Petroleum Wells from the Geological Survey of Victoria's DbMap

Petroleum Wells is a dataset from the Geological Survey of Victoria's DbMap database, maintained by the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action. It is populated from original well completion reports and is actively maintained. The dataset was last updated on 2026-04-08.

Use Cases

• Map petroleum well locations and infrastructure based on geospatial data.
• Analyze historical well completion reports for resource assessment.
• Cross-reference petroleum-specific data with overlapping borehole datasets for geological studies.

Strengths

• Actively maintained, as stated in the description.
• Populated from original well completion reports, suggesting primary source data.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats including SHP, GDB, and WFS.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Geological Survey of Victoria's DbMap database, Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action.

Collection Method

Populated from original well completion reports.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-08 23:29:24.496083; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Victoria, Australia (inferred from source institution).