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8/11/2019 prospectivity_eromanga http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/prospectivityeromanga 1/16  EROMANGA BASIN Links Tenements ( link to the PIRSA website for the latest information) Well location map, 1:250 000 scale (PDF; link to the PIRSA website for the latest information) Reports  The petroleum geology of South Australia, Volume 2: Eromanga Basin. 2 nd  edn. (Cotton, T.B., Scardigno, M.F. and Hibburt, 2006; PDF) Publications  Acreage releases, previous Summary  Age Early Jurassic – Late Cretaceous.  Area in South Australia 360 000 km 2  (139 000 sq. miles). Depth to target zones 1200–3000 m. Thickness Up to 3000 m. Hydrocarbon shows Commercial discoveries of oil from almost every unit from the Poolowanna to the base Cadna-owie Formation in the Cooper region; elsewhere shows in the Poolowanna Formation. First commercial discovery 1976 gas (Namur 1), 1978 oil (Strzelecki 3). Identified reserves Cooper region only; elsewhere — nil. Undiscovered resources (50% prob.) 2.4 x 10 6  kL (15.1 mmbbl); western Eromanga Basin 8.4 x 10 6 kL (52.8 mmbbl) (PIRSA estimate June 1996). Production Cooper region only — refer to Cooper Basin chapter; elsewhere nil. Basin type Intracratonic. Depositional setting Productive non-marine sequence overlain by non-productive
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EROMANGA BASIN

Links

Tenements ( link to the PIRSA website for the latest information)

Well location map, 1:250 000 scale (PDF; 

link to the PIRSA website for the latest information)

Reports

•  The petroleum geology of South Australia, Volume 2: Eromanga Basin. 2nd

 edn. (Cotton, T.B.,

Scardigno, M.F. and Hibburt, 2006; PDF)

Publications

 Acreage releases, previous

Summary

 Age  Early Jurassic – Late Cretaceous.

 Area in South Australia  360 000 km2 (139 000 sq. miles).

Depth to target zones  1200–3000 m.Thickness  Up to 3000 m.

Hydrocarbon shows  Commercial discoveries of oil from almost every unit from the

Poolowanna to the base Cadna-owie Formation in the Cooper

region; elsewhere shows in the Poolowanna Formation.

First commercial discovery  1976 gas (Namur 1), 1978 oil (Strzelecki 3).

Identified reserves  Cooper region only; elsewhere — nil.

Undiscovered resources (50% prob.)  2.4 x 106 kL (15.1 mmbbl); western Eromanga Basin

8.4 x 106kL (52.8 mmbbl) (PIRSA estimate June 1996).

Production  Cooper region only — refer to Cooper Basin chapter; elsewhere

nil.

Basin type  Intracratonic.

Depositional setting  Productive non-marine sequence overlain by non-productive

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Eromanga Basin

Source rocks  Underlying Cooper Basin coal and siltstone; Birkhead and

Murta formations’ siltstone and coal.

Depth to oil/gas window  1250 m (oil).

Number of wells  ~1980 in Cooper region; ~30 elsewhere.

Seismic line km  104 455 2D; 9736 3D km2 (64662 km)

Structural setting

The Eromanga Basin covers 1 000 000 km2 of central–eastern Australia, 360 000 km

2 of which lie in South

 Australia. The Eromanga Basin encloses the multi-aquifer system of the Great Artesian Basin.

In South Australia, the Eromanga Basin overlies late Palaeozoic and older basins. It consists of a broaddownwarp with two main depocentres — the Poolowanna Trough and the Cooper region — containing up to

3000 m of sediment (Figs 1, 2). The central Eromanga Basin is overlain by the Tertiary to Recent Lake Eyre

Basin. Eromanga Basin units crop out extensively on the western and southern margins.

Structurally, the Eromanga Basin is divided into two by the NE-trending Birdsville Track Ridge, a complex of

related domes and ridges. The Poolowanna Trough in the NW contains a thick sand-dominated sequence in

comparison to the Cooper region where intercalated shale and siltstone units occur.

