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Geochemical Composition of Natural Gases from the onshore Canning Basin, Australia

The onshore Canning Basin in Western Australia is the focus of a regional hydrocarbon prospectivity assessment being undertaken by the Exploring for the Future (EFTF) program; an initiative by the Australian Government dedicated to boosting investment in resource exploration in Australia. The four-year program led by Geoscience Australia focusses on the acquisition of new data and information about the potential mineral, energy and groundwater resources concealed beneath the surface in northern Australia and parts of South Australia. As part of this program, significant work has been carried out to deliver new pre-competitive data including new seismic, drilling of a stratigraphic well and the geochemical analysis of petroleum recovered from exploration wells.
Current conventional remaining gas resources of the Canning Basin are deemed limited (0.2 TCF; AERA, 2018), whereas unconventional gas resources are inferred to be extremely high, with estimated recoverable resources for shale gas and tight gas being 452.3 TCF (5% of P50,Table 2; AREA, 2018). This disparity arises from the high degree of uncertainty of key geological factors, particularly the poor constraints on source rock volumetrics, the lack of understanding of the volume of gaseous hydrocarbons generated and the origin and degree of thermal maturity of the gases. Carbon isotopic data are scarce and hydrogen isotopic data are non-existent, even though numerous gas discoveries have been made across the Lennard Shelf, Broome Platform and Fitzroy Trough following the initial discovery at Pictor 1 in 1984 by BHP Petroleum (Cadman et al., 1993; Jonasson, 2001). Indeed, gas samples have only been available for analyses since the drilling campaign by Buru Energy in 2010, and more recently, mud gases collected in IsoTubes are routinely sampled during drilling and presented in well completion reports (e.g. Cyrene 1; Nicolay 1, Paradise Deepening 1, Theia 1, Yulleroo 3 and Yulleroo 4).
This component of the EFTF program, evaluates the molecular and isotopic composition of natural gases from petroleum wells and a hot-spring seep at Mount Wynne, to constrain the much publicised resource potential inferred in this basin. Interpretation of these data will also assist with in the determination of their origin, and hence increase our understanding of the Larapintine Petroleum Supersystem, as proposed by Bradshaw (1983) and Bradshaw et al. (1984). All gas analyses in this study were undertaken by Geoscience Australia’s Organic Geochemistry Laboratory.

Tags: EARTH SCIENCES, Published_External, geochemistry, isotopic geochemistry, natural gas, petroleum
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Vertical motion of Pacific Island tide gauges

This GA Record reports findings regarding the absolute vertical rate of movement (i.e. the rate at which the land is moving up or down with respect to the centre of the Earth) of 13 Pacific Island tide gauges over the period 2003 – 2018 based on the analysis of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data and levelling data.

Tags: EARTH SCIENCES, GNSS, Geodesy, Published_External, land motion, levelling
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Results of the National GNSS CORS Campaign, June 2013

An Australian-wide certification campaign of positions in accordance with Regulation 13 of the National Measurement Regulations 1999 and the National Measurement Act 1960 has been run from 00:00:00 (UTC time) on Sunday 23 June 2013 to 00:00:00 (UTC time) Sunday 30 June 2013 (GPS week 1746). The primary objective of this campaign was to improve the consistency of legal traceable CORS positions across Australia, and the stated uncertainties on previously certified stations. As of 20 October 2013, ten applications for verification of a reference standard of measurement under Regulation 12 of the National Measurement Regulations 1999 have been received for verification of GDA94 position on their owned or managed station monuments. This report documents the processing and analysis of the national regulation 13 campaign GPS data for the stations to satisfy the position verification requirements.

