Browse Basin Offshore Petroleum and CO2 Storage Assessment, North West Shelf, WA

A multi-purpose basin analysis project conducted by Geoscience Australia under a five-year program. The research integrates pre-competitive data from airborne magnetic surveys, marine surveys, and geochemical analysis of oils, gases, and rocks. It provides updated tectonostratigraphic models, depositional environment maps, and identifies prospective CO2 storage sites with minimal conflict to hydrocarbon exploration.

Use Cases

• Identify prospective CO2 storage sites based on integrated sequence stratigraphic analysis of 60 wells and seismic data.
• Assess hydrocarbon prospectivity and play fairways using updated tectonostratigraphic frameworks and petroleum system models.
• Evaluate spatial distribution of reservoir, seal, and source rock sections for resource management.
• Plan future storage site selection for CCS technology deployment based on pre-competitive basin-scale analysis.

Strengths

• Analysis is based on an integrated sequence stratigraphic analysis of 60 wells.
• Incorporates an extensive set of industry and government 2D and 3D seismic reflection data.
• Project integrates multiple pre-competitive data sources, including airborne magnetic and marine surveys.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Multi-purpose basin analysis integrating pre-competitive data from surveys and industry-provided geochemical analysis.

Time Range

Part of a five-year program; specific temporal coverage of the data is not stated.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 19:11:15.700865; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Offshore Browse Basin on Australia's North West Shelf, Western Australia/Australian Capital Territory.