Mentelle Basin Seismic and Geophysical Survey Data for Petroleum Prospectivity

Australia's Mentelle Basin, a 36,000 m2 sedimentary basin located 150 km west of Cape Leeuwin, is the subject of this dataset. Geoscience Australia acquired 2,570 km of seismic data alongside gravity and magnetic measurements in 2008-09 to assess petroleum potential. The interpretation mapped structures and supersequences, indicating an active petroleum system with multiple play types.

Use Cases

• Assessing petroleum prospectivity based on identified source rock intervals, reservoirs, and seals
• Mapping subsurface structures and supersequences based on interpreted seismic data
• Analyzing play types such as faulted anticlines and stratigraphic traps described in the basin
• Modeling basin geology and bathymetry based on water depth ranges from 500 to 4000 meters

Strengths

• Includes 2,570 km of industry-standard seismic data
• Covers a large, defined sedimentary basin area of 36,000 m2
• Integrates multiple geophysical data types: seismic, gravity, and magnetic

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data format is HTML, which may require extraction for analysis

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Acquired during the Southwest Margins seismic survey 310 in 2008-09

Time Range

2008-2009

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03 16:36:11.270778; freshness should be verified

Geography

Mentelle Basin, offshore Western Australia, west of Cape Leeuwin