Exploration history

Petroleum exploration commenced in the 1950s when licences covering the Cooper and Eromanga basins

were first acquired by Santos, who went against conventional wisdom that commercial accumulations of oil

would not be found in Mesozoic formations within the Great Artesian Basin.

Initial exploration involved surface mapping, stratigraphic drilling, aerial surveys, gravity and aeromagnetic

surveys and seismic. The first petroleum well was drilled in 1959 and Cooper Basin gas was discovered in

1963.

The first commercial hydrocarbon to flow from the Eromanga Basin was gas produced from Namur 1 in 1976

(Cooper region). Oil was discovered in 1977 with an uneconomic flow from Poolowanna 1 in the Poolowanna

Trough. The first economic oil flow was recorded from Strzelecki 3 (Cooper region) in the following year and

this stimulated a major oil exploration program.

Since 1959 over 1980 wells have penetrated the Eromanga Basin sequence and over 100 000 km of seismic

has been acquired (Fig. 1). Exploration has concentrated in the Cooper region. A new phase of exploration

for oil in the Eromanga Basin commenced in 2002 in the 27 new licences resulting from the expiry of PELs 5

and 6 in 1999. Most new entrant explorers are currently targeting Eromanga Basin oil plays.

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Eromanga Basin

In the Poolowanna Trough, the Poolowanna Formation (up to 130 m thick) is overlain by a thick sand-

dominated unit (Algebuckina Sandstone). West of the northern Birdsville Track Ridge, Birkhead and Murta

Formation shales pinch out into Algebuckina Sandstone. Algebuckina Sandstone crops out on the western

and southern basin margin.

The non-marine sequence is succeeded conformably by a sequence reflecting transition from non-marine to

marginal marine to open marine shale and sandstone. The basal unit, Cadna-owie Formation, is of

significance for petroleum exploration as the top of the unit approximates a distinctive seismic reflector — the

C horizon mappable over the entire basin (Fig. 3). PIRSA has compiled a basin-wide C horizon data set from

company seismic maps (Fig. 5). The C horizon mapping now extends into Queensland, Northern Territory

and New South Wales as a result of the National Geoscience Mapping Accord Cooper and Eromanga Basinproject.

The upper non-marine sequence (Winton Formation) was rapidly deposited — up to 1100 m over ~8 million

years. A period of erosion in the Late Cretaceous, caused by a switch in drainage from the Cooper region to

the Ceduna Depocentre on the rifted southern margin, was followed by deposition of the non-marine

Cainozoic Lake Eyre Basin.

Source rocks

Vertical migration of oil from Permian (Cooper Basin) source rocks has been widely accepted as the principal

source of most Eromanga-reservoired oil (in the Cooper region). Both Cooper and Eromanga mature source

rocks have contributed to oil accumulations in the region, however each oil accumulation needs to be

considered on its merits with respect to the extent of mixing from Permian and Mesozoic sources. The

Poolowanna and Birkhead formations contain organic-rich shales that are oil-prone and in places at peak

maturity for oil generation. Lateral migration from these source areas has also been postulated.

Elsewhere in the basin, the presence of thick Poolowanna, Birkhead and Murta formations is critical to

evaluation of oil source potential. The marine sequence and upper non-marine sequence are immature for

hydrocarbon generation over much of the basin. The underlying Simpson and Pedirka basins also contain

mature source rocks and are well placed to charge Eromanga Basin reservoirs.

Reservoirs

Principal reservoirs in the Cooper region are the braided fluvial Hutton and Namur sandstones (porosities upto 25%, permeability up to 2500 mD). Oil is also reservoired in meandering fluvial (Poolowanna and Birkhead

formations), lacustrine shoreface (McKinlay Member) and lacustrine turbidite (Murta Formation) sandstones.

Detailed petrophysical data is available from PIRSA for all of these Eromanga Basin reservoirs. A schematic

section showing typical petroleum traps of the Eromanga Basin is shown in Figure 6.

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Eromanga Basin

Trapping mechanisms within the Eromanga Basin are dominantly structural (anticlines with four-way dip

closure or drapes over pre-existing highs) with a stratigraphic component (e.g. Hutton–Birkhead transition,

Poolowanna, McKinlay Member and Murta Formation). Eromanga structures in South Australia are rarely

filled to spill with oil — net oil columns are relatively thin compared to the height under closure (due to poorsealing characteristics).

