Wellington Park Well Drilling Report from Gippsland Basin

Drilling records from the Wellington Park No. 1 Well, a dry hole drilled to 12,011 feet in the Gippsland Basin, Victoria. The well was drilled by Oil Drilling and Exploration Limited for Woodside (Lakes Entrance) Oil Company NL between December 1961 and April 1962. The dataset includes details on drilling engineering, mud logging, coring, cuttings examination, electric logging, and formation tests.

Use Cases

• Analyze stratigraphic column data such as Quaternary, Tertiary, and Mesozoic sediment depths to model subsurface geology.
• Study formation test results from intervals between 7348 and 9930 feet to understand subsurface fluid properties.
• Use drilling parameters and dates to benchmark historical drilling performance and costs for similar projects.
• Correlate electric logging and coring data with depth measurements to identify geological formations.

Strengths

• Report provides a detailed total depth of 12,011 feet with a precise drilling period from 6 December 1961 to 3 April 1962.
• Documentation includes multiple data collection methods: drilling engineering, mud logging, coring, cuttings examination, and electric logging.

Limitations

• Dataset is a single well report with no row or sample count, limiting statistical analysis.
• Data is from a single, unsuccessful drilling operation completed in 1962, representing a specific historical snapshot.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network, sourced from data_gov_au.

Collection Method

Data gathered during the drilling and subsequent analysis of the Wellington Park No. 1 Well, subsidized under the Petroleum Search Subsidy Act 1959.

Time Range

Drilling operations from 6 December 1961 to 7 April 1962.

Freshness

Data describes a 1961-1962 operation; the record itself was last updated in the system on 2026-04-04.

Geography

Gippsland Basin, Victoria, Australia, approximately 25.5 miles south-west of Bairnsdale on the shore of Lake Wellington.