Petroleum Exploration Appraisal for Offshore Queensland, 1974

An Appraisal of Petroleum Exploration Title Areas - Offshore and Central Queensland May 1974 is a report compiled by the Australian Ocean Data Network. It summarizes regional geology, hydrocarbon potential, and geophysical activity, incorporating confidential company reports and scientific survey data. The report assesses prospectivity and makes exploration recommendations, noting a moratorium on drilling in the Great Barrier Reef since 1969.

Use Cases

• Assessing hydrocarbon prospectivity based on regional geology summaries
• Reviewing historical geophysical activity and drilling results from pre-moratorium surveys
• Evaluating exploration recommendations for specific offshore title areas
• Studying sediment age and basinal depression data from aeromagnetic and seismic work

Strengths

• Synthesizes multiple data sources, including confidential company reports
• Provides specific geological assessments and exploration recommendations for title areas
• Cross-platform presence on data.gov.au indicates institutional importance

Limitations

• Metadata completeness is low: column names, row counts, license, and author are unknown
• Data is historical, with a report date of May 1974 and no exploration wells drilled after 1969
• The dataset format (PDF/HTML) suggests a textual report rather than structured, machine-readable data

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Brief examination of available data, including confidential company reports and scientific surveys

Time Range

Covers data up to May 1974, with historical survey references

Freshness

Last updated on data.gov.au: 2026-05-05

Geography

Offshore and Central Queensland, Australia, specifically the continental shelf and Gulf of Papua