Time: 11:30 am Virtual Social Icebreaker, Noon Speaker Presentation

Speaker: Jarvis Moore

Title: The Canning Basin of Western Australia, Discovering Unconventional Opportunity

Abstract: The Canning Basin, located on the northern coast of Western Australia, is one of Australia’s largest basins at over 400K sq. km (figure 1), two times the size of the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico.  It is adjacent to the prolific offshore Carnarvon Basin. A limited number of wells have been drilled with only marginal success on the basin margins bounding the northern deep Fitzroy Trough depocenter. Prograding Devonian and Carboniferous marine carbonates and siliciclastics were deposited in a transitional ramp setting in the Fitzroy Trough; defined source rocks with TOCs of .5 to 4.25% lie within this depocenter but limited information is known about the potential deeper sources.   Multiple tectonic phases altered this basin, creating an extensive set of both transpressional and extensional fault…