Hydrocarbon Seep Study for the Ashmore Platform, Bonaparte Basin

A study integrating remote sensing, geophysical, acoustic, photographic, and geochemical techniques to investigate natural hydrocarbon seeps on the Ashmore Platform in the Bonaparte Basin, Australia. The findings, published in Marine and Petroleum Geology in 2017, identify three seepage areas and provide geochemical evidence linking the hydrocarbons to the Lower Cretaceous Echuca Shoals Formation. This dataset is hosted by the Australian Ocean Data Network.

Use Cases

• Assess hydrocarbon migration pathways based on identified natural seep locations.
• Correlate seep geochemistry with potential source rock formations based on isotopic composition data.
• Reduce exploration charge risk for the Ashmore Platform based on evidence of active seepage.
• Integrate multi-technique survey data for basin-scale geological modeling.

Strengths

• Integrates data from multiple techniques: remote sensing, geophysical, acoustic, photographic, and geochemical.
• Identifies three specific areas of hydrocarbon seepage, with one characterized as persistent.
• Geochemical data links samples to a known source formation, the Lower Cretaceous Echuca Shoals Formation.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2026-06-27 16:59:07.953115; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Integrated study combining remote sensing, geophysical, acoustic, photographic, and geochemical techniques.

Time Range

Study published in 2017.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-27 16:59:07.953115

Geography

Ashmore Platform, Bonaparte Basin, Australia; also relevant to the northern Browse Basin.