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Galilee Basin: Unconventional oil and gas package

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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Publicly available data was compiled to provide a common information base for resource development, environmental and regulatory decisions in the Galilee Basin. This data guide gives an example of how these data can be used to create the components of a workflow to identify unconventional hydrocarbon resource opportunities. The data guide is designed to support the data package that provide insights on unconventional hydrocarbon resources in the Galilee Basin. The unconventional hydrocarbon assessment for the Galilee Basin includes tight gas, shale resources (shale oil and gas) and coal seam gas (CSG) for 5 geological intervals, termed plays – these intervals have been defined by Wainman et al. (2023). The assessment captures data from well completion reports and government data sources (e.g. Queensland Petroleum Exploration Database (QPED) from the Geological Survey of Queensland (GSQ) Open Data Portal) along with the scientific literature to inform the components required for unconventional hydrocarbons to be present. One hundred and sixty-three boreholes in the Galilee Basin were assessed, with data used to map out gross depositional environments and their geological properties relevant for unconventional hydrocarbon assessments. The data are compiled at a point in time to inform decisions on resource development activities. The data guide outlines the play-based workflow for assessing unconventional hydrocarbon resource prospectivity. Each of the elements required for a prospective unconventional hydrocarbon system is explained and mapped. These data were merged and spatially multiplied to show the relative assessment of unconventional hydrocarbon prospectivity across the basin, at both the play interval and basin scale. As an example of assessments contained within the data package, this data guide showcases the CSG prospectivity of the Betts CreekRewan Play interval.

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Title Galilee Basin: Unconventional oil and gas package
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/73c1e2af-bf5c-4ad7-bad1-9e0413283963
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
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Reference Period 08/04/2019
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Galilee Basin: Unconventional oil and gas package". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/galilee-basin-unconventional-oil-and-gas-package