The central and southeast offshore Otway Basin well folio
Duy Nguyen A * , Chris Cubitt B , Dianne S. Edwards A , Steve Abbott A and George Bernardel AA
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Duy (Victor) Nguyen is a petroleum engineer at Geoscience Australia. Duy has oil and gas industrial experience working in Australia, Asia and Africa. Duy joined Geoscience Australia in 2009 and is working as a Well Analyst on Australia’s offshore basins. |
Chris Cubitt has more than two decades of industry experience in reservoir and regional geology working basins worldwide. He is a Team Leader of Basin Prospectivity at Geological Survey of South Australia. |
Dianne Edwards is a senior petroleum geochemist in at Geoscience Australia’s Basin Systems Branch, Minerals, Energy and Groundwater Division. Her scientific focus is on defining the petroleum systems of Australia’s basins. She was awarded her PhD from the University of Adelaide in 1996. |
Steve Abbott holds a PhD degree in sedimentary geology from James Cook University. He joined Geoscience Australia in 2013 where he works as a Basin Analyst on regional tectonic and stratigraphic studies of Australia’s offshore basins. |
George Bernardel is a geoscientist at Geoscience Australia. He gained his BSc (Honours) in Geophysics from the University of Sydney in 1986 and joined Geoscience Australia in 1995. His current role is the seismic mapping of Cretaceous–Cenozoic sequences and structure across the offshore Otway Basin. |
Abstract
Geoscience Australia (GA) has produced a folio of 32 wells across the central and southeast regions of the Otway Basin. This folio covers the areas from Normanby 1 on the Normanby Terrace, through the Shipwreck Trough and Nelson Sub-basin, to Whelk 1 in the southeast. Composite logs for each well in the folio include wireline logs, petrophysical analysis, interpreted lithology, organic geochemical data, organic petrology data, and sequence stratigraphic markers. This folio also includes core-based depositional environment (DE) and gross depositional environment (GDE) interval interpretations which were used to constrain wireline interpretation of DE/GDE away from core control. The folio includes the digital data package used to construct each well composite. The new folio complements a recently published folio of northeast offshore Otway Basin wells, with both designed as resources to support exploration in the offshore Otway Basin.
Keywords: biostratigraphy, depositional environment, gross depositional environment, hydrocarbon prospectivity, lithology, offshore, organic geochemistry, Otway Basin, petrophysical analysis, well data.
Duy (Victor) Nguyen is a petroleum engineer at Geoscience Australia. Duy has oil and gas industrial experience working in Australia, Asia and Africa. Duy joined Geoscience Australia in 2009 and is working as a Well Analyst on Australia’s offshore basins. |
Chris Cubitt has more than two decades of industry experience in reservoir and regional geology working basins worldwide. He is a Team Leader of Basin Prospectivity at Geological Survey of South Australia. |
Dianne Edwards is a senior petroleum geochemist in at Geoscience Australia’s Basin Systems Branch, Minerals, Energy and Groundwater Division. Her scientific focus is on defining the petroleum systems of Australia’s basins. She was awarded her PhD from the University of Adelaide in 1996. |
Steve Abbott holds a PhD degree in sedimentary geology from James Cook University. He joined Geoscience Australia in 2013 where he works as a Basin Analyst on regional tectonic and stratigraphic studies of Australia’s offshore basins. |
George Bernardel is a geoscientist at Geoscience Australia. He gained his BSc (Honours) in Geophysics from the University of Sydney in 1986 and joined Geoscience Australia in 1995. His current role is the seismic mapping of Cretaceous–Cenozoic sequences and structure across the offshore Otway Basin. |
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