Wellington Park No. 1 Well: Geological Drilling Summary for Gippsland Basin, 1961-1962

Woodside (Lakes Entrance) Oil Company NL drilled the Wellington Park No. 1 Well in the Gippsland Basin, Victoria, to a total depth of 12,011 feet between December 1961 and April 1962. The dataset includes results from a drilling engineering, mud logging, coring, cuttings examination, and electric logging program, though no significant oil or gas shows were found. The well was subsidized under the Petroleum Search Subsidy Act 1959 and was plugged and abandoned as a dry hole.

Use Cases

• Model subsurface stratigraphy based on described sediment layers from Quaternary to Lower Cretaceous.
• Analyze drilling and logging program results for dry well case studies.
• Study formation test outcomes from intervals between 7348 and 9930 feet.
• Research subsidized exploration activities under the Petroleum Search Subsidy Act 1959.

Strengths

• Drilling depth is precisely recorded at 12,011 feet.
• Specific drilling dates are provided from 6th December 1961 to 3rd April 1962.
• Stratigraphic intervals are detailed from surface to total depth.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network via data_gov_au

Collection Method

Drilling and logging operations conducted by Oil Drilling and Exploration Limited.

Time Range

1961-12-06 to 1962-04-07

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-16 08:12:03.323041; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Gippsland Basin, Victoria, Australia, south-eastern shore of Lake Wellington.