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Northern
Territory
QLD
PROJECT
Bonaparte
Basin
WA
SA
NSW
Perth
Area
12,600km2
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The onshore sector of the Bonaparte
Basin is characterized by many
hydrocarbon shows, both oil and gas,
in poorly sited wells and shallow mineral
holes.
Many shallow mineral and stratigraphic
boreholes, close to the basin edge, have
encountered oil staining, both live and
residual.
The above point is empirical confirmation
that Gussows Theorem, whereby early
generated oil has been displaced up-dip
and margin-ward, by late generated dry
gas. Hence the basin is prospective for
both oil and gas.
These points prove that the basin
contains rich, mature source rocks and is
prospective for shallow accumulations of
oil and for deeper gas accumulations.
The highly truncated basin geometry
lends itself readily to hydrocarbon
migration
The onshore and near offshore sector
of the Petrel Sub-basin, the basins
southernmost and deepest depocentre,
has hydrocarbon shows and recoveries
from units ranging in age from Lower
Devonian through Lower Carboniferous,
Lower Permian to Early Triassic.
The area of EPA 175 is well placed with
regard to infra-structure to deliver either
oil or gas to unsatiated markets. The gas
pipe which connects the Blacktip Gas
Processing Plant at Wadeye, within the
permit, transects EPA 175 and connects
with the Amadeus-Darwin Gas Trunkline.
The Wadeye Condensate Loading
Facility is located immediately offshore
from Wadeye.
Sydney
Adelaide
VIC
Lease Holder
Bonaparte Oil Ltd
Lease No
EPA 175
Brisbane
Melbourne
TAS
1. ABSTRACT
Bonaparte Oil Limited (Bonaparte Oil) is
a private company incorporated on 18th
January 2010. with the objective of exploring
for, discovering and eventually developing,
producing and commercializing,
hydrocarbon accumulations in the
onshore sector of the Bonaparte Basin in
the Northern Territory (NT). In an attempt
to address this objective the company
applied for and was subsequently awarded
Exploration Permit (EP) 175 in the Wadeye,
formerly known as Point Keats, area of the
Northern Territory. An offer of this permit has
been made to the company, and subject
to an appropriate Native Title settlement
being concluded, the tenement will be
formally awarded to Bonaparte Oil, until
then its formal designation is Exploration
Permit (Application) (EPA). The principal of
the company is involved in the petroleum
exploration in other sedimentary basins in
the NT and some of the States of Australia.
And as such is versed in overseeing
exploration projects.
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128 30' E
128 E
12 30' S
129 30' E
130 E
130 30' E
8,600,000 MN
NT/P79
PETREL GAS
5 61A
2
4 PETREL FIELD
3
13 S
TERN GAS
FIELD
8,550,000 MN
NORTHERN
TERRITORY
1 54 TERN
2
Tern 3
NT/P77
WESTERN
AUSTRALIA
13 30' S
Billawock 1
Penguin 1
8,500,000 MN
Polkadot 1
NT/P66
Bougainville 1 NT/P57
Wisteria
Sidestep11
Blacktip North 1
Blacktip 1
Lesueur 1
14 S
Shakespeare 1
BLACKTIP
GAS FIELD
8,450,000 MN
Kinmore 1
Weasel 1
Cambridge 1
WADEYE
Onshore
Gas Plant
Condensate
Export Mooring
Lacrosse 1
EPA 175
NT/P81
Kulshill 1
Kulshill 2
Moyle 1
To
Matilda 1
Windjana 1 Cape Ford 1
Turtle 1
2
3 1 Barnett
2
Sandbar 1
14 30' S
Am
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8,400,000 MN
Sunbird 1
EPA 135
Pelican Island 1
Kingfisher 1
8,350,000 MN
EPA 135
15 S
Bonaparte 1
Bonaparte 2
Ningbing 1
Garimala 1
Ningbing 2
Keep River 1
RL1
Skull 1
Waggon Creek-1,1A
Vienta 1
WEABER
GAS FIELD
25A
41 WEABER
Pincombe 1
Spirit Hill 1
15 30' S
8,300,000 MN
EPA 126
Bullo River 1
EPA 138
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60
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100
KILOMETRES
16 S
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400,000 ME
450,000 ME
500,000 ME
600,000 ME
8,250,000 MN
650,000 ME
EP175
12,600sq km
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