Geology of the Surat Basin in Queensland with Petroleum and Coal Reserves

Geoscience Australia Data provides a geological bulletin describing the Surat Basin in eastern Australia. The document details 2500 meters of Jurassic and Cretaceous sediments, their depositional environments, and structural history. It includes 1974 reserve estimates of 51 billion cubic meters of gas and 31 million cubic meters of oil, and notes considerable coal reserves.

Use Cases

• Modeling sedimentary basin evolution based on described Jurassic and Cretaceous depositional sequences.
• Assessing hydrocarbon resource potential based on the 1974 petroleum reserve estimates.
• Evaluating coal and oil shale resources based on the mention of the Walloon Coal Measures.
• Studying the impact of tectonic and volcanic activity on basin geology as described for the Oligocene and Miocene.

Strengths

• Includes specific quantitative data, such as a sediment thickness of 2500 meters.
• Provides concrete historical resource estimates: 51 billion m³ of gas and 31 million m³ of oil as of 1974.
• Describes a clear geological timeline from the Jurassic to the present.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to data_gov_au, as key resource figures are from 1974.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Time Range

Jurassic to present, with specific resource data from 1974.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 18:35:29.126962; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Surat Basin, Queensland, eastern Australia.