Tags: Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Published_External, Record
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Exploring for the Future – Groundwater Level Data Release: Southern Stuart Corridor Project, Northern Territory

This report presents groundwater levels results from the Southern Stuart Corridor project conducted as part of Exploring for the Future (EFTF), an eight year, $225 million Australian Government-funded geoscience data and information acquisition program focused on better understanding the potential mineral, energy and groundwater resources across Australia. 
The Southern Stuart Corridor project is a collaborative study between Geoscience Australia the Northern Territory Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and Power and Water Corporation (PWC) which incorporates study areas between Alice Springs and Tennant Creek in south-central NT. Groundwater level data were collected from newly drilled bores in the Western Davenport and Alice Springs areas. This report records the release of groundwater level data gathered by Geoscience Australia and DENR from monitoring bores in the Southern Stuart Corridor project area during the EFTF project.
The full report includes:
• A full description of how water levels in metres relative to Australian Height Datum (m AHD; where zero m AHD is an approximation of mean sea level) were calculated from manual dips and electronic data loggers for this project.
• A series of tables in Appendix A containing sufficient information for each bore and datalogger file to reproduce the water levels reported in Appendix B and Appendix C.
• A series of hydrographs in Appendix B showing how water levels (in m AHD) interpreted from manual dips and datalogger files varied during the EFTF project.
• A series of electronic files in Appendix C that include
- Data files from dataloggers in CSV file format that can be used with the information contained in this data release to regenerate the water levels shown on hydrographs in Appendix A.
- Data files in CSV file format reporting the final water levels used to generate the hydrographs in Appendix B.

Tags: EARTH SCIENCES, EFTF, Exploring for the Future, Published_External, Southern Stuart Corridor, groundwater, groundwater level
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Build, drop, discover - the physics of making electricity! Investigate electromagnetic induction using everyday items

This classroom activity guide sets out 2 simple demonstrations that can be used to explore electromagnetic induction (Faraday’s and Lenz’s laws) and how kinetic (movement) energy is transformed to electrical energy. One of the activities shows you how to build your own simple generator. These activities can be completed individually or together and have curriculum links to years 7-10 science, senior physics, and senior Earth and environmental science.&nbsp;


Tags: Classroom activities, Education, Electricity, Faraday's Law, Lenz's Law, Minerals, OTHER EDUCATION, Published_External, energy, magnetic field, physics
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Exploring for the Future — Regolith-landform mapping for the Ti Tree, Western Davenport and Tennant Creek regions: Northern Territory

Remotely sensed data and updated DEM and radiometric datasets, combined with existing surface material and landform mapping were used to map regolith landform units for the Ti Tree, Western Davenport and Tennant Creek regions of the SSC project. This report describes the methods used and outlines the new mapping.

Tags: EARTH SCIENCES, EftF, Exploring for the Future, Geomorphology and Regolith and Landscape Evolution, Lanform, Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Published_External, Regolith, Remote sensing of the environment
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Seismic Monitoring of NSW CSG Areas: Monitoring of seismic activity in the CSG production area of Camden and the seismicity of the region

New South Wales (NSW) Trade and Investment (now Department of Regional NSW) and Geoscience Australia established a National Collaborative Framework agreement to undertake seismic monitoring of the NSW coal seam gas (CSG) areas, as well as performing baseline seismic monitoring in the region between 2015 and 2019. Through this partnership, Geoscience Australia’s deployed and maintained additional seismic stations to identify of events of local magnitude ML 2.0 and greater within the Camden CSG field. 
There is no substantive evidence that attributes higher rates of seismicity to CSG activities within the Camden CSG field. However, a significant increase in earthquake location accuracy and confidence in magnitude estimation can be achieved using the enhanced network monitoring in the Camden and Sydney Basin region. Additionally, these dense seismic networks allow the capture of critical strong-ground motions that can be used to calibrate seismic hazard models and provide input to engineering design that will reduce the risk to communities from future large earthquakes in the region.

