Summary Of Data And Results Gippsland Basin, Victoria Wellington Park No 1 Well Of Woodsid

Geoscience Australia Data provides a summary of the Wellington Park No. 1 Well, drilled in the Gippsland Basin, Victoria. The well reached a total depth of 12,011 feet between December 1961 and April 1962, with detailed logging but no significant oil or gas shows. It penetrated Quaternary, Tertiary, and Mesozoic sediments, bottoming in the Lower Cretaceous-Jurassic Strzelecki Group.

Use Cases

• Modeling subsurface stratigraphy based on described sediment layers from surface to 12,011 feet.
• Analyzing drilling engineering and logging results from a dry exploration well.
• Studying the subsidized petroleum search activities under the Petroleum Search Subsidy Act 1959.
• Correlating geological formations using data from five open hole formation tests.

Strengths

• Total drilling depth of 12,011 feet is precisely recorded.
• Drilling dates (6 Dec 1961 to 3 Apr 1962) and abandonment date (7 Apr 1962) are specified.
• Stratigraphic intervals (e.g., Quaternary to 120 feet, Tertiary to 3370 feet) are documented.

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 data_gov_au.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Drilling operation with engineering, mud logging, coring, cuttings examination, and electric logging.

Time Range

1961-12-06 to 1962-04-07

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 13:53:45.402474; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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