Geoscience Australia's national-scale database captures raw organic geochemistry, petrology, and stable isotope data for Australian source rocks, crude oils, and natural gases. The collection includes analytical results from industry submissions under legislative requirements and research projects, compiled into the ORGCHEM and Petroleum Systems Summary databases. These data support evidence-based decision-making for sediment-hosted energy resources across the Australian continent.
Use Cases
- Basin analysis and petroleum systems evaluation based on compiled organic geochemistry and isotopic data.
- Resource assessments and prospectivity mapping based on statistical evaluations of analytical data by basin.
- Modeling for enhanced oil recovery projects based on physical properties and complementary inorganic analyses.
- De-risking hydrogen exploration programs based on data relevant to hydrogen source rocks.
- National mapping projects for carbon capture, utilisation, and storage based on subsurface petroleum system information.
Strengths
- Data is described as the only public comprehensive database at the national scale for Australian hydrocarbon geochemistry.
- Collection integrates data from multiple authoritative sources, including legislative industry submissions, government reports, and published research.
- Includes derivative information and value-add products in the Petroleum Systems Summary database for statistical evaluation.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data freshness should be verified; last updated metadata indicates a future date (2026-06-27).
Provenance
- Source
- Geoscience Australia, compiled from industry submissions, service company reports, well completions reports, government reports, published papers, and theses.
- Collection Method
- Analytical results produced by a wide range of destructive analytical techniques on physical samples.
- Time Range
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- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-27 18:59:52.033292; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Onshore and offshore Australian sedimentary basins.