Tags: EARTH SCIENCES, Petroleum and Coal Geology, Published_External, Seismology and Seismic Exploration
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
New SHRIMP U-Pb zircon ages from the South Nicholson and Carrara Range regions, Northern Territory

This Record presents the results of 26 new zircon U-Pb isotopic analyses, conducted on Geoscience Australia’s Sensitive High Resolution Ion Micro Probe (SHRIMP2e), under the Commonwealth Government’s Exploring for the Future (EFTF) program, a $100.5 million, four year, initiative to better understand the mineral, energy and groundwater potential across northern Australia. 
These new data, determined on sedimentary and volcanic rocks, were collected from across the South Nicholson region, located in the north-eastern Northern Territory. The South Nicholson region is geographically located between two highly prospective geological provinces, the greater McArthur Basin in the Northern Territory and the Mount Isa Province in Queensland, regions noted for their hydrocarbon potential and world-class base-metal endowment. 
The South Nicholson region has been sparsely investigated by modern geological investigations, and, as such, these new SHRIMP U-Pb data, in concert with other complementary EFTF geochronological, geochemical and geophysical datasets from the region (e.g. Anderson et al., 2019; Carr et al., 2019; Ley-Cooper and Brodie, 2019; Jarrett et al., 2019) will place important geological constraints on the geological evolution, the timing of deposition, sedimentary processes, basin architecture and evolution of the South Nicholson region and, arguably most significantly, provide new improved lithostratigraphic and chronostratigraphic correlations with the adjacent highly prospective Proterozoic Basins. 
Such geological correlations are critical for reducing exploration risk, improve resource prospectivity and enabling targeted ‘greenfield’ resource exploration activities, a tangible key objective under the Exploring for the Future initiative.

Tags: EARTH SCIENCES, EFTF, McNamara Group, Murphy Province, Published_External, South Nicholson Basin
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Maturation characteristics of samples from Wallara-1 well, Canning Basin, as deduced from FT-ICR-MS analysis

The Exploring for the Future program is an initiative by the Australian Government dedicated to boosting investment in resource exploration in Australia. As part of the Exploring for the Future program, this study aims to improve our understanding of the petroleum resource potential of northern Australia. 
This data release presents newly derived chemical maturity parameters based on Fourier transform-ion cyclotron resonance-mass spectrometry (FT-ICR-MS) analysis of non-polar (polyaromatic hydrocarbons) and polar (NSO) compounds. As such, it complements optical and bulk chemical techniques.  Although, only a single core extract was analysed in this study, the technique offers potential for maturity assessments in high maturity samples outside the range of other traditional chemical maturity estimates and is ideally suited to samples older than the Early Palaeozoic.

Tags: EARTH SCIENCES, FT ICR MS, Published_External, maturation
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
New SHRIMP U-Pb zircon ages from the southern Thomson Orogen, northern Lachlan Orogen and Koonenberry Belt: April 2014–June 2016

SHRIMP U-Pb zircon ages are presented from 19 samples from the central and southern Thomson Orogen, northern Lachlan Orogen and Koonenberry Belt of northern New South Wales and southern Queensland. The analysed samples are predominantly (meta)sedimentary rocks, for which detrital zircon age spectra are presented, but also include selected intrusive and volcanic rocks, for which magmatic crystallisation ages are determined. The work was conducted as part of a collaborative project between Geoscience Australia (GA) and the Geological Survey of New South Wales (GSNSW) and the Geological Survey of Queensland (GSQ), with a focus on the southern Thomson Orogen.

Tags: EARTH SCIENCES, GEOLOGY, Geochronology, Published_External
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Exploring for the Future - Groundwater level data release: East Kimberley project, Northern Territory

