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An Integrated Structural Interpretation and Modelling Workflow for the Barikewa Field, Papua New Guinea

Emma Alexander, Julie Mackintosh, Jonathon Hyde, and Peter Boult

Palaeogeographic and Palaeoclimatic evolution of Papua New Guinea: The Role of Palaeo-Earth Systems Models and Palaeo-tidal Models in Modelling and Mapping Potential Carbonate Reservoir Facies

Alexandra Ashley, Martin Watford, Simon Otto, John Watson, Mike Goodrich, Michael Cairns, Richard Cutts, Michael Cottam, Woody Wilson, Neil Davis, Paul Valdes, and Alexandro Avdis

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Numerical Sand Box as a Tool for Hydrocarbon Exploration: Applications to the Hides Anticline and the Western Papuan Fold and Thrust belt

Romain Beucher, Kevin Hill, Rebecca Farrington, and Louis Moresi

Resurrecting Ray Tracing in the Papuan Fold Belt as a Standard Procedure

Keith Bradey and Mike Szczepaniak

Utilizing High-Resolution LiDAR Data to Improve Surface Geological Maps and Structural Interpretations in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Hugo B. Burgin, Craig Richards, and Hugh Kerr

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A Summary of The Petroleum Distribution and Potential Of PNG

John Chambers and Lewis Maxwell

Gulf of Papua Seismic Challenges and Solutions through Broadband Processing with Advanced Imaging Techniques

Subhash Chandra

Integrated Seismic Processing challenges in Karstified terrain of PNG Fold Belt

Subhash Chandra, Michael Szczepaniak, and Patrick Haltmeier

Geochemical Exploration Strategies for Papua New Guinea and other Geologically Complex Areas in Southeast Asia: Best Practices and Recent Exploration Case Histories

Luigi Clavareau and Dietmar Schumacher

Deep-Time Landscape Evolution Modelling in the Context of Tectonics, Geodynamics, and Eustasy

Cian Clinton-Gray, Youseph Ibrahim, Sabin Zahirovic , Claire Mallard, Tristan Salles, and Daniela Garrad

Petroleum Prospectivity of the Fly Platform: Some New Perspectives

John Conolly, Richard Schroder, Bronwyn Davies, and Paul Adams

New Insights into the PNG Margin from the Roho Non-Exclusive Airborne Gravity Gradiometer and Magnetic Survey

Warwick Crowe, Helen Anderson, Kieran Ryan, Geoff Peters, Krista Davies, and Simon Crellin

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From Seismic to Seep: An Observation Based Approach to Defining the Petroleum Systems of the Offshore Gulf of Papua

Krista Davies, Trent Spry, and Simon Crellin

Local Stratigraphy and Mud Gas Correlations of Wells in North-West Eastern Papuan Basin, Papua New Guinea

Rodney M. Dawan, Simon A. Kawagle, and James Wapyer

Inversion of Gravity to Estimate Depth to Basement in the East Papuan Fold Belt: Implications for Development of Isolated Carbonate Platforms

Simone de Morton, Dan Gillam, Desmond Leech, and Hugh Kerr

Adopting “big loop” reservoir modelling workflow to handle subsurface uncertainty of the Gobe Field in PNG Highlands

Vanni Donagemma, Sue Hyde, David Lund, and Dmitry Molokhov

Quantifying Hydrocarbon Saturation in the Highlands of PNG

Matthew J. Durrant and Donald Y Lyons

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Oil Producing Fields – Optimising Management and Minimising Decline

Muhammad Fahad, Roge Kila, Vernon Roewer, James Pasuk, and Ken Xu

P’nyang South 2 Well Results

Matthew Felgate, Brian J. Darby, Stefan Frei, Matthew J. Durrant, and Dave Barwick

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Managing Subsurface Uncertainty during the Successful Development Drilling of the Hides Gas Field

Desire Gamez-Torrent, Sam Hemmings-Sykes, Brian J. Darby, and Tomas P. O’Kane

The Muruk Gas Field: Insights into Structural Style in The Western Foldbelt of Papua New Guinea

Jonathan A. Giddings, Leon J. Aden, Brian J. Darby, Desmond L. Leech, Donald Y. Lyons, Anthony L. Djakic, Dave Barwick, Jeremy B. Iwanec, and Marcus Parish

Integrated subsurface analysis:  an approach to challenging PNG fold & thrust belt exploration

Frank Goulding

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Evolution of Seismic Acquisition Techniques in Papua New Guinea

Patrick Haltmeier, Michael Szczepaniak, Subhash Chandra, Dave McLennan, and James Morrow

Rotary ‘Lie’ Detectors applied to reservoir simulation models – How did we perform?

