Mount Salt No. 1 Well: Otway Basin Drilling and Stratigraphic Data

Geoscience Australia Data provides a summary of the Mount Salt No. 1 Well drilled in the Otway Basin, South Australia. The well was drilled to a depth of 10,044 feet between May and September 1962 to test the petroleum potential of Cretaceous sediments. The description includes details on stratigraphy, logging, testing, and shows of oil and gas.

Use Cases

• Modeling subsurface stratigraphy based on the described Oligocene to Cretaceous sediment sequence.
• Analyzing petroleum potential in the Otway Basin based on recorded shows of crude oil and gas.
• Correlating geological formations using the described intervals and references to the Paaratte and Waarre Formations.
• Studying historical drilling and testing methodologies from the 1960s, including drillstem test results.

Strengths

• Provides specific drilling details, including a total depth of 10,044 feet and a precise drilling period from May 9 to September 21, 1962.
• Contains detailed stratigraphic descriptions, such as passing through 3260 feet of Oligocene and Eocene-Palaeocene sediments.
• Documents specific test results, including a successful drillstem test over an interval of 9813 to 9892 feet.

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/temporal bias inherent to data_gov_au, focusing on a single historical well.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

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

Time Range

1962 (drilling period: 9th May to 21st September)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 12:34:11.396776; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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