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AUSTRALIA 2014 Offshore Petroleum Exploration Acreage Release 1

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OFFSHORE PETROLEUM EXPLORATION ACREAGE RELEASE | AUSTRALIA 2014

Release Area W14-1, Petrel Sub-basin, Bonaparte Basin, Northern Territory

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Figure 1 Location of the 2014 Release Area in the Petrel Sub-basin, Bonaparte Basin

Highlights

Work program bids close 2 April 2015• Proximal to the Blacktip, Petrel, Tern, Frigate

and Prometheus/Rubicon gas accumulations

• Proximal to the Blacktip pipeline and the nearly completed Ichthys pipeline

• Shallow water depths, ~50 m

• Proven plays in anticlines, tilted fault blocks and structural/stratigraphic traps

• Multiple potential oil- and gas-prone source rocks and active petroleum systems in the region

• Special Notices apply, refer to Guidance Notes

Release Area W14-1 is located in the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf, less than 20 km offshore, and approximately 400 km from Darwin. Area W14-1 is in the vicinity of the Petrel, Tern, Frigate, Blacktip and Prometheus/Rubicon gas accumulations. The Blacktip field commenced production via the Blacktip pipeline in 2009.

Release Area W14-1 straddles the western Petrel Sub-basin and the eastern Londonderry High in the southern Bonaparte Basin. The Torrens 1 well, with both oil and gas shows, is within the Release Area. Proven Permian petroleum systems in the region have charged numerous gas accumulations. There is also a known oil- and gas-prone lower Carboniferous petroleum system in the southern Petrel Sub-basin, with Bonaparte Formation (Langfield Group equivalent) and Tanmurra Formation (Weaber Group) source rocks. Sufficient deep drilling has not been undertaken in the western Petrel Sub-basin to fully evaluate the western extent of this older petroleum system, although Marina 1 and Lesueur 1 both had gas and oil shows in the Carboniferous–lower Permian succession close to the Release Area. The Release Area offers a range of play types including horst blocks and rotated fault blocks, as well as inversion-related anticlines. Stratigraphic traps are represented by pinch-outs and truncations across unconformities. Infrastructure in the region is expanding and will facilitate development of any new discovery.


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Figure 2 Structural elements of the Petrel Sub-basin (after Colwell and Kennard, 1996) showing petroleum fields and discoveries, the location of regional seismic lines and the 2014 Release Area


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Figure 3 Upper Paleozoic and Mesozoic stratigraphy and hydrocarbon discoveries of the Petrel Sub-basin and Londonderry High based on the Bonaparte Basin Biozonation and Stratigraphy Chart 34 (Kelman et al, 2014). Geologic Time Scale after Gradstein et al (2012). Regional seismic horizons after AGSO (2001)


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Figure 7 Seismic and well data in the vicinity of the Release Area in the Petrel Sub-basin and on the Londonderry High, Bonaparte Basin


Petroleum systems elementsPetrel Sub-basin

Sources • Permian pro-delta, shoreface and open marine Hyland Bay Subgroup

• Permian fluvial shales and coaly shales of the Keyling Formation

• Lower Carboniferous Bonaparte Formation equivalent (Langfield Group equivalent)

• Lower Carboniferous Milligans Formation, Kingfisher Shale, and Tanmurra Formation

Reservoirs • Lower Triassic marginal marine Ascalon Formation and Permian lacustrine Penguin Formation (Mount Goodwin Subgroup)

• Permian shoreface to marine Tern, Cape Hay and Torrens formations (Hyland Bay Subgroup)

• Permian marine Fossil Head Formation

• Permian marginal marine Keyling, fluvial Quoin, and glacial Treachery and Kuriyippi formations

• Carboniferous marine Aquitaine and Arco formations

• Carboniferous marine Tanmurra, Milligans and Bonaparte formations

Seals Regional seals

• Triassic marine shales of the Mount Goodwin Subgroup

• Permian marine Fossil Head Formation

Intraformational seals

• Permian shoreface to open marine carbonates and sandstones of the Dombey, Cape Hay and Pearce formations (Hyland Bay Subgroup)

• Permian glacial Treachery Formation and marginal marine Keyling Formation

• Carboniferous marine Weaber Group and marine Langfield Group equivalent

• Salt diapirs

Traps • Inversion anticlines, salt mobilisation faulted anticlines, tilted fault blocks, drape and pinch-outs

Infrastructure and marketsRelease Area W14-1 is in close proximity to the Blacktip, Petrel, Tern and Frigate gas accumulations in the Petrel Sub-basin, and the Prometheus/Rubicon gas accumulation on the Londonderry High. The Release Area is also close to the Blacktip Pipeline and the nearly complete Ichthys Pipeline.

