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Departmental publications
Professor Heli Wopfner
Biography - Prof. Dr. Helmut (Heli) Wopfner
From Innamincka to Lake Eyre - Premier's trip, 1961
Wopfner, H. 2020
In search of new concepts
Wopfner, H. 2020
1959: Delhi-Frome-Santos, Innamincka 1 - the era of Cooper Basin exploration is kindled.
Wopfner, H. 2019
1957: Chevies or Cadillacs? The decisive year for oil search in South Australia.
Wopfner, H. 2018
Reg Sprigg's dude ranch at Cullyamurra Waterhole
Wopfner, H. 2018
Trials and tribulations — oil search as a family outing.
Wopfner, H. and Wopfner, I. 2017
Wilkatana Drilling
Wopfner, H. 2016
Where in darnation is Cordillo? Discovery of anticlines in the central Great Artesian Basin.
Wopfner, H. 2014
Gidgealpa 2: 50th anniversary of the first gas flow in the Cooper Basin.
Wopfner, H. 2013
A road across the desert
Wopfner, H. 2012
Inception of the Petroleum Section in the Department of Mines 50 years ago: the first 3 years.
Wopfner, H. 2011
Aerial mapping of Santos’s licence areas in South Australia and Queensland, 1957.
Wopfner, H. 2011
Premier Playford's trip across the Kallakoopah region of the Simpson Desert 50 years ago
Wopfner, H. 2010
Other articles
Centenary of Eyre Peninsula’s forgotten petroleum well
Poynton, D. 2014
External publications
Pipelining in South Australia – Where it all started: The Moomba-Adelaide Pipeline
The Australian Pipeliner. 2017
Quests, Questions In The Cooper Basin
Weidenbach, K. 2015
Reg Sprigg – Rock Star
Weidenbach, K. 2008
Above and Below - The South Australian Department of Mines and Energy, 1944 to 1994.
O'Neil, B.J., 1995.
State Library - aspects of petroleum exploration in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins of North East South Australia
Photographs provided by Dr T Mount. c. 1979
