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2007 Release of Offshore Petroleum Exploration Areas EXPLORE AUSTRALIA The 2007 Offshore Petroleum Exploration Acreage release comprises 34 areas, located across six basins. The release areas range from frontier to mature status and offer opportunities for exploration companies of all sizes. Comprehensive acreage release information packs can be obtained (free of charge) by emailing contact details to: [email protected] EXMOUTH PLATEAU, CARNARVON BASIN, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

120° NT07-1 140° 10° Areas W07-16 and W07-17 NT07-2 AC07-1 to 5  Darwin W07-5 to 7 W07-1 NT07-3 to 5 to 3 W07-4 W07-8 to 11

W07-12 to 15 W07-16 to 21 NORTHERN TERRITORY

QUEENSLAND

WESTERN

AUSTRALIA

Brisbane SOUTH

30° AUSTRALIA

Perth NEW SOUTH WALES Sydney

VICTORIA 2007 Offshore Acreage Release Area Melbourne 2007 Designated Frontier Area V07-1 to 3

2006 Offshore Acreage Release Area Bids close 10 May 2007 Existing petroleum exploration TASMANIA or development title Hobart Gas pipeline 0 1000 km Oil pipeline ASPD 7014-2

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: FOR GEOSCIENTIFIC ENQUIRIES CONTACT:

Mr Bob Pegler Dr Clinton Foster General Manager Chief of Division Offshore Resources Branch Petroleum & Marine Division Resources Division Geoscience Australia Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources GPO Box 378, CANBERRA ACT 2601 GPO Box 9839, CANBERRA ACT 2601 AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA Telephone: +61 2 6249 9447 Telephone: +61 2 6213 7928 Facsimile: +61 2 6249 9933 Facsimile: +61 2 6213 7955 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.ga.gov.au Internet: www.industry.gov.au/petexp BIDS CLOSE 18 OCTOBER 2007 Current Exploration Opportunities in the Exmouth Plateau, Carnarvon Basin, Offshore Australia Open for bids until 18 October 2007

B l 116° Ermine 1 Significant discovery Areas W07-16 and W07-17 0 25 km Potentia 1 WESTERN AUSTRALIA 4 NORTHERN EXMOUTH PLATEAU Lithology Formation Age Seismic Seal Age Source 0 WA-389-P Reservoir 00 Ma Secondary Secondary PETROLEUM PLAY ELEMENTS 1 Primary Primary marker Mega-sequence Depositional • Australia’s premier hydrocarbon province. 0 or local or local Environment Rankin Platform Exmouth Plateau

W07-18 Beagle Sub-basin Barrow Sub-basin Dampier Sub-basin Exmouth Sub-basin • Frontier blocks in a range of water depths (less 50 Source Locker Shale Formation equivalents Andromeda 1 19° than 200 m to approx 800 m). Glatton 1 Cardabia Dockrell Fm (Early ) and Mungaroo Formation  W07-16 Calcarenite WA-388-P CENOZOIC Lambert Fm equivalents (Middle to Late Triassic). • Near to giant producing fi elds and near existing  T Brigadier 1 Marine Serval 1 Miria Marl  infrastructure and an expanding gas market. Banambu 1 WA-359-P Passive margin Korojon Reservoir Brigadier Formation (Late Triassic to B Withnell Fm Calcarenite Norfolk 00 Mutineer Late 2 Early ), the Mungaroo Formation • Traditional Triassic Mungaroo fault block plays,  WA-191-P KS/KC Toolonga Calcilutite Gandara 1 Plymouth 1 Bounty Exeter Tigger 1 B  (Late Triassic) and Barrow Group (Early as at Goodwyn. B Carteret 1 Gearle Haycock W07-17 B Siltstone Marl ). WA-361-P Lacerta 1 Hermes WA-4-L R1 100 • Special Notices apply, refer to Guidance Notes. Egret WA-3-L R1 WA-17-L Angel Perseus Eaglehawk Lambert WA-1-P R6 CRETACEOUS Windalia Radiolarite Marine Seal Regional seals provided by Locker Montague

KA Post-rift active North Rankin Windalia Sst Cossack 06-1131-7 Shale (Early Triassic), Cossigny Member M. australis

