January to February 1963 drilling data from the Southwest Bairnsdale No. 1 well in the Gippsland Basin, Victoria. The well was drilled to a total depth of 3926 feet by Reading and Bates for Woodside (Lakes Entrance) Oil Company N.L. and Arco Limited. It contains stratigraphic data, formation test results, and details on sediment layers and hydrocarbon potential.
Use Cases
- Modeling subsurface stratigraphy based on described Tertiary and pre-Tertiary sediment layers.
- Analyzing hydrocarbon exploration outcomes based on the reported formation test and absence of shows.
- Studying historical drilling operations and subsidized exploration under the Petroleum Search Subsidy Act.
Strengths
- Specific temporal coverage for drilling operations from 8th January to 14th February, 1963.
- Detailed depth measurements for geological formations, including Tertiary sediments to 1408 feet and granite at 3926 feet.
- Contains results from a full program of coring and logging and a specific formation test.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic/temporal bias inherent to a single, historical exploratory well.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network via data_gov_au.
- Collection Method
- Drilling operation with coring and logging, subsidized under the Petroleum Search Subsidy Act.
- Time Range
- 1963-01-08 to 1963-02-14
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-16 08:16:23.062658; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Gippsland Basin, Victoria, Australia, approximately 15 miles west-south-west of Bairnsdale.