Seals consist of intraformational diagenetic sandstones, siltstones and shales of the Poolowanna, Birkhead

and Murta formations in the Cooper region. In the Poolowanna Trough, they consist of intraformational

siltstone and shale in the Poolowanna Formation and siltstone of the Cadna-owie Formation. Elsewhere in

the basin, potential seals include the Cadna-owie Formation and Bulldog Shale – Wallumbilla Formation).

Undiscovered resources

 As the Eromanga Basin is clearly oil-prone, only undiscovered oil resources are calculated, however gas

discoveries are known from the Cooper region. The gas in these fields has been sourced from the underlying

Permo-Carboniferous Cooper Basin. In the western Eromanga Basin, gas discoveries are possible,

particularly in areas overlying the older infrabasins (Pedirka and Simpson basins), but it is unlikely that small

gas discoveries in this area would be economic.

Petroleum exploration in the Eromanga Basin in South Australia has traditionally concentrated in the portion

underlain by the highly productive Cooper Basin, a relatively mature area. In addition, there is the likelihood

that a significant amount of the oil found in this area has been sourced from the underlying Cooper Basin.

For these reasons, undiscovered oil resources in this area are best estimated using methods that extrapolate

discovery trends.

 Areas to the west have had minimal exploration effort, with only one sub-economic discovery. Oil found here

will probably be sourced from the Poolowanna and Birkhead formations or the underlying Pedirka andSimpson basins. Estimates of undiscovered resources in the western Eromanga are best carried out by a

method that uses available geological data and Monte Carlo type statistical techniques to calculate, as a

probability distribution, the undiscovered resources for each play.

Western Eromanga Basin

For a commercial petroleum field to exist in the western Eromanga Basin, four essential components are

required: a mature ‘source’, a ‘reservoir’ horizon, a ‘seal’ horizon and a structure over the reservoir horizonthat will concentrate the petroleum in economic quantities and that was present at the time of the petroleum

expulsion from the source rock. Usually this is an anticline, but stratigraphic traps can also be important.

When all four of these occur together, a petroleum ‘play’ or a potential target for exploration exists.

Maps for each play, taking into account distribution of source, seal and reservoir were constructed. Figure 7

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Eromanga Basin

Table 1 Undiscovered recoverable oil resources of the western Eromanga Basin

UNDISCOVERED POTENTIAL106 kL (mmbbl) 

Probability that the ultimate potential wil l exceed the stated value:PLAY

90% 50% 10%

Poolowanna 0.2 (1.3) 0.6 (3.8) 1.9 (12.0)

Hutton 0.6 (3.8) 2.4 (15.1) 7.6 (47.8)

Namur–Algebuckina 1.0 (6.3) 4.1 (25.8) 13.0 (81.8)

Total 3.5  (22.0)  8.4  (52.8)  18.6  (117.0) 

Note: Totals do not add arithmetically as they are Monte Carlo simulations. Current 1996.

Current projects

 A new project to evaluate the coal seam methane potential of the Cooper and Eromanga Basins commenced

in April 2009.

Exploration access

Several National Parks and Wildlife reserves overlie the Eromanga Basin . Exploration is permitted in the

Simpson Desert Regional Reserve, the Innamincka Regional Reserve, the Witjira National Park, Tallaringa

Conservation Park and the Lake Eyre National Park. Exploration is not permitted in the Coongie Lakes

National Park, the Simpson Desert Conservation Park or the No-Go Special Management Zone of the

Innamincka Regional Reserve (Fig. 1).

The initial 2001 right to negotiate (RTN) agreements in the Cooper Basin for the CO-98 PEL application

areas were groundbreaking in Australia as the first conjunctive agreements (covering exploration andproduction) that provide certainty in enabling any explorer, the Aboriginal parties, and the state being able to

benefit from any commercial discoveries made.

The state has also commenced the RTN process for additional PELs in the Eromanga and Arrowie basins

and it is likely that existing RTN agreements will continue to form a practical precedent. Any agreements will

provide for protection of the heritage and cultural interests of the Aboriginal parties.