Amanda Hanani, Stephen Wood, Nicole Middleton, Patrick Sykes, and Mavise Beattie

Compressional Evolution of the PNG Margin; A Tale of Two Collisions

Kevin Hill, Luke Mahoney, and Sandra McLaren

History of Antelope Discovery

David John Holland, Okaro Yogi, and Merok Kiele

Provenance and Tectonics of the Allochthonous New Guinea Terranes: Implications for the Formation and Evolution of Regional Basins

Robert Holm, David Gold, Lloyd White, Max Webb, Luke Mahoney, Sandra McLaren, Kelly Heilbronn, Juergen Oesterle, Marcel Mizera, Dulcie Saroa, Moira Lunge, and Sam Webber

Karst – Is there a magic way to model it?

Huijun Hou, Bruce Taylor, Brad Bailey, Glen Johnson, Sigurdur Jonsson, and Darren Blazak

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The Influence of Mechanical Stratigraphy on the Evolution of the Papua New Guinea Fold and Thrust Belt

Youseph Ibrahim, Patrice Rey, and Luke Mahoney

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Regional Sequence Stratigraphic Architecture and Paleogeographic Interpretation of the Tithonian to Berriasian Reservoir Systems , Papua New Guinea

Errol Johnstone, Dean Johnstone, Euan Macaulay, and M. Nguyen

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Pressure-Stress Evaluation of Wells Drilled at the Angore Field in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Stephen L. Karner, Tomas P. O’Kane, Matthew J. Durrant, and Brian J. Darby

Unravelling PNG’s Frontier Basins: New Structural-stratigraphic Insights in Analogous Subduction Margin Settings

Alex Karvelas, Bee Jik Lim, Oliver Schenk, Mohamed El-Toukhy, Adam McArthur, and William McCaffrey

Papua New Guinea as an Exploration Destination – Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going

Joe Keith

Hydrocarbons’ Putting on a Show! – Development of a PNG Shows Database

Mervin Kendino, Amy-Yvette Kaumi, David-John Holland, Julianne Lamb, and Andrew Murray

Predicting Carbonates through Time and Space: Deep Time Climate Modeling and Interactive Databases identifying Heterogeneity, Morphometrics and Reservoir Quality

Jeroen Kenter, Jean Borgomano, Yannick Donnadieu, Alexandre Pohl, Julien Michel, Alexandre Letteron, Cyprien Lanteaume, and Céline Baral

Advance Mud Gas Evaluation in complex Clastic Reservoir while Drilling in Usano field of PNG

Harris Khan, Rob Stevens, Ahmad Shoebi, and Alan D. Morrison

It All Begins in The Field and Ends in The Field: How We Leverage Our 90-Year Legacy to Successfully Explore In PNG

Joshua Kidu, Mervin Kendino, Pedro A Restrepo-Pace, and Luke Mahoney

Impacts of Gas Injection, Reservoir Pressure Recharge and Maintenance in the Usano Field

Roge Kila, Nicole Middleton, and Vernon Roewer

Determination of Porosity from Mechanical Measurements in Carbonates Affected by Severe Drilling Fluid Invasion

Peter Kirkham

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The Interplay of Pre-existing Sedimentary Architecture, and its Controls on the Structural Styles in the Eastern Papuan Basin

Desmond Leech, Simone de Morton, Dan Gillam, and Tony Allan

The Challenges of Evaluating Hydrocarbon-Water Contacts with Residual Hydrocarbon Effects on Resistivity Measurements

Donald Y. Lyons, Matthew J. Durrant, and Ashish Datey

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An Overview of Structural Style, Trap Configuration and Reservoir Connectivity in the Western and Central Fold Belt, Papua New Guinea

Euan Macaulay, David Fowler, Ruth Wightman, and Andre Cebastiant

Muruk 2: Drill Stem Test Design and Application

Hans-Jurgen B. Mason, Jonathan A. Giddings, Peter Urquhart, and Dean O’Shaughnessy

Benefits of a Chronostratigraphic Framework, an example from the Papuan Fold Belt (new title 29Jan)

Lewis Maxwell, Lawrence Grant-Woolley, Geoff Wood, and Sarah Hawkes

Tectonic Evolution of Thin and Thick-skinned Fold and Thrust Belts; Applications to the Papua New Guinea Fold and Thrust Belt

Professor Ken McClay

The Exotica Carbonate Debrite Deposit: A Potential Source for Thermogenic Submarine Hydrocarbon Seeps Offshore New Ireland, New Ireland Basin, PNG

Brent I.A. McInnes and Timothy F. McConachy

Tube Fossils in the Lelet Formation, New Ireland: Evidence for Miocene Hydrocarbon Seepage in the New Ireland Basin?