Early Muderong Goodwyn Wanaea (Stag) Sst WA-360-P Shale of the Mungaroo Formation (Middle Gaea WA-11-L Mardie Greensand Geoscience Australia Reports/Products Barrow Gp Birdrong Sst Echo/Yodel KV WA-2-L R1 Zeepaard Fm Triassic) and Forestier Claystone and & Flag Sst Goodwyn South Flacourt Fm Malouet Fm WA-208-P R2 Late Deltaic Macedon Fm syn-rift W07-16 & W07-17, Exmouth Plateau Tidepole K Muderong Shale (Early Cretaceous). Angel Fm Keast/Dockrell WA-28-P R6 Dupuy Fm WA-5-L R1 Sculptor Dingo Mungaroo Formation (Triassic) provides 150 Late Claystone Jansz Sst • Interpretations of Geoscience Australia’s regional Field outlines supplied by Encom Petroleum Information Pty Ltd Biggada Sst Linda Sst an intraformational seal. Learmonth Fm JO Main syn-rift Calypso Fm seismic data, Survey 101, 110 and 128 (2001) 2007 release area Gas pipeline JC Legendre Fm – digital horizon and fault data in ASCII format. Existing petroleum exploration or development permit 500 Bathymetric contour (depth in metres) Traps Tilted fault blocks, horsts, fault roll- Middle over structures, drape anticlines and GA Catalog No. 35240, 35242 and 35247. JURASSIC Athol Fm

Early syn-rift stratigraphic pinch-outs. • Line drawings of Geoscience Australia’s Marine & deltaic Marine & fluvial Hiatus at the Main Unconformity (MU or IJU) JP1 regional seismic profi les, offshore northern and Murat Siltstone Early Infrastructure Producing oil accumulations at Lambert, North Rankin 200 Fm northwestern Australia.GA Catalog No. 36353. Brigadier Fm Marine and Markets Hermes, Mutineer/Norfolk and Exeter TR lie no more than 10km to the east of • Northern Carnarvon Basin high-resolution seismic 116° 117° Beagle Sub-basin 118° y

survey CTT-136, and Interpretation Report. Rowle Late Area W07-17. North Rankin/Perseus gas Sub-basin 2 Mungaroo Fm Dixon Trend accumulation extends to within 10km of GA Record 1996/36. W07-19 W07-20

GA 120/05 W07-18 Fluvial to marine Pre-rift active margin TRIASSIC the southern edge of Area W07-17.

• Source rock time-slice maps (TOC, HI, VR), Middle Horst Imperieuse Exmouth Picard Horst Spathian offshore Northwest Australia - 1:3,000,000 scale. Plateau W07-16 Swift Nammalian Locker Shale Horst Early 250 Griesbachian Marine GA Catalog No. 61179. 19° P Beagle Trough Bedout PERMIAN Ronsard Ridge Sub-basin Sable Horst 06-1359-3 • Characterisation of Natural Gases from West Brigadier Trend Ronsard Trough 1. Location map of areas W07-16 and W07-21 W07-17 W07-17, Exmouth Plateau Carnarvon CossignyDe Grey Trough Australian Basins: Carnarvon Basin Module. Victoria Syncline Nose 0 25 km North TurtleBruce Terrace Terrace GA 101R/10 Dampier Figure 2. Regional stratigraphy of the Northern Carnarvon Basin. Basin. GA and Geotechnical Services Non-exclusive Sub-basin Rankin Trend Lambert Shelf Study, 2000. 06-1359-2 W07-16 2. Structural elements of the Northern Figure 2. Structural elements of the Northern Exmouth Plateau (modified after Blevin et al., 1994b; W07-17 • Oils of Western Australia: Regional Petroleum Kufpec, 1995; Woodside, 1999). 3 Exmouth Plateau also showing the Lacerta 1 Tigger 1 Geochemistry and correlation of crude oils. SW Brigadier 1 (proj) (proj) Lambert 1 NE location of Figure3. GA and GeoMark Research, 1996. 0 3. Composite regional seismic line 128/05 • Oils of Western Australia II: Regional Petroleum and 101R/10, Northern Exmouth Plateau. Geochemistry and correlation of crude oils and 1 condensates from Western Australia and Papua 4. Stratigraphy of the Northern Exmouth New Guinea. GA and GeoMark Research, 2005. 2 Plateau. Contact Geoscience Australia’s Sales Centre for more • Northwestern and Northern Australian margins information or to order these reports or products, stratigraphic chart showing GA’s interpreted 3

phone 61 (0)2 6249 9966, e-mail [email protected] Two-way time (s) regional seismic horizons, 2001.

GA Catalog No. 36454. 4 • Basin Biozonation and Stratigraphy charts for the Relevant Industry Data

Southern and Northern Carnarvon Basins. • Australian North West Shelf Digital Atlas, 5 Charts 4 and 11, 1998. www.nwsda.com

Line GA 128/05 Line GA 101R/10 06-1359-4 6 0 10 km

Figure 5. Composite regional seismic line 128-05 and 101R-10, Northern Exmouth Plateau.