http://www.GEOExpro.net/rss/Australasia_headlines.xmlThis newsfeed has been automatically generated by GEO Exproen-gb10 Aug 2011Copyright: (C) http://www.GEOExpro.comOne of the last intact wildernesses left on earth, Papua New Guinea is experiencing an unprecedented resurgence of interest from the hydrocarbon industry. Is it possible to encourage the advances of modernisation and the oil industry without jeopardising the ecology and culture of this amazing country?http://www.geoexpro.net/article/Like_Everywhere_Youve_Never_Been/76acf10e.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.net/article/Like_Everywhere_Youve_Never_Been/76acf10e.aspxWed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT Oil exploration in Australia has been fraught with disappointments in a relentless land, but onshore basins such as the Cooper Basin can still yield surprises. http://www.geoexpro.net/article/Oil_on_Troubled_Water/d9d4a8b1.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.net/article/Oil_on_Troubled_Water/d9d4a8b1.aspxSun, 07 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT A largely untested 15,000 m of syn-rift and post-rift succession of Middle Jurassic to Upper Cretaceous sediments in the offshore Ceduna Sub-basin beckons exploration.http://www.geoexpro.net/article/Hidden_Assets_South_Australia/7ae6e7bf.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.net/article/Hidden_Assets_South_Australia/7ae6e7bf.aspxSat, 23 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT Continuing Exploration Success with Eendracht 3D. Multiple exploration companies united to prefund Fugro’s largest non-exclusive 3D seismic survey in the Carnarvon Basin. The Cretaceous Barrow Group highs and Triassic Mungaroo tilted fault blocks identified in the Fast Track Cube have been the highlight of initial investigations into the dataset. http://www.geoexpro.net/article/Carnarvon_Basin/a8002038.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.net/article/Carnarvon_Basin/a8002038.aspxMon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT Are there continent-scale resources to be found offshore?http://www.geoexpro.net/article/The_Submerged_Continent_of_New_Zealand/3c0a2784.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.net/article/The_Submerged_Continent_of_New_Zealand/3c0a2784.aspxSun, 19 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT On a splendid white beach in Shark Bay, Western Australia, I finally found the worlds oldest fossils. They are commonly referred to as living rock, and they have ruled the earth for approximately 3.5 billion years, and continue to live today. No other form of life has survived so long.http://www.geoexpro.net/article/The_Earths_Oldest_Fossils/ad5e608c.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.net/article/The_Earths_Oldest_Fossils/ad5e608c.aspxWed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT