530,000 km² of the onshore Canning Basin is covered by this dataset, which includes Australia's longest onshore seismic line, 18GA-KB1. Geoscience Australia's Exploring for the Future program and the Western Australian Exploration Incentive Scheme integrated datasets to improve understanding of energy, mineral, and groundwater resources potential. The dataset includes seismic interpretation and stratigraphic data from the deep well Waukarlycarly 1.
Use Cases
- Evaluate shale gas and tight gas resource potential based on basin-wide gas resource assessments.
- Interpret basin architecture and stratigraphy based on seismic line 18GA-KB1 and the 6 km deep sedimentary basin interpretation.
- Correlate Ordovician sedimentary strata across the region based on elemental and δ13C isotope chemostratigraphy.
- Assess prospectivity of distinct petroleum systems (Larapintine 2, 3, 4) based on geochemical fluid character and stratigraphic control.
Strengths
- Includes Australia's longest onshore seismic line (18GA-KB1) addressing a long-standing data gap.
- Provides stratigraphic control from the deep well Waukarlycarly 1, which penetrated 2680.53 m of Cenozoic and Paleozoic strata.
- Covers a large geographic area of approximately 530,000 km² in the onshore Canning Basin.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data is presented in PPTX format, which may require extraction or conversion for quantitative analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network, integrating data from Geoscience Australia's Exploring for the Future program and the Western Australian Exploration Incentive Scheme.
- Collection Method
- Integration of pre-competitive onshore datasets collected at an unprecedented scale.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-16 14:57:09.942486; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Onshore Canning Basin, northern Australia, specifically the Kidson Sub-basin (91,000 km²) and Waukarlycarly Embayment.