Mount Salt No. 1 Well: Drilling Log and Stratigraphic Analysis

Mount Salt No. 1 Well was drilled to a depth of 10,044 feet in the Otway Basin, South Australia, between May and September 1962. The well tested Cretaceous sediments for petroleum potential, recording traces of crude oil and a gas show. The drilling operation was subsidized under the Petroleum Search Subsidy Act.

Use Cases

• Correlating stratigraphic formations based on the described Oligocene, Eocene-Palaeocene, and Cretaceous sequences.
• Analyzing petroleum potential indicators based on recorded traces of crude oil and gas shows.
• Evaluating drilling and testing program outcomes based on the described logging, coring, and drillstem test results.

Strengths

• Total depth of 10,044 feet provides a substantial vertical profile.
• A full program of logging, testing, and coring was undertaken.
• Specific dates for drilling commencement (9th May 1962) and completion (21st September 1962) are provided.

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 and temporal bias inherent to a single historical well report.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Drilling, logging, testing, and coring undertaken by Reading and Bates (Australia) Pty Ltd.

Time Range

1962

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 04:23:28.459398; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Otway Basin, South Australia, approximately twelve miles south-west of Mount Gambier.