Brent I.A. McInnes, Michael Nongkas, Harvey Cook, Kai Rankenburg, Noreen J. Evans, Brad J. McDonald, and MD Zakaria Quadir

Full Spectrum Falcon FTG Noise Analysis and Data Examples From Papua New Guinea

David Moore and Chris Van Galder

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An Overview of Geochemical Exploration of Hydrocarbons in Papuan Basin, Papua New Guinea

Shadrach K. Noku

Structural Traps and Hydrocarbon Resources of the Papuan Basin: An Overview

Shadrach K. Noku, Susan Nasinom, Eddie Guru, and Elliona Maso

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Insights from Geomechanical Modelling of 2D Cross-Sections in Fold-Thrust Belt Structures

Reinaldo Ollarves, Samuel Fraser, and Ken McClay

P

Case Study: How a Conventional Core Led to a Material Uplift in the Usano Oilfield

Jeff Patra, Matt Dubsky, and Ray Spicer

R

Beyond Geometry: 2D structural thermo- kinematic models of the Papuan Fold and Thrust Belt

Pedro A. Restrepo-Pace, Marie Callies Beicip-Franlab, and Julianne Lamb

LiDAR and its application to Surface Geological Mapping and Structural Interpretation within the Western Fold Belt of Papua New Guinea

Craig Richards

Constraining the Regional Slope of Western Papua New Guinea: A Study of Lithospheric Flexure

Mike Rieger, Samuel A. Fraser, and Reinaldo Ollarves

New Insights into the Hydrocarbon System of the Eastern and Papuan Plateaus, offshore PNG

Chris Rodda, Hugh Kerr, David Awwiller, and Mark Sloan

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Carbonate play in the Offshore Papuan Plateau, PNG

Shiladitya Sengupta, Franck Gisquet, Mark Dixon, Andi Kusuma , and William Gordon-Canning

Current workflow for Seismic Facies Identification and Characterization in the Miocene Carbonates of the Gulf of Papua and the Eastern Fold Belt of Papua New Guinea

Stefan Sowei, David John Holland, Mervin Kendino, and Velencia Komun

The Geohistory and Morphology of the Pasca A Reef

Wayne Spencer

Geodetic And Vertical Datums Used in Papua New Guinea – An Overview

Richard Stanaway

Neotectonics of the Papuan Fold and Thrust Belt – insights from space geodetic analysis

Richard Stanaway, Luke Mahoney, John Noonan, and Sandra McLaren

Real-time Resistivity Images Using High Data-rate Telemetry in Papua New Guinea

Rob Stevens, Leo Blawan, and Harris Khan

The First Oil Seep Discovery in South East Png and its Implications to Torres Basin Petroleum System Analysis.

Dr. Michael Swift, Ric Malcolm, and H. Davies

Integrated PSDM Transect Modelling and Imaging across PNG

Michael Szczepaniak, Keith Bradey, David Holland, and Luke Mahoney

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Palaeogeographic and Palaeoclimatic evolution of Papua New Guinea: The Role of Palaeo-Earth Systems Models and Palaeo-tidal Models in Mapping Source Facies and its implications for new plays

Martin Watford, Alexandra Ashley, Simon Otto, John Watson, Mike Goodrich, Michael Cairns, Paul Valdes, Peter Allison, and Alexandro Avdis

Basement Architecture and Mechanical Stratigraphy: Hidden Controls on the Formation of Complex Forelimb Structures

Ruth Wightman, Romain Darnault, and Sylvie Schueller

Carbonate Systems and Reservoir Development in the Gulf of Papua

Moyra Wilson

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Imaging Carbonates: The Evolution of 2D Seismic Imaging Onshore in the Eastern Papuan Basin of Papua New Guinea

Okaro Yogi, Merok Kiele, David John Holland, and Michael Szczepaniak

Modelling Complex Structures in Papua New Guinea – Challenges and Insights

Mazlina Md Yusoff and Brendan R. Bream

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Tectonics and Geodynamics of the New Guinea Region Since the Triassic

Sabin Zahirovic and Daniela Garrad