Mount Salt No. 1 Well Drilling Summary and Stratigraphy, Otway Basin 1962

Mount Salt No. 1 Well was drilled in the Otway Basin, South Australia, reaching a total depth of 10,044 feet between May and September 1962. The well targeted Cretaceous sediments for petroleum potential, recording traces of crude oil and a gas show. The operation was subsidized under the Petroleum Search Subsidy Act 1959-1961.

Use Cases

• Analyze stratigraphic sequences based on described Oligocene, Eocene-Palaeocene, and Cretaceous sediment layers
• Study petroleum exploration techniques based on the described logging, testing, and coring program
• Correlate geological formations based on mentions of the Paaratte Formation, Waarre Formation, and Flaxmans Beds

Strengths

• Contains specific drilling details including total depth of 10,044 feet and exact dates from May 9 to September 21, 1962
• Documents geological findings such as traces of crude oil and a gas show from 9830 to 9848 feet
• Describes a full program of logging, testing, and coring undertaken

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Drilling, logging, testing, and coring of an exploration well

Time Range

1962-05-09 to 1962-09-21

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 04:48:58.200491; freshness should be verified

Geography

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