Session 24. Oral Presentation for: Australia’s Future Energy Resources project: the untapped potential of onshore low carbon energy resources
Thomas Bernecker A *A
Thomas (Tom) Bernecker is a Geoscientist who holds an MSc from the University of Aachen (RWTH), Germany and a PhD from Melbourne’s La Trobe University. His early geological work involved the development of models for siliciclastic and carbonate depositional systems in NW Europe and in Australia. After a lectureship at the University of Melbourne, Tom joined the Victorian Department of Natural Resources and Energy where his work was focussed on the hydrocarbon prospectivity of the Gippsland and Otway basins. Tom joined Geoscience Australia in 2007 and is currently the Director of Energy Resources Advice and Promotion. Member: PESA, SEAPEX, SEPM. |
Abstract
Presented on Thursday 23 May: Session 24
The ‘Australia’s Future Energy Resources’ (AFER) project, funded under the Government’s ‘Exploring for the Future’ (EFTF) program has been completed. The project’s four modules have evaluated a mixture of energy resource commodities, including natural gas, hydrogen, subsurface storage opportunities for carbon dioxide and hydrogen. They are complemented by several targeted basin inventories which outline the current geological knowledge of energy resources in underexplored, data-poor regions. Several publicly available data sets have been generated and published under the AFER project, including 3750 line-km of reprocessed 2D seismic data, acquired in the Pedirka and western Eromanga basins, of which key lines have been interpreted and integrated with geological and petrophysical well log data. Relative prospectivity maps have been produced for five energy resource commodities from 14 play intervals to show the qualitative variability in prospectivity of these resources, including quantitative resource assessments where warranted. Results from the AFER project have helped to identify and geologically characterise the required energy resource commodities to accelerate Australia’s path to net zero emissions.
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Keywords: carbon capture utilisation and storage, common risk segment maps, economic fairways, energy resources, hydrogen, Pedirka Basin, residual oil zones, resource assessments, salt accumulations, western Eromanga Basin.
Thomas (Tom) Bernecker is a Geoscientist who holds an MSc from the University of Aachen (RWTH), Germany and a PhD from Melbourne’s La Trobe University. His early geological work involved the development of models for siliciclastic and carbonate depositional systems in NW Europe and in Australia. After a lectureship at the University of Melbourne, Tom joined the Victorian Department of Natural Resources and Energy where his work was focussed on the hydrocarbon prospectivity of the Gippsland and Otway basins. Tom joined Geoscience Australia in 2007 and is currently the Director of Energy Resources Advice and Promotion. Member: PESA, SEAPEX, SEPM. |
