Gippsland Basin Petroleum Accumulations and Production Report, 1924-1986

As of the end of 1986, the Gippsland Basin had supplied 88% of Australia's cumulative crude oil and 48% of its natural gas production. This report from Geoscience Australia details the discovery of 44 petroleum accumulations, cumulative production figures, and estimated remaining reserves for oil, condensate, LPG, and sales gas. The petroleum is found in structural traps within Oligocene to Late Cretaceous sequences and is believed to be of land-plant origin.

Use Cases

• Analyze historical discovery rates and economic viability of petroleum accumulations based on reported counts of economic, subeconomic, and uneconomic finds.
• Model regional petroleum reserves and production decline based on cumulative and estimated remaining volumes of oil, gas, condensate, and LPG.
• Study the geological characteristics of petroleum deposits based on described trap types (structural/stratigraphic) and host rock sequences (Oligocene to Late Cretaceous).
• Assess the quality and composition of petroleum resources based on reported API gravity ranges for crude oils and condensates.

Strengths

• Provides specific cumulative production figures to the end of 1986, including 344.66 x 10^6 m³ of oil and 66.14 x 10^9 m³ of sales gas.
• Includes detailed counts of discovered petroleum accumulations, categorizing them as economic, subeconomic, or uneconomic.
• Contains estimated remaining recoverable reserves for four key petroleum product types as of December 1986.
• Offers geological context on trap types, rock sequences, and the origin of the petroleum.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is historical, with the latest reported figures from 1986; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Report compiling exploration, production, and reserve data.

Time Range

1924 to 1986

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 18:40:00.949446; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Gippsland Basin, Victoria, Australia