Gippsland Basin Petroleum Exploration Review and Resource Assessment

The Gippsland Basin offshore Australia contains up to 4500 inches of fluvio-deltaic and marine sediments. This review, published by Geoscience Australia, assesses petroleum exploration up to February 1976, reporting initial reserves of over 300 million cubic meters of oil and 200 billion cubic meters of natural gas. It evaluates the basin's remaining exploration potential at deeper geological levels.

Use Cases

• Analyze historical petroleum exploration trends based on the review of activities up to 1976.
• Assess remaining hydrocarbon potential based on the description of deeper geological horizons.
• Study basin geology and structure based on descriptions of sediment thickness, faulting, and folding.
• Benchmark resource estimates based on reported initial reserves of oil and natural gas.

Strengths

• Provides specific resource estimates, including initial reserves of over 300 million cubic meters of oil.
• Includes concrete geological details, such as sediment thickness of up to 4500 inches.
• Offers a temporal anchor with exploration reviewed up to February 1976.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to a review covering exploration only up to 1976.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Review of petroleum exploration activities and geophysical data.

Time Range

Exploration reviewed up to February 1976.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 19:22:23.360544; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Gippsland Basin, offshore in northeastern Bass Strait, Australia.