Publications

This paper analyzes regional hydrogeological conditions and divides the study area into three hydrogeological types and seven hydrogeological units, to investigate hydrogeology and its effect on coalbed methane (CBM) enrichment in the southern Junggar Basin, China.

The Pennsylvanian—Middle Triassic Cooper Basin is Australia’s premier conventional onshore hydrocarbon producing province. The basin also hosts a range of unconventional gas play types, including basin-centered gas and tight gas accumulations, deep dry coal gas associated with the Patchawarra and Toolachee Formations, and the Murteree and Roseneath shale gas plays.

There is very limited literature relating to gas production from ultra-deep (>9000 ft; >2700 m) coal seams. This paper investigates permeability enhancement in ultra-deep coal seams of the late Carboniferous and early Permian to Late Triassic Cooper Basin in South Australia, using a time-lapse pressure transient analysis (PTA) approach for a pilot well.

Clinoforms, the basic large-scale architectural form within which sediments are stored and eventually fed down depositional dip in clastic wedges, exist in many shapes and sizes. Understanding how they form, evolve, and degrade is critical to understanding how transport mechanisms affect the shelf margin and sediment partitioning and distribution, and their implications on the presence of a working petroleum system.

The uppermost Middle Triassic Leikoupo Formation in the western Sichuan Basin of China has recently been shown to host as much as 5.3 trillion cubic ft (1.5 × 1012 m3) of natural gas resources.