLEUM OPPORTUNITIES
IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Elinor Alexander,
Director Geology and Exploration
Energy Resources Division
DMITRE
www.petroleum.dmitre.sa.gov.au
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Officer Basin
Pedirka Basin
Cooper
BasinArckaringa
Basin
Eromanga Basin
Arrowie
Basin
Stansbury
Basin
Bight
Basin
Otway
Basin
Petroleum exploration licence
Petroleum exploration licenceapplication
Petroleum production licence
Gas pipeline
Gas and liquids pipeline
Oil pipeline
Polda Basin
ILUA
Moomba
Onshore acreage release block
Olympic
Dam Mine
• Conventional oil and gas
• Frontier and mature basins
• Unconventional plays:
o shale gas, tight gas
o coal seam gas
o coal gasification plays
o 9 unconventional plays being
chased by 24 JVs
• Work program bidding -
onshore Cooper and Otway,
offshore (Federal Govt)
• Frontier onshore basins -
over the counter at any time.
Simpson
Basin
Offshore acreage release block Exploration licences blue,
applications pink
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Latest (Dec 2012) Domestic Gas Markets
Origin Energy secures record gas price
A Chinese controlled miner in Queensland
(MMG) will pay close to $9 a gigajoule
after CSG export plants in Gladstone start
operating from 2015.
This compares with:
current $3 and $4 a gigajoule and
about $6 a gigajoule for a long-term north
Queensland gas supply by AGL
Energy to miner Xstrata (agreed in
2011).
From Matt Chambers and Annabel Hepworth , The Australian
21 Dec 2012
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Land access agreements
A variety of access agreements with
native title claimants and indigenous
owners are in place for 46 PELs (6
new PELs granted last year)
Agreements cover exploration and
production phases and are public
domain
Agreements are fair to indigenous
people and sustainable for
petroleum E&P
Petroleum Exploration Licence granted via access agreement
ILUA
Native title Claims with RTN agreements
APY/MT Owned Lands
Freehold Land
Parks and Reserves – no petroleum exploration access
Other Aboriginal Lands
200 km
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Cooper Basin bid roundCO2012-A
• PEL 111 relinquished acreage
• Comprises 2 areas totalling 392 sq km
• 1 well and 581 km 2D acquired in the block
• 22 wells on Charo /Snatcher field in-
between
Potential plays
• Western margin Birkhead Fm oil play
• New unconventional plays (e.g. Merrimelia
Formation shale oil play)
• Cambro-Ordovician Warburton Basin
• Undrilled structural and stratigraphic traps
Bids close 4 April 2013
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Cooper Basin shale gas, basin centred gas
and CSG plays
Beach Energy: PEL 218 Chevron now a partner
Successful multistage fracs and flows >2mmscf/d from
gas saturated Early Permian succession.
Beach estimate potential 300 TCF gas in place in
PEL 218 (Nappamerri Trough) – ~100 TCF in shales
and >200 TCF in sands (basin centred gas)
Senex Petroleum, PEL 516: Estimate 75-110 TCF
gas in place in shales and coals.
Strike, Beach, PELs 94, 95, 96: Mean prospective
resource estimate 12.39 TCF gas and 113 MMbbls
liquids in coals and shales
:
Santos PPLs: Booked 2C (contingent, probable,
recoverable, Santos share) unconventional gas
resources (shale gas, tight gas, deep coal) of ~2.22
TCF (2,345 PJ)
Moomba 191 (vertical well) Australia’s first commercial
shale gas producer in Oct 2012
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World class success rates
Discovery oil production in months
Existing infrastructure
Productive play trends extended
Proven play find-size now modest but
3D enabling >1mmbo finds
New unconventional gas plays
Acrasia 1
(2002)
New exploration phase
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Otway Basin
Onshore OT2012-A block
• One large block, 5660 km2
• 22 wells, 4450 km 2D
• 90 wells in SA onshore Otway basin
• Gas production since 1991
• Pipeline infrastructure - access to SE
Australian gas market
Bids close 4 April 2013
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DVD available now
• Includes prospectivity summary,
how to apply, scoring system,
application forms
• The Minister is expected to
announce the winning bidders
around APPEA 2013 Conference in
Brisbane, May 2013
• Get your free copy of the DVD
from the South Australia stand
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Shale Gas/Oil Resources
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Roadmap for unconventional gas
projects in South Australia
• nbcnbcsdjfoijewoiDesigned to inform industry strategies,
government policies, and regulations to
facilitate unconventional gas projects in
ways that communities welcome.
Includes prospectivity, company projects,
SE Australian gas economics, regulatory
framework, supply chain needs etc.
Released 12th Dec 2012.
Available from website or as a free pdf
from SA stand.
The Roundtable has 244 members
(companies, government agencies ,
peak representative bodies,
universities).
Next meeting in March in Adelaide
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Australian Offshore bid round
Prospectivity
• Acreage release process: www.petroleum-acreage.gov.au
• 3 new blocks in Great Australian Bight adjacent BP’s licences
DVD available from stand
