b'ASEG newsCommitteesThe MS, petrography and biotitethe selection and de-risking of safe andreservoirs that might be targets for CO 2chemistry data is a proxy for redoxeffective CCS sites, though the requisitestorage are in pressure communication conditions of the granitic magmas whichgeomechanical data and constraintswith both over pressured sequences provides information pertaining to theon the presence and nature of faultsat depth, and potentially active faults source regions and economic mineraland fractures are often scarce. Thisin the basement beneath the basin, is fertility of different granitoids.ASEG Research Foundation supporteda fundamental knowledge gap. This PhD research project will elucidate theproject will take advantage of the new technical and commercial viability of CO 2 Cooper Basin 2Dcubed dataset, where the RF23P01 University of Adelaide, PhDstorage in Australias Cooper-Eromangacomplete catalogue of seismic reflection Student Iain Campbell (Supervisorbasins, which have the potential to bedata from the South Australian Cooper-ProfSimon Holford) a world-leading CCS hub. There is aEromanga Basin has been reprocessed surprising lack of consensus as to theto generate pre-stack time and depth-Geophysical-geomechanical constraintstectonic origin of this basin system, andmigrated pseudo-3D volumes. The on the operating limits for basin-scalelimited data on the distribution andproject will apply a consistent fault CO 2 storage. properties of faults, in part due to themapping approach to this dataset, spatially restricted focus of existing faultand to available 2D and 3D data from Carbon capture and storage (CCS) ismapping and to difficulties in imagingQueensland, supported by regional a critical component of pathways tobasement-involved faults. The latter ispotential field (gravity, magnetic) limit global warming, but considerableparticularly important for CCS, as fluiddatasets, resulting in a whole-basin upscaling is needed to meet Net Zeroinjection into supra-basement aquifersfault-framework from which reactivation 2050 targets, including the identificationin the US has resulted in the largestpotential can be elucidated through of many new CO 2storage reservoirs.inducedearthquakes. The lack of angeomechanical modelling, whilst Identifying favourable geomechanicalintegrated structural framework for thealso maximising the broader resource conditions to avoid reservoir and sealCooper-Eromanga basin means that(e.g. natural gas, geothermal, natural deformation presents a key challenge inthe degree to both shallow and deephydrogen) potential of the basin.16 PREVIEWFEBRUARY 2024'