Summary Of Data And Results Gippsland Basin, Victoria Wellington Park No 1 Well Of Woodsid
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Description
December 1961 to April 1962 drilling data for the Wellington Park No. 1 Well in Victoria's Gippsland Basin. The well was drilled to a total depth of 12,011 feet by Oil Drilling and Exploration Limited for Woodside (Lakes Entrance) Oil Company NL but was plugged and abandoned as a dry hole. The dataset, sourced from Geoscience Australia, includes results from a comprehensive program of drilling engineering, mud logging, coring, cuttings examination, and electric logging.
Use Cases
Model subsurface stratigraphy based on described sediment layers from Quaternary to Lower Cretaceous.
Analyze drilling engineering and logging results from a dry well to inform future exploration risk assessment.
Study the geological history of the Gippsland Basin based on the penetrated Mesozoic non-marine and Tertiary sediments.
Research the application and outcomes of the Petroleum Search Subsidy Act 1959 for a specific subsidized drilling operation.
Strengths
Detailed temporal record with exact start (6th December 1961) and end (3rd April 1962) dates for the drilling operation.
Specific depth measurements for geological formations, including Quaternary (0-120 ft), Tertiary (120-3370 ft), and Mesozoic (3370-12011 ft) sections.
Documentation of a multi-faceted data collection program including mud logging, coring, cuttings examination, and electric logging.
Limitations
Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Data reflects a single, unsuccessful well from 1962, which may limit generalizability for modern analysis.
The primary file formats are PDF and HTML, which may require extraction to be used in analytical workflows.
Provenance
Source
Geoscience Australia Data
Collection Method
Data was gathered during the drilling and subsequent analysis of the Wellington Park No. 1 well, subsidized under the Petroleum Search Subsidy Act 1959.
Time Range
1961-12-06 to 1962-04-07
Freshness
Last updated 2026-04-20 02:41:04.429278; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Gippsland Basin, Victoria, Australia, approximately 25.5 miles south-west of Bairnsdale.
Primary data is in PDF and HTML formats, which may require parsing or manual review to extract structured data.