Geoscience Australia's Australian National Hydrocarbon Geochemistry Data Collection comprises Oracle database tables from the Organic Geochemistry (ORGCHEM) schema and derivative information in the Petroleum Systems Summary database. The collection captures analytical results from sample-based datasets for sediment-hosted resources, focusing on open file data relevant to energy exploration for source rocks, crude oils, and natural gases from Australian sedimentary basins. Data are produced by destructive analytical techniques on samples submitted by industry under legislative requirements and collected by research projects from Geoscience Australia, other government agencies, and scientific institutions.
Use Cases
- Basin analysis and petroleum systems evaluation based on raw organic geochemistry and isotopic values.
- Resource assessments and enhanced oil recovery projects based on analytical data from source rocks, crude oils, and natural gases.
- National mapping projects and subsurface petroleum prospectivity modeling based on derived datasets and value-add products.
- De-risking hydrogen exploration and carbon capture programs based on the compiled understanding of petroleum systems.
Strengths
- Described as the only public comprehensive database of its kind at the national scale for Australia.
- Includes data from a wide range of sources, including industry submissions under legislative requirements and research projects.
- Covers multiple material types, including source rocks, crude oils, natural gases, and complementary physical properties.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Last updated 2026-04-28 13:09:07.042170; freshness should be verified.
Provenance
- Source
- Geoscience Australia, compiled from service company reports, well completions reports, government reports, published papers and theses.
- Collection Method
- Destructive analytical techniques conducted on physical samples.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-28 13:09:07.042170.
- Geography
- Onshore and offshore Australian sedimentary basins.