Resources
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Dewhurst, D.N., Jones, R.M., Hillis, R.R. and Mildren, S.D., 2002. Microstructural and geomechanical characterisation of fault rocks from the Carnarvon and Otway Basins. Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association Journal , 42 , 167-186.
Hillis, R.R., 2000. Pore pressure/stress coupling and its implications for seismicity. Exploration Geophysics , 31 , 448-454.
Hillis, R.R. and Reynolds, S.D., 2000. The Australian Stress Map . Journal of the Geological Society, London , 157 , 915-921.
Hillis, R.R. and Mildren, S.D., 1996. The contemporary stress field of the Australian North West Shelf: II. Implications for hydrocarbon exploration and production. Geological Society of Australia Abstracts , 41 , 194.
Hillis, R.R., Mildren, S.D., Pigram, C.J. and Willoughby, D.R., 1997, Horizontal Stress Orientation in the Australian North West Continental Shelf: Stress Rotation Associated With a Convergent Plate Boundary, Tectonics , Vol. 16, No. 2, April, pp 323-335.
Hillis, R.R., Mildren, S.D. and Meyer, J.J., 2000. Borehole geomechanics in petroleum exploration and development: from controlling wellbore stability to predicting fault seal integrity. Preview , 89 , 31-34.
Jones, R.M. and Hillis, R.R., 2003, An integrated, quantitative approach to assessing fault-seal risk. AAPG Bulletin, v. 87, p. 507-524.
Jones, R.M., Boult, P.J., Hillis, R.R., Mildren S.D. and Kaldi, J. 2000, Integrated hydrocarbon seal evaluation in the Penola Trough, Otway Basin. Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association Journal, v. 40, 1, p. 194–211.
Meyer, J.J., Hillis, R.R. and Sandiford, M., 1999. Intra-Plate Deformation: The Stress Field and Mechanical Properties of the South Australian Lithosphere. Shelf. 10th European Union of Geosciences Conference Abstracts , 456, March 1999, Strasbourg, France.
Mildren, S.D., Hillis, R.R., Fett, T. and Robinson, P.H., 1994, Contemporary stresses in the Timor Sea from breakout and fracture analysis of formation microscanner data: implications for fault trap integrity, in: Purcell, P.G. and R.R. (Eds.), The Sedimentary Basins of Western Australia: Proceedings of Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Symposium, pp 291-300.
Mildren, S.D. and Hillis, R.R., 1996. The contemporary stress field of the Australian North West Shelf: I. Implications for active faulting. Geological Society of Australia Abstracts , 41 , 296.
Mildren, S.D. and Hillis, R.R., 2000, In Situ Stresses in the southern Bonaparte Basin, Australia: Implications for First- and Second-Order Controls on Stress Orientation, Geophysics Research Letters, Vol. 27, No. 20, 3413.
Mildren , S.D., Hillis , R.R. and Kaldi , J ., 2002, Calibrating predictions of fault seal reactivation in the Timor Sea. Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association Journal, v. 42, p. 187-202.
Mildren, S.D., Hillis, R.R., Kivior, T, and Kaldi, J.K., in press, Integrated seal assessment and geological risk with application to the Skua Field, Timor Sea, Australia. Timor Sea Symposium, Darwin.
Mildren, S.D., Hillis, R.R., Dewhurst, D.N., Lyon, P.J., Meyer, J.J. & Boult, P.J., in press, FAST: A New Technique for Geomechanical Assessment of the Risk of Reactivation-Related Breach of Fault Seals, AAPG Memoir.
Reynolds, S.D., Mildren, S.D., Hillis, R.R., Meyer, J.J., & Flottmann, T., in press, Maximum horizontal stress orientations in the Cooper Basin, Australia: Implications for plate scale tectonics and local stress sources, Geophysical Journal International.