Petroleum Exploration Review and Prospects for the Gippsland Basin

A review assesses petroleum exploration knowledge and future potential in Australia's Gippsland Basin up to February 1976. The report was published by the Australian Ocean Data Network. It analyzes the basin's geology and historical exploration results.

Use Cases

• Analyze historical exploration activity and identified structures in the Gippsland Basin up to 1976.
• Assess estimates of initial oil and gas reserves, reported as over 300 million cubic meters of oil and 200 billion cubic meters of natural gas.
• Study the basin's geological characteristics, including its sediment thickness of up to 4500 inches and structural features like faulting and drape folding.
• Evaluate the stated exploration potential at deeper levels beyond the main Eocene producing zones.

Strengths

• Provides a consolidated historical assessment of exploration up to a specific cutoff date (February 1976).
• Includes quantified estimates of initial petroleum reserves for the basin.
• Describes the basin's physical dimensions and geological composition with specific details like sediment thickness.

Limitations

• Data is temporally stale, with the review covering exploration only up to 1976.
• The document is a review report, not a raw dataset, limiting direct computational analysis.
• Potential for the underlying seismic and drilling data referenced in the review to be inaccessible.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network.

Collection Method

Review and synthesis of historical petroleum exploration activities and geophysical data.

Time Range

Up to February 1976.

Freshness

The report's content is historical (1976), though the record was last updated in the system in April 2026.

Geography

Gippsland Basin, located offshore in northeastern Bass Strait, Australia.