Mount Salt No. 1 Well: Otway Basin Drilling and Stratigraphy Report

Geoscience Australia Data provides a detailed report on the Mount Salt No. 1 Well, drilled in the Otway Basin of South Australia. The well reached a total depth of 10,044 feet between May and September 1962, with a full program of logging, testing, and coring. It was drilled to test Cretaceous sediments for petroleum potential, recording traces of crude oil and a gas show.

Use Cases

• Analyzing stratigraphic sequences based on the described Oligocene to Cretaceous sediment layers.
• Studying petroleum exploration results based on recorded traces of crude oil and gas shows.
• Correlating geological formations based on mentions of the Paaratte, Waarre, and Flaxmans formations.
• Reviewing historical drilling and testing methodologies based on the described logging, coring, and drillstem test program.

Strengths

• Report includes specific drilling dates (9th May to 21st September 1962) and a precise total depth (10,044 feet).
• Description details specific geological findings, including sediment thickness (3260 feet of Oligocene/Eocene-Palaeocene) and test results (4070 feet of saline water).
• Provides clear geographic context, locating the well approximately twelve miles south-west of Mount Gambier.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data files are in PDF/HTML formats, which may require extraction for computational analysis.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

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

Time Range

1962

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 02:30:50.098933; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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