Australian Unconventional Hydrocarbon Exploration History and Assessments

Geoscience Australia and state partners prepared an extended abstract and presentation for the APPEA Conference & Exhibition 2013 in Brisbane. The work discusses the historical shift in Australia's petroleum exploration from onshore Paleozoic basins to offshore Mesozoic basins and back again, citing specific discoveries like the Mereenie oil field and the Blina discovery. It notes the onshore basin area under exploration license nearly doubled from 2010 to 2012.

Use Cases

• Analyzing historical trends in Australian petroleum exploration based on the described shift from onshore to offshore and back to onshore focus.
• Studying the potential of specific geological formations like lower Paleozoic and Proterozoic petroleum systems mentioned in the description.
• Researching the involvement of international companies in Australian energy exploration referenced in the text.

Strengths

• Includes specific historical data points, such as the discovery of the Mereenie oil field in the 1960s and the Blina discovery in the early 1980s.
• Cites a concrete metric: the onshore basin area under exploration license nearly doubled from 2010 to 2012.
• Provides a formal citation to a peer-reviewed journal article (The APPEA Journal).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The primary data format is PDF/HTML, which may require extraction for computational analysis.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Extended abstract and presentation prepared for a professional conference, likely synthesizing geological surveys and assessments.

Time Range

Focuses on historical exploration up to 2013, with specific references from the 1960s to 2012.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 03:18:57.895530; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia, specifically onshore basins such as the Amadeus Basin and Canning Basin.