Australian Canning Basin Petroleum Accumulations Report

Nineteen hydrocarbon accumulations, six commercial, were documented in the Canning Basin as of January 1993. The report details geological formations, reservoir ages, and production logistics for this Western Australian region. It covers exploration history and identifies underexplored sub-basins.

Use Cases

• Analyze the distribution of commercial versus non-commercial hydrocarbon accumulations across the Lennard Shelf and Fitzroy Trough.
• Correlate reservoir age (Permian, Devonian, Ordovician) with accumulation size and production methods like trucking to Broome.
• Assess exploration risk by comparing documented onshore effort in the northern basin with underexplored areas like the offshore Canning and Kidson Sub-basin.
• Model source rock potential from Late Devonian and Carboniferous marine shales in the Fitzroy Trough kitchen area.

Strengths

• Provides a detailed inventory of 19 known hydrocarbon accumulations with commercial status for six.
• Includes specific geological context such as reservoir ages (Permian to Devonian, Ordovician) and structural features (Lennard Shelf, Fitzroy Trough).
• Covers practical production details, including oil transport via truck to Broome and shipment to the Kwinana refinery.

Limitations

• Data is temporally stale, with the primary inventory current only as of January 1993.
• Lacks quantitative tabular data (rows, columns), being presented in report format (HTML, PDF) which hinders direct computational analysis.
• Geographic focus is primarily on the onshore northern Canning Basin, with acknowledged gaps in offshore and Kidson Sub-basin exploration data.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Geological survey and analysis compiled into an official report.

Time Range

Snapshot as of January 1993.

Freshness

Report content is from 1993; platform metadata shows a last updated date of 2026-03-07, likely for administrative purposes only.

Geography

Canning Basin, Western Australia, including the Lennard Shelf, Fitzroy Trough, and mentioned sub-basins.