Wellington Park No. 1 Well Drilling Summary and Stratigraphy

Wellington Park No. 1 Well is a drilling report from the Gippsland Basin, Victoria, detailing a well drilled to 12,011 feet between December 1961 and April 1962. The report was created for Woodside (Lakes Entrance) Oil Company NL and is hosted by the Australian Ocean Data Network. It documents a comprehensive drilling program that found no significant shows of oil or gas.

Use Cases

• Analyze drilling engineering and mud logging results from the 12,011-foot operation to benchmark historical techniques.
• Study the stratigraphic column described, from Quaternary sediments to the Lower Cretaceous Strzelecki Group, for regional geological modeling.
• Review the results of five open hole formation tests conducted between 7348 and 9930 feet for formation evaluation insights.
• Examine the subsidized drilling operation under the Petroleum Search Subsidy Act 1959 from 3391 feet to total depth for policy impact studies.

Strengths

• Report contains specific depth measurements, including total depth of 12,011 feet and stratigraphic boundaries.
• Provides precise temporal data with drilling commencement on 6th December 1961 and completion on 3rd April 1962.
• Documents a detailed suite of operations including coring, cuttings examination, and electric logging.

Limitations

• Dataset is a static historical document (PDF/HTML) with no structured, machine-readable tabular data.
• Sample size is limited to a single well report, preventing broad statistical analysis.
• Data is temporally stale, describing a single operation concluded in 1962.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network, originally from Woodside (Lakes Entrance) Oil Company NL.

Collection Method

Data gathered from a subsidized drilling operation, including engineering logs, geological examinations, and formation tests.

Time Range

Drilling operation from 6th December 1961 to 7th April 1962.

Freshness

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Geography

Gippsland Basin, Victoria, Australia, approximately 25.5 miles south-west of Bairnsdale.