Geoscience Australia's national-scale database captures raw analytical results for Australian source rocks, crude oils, and natural gases. The collection includes organic geochemistry, petrology, and stable isotope data from onshore and offshore sedimentary basins, compiled from industry submissions, research projects, and published reports. A derivative Petroleum Systems Summary database provides statistical evaluations and interpretations of this data for basin analysis and resource assessment.
Use Cases
- De-risking petroleum exploration programs based on source rock and crude oil geochemistry data.
- Evaluating hydrogen resource potential based on geochemical analyses of sedimentary materials.
- Conducting basin analysis and petroleum systems modeling based on raw organic geochemistry values.
- Supporting carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) programs based on subsurface geochemical data.
- Creating national mapping projects and resource assessments based on compiled petroleum systems information.
Strengths
- Described as the only public comprehensive geochemistry database at the national scale for Australia.
- Data is non-confidential and available for use by government, industry, research, and the community.
- Includes data from a wide range of sources, including legislative industry submissions and scientific research projects.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic and source bias inherent to data_gov_au.
Provenance
- Source
- Geoscience Australia, compiled from industry reports, well completions, government reports, published papers, and theses.
- Collection Method
- Data produced by destructive analytical techniques on physical samples and compiled from existing reports.
- Time Range
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- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-10 16:41:47.870777; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Onshore and offshore Australian sedimentary basins.