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Highlights - Release Area S09-7, Western Otway Basin, South Australia

In this section

Overview

Bids Close - 29 April 2010

  • Largely under-explored area.
  • Located adjacent to a producing onshore gas province.
  • Majority of Release Area in shallow water (<200 m).
  • Bitumen strandings indicate access to oil prone petroleum sub-system.
  • Access to existing onshore infrastructure and growing energy market.
  • Special Notices apply, refer to Guidance Notes.
Quicklook - Western Otway Basin

Western Offshore Otway Basin Petroleum Play elements

Source

Casterton Formation (Tithonian-Hauterivian)

Basal shale, Pretty Hill Formation (Berriasian)

Intra-Pretty Hill Formation (Valanginian-Hauterivian)

Laira Formation (Hauterivian-Barremian)

Eumeralla Formation (Aptian-Albian)

Belfast Mudstone (Coniacian-Maastrichtian)

Reservoir

Pretty Hill Formation (Valanginian-Hauterivian)

Copa Formation (Cenomanian)

Waarre Formation (Turonian)

Paaratte Formation, Timboon Sandstone (Campanian-Maastrichtian)

Seal

Intra-Eumeralla Formation (Aptian-Albian)

Flaxman Formation (Turonian-Coniacian)

Belfast Mudstone (Coniacian-Maastrichtian)

Traps

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

Infrastructure and Markets

Adjacent to onshore gas province. Access to growing energy market

Graticular Block Listing

Release Area S09-7, Western Otway Basin, South Australia

Map Sheet SJ 54 (Hamilton)

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Assessed to contain 66 blocks (includes 48 full blocks and 18 part blocks)

Graticular Block Map

Graticular Block Map - Western 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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