Australian Petroleum Accumulations in the Amadeus Basin, 1963-1985

Seventeen petroleum accumulations discovered since 1963 in central Australia's Amadeus Basin, including three economic and fourteen uneconomic finds. The report, from Geoscience Australia Data, details estimated resources as of 31 December 1985, including 5.74 million cubic meters of oil and 14.93 billion cubic meters of sales gas. Production from the Mereenie and Palm Valley fields began in 1984, with cumulative output reported through the end of 1985.

Use Cases

• Modeling petroleum resource estimates based on reported volumes of oil, natural-gas liquids, and sales gas.
• Analyzing the economic viability of petroleum discoveries based on the classification of economic versus uneconomic accumulations.
• Studying the geological characteristics of hydrocarbon traps based on described structural, fold-related traps within Proterozoic to Ordovician sequences.
• Tracking early production history and infrastructure development based on reported cumulative production and pipeline details.

Strengths

• Reports specific resource estimates, including 5.74 x 10^6 m³ of oil and 14.93 x 10^9 m³ of sales gas.
• Provides a temporal scope for discoveries (since 1963) and a snapshot date for resource estimates (31 December 1985).
• Includes concrete production figures, such as 156.3 x 10^3 m³ of cumulative oil and condensate production.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2026-04-30 14:07:07.606383; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Time Range

Discovery period from 1963; resource snapshot as of 31 December 1985.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 14:07:07.606383; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Amadeus Basin, central Australia.