Highlights - Release Areas W09-12, W09-13, W09-14, W09-15, W09-16, W09-17, W09-18 and W09-19, Dampier Sub-basin, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia
In this section
Bids Close - 3 December 2009 for W09-12, W09-14, W09-15 and W09-16
Bids Close - 29 April 2010 for W09-17, W09-18 and W09-19
- Wide selection of Release Areas in oil and gas producing province.
- Shallow water area with established infrastructure.
- Overlying or adjacent to Jurassic depocentre with proven oil-prone Late Jurassic source rocks.
- Proven plays at multiple stratigraphic levels in the Triassic, Jurassic and Early Cretaceous.
- Special Notices apply, refer to Guidance Notes.
Dampier Sub-basin Petroleum Play Elements
| Source | Late Jurassic Dingo Claystone proven oil source rock deposited in the Dampier Sub-basin, main phase of generation in Cenozoic with loading of prograding carbonate shelf. |
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| Reservoir | Multiple sandstone reservoirs - fluvio-deltaic facies in Late Triassic to Middle Jurassic (Mungaroo, Brigadier, North Rankin and Athol formations); shallow marine to turbidite facies in the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous (Angel Formation, M.australis Sandstone). |
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| Seal | Regional seal of the Early Cretaceous Muderong Shale, intra-formational seals within the Triassic, Jurassic and Early Cretaceous sequences. |
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| Traps | Fault block traps, anticlines, structural/stratigraphic traps along the basin margin. |
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| Infrastructure and Markets | Oil production at Stag and Wandoo. Reindeer gas field to be developed for domestic market with new gas plant at Devil Creek. The gas pipeline from the Rankin Trend fields to the LNG plant on the Burrup Peninsulatraverses the Release areas. |
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Graticular Block Listing
Release Area W09-12, Dampier Sub-basin, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia
Map Sheet SE 50 (Rowley Shoals)
| 3265 | 3266 | 3267 |
Assessed to contain 3 full blocks
Release Area W09-13, Dampier Sub-basin, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia
Map Sheet SE 50 (Rowley Shoals)
| 3336 | 3407 | 3408 | 3409 | 3410 |
Map Sheet SF 50 (Hamersley Range)| 22 | 23 | 24 |
Assessed to contain 8 full blocks
Release Area W09-14, Dampier Sub-basin, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia
Map Sheet SF 50 (Hamersley Range)
| 239 | 240 |
Assessed to contain 2 full blocks
Release Area W09-15, Dampier Sub-basin, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia
Map Sheet SF 50 (Hamersley Range)
| 99 |
Assessed to contain 1 full block
Release Area W09-16, Dampier Sub-basin, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia
Map Sheet SF 50 (Hamersley Range)
| 172 |
Assessed to contain 1 full block
Release Area W09-17, Dampier Sub-basin, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia
Map Sheet SF 50 (Hamersley Range)
| 103 | 174 | 175 | 246 | 247 | 248 |
| 317 (part) | 318 | 319 (part) | 389 (part) | 390 (part) | 391 (part) |
Assessed to contain 12 blocks (includes 7 full blocks and 5 part blocks)
Release Area W09-18, Dampier Sub-basin, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia
Map Sheet SE 50 (Rowley Shoals)
| 3274 | 3345 | 3346 | 3417 | 3418 |
Map Sheet SF 50 (Hamersley Range)
| 32 | 33 | 34 | 104 | 105 | 106 |
| 176 | 177 | | | | |
Assessed to contain 13 full blocks
Release Area W09-19, Dampier Sub-basin, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia
Map Sheet SE 50 (Rowley Shoals)
| 3208 | 3209 | 3278 | 3279 | 3280 | 3348 |
| 3349 | 3350 | 3351 | 3419 | 3420 | 3421 |
| 3422 | | | | | |
Map Sheet SF 50 (Hamersley Range)
| 35 | 36 | 37 | 107 |
Assessed to contain 17 full blocks
Graticular Block Map