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Geoscience Australia is developing a nationally consistent play-based approach for assessing the potential of yet-to-find sediment-hosted resources. Currently, these assessments are being undertaken in a series of onshore Australian basins under the Exploring for the Future (EFTF) Program and the Trusted Environmental and Geological Information (TEGI) Program.
Geoscience Australia has adapted the resource industry established and used ‘play-based exploration resource assessment approach’ to assess multiple sub-surface sediment-hosted resources. Expanding on the traditional identification of hydrocarbon reservoir-seal configuration in a time-space context, the work flow has been expanded to assess controls on the development, preservation and possible enhancement of porosity/ permeability characteristics in sedimentary sequences that may have suitable greenhouse gas storage potential. The work is also applicable to enhance the prediction of groundwater aquifer distribution and connectivity in Australia’s underexplored regions.
One of the main areas of interest is the greater Simpson-Pedirka-Eromanga region in central Australia. Here, several stacked sedimentary basins, spanning the time from early Paleozoic to Late Cretaceous, are known to host a variety of energy and groundwater resources, but overall have remained largely underexplored, offering untapped exploration potential for energy resource, greenhouse gas storage as well as groundwater.
While the outcome of such work will include quantitative appraisals of various resource commodities, the key aspect of the DGAL presentation will highlight that, in order to be realistic and reliable, the volumetric numbers produced are the result of integrated multidisciplinary geoscience studies that provide an improved regional understanding of Australia’s energy resources potential.
0:00 - Introduction
3:16 - Seminar
Geoscience Australia is developing a nationally consistent play-based approach for assessing the potential of yet-to-find sediment-hosted resources. Currently, these assessments are being undertaken in a series of onshore Australian basins under the Exploring for the Future (EFTF) Program and the Trusted Environmental and Geological Information (TEGI) Program.
Geoscience Australia has adapted the resource industry established and used ‘play-based exploration resource assessment approach’ to assess multiple sub-surface sediment-hosted resources. Expanding on the traditional identification of hydrocarbon reservoir-seal configuration in a time-space context, the work flow has been expanded to assess controls on the development, preservation and possible enhancement of porosity/ permeability characteristics in sedimentary sequences that may have suitable greenhouse gas storage potential. The work is also applicable to enhance the prediction of groundwater aquifer distribution and connectivity in Australia’s underexplored regions.
One of the main areas of interest is the greater Simpson-Pedirka-Eromanga region in central Australia. Here, several stacked sedimentary basins, spanning the time from early Paleozoic to Late Cretaceous, are known to host a variety of energy and groundwater resources, but overall have remained largely underexplored, offering untapped exploration potential for energy resource, greenhouse gas storage as well as groundwater.
While the outcome of such work will include quantitative appraisals of various resource commodities, the key aspect of the DGAL presentation will highlight that, in order to be realistic and reliable, the volumetric numbers produced are the result of integrated multidisciplinary geoscience studies that provide an improved regional understanding of Australia’s energy resources potential.
0:00 - Introduction
3:16 - Seminar
