A review of petroleum exploration in the Gippsland Basin up to February 1976, published by the Australian Ocean Data Network. The report assesses the basin's geology, petroleum reserves, and remaining exploration potential. It describes the basin as containing up to 4500 meters of sediments and holding initial reserves of over 300 million cubic meters of oil and 200 billion cubic meters of natural gas.
Use Cases
- Assessing historical exploration activity based on the review of work up to 1976
- Evaluating remaining petroleum potential based on the description of deeper geological horizons
- Studying basin geology based on the description of sediment thickness and structural features
- Analyzing Australia's petroleum production history based on the stated reserve figures
Strengths
- Provides specific reserve figures: over 300 million cubic meters of oil and 200 billion cubic meters of natural gas
- Describes concrete geological features: up to 4500 meters of fluvio-deltaic and marine sediments
- Includes a defined temporal scope: exploration reviewed up to February 1976
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the 1976 cutoff date
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Review of petroleum exploration activities
- Time Range
- Up to February 1976
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-23 04:09:34.676396; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Gippsland Basin, offshore northeastern Bass Strait, Australia