Majors Geology, Petroleum Geoscience including: Supervisor: Annette George, , 6488 1923 Description: A wide variety of petroleum reservoirs are encountered in the offshore basins of the North West Shelf of Australia. Petroleum-focused projects can be undertaken in shallow or deep marine depositional systems to reconstruct depositional and tectonic history of specific basins or through specific stratigraphic units (notably reservoirs). These projects typically involve integration of core work (sedimentology, facies analysis ± petrography ± biostratigraphy) with seismic and/or wire line log data in a sequence-stratigraphic framework. There are specific projects focusing on seismic sequence-stratigraphic interpretation of basin-margin history and characterisation of reservoir intervals. These projects are also suitable for 36-42 pt Masters projects. Project: Characterisation of siliciclastic- or carbonate-dominated reservoirs associated with conventional and unconventional resources in onshore WA Basins (e.g. Perth Basin, Canning Basin) Majors Geology, Petroleum Geoscience including: Supervisor: Annette George, , 6488 1923 Description: Understanding reservoir quality is a fundamental aspect of petroleum system analysis. The onshore basins of WA have been the sites of earliest petroleum exploration in WA, and despite the dominance of the NWS as the major petroleum producer, the onshore basins have had some exciting oil discoveries in the last few years (e.g. Cliff Head, Perth Basin, and Ungani in the Canning Basin). Projects will focus on conventional and unconventional reservoir development using core to petrographic-scale description and interpretation to establish depositional setting/environments and major controls on reservoir quality (i.e. principally distribution of porosity and permeability). Some of these projects include Hylogger® analysis and portable XRF analysis of core to obtain geochemical data for characterising facies and diagenetic effects. Some projects could involve application of higher level microscopic techniques (scanning electron, cathode luminescence).
Majors including: Geology, Petroleum Geoscience Supervisor: Annette George, , 6488 1923 Description: A wide variety of petroleum reservoirs are encountered in the offshore basins of the North West Shelf of Australia. Petroleum-focused projects can be undertaken in shallow or deep marine depositional systems to reconstruct depositional and tectonic history of specific basins or through specific stratigraphic units (notably reservoirs). These projects typically involve integration of core work (sedimentology, facies analysis ± petrography ± biostratigraphy) with seismic and/or wire line log data in a sequence-stratigraphic framework. There are specific projects focusing on seismic sequence-stratigraphic interpretation of basin-margin history and characterisation of reservoir intervals. These projects are also suitable for 36-42 pt Masters projects. Project: Characterisation of siliciclastic- or carbonate-dominated reservoirs associated with conventional and unconventional resources in onshore WA Basins (e.g. Perth Basin, Canning Basin) Majors including: Geology, Petroleum Geoscience Supervisor: Annette George, , 6488 1923 Description: Understanding reservoir quality is a fundamental aspect of petroleum system analysis. The onshore basins of WA have been the sites of earliest petroleum exploration in WA, and despite the dominance of the NWS as the major petroleum producer, the onshore basins have had some exciting oil discoveries in the last few years (e.g. Cliff Head, Perth Basin, and Ungani in the Canning Basin). Projects will focus on conventional and unconventional reservoir development using core to petrographic-scale description and interpretation to establish depositional setting/environments and major controls on reservoir quality (i.e. principally distribution of porosity and permeability). Some of these projects include Hylogger® analysis and portable XRF analysis of core to obtain geochemical data for characterising facies and diagenetic effects. Some projects could involve application of higher level microscopic techniques (scanning electron, cathode luminescence).
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