Critical risksThe identification of good quality reservoirs in suitably sized traps with access to active oil- and gas-prone source kitchens is required. Preservation of hydrocarbons following significant Triassic uplift and erosion, and some Miocene reactivation is a risk, although less pronounced in the eastern Londonderry High and western Petrel Sub-basin. Given that oil shows occur throughout Carboniferous and Permian sediments in wells in the nearby southern Petrel Basin, further investigation of seal integrity is required. Reservoir and source rock quality is variable and poorly understood in older units locally, with the preservation of porosity and permeability within Carboniferous reservoirs and the Keyling Formation a significant risk where intersected in the Petrel Sub-basin. The extent of the Devonian–Carboniferous succession on the far western flank of the sub-basin is uncertain, with Marina 1 and Lesueur 1 being the most westerly wells to have intersected these older reservoirs and source rocks.

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BALDWIN, S., WHITE, N. AND MUELLER, R.D., 2003—Resolving multiple rift phases by strain-rate inversion in the Petrel Sub-basin, northwest Australia. Geological Society of America Special Paper 372, 245–263.

BANN, K.L., KLOSS, O., WOOD, G.R., LANG, S.C., KASSAN, J. AND BENSON, J., 2004—Palaeo-environments and depositional history of the Tern Field, Bonaparte Basin. In: Ellis, G.K., Baillie, P.W. and Munson, T.J. (eds), Timor Sea Petroleum Geoscience: Proceedings of the Timor Sea Symposium, Darwin, Northern Territory, 19–20 June 2003, Northern Territory Geological Survey Special Publication 1, 521–538.

BANN, K.L., KLOSS, O., WOOD, G.R., LANG, S.C., KASSAN, J. AND BENSON, J., 2005—Recognition of localized fluvial input into a wave-dominated, prograding shoreface succession; Tern Formation, Bonaparte Basin, Timor Sea, Australia. Abstracts: Annual Meeting - American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 14, A10.

BARRETT, A.G., HINDE, A.L. AND KENNARD, J.M., 2004—Undiscovered resource assessment methodologies and application to the Bonaparte Basin. In: Ellis, G.K., Baillie, P.W. and Munson, T.J. (eds). Timor Sea Petroleum Geoscience, Proceedings of the Timor Sea Symposium, Darwin, 19–20 June 2003. Northern Territory Geological Survey, Special Publication, 1, 353–372.

BAXTER, K., 1998—The role of small-scale extensional faulting in the evolution of basin geometries; an example from the late Palaeozoic Petrel Sub-basin, Northwest Australia. Tectonophysics, 287, 21–41.

BRINCAT, M.P., O’BRIEN, G.W., LISK, M., DE RUIG, M. AND GEORGE, S.C., 2001—Hydrocarbon charge history of the northern Londonderry High; implications for trap integrity and future prospectivity. The APPEA Journal, 41(1), 483–496.

CHOMAT, C. AND COISY, P., 1985—The Tern gas field case history. Exploration Geophysics, 16, 186–189.

EDWARDS, D.S., BOREHAM, C.J., ZUMBERGE, J.E., HOPE, J.M., KENNARD, J.M. AND SUMMONS, R.E., 2006—Hydrocarbon families of the Australian North West Shelf: a regional synthesis of the bulk, molecular and isotopic composition of oils and gases. 2006 AAPG International Conference and Exhibition, 5–8 November, Perth, Australia, Abstract.

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EDWARDS, D.S., KENNARD, J.M., PRESTON, J.C., SUMMONS, R.E., BOREHAM, C.J. AND ZUMBERGE, J.E., 2000—Bonaparte Basin; geochemical characteristics of hydrocarbon families and petroleum systems. AGSO Research Newsletter, December, 14–19.

GIBSON-POOLE, C.M., LANG, S.C., STREIT, J.E., KRAISHAN, G.M. AND HILLIS, R.R., 2002—Assessing a basin’s potential for geological sequestration of carbon dioxide; an example from the Mesozoic of the Petrel Sub-basin, NW Australia. In: Keep, M. and Moss, S.J. (eds), 2002, The Sedimentary Basins of Western Australia 3: Proceedings of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Symposium, Perth, WA, 2002, 439–463.

GONCHAROV, A.G., COLLINS, C.D.N., PETKOVIC, P. AND FOMIN, T.N., 1999—Seismic velocities in the Petrel Sub-basin from the ocean-bottom seismograph studies: implications for crustal structure and petroleum prospecting. The APPEA Journal, 39(1), 729–730.

GORTER, J.D., 2006—Fluvial deposits of the Lower Kulshill Group (Late Carboniferous) of the southeastern Bonaparte Basin, Western Australia. 2006 AAPG International Conference and Exhibition, 5–8 November, Perth, Australia, Abstract.

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