Geological Assessment of Capel and Faust Basins, Offshore Eastern Australia

Geoscience Australia's Remote Eastern Frontiers project conducted a multi-year geological assessment from 2006 to 2010. This HTML article outlines the regional setting, data acquisition methods, and findings on petroleum prospectivity for the remote Capel and Faust basins on the northern Lord Howe Rise. The assessment provides insights into the hydrocarbon potential of these frontier offshore areas.

Use Cases

• Assessing regional petroleum prospectivity based on the outlined geological findings.
• Studying basin evolution and structure based on the described regional setting.
• Reviewing data acquisition and assessment methodologies for offshore frontier exploration.

Strengths

• Assessment conducted by the authoritative national geoscience organization, Geoscience Australia.
• Project spanned a defined multi-year period from 2006 to 2010.
• Focus on specific, remote geological basins: Capel and Faust basins on the northern Lord Howe Rise.

Limitations

• Data is presented as an HTML article, not as structured, machine-readable data tables.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the text.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative analysis.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia, via the Australian Ocean Data Network.

Collection Method

Regional geological and petroleum prospectivity assessment completed by the Remote Eastern Frontiers project.

Time Range

Assessment period 2006-2010.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 13:04:59.823391; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Capel and Faust basins, northern Lord Howe Rise, offshore eastern Australia.