Replies to post #22052 on Empire Energy Corporation Intl. (fka EEGC)

[oilsleuth]

You are very confused. The Tasmanite oil shale unit is within the Permo-Triassic Parmeeneer Supergroup to which the Gondwana petroleum system refers and it has nothing at all to do with the deeper, underlying Ordovician to Devonian Larapintine petroleum system. The Precambrian rocks are older and deeper still.

It is the Ordovician to Devonian sequence for which RPS Energy has estimated the prospective undiscovered resource. They have not computed any resource in the overlying Parmeener Supergroup because the seismic data was too poor there to elucidate any structural traps. There has been some speculation of a very broad and gentle anticline mirroring to some lesser degree the underlying Bellevue dome but it is not evident in the seismic.

So-called "target" horizons in the Parmeeneer are completely conceptual - coal seams could conceivably be prospective for coal seam gas but what the thin Tasmanite unit proper (if present) is supposed to be prospective for has never been explained. It is speculated to possibly represent a source for the release and migration of oil into overlying structural traps within the Parmeneer.

I see that the Amini mosaic Bellevue Anticline page includes a small Table showing Monte Carlo simulation for P10 P50 P90 in the Permo-Triassic but that refers only to inferred reservoir capacities and NOT to probabilities of actual oil discovery. The study must be highly conceptual since detailed structural traps are not known and the work is not considered by the later RPS Energy report.

The same Tasmanite shale of Latrobe runs directly under Bellvue. Presumably it's the same laurapatine, precambiam system where they extracted oil in the north.