Australian National Hydrocarbon Geochemistry Data Collection for Petroleum Systems
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Description
Geoscience Australia's national-scale collection of organic geochemistry, petrology, and stable isotope data for Australian source rocks, crude oils, and natural gases. The data are compiled from industry submissions under legislative requirements, research projects, service company reports, and published literature, with a focus on open-file information for energy exploration. A derivative Petroleum Systems Summary database provides statistical evaluations and interpretations of subsurface petroleum prospectivity across Australian sedimentary basins.
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 results from source rocks and hydrocarbons.
National mapping projects and subsurface prospectivity modeling based on compiled petroleum systems information.
De-risking hydrogen exploration and carbon capture programs based on geochemical data from sedimentary basins.
Strengths
Described as the only public comprehensive database of its kind at the national scale for Australia.
Data sourced from a wide range of authoritative inputs, including legislative industry submissions, government research, and published scientific reports.
Includes both raw analytical data and derived statistical evaluations summarized in a dedicated Petroleum Systems Summary database.
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.
Last updated 2026-04-20 01:50:01.039723; freshness should be verified for current projects.
Provenance
Source
Geoscience Australia.
Collection Method
Compiled from destructive analytical techniques on samples submitted by industry under legislative requirements, samples from research projects, service company reports, well completions reports, government reports, published papers, and theses.
Time Range
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Freshness
Last updated 2026-04-20 01:50:01.039723.
Geography
Onshore and offshore Australian sedimentary basins.
License information is unknown; users should verify terms of use before application.