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Noble Gas Isotopes of Natural Gases from the Onshore Canning Basin, Western Australia. Data Release

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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The onshore Canning Basin in Western Australia was the focus of a regional hydrocarbon prospectivity assessment undertaken by the Exploring for the Future (EFTF) program dedicated to increasing investment in resource exploration in northern Australia, with the objective being to acquire new data and information about the potential mineral, energy and groundwater resources concealed beneath the surface. Significant work has been carried out to deliver new pre-competitive data in the region including new seismic acquisition, drilling of a stratigraphic well, and geochemical analysis from historic exploration wells.

As part of this program, determination of the molecular and noble gas isotopic composition of natural gases from selected petroleum wells in the Canning Basin were undertaken by Smart Gas Sciences, under contract to Geoscience Australia, with results from these analyses being released in this report. This report provides additional data to determine the sources of natural gases in the Canning Basin and build on the availability of existing gas data, gas-gas correlations and gas-oil correlations. Noble gas isotopic data can be used in conjunction with carbon and hydrogen isotopic data to determine the origin of both inorganic and organic (hydrocarbon) gases. This information can be used in future geological programs to determine the source and distribution of hydrogen and helium in natural gases and support exploration programs.

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Title Noble Gas Isotopes of Natural Gases from the Onshore Canning Basin, Western Australia. Data Release
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/ceff7605-a3af-4b00-8a96-b8d485415410
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Reference Period 06/08/2024
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Noble Gas Isotopes of Natural Gases from the Onshore Canning Basin, Western Australia. Data Release". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/noble-gas-isotopes-of-natural-gases-from-the-onshore-canning-basin-western-australia-data-relea