Compulsory relinquishment of roughly 36% (19 150 km2) of the areas in current Cooper region PELs will

precede competitive bidding from 2009. In anticipation of the calling for work program bids in 2009,

negotiations opened in 2006 to develop a conjunctive Indigenous land access agreement (ILUA) for the

regions already covered with land access agreements resulting from earlier RTN proceedings. These

negotiations involve the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement, the three native title parties already familiar with

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Eromanga Basin

The first conjunctive ILUA in Australia in a proven petroleum province was concluded in February 2007 with

the Yandruwandha–Yawarrawarrka native title claimants over a major portion of the South Australian Cooper

Basin This will provide greater certainty and expedite the grant of PELs in a way that remains fair to native

title claimants and sustainable in relation to exploration and production investment. The application ofconjunctive ILUAs will enable land access more quickly and with lower transaction costs than serial RTN

proceedings. The successful implementation of conjunctive ILUAs for Cooper Basin petroleum exploration

and production will serve as a model for analogous agreements elsewhere in the state.

Negotiations in respect to formalising conjunctive petroleum ILUAs with the remaining two native title

claimant parties in the Cooper Basin are progressing.

In summary, conjunctive ILUAs are proposed as an evolutionary, additional, alternative to the RTN process

already working comparatively well in South Australia. Indeed, conjunctive ILUAs will be an attractive

incentive to achieve competitive bids, with explorers knowing the terms of land access prior to lodging bids.

 A number of applications are being held over the western part of the Eromanga Basin pending resolution of

native title issues.

Licence status

Figure 8 shows the licence status at the time of publication. Use this link for further information on holders of

petroleum tenements in South Australia.

Key references

 Altmann, M.J. and Gordon, H.M., 2004. Oil on the Patchawarra Flank - some implications from the Sellicks

and Christies oil discoveries. In: Boult, P.J., Johns, D.R. and Lang, S.C. (Eds), PESA’s Eastern Australasian

Basin Symposium II, Adelaide 2004. Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia. Special Publication, pp. 29-

34.

Boult, P.J., Lanzilli, E., Michaelsen, B.H., McKirdy, D.M. and Ryan, M.J., 1998. New model for the

Hutton/Birkhead reservoir seal couplet and the associated Birkhead-Hutton(!) petroleum system.  APPEA

Journal, 38(1):724-744.

Cotton, T.B., Scardigno, M.F. and Hibburt, J.E. (Eds), 2006. The petroleum geology of South Australia. Vol.2: Eromanga Basin. 2nd edn. South Australia. Department of Primary Industries and Resources. Petroleum

Geology of South Australia Series.

Gravestock, D.I., Moore, P.S. and Pitt, G.M. (Eds), 1986. Contributions to the geology and hydrocarbon

potential of the Eromanga Basin. Geological Society of Australia. Special Publication, 12.

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Eromanga Basin

Nakanishi, T. and Lang, S.C., 2002. Constructing a portfolio of stratigraphic traps in fluvial–lacustrine

successions, Cooper–Eromanga Basin. APPEA Journal, 42(1):65-82.

O’Neil, B.J. (Ed.), 1989. The Cooper and Eromanga Basins, Australia. Proceedings of the Cooper andEromanga Basins Conference, Adelaide, 1989. Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, Society of

Petroleum Engineers, Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SA Branches).

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Eromanga Basin

FIGURES

1. Wells and seismic lines. (203838_053)

2. Schematic section across the Eromanga, Pedirka and Simpson basins. (203838_054)

3. Geological summary of the Eromanga Basin. (203838_055)

4. Base of Eromanga Basin depth structure map. (203838_056)

5. Near top of Cadna-Owie Formation (C horizon) depth structure map. (203838_057)

6. Schematic section showing typical petroleum traps in the Warburton, Cooper and Eromanga basins. 

(203838_050)

7. Prospectivity of the western Eromanga Basin: (a) Poolowanna Formation; (b) Hutton Sandstone; (c)

Namur–Algebuckina sandstones. (203838_058)

8. Petroleum and geothermal tenements. (203838_059)

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203838_054

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Figure 2 Schematic section across the Eromanga, Pedirka and Simpson basins.

