Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP1095247

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP1095247

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Molecular fossils, the evolution of Earth's early oceans and the origin of the oldest oil. Australia retains undiscovered oil reserves. We believe that a change in primitive marine life forms may have fundamentally changed the chemistry of the Earth's oceans and is responsible for the world's oldest oil reserves. While these reserves have been found, and successfully commercialised, overseas, similar reservoirs in Australia remain elusive. The project will develop and apply technologies based on hydrocarbon biomarkers to help determine the oil-producing rock types of Precambrian sedimentary rocks. This allows us to estimate the oil's age and predict where petroleum reservoirs may be hidden. PhD students involved in the project will gain valuable knowledge about the link between changes in ecology and the carbon cycle.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 11-03-2010

End Date: 10-03-2015

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $655,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Palaeoecology | Geochemistry | Palaeontology | Organic Geochemistry Not Elsewhere Classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Oil and gas | Climate change | Earth sciences |

Other Keywords

Climate change | Earth sciences | Geochemistry | Oil and gas | Organic Geochemistry Not Elsewhere Classified | Palaeoecology | Palaeontology

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