This report presents groundwater levels results from the East Kimberley groundwater project in the Northern Territory (NT), conducted as part of Exploring for the Future (EFTF), an eight year, $225 million Australian Government funded geoscience data and information acquisition program focused on better understanding the potential mineral, energy and groundwater resources across Australia.
The East Kimberley groundwater project is a collaborative study between Geoscience Australia and State and Territory partners. It focuses on groundwater resources in the Keep River Plains of the NT. This report describes a data release of groundwater levels based on measurements collected in monitoring bores during the EFTF project. The full report includes:
•   A full description of how water levels in metres relative to Australian Height Datum (m AHD; where zero m AHD is an approximation of mean sea level) were calculated from manual dips and electronic data loggers for this project.
•   A series of tables in Appendix A containing sufficient information for each bore and datalogger file to reproduce the water levels reported in Appendix B and Appendix C.
•   A series of hydrographs in Appendix B showing how water levels (in m AHD) interpreted from manual dips and datalogger files varied during the EFTF project.
•   A series of electronic files in Appendix C that include
- Data files from dataloggers in CSV file format that can be used with the information contained in this data release to regenerate the water levels shown on hydrographs in Appendix A.
- Data files in CSV file format reporting the final water levels used to generate the hydrographs in Appendix B.

Tags: EARTH SCIENCES, EFTF, Exploring for the Future, Hydrogeology, Published_External
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Exploring for the Future — Groundwater hydrochemistry data release: Ti Tree project, Northern Territory

This report presents a summary of the groundwater hydrochemistry data release from the Ti Tree project conducted as part of Exploring for the Future (EFTF)—an eight year, $225 million Australian Government funded geoscience data and information acquisition program focused on better understanding the potential mineral, energy and groundwater resources across Australia.
This data release records the groundwater sample collection methods and hydrochemistry and isotope data from monitoring bores in the Alice Springs project area, Northern Territory (NT). The Ti Tree project is a collaborative study between Geoscience Australia and the NT Government. Hydrochemistry and isotope data were collected from existing and newly drilled bores in the Ti Tree area

Tags: EARTH SCIENCES, EFTF, Exploring for the Future, Published_External, Ti Tree, groundwater, hydrochemistry, hydrochemistry data
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Exploring for the Future – Surface Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (SNMR) method

Exploring for the Future (EFTF) is an eight year, $225 million Australian Government funded program which commenced in 2016. The program is delivering new geoscience data, knowledge and decision support tools to support increased industry investment and sustainable economic development across Australia. Further detail is available at http://www.ga.gov.au/eftf. The program’s objective over the four years from 2016-2020 was to provide a holistic picture of the potential mineral, energy and groundwater resources in northern Australia. Groundwater is a critical resource that accounts for most water used across northern Australia. The groundwater component of the EFTF program focused on addressing groundwater resource knowledge gaps, to support future opportunities for economic development via irrigated agriculture, extractive industries and increased security of community water supplies. Through collaboration with State and Territory partners, the program undertook targeted regional investigations of groundwater systems and assessments of groundwater potential more broadly across the region.
The program's activities, implemented by Geoscience Australia, involved application of innovative geoscience tools to collect, integrate and analyse a range of data. It includes geological and hydrogeological data, airborne and ground-based geophysical and hydrogeochemical surveys, remote sensing data as well as stratigraphic drilling. The new data and better understanding of groundwater systems also helps inform decision making about groundwater use to protect environmental and cultural assets. These outcomes strengthen investor confidence in resources and agricultural projects by de-risking groundwater in northern Australia.
Surface nuclear magnetic resonance (SNMR) is an electrical, geophysical technique that was adapted from magnetic resonance imaging techniques used in the medical field. This technique is gaining prominence in groundwater studies as it can be used to detect the presence of water and estimate hydraulic properties in the top 100m of subsurface. SNMR data can be acquired rapidly, cheaply and non-invasively. This is advantageous in Australian groundwater studies where drilling is often expensive and logistically challenging due to land access issues and environmental regulations.
For the reasons described above SNMR has been one of the most important groundwater datasets acquired as part of the EFTF program. The derived estimates of water content have been used for several applications including; estimating hydraulic conductivity, mapping the water table surface, and defining aquifer architecture. The purpose of this document is to provide a description of the SNMR method and how the data are acquired, processed and inverted as part of the EFTF program.