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AGE ROCK UNIT

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Oil shale potential

Lenticular sand, variable

reservoir quality

Regional seal to Cadna-owie

Formation

Regional sand sheet

Poor - fair reservoir quality

Fair to excellent reservoir quality.

Predominantly anticlinal traps.

Tertiary structuring has influenced

hydrocarbon migration

Fair source rockThin lenticular sandstones

Potential for stratigraphic

structural traps

Fair reservoir quality

Variable reservoir quality.

Structural-stratigraphic traps.

Oil prone source rocks

Good to excellent reservoir quality.

Predominantly anticlinal traps,

some stratigraphic traps at

Birkhead interface

Strong facies control on reservoirdevelopment. Stratigraphic andstructural trapping of Permiangenerated oil. Oil prone source

Stratigraphic, diagenetic to

structural traps. Variable reservoir

quality. Oil prone source rocks.

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Open marine

transgressive

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turbidites, deltas

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BASE OF EROMANGA BASIN

DEPTH STRUCTURE MAP

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NORTHERN TERRITORY 

PL5

PL9

PL1

PL15

PLs7,8

PL2

Figure 4

Pipeline licence

Gas pipeline

Gas and liquids pipeline

Liquids pipeline

SOUTH AUSTRALIA 

PL18

PL17

 4500

METRES

90

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Cooper Basin

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Cooper Basinsubcrop limit

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Simpson BasinPedirka Basin

Moomba

Marree

Oodnadatta

Coober Pedy

 Lake Eyre North

 Lake Eyre South

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PIRSA 203838_057

NEAR TOP OF CADNA-OWIE FORMATION

('C' HORIZON) DEPTH STRUCTURE MAP

Eromanga Basin and infrabasinsSouth Australia

Equidistant Conic

0 25 50 km

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 ADELAIDE

     Q      U      E     E     N      S 

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NORTHERN TERRITORY 

PL5

PL9

PL1

PL15

PLs7,8

PL2

Figure 5

 ipeline licence

Gas pipeline

Gas and liquids pipeline

Liquids pipeline

SOUTH AUSTRALIA 

PL18

PL17

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Source rock

203838_050

Shale

Gas Sandstone

Oil Carbonate

Cenozoic

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 BASIN 

COOPER

 BASIN 

WARBURTON 

 BASIN 

Jurassic-

Cretaceous

Permo-

Triassic

Cambro-

Ordovician

 EROMANGA

 BASIN 

1000

2000

3000

metres

Figure 6 Schematic section showing typical petroleum traps in

the Warburton, Cooper and Eromanga basins.

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Optimistic area

Most likely area

PROSPECTIVITY ESTIMATE

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99-0167

KILOMETRES

0 100

Poolowanna 1

Mokari 1MountHammersley 1

Tirari West 1

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Putamurdie 1

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Moomba

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 Lake Eyre South

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       2       9       °       0       '       S

       2       9       °       0       '       S

PIRSA 203838_059

PETROLEUM and

GEOTHERMAL TENEMENTS

Eromanga Basin and infrabasinsSouth Australia

Equidistant Conic

0 25 50 km

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 ADELAIDE

     Q      U      E     E     N      S      L     A     N      D

Petroleum tenements

Petroleum exploration licence (PEL)

Petroleum exploration licence application (PELA)

Petroleum production licence (PPL)

Petroleum production licence application (PPLA)

  eothermal tenements

Geothermal exploration licence (GEL)

Geothermal exploration licence application (GELA)

Geothermal retention licence (GRL)

                                                                              N                                                                              E                                                                            W                                                                               S                                                                             O                                                                            U                                                                             T                                                                           H

                                                                            W   

                                                                             A                                                                           L                                                                            E                                                                            S  

NORTHERN TERRITORY 

PL5

PL9

PL1

PL15

PLs7,8

PL2

Figure 8 Parks with no petroleum exploration access

Pipeline licence

Gas pipeline

Gas and liquids pipeline

Liquids pipeline

SOUTH AUSTRALIA 

PL18

PL17