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Highlights - Release Areas V09-1, V09-2, V09-3 and V09-4, Central Otway Basin, Victoria

In this section

Overview

Bids Close - 29 April 2010 for V09-1, V09-2, V09-3 and V09-4

  • Proven commercial gas province with ready access to an expanding infrastructure and growing energy market.
  • Three Release Areas on the continental shelf in water depths generally less than 200 m on trend with recent discoveries.
  • One deep water Release Area offering untapped exploration potential, including liquids.
  • Three petroleum sub-systems identified in province.
  • Modern seismic data, including 3D surveys available.
  • Special Notices apply, refer to Guidance Notes.
Quicklook - Central Otway Basin

Central Offshore Otway Basin Petroleum Play elements

Source

Crayfish Subgroup, Casterton Formation (Tithonian-Hauterivian)

Eumeralla Formation (Aptian-Albian)

Reservoir

Pretty Hill Formation (Valanginian-Hauterivian)

Waarre Formation (Turonian)

Pebble Point Formation (Danian)

Seal

Flaxman Formation (Turonian-Coniacian)

Belfast Mudstone (Coniacian-Maastrichtian)

Traps

Faulted anticlines, tilted fault blocks that were modified by Miocene inversion.

Infrastructure and MarketsAdjacent to established production facilities and ready access to network of pipelines that service local and interstate energy demands.

Graticular Block Listing

Release Area V09-1, Central Otway Basin, Victoria

Map Sheet SJ 54 (Hamilton)

1989 (part)1990 (part)1991 (part)1992 (part)2061 (part)2062
20632064 (part)2130 (part)2131 (part)2132 (part)2133 (part)
213421352136 (part)220222032204
220522062207220822742275
227622772278227922802346
234723482349235023512352
241824192420242124222423
2424249424952496  

Assessed to contain 9 blocks (includes 6 full blocks and 3 part blocks)


Release Area V09-2, Central Otway Basin, Victoria

Map Sheet SJ 54 (Hamilton)

2137 (part)2138 (part)2139 (part)220922102211
221222822283   

Assessed to contain 9 blocks (includes 6 full blocks and 3 part blocks)


Release Area V09-3, Central Otway Basin, Victoria

Map Sheet SJ 54 (Hamilton)

235824292430

Assessed to contain 3 full blocks

Release Area V09-4, Central Otway Basin, Victoria


Map Sheet SJ 54 (Hamilton)

249024912492249325622563
256425652566256725682569
257026342635263626372638
263926402641264226432644
270627072708270927102711
271227132714271527162717
277827792780278127822783
278427852786278727882789
2790 (part)28532854285528562857
2858285928602861 (part)2862 (part)2927
29282929293029312932 (part)2933 (part)
30003001300230033004 (part)3074
3075 (part)3076 (part)    

Assessed to contain 74 blocks (includes 66 full blocks and 8 part blocks)


Graticular Block Map

Graticular Block Map - Central Otway Basin

For convenience, geographical coordinates shown on this map are expressed in terms of the Geocentric Datum or Australia 1994 (GDA94). Permit areas are defined by the 5 minute graticular block system set out under Section 16 of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006; under Sections 20, 21 and 21A of the Act, the position of those blocks is determined by reference to the Australian Geodetic Datum (AGD66).

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