Tags: EARTH SCIENCES, EFTF, Exploring For The Future, Geophysics, Published_External, Surface Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Bulk kinetics of Proterozoic kerogens from the McArthur Basin and Lawn Hill Platform, northern Australia

The Exploring for the Future program is an initiative by the Australian Government dedicated to boosting investment in resource exploration in Australia. As part of the Exploring for the Future program, this study aims to improve our understanding of the petroleum resource potential of northern Australia. 
This data release presents the bulk kerogen kinetics of 21 potential source rocks from the McArthur Basin and the Lawn Hill Platform to understand the rate of hydrocarbon conversion. Kerogen was isolated from bulk rock, and analysed by a Rock-Eval 6 (Vinci Technologies, France) using four different temperature ramps. All sample preparation and analyses were carried out in Geoscience Australia’s in-house laboratories.
The results of this study can be used to improve our understanding of the hydrocarbon generative potential of Proterozoic aged source rocks in northern Australia.

Tags: Bulk kinetics, EARTH SCIENCES, Lawn Hill Platform, McArthur Basin, Proterozoic, Published_External, kerogens
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Exploring for the Future — Groundwater hydrochemistry data release: Western Davenport project, Northern Territory

This report presents a summary of the groundwater hydrochemistry data release from the Western Davenport project conducted as part of Exploring for the Future (EFTF).
This data release records the groundwater sample collection methods and hydrochemistry and isotope data from monitoring bores in the Western Davenport project area, Northern Territory (NT). The Western Davenport project is a collaborative study between Geoscience Australia and the NT Government. Hydrochemistry and isotope data were collected from existing and newly drilled bores in the Western Davenport area.

Tags: EARTH SCIENCES, EFTF, Exploring for the Future, Published_External, Western Davenport, groundwater, hydrochemistry, hydrochemistry data
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Geochemical Compositions of Natural Gases from the wells Roc 1 and Roc 2, Roebuck Basin, Australia

The Roebuck Basin on Australia’s offshore north-western margin is the focus of a regional hydrocarbon prospectivity assessment being undertaken by the North West Margin Energy Studies Section (NWMES). This offshore program is designed to produce pre-competitive information to assist with the evaluation of the hydrocarbon resource potential of the central North West Shelf and attract exploration investment to Australia.
The recent oil and gas discoveries at Phoenix South 1 (2014), Roc 1 (2015-16), Roc 2 (2016), Phoenix South 2 (2016), Phoenix South 3 (2018) and Dorado 1 (2018) in the Bedout Sub-basin demonstrate the presence of a petroleum system in Lower Triassic strata. The current study aims to better understand this new petroleum system and establish its extent. 
As part of this program, compositional and isotopic analyses were undertaken by Geoscience Australia on gas samples from the wells Roc 1 and Roc 2 and data from these analyses are released in this dataset.

Tags: Bedout Sub-basin, EARTH SCIENCES, Exploration Geochemistry, Isotope Geochemistry, Organic Geochemistry, Published_External, Roebuck Basin, natural gas
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Petroleum systems summary: South Nicholson and Isa Superbasin region

This petroleum systems summary report provides a compilation of the current understanding of petroleum systems for the South Nicholson Basin and Isa Superbasin region. The contents of this report are also available via the Geoscience Australia Portal at https://portal.ga.gov.au/, called The Petroleum Systems Summary Assessment Tool (Edwards et al., 2020). Three summaries have been developed as part of the Exploring for the Future (EFTF) program (Czarnota et al., 2020); the McArthur Basin, the Canning Basin, and a combined summary of the South Nicholson Basin and Isa Superbasin region. The petroleum systems summary reports aim to facilitate exploration by summarizing key datasets related to conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon exploration, enabling a quick, high-level assessment the hydrocarbon prospectivity of the region.

Tags: EARTH SCIENCES, Hydrocarbons, Isa Superbasin, Lawn Supersequence, Petroleum systems, Published_External, Reservoir, River Supersequence, Source rocks, South Nicholson Basin
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data