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Australias Onshore Basin Inventories Foundational knowledge synthesis for better design of precompetitive data acquisition

Created 19/11/2025

Updated 19/11/2025

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Geoscience Australia’s Onshore Basin Inventories project provides a whole-of-basin inventory of geology, petroleum systems, exploration status and data coverage of hydrocarbon-prone onshore Australian sedimentary basins. Two existing volumes cover many central and north Australian onshore basins, providing a single point of reference and creating a standardised national basin inventory. In addition to summarising the current state of knowledge within each basin, the onshore basin inventory reports identify critical science questions and key exploration uncertainties that may help inform future work program planning and aid in decision making for both government and industry organisations.

Under Geoscience Australia’s Exploring for the Future (EFTF) program, several new onshore basin inventory reports are being delivered. The next releases include the Adavale Basin of southern Queensland and a compilation of Australia’s Mesoproterozoic basins. These reports are supported by value-add products that address identified data gaps and evolve regional understanding of basin evolution and prospectivity, including petroleum systems modelling, seismic reprocessing and regional geochemical studies. The Onshore Basin Inventories project continues to provide scientific and strategic direction for pre-competitive data acquisition under the EFTF work program, guiding program planning and shaping post-acquisition analysis programs. Citation: Bailey Adam H. E., Carr Lidena K., Korsch Russell (2023) Australia’s Onshore Basin Inventories – foundational knowledge synthesis for better design of precompetitive data acquisition. The APPEA Journal 63, S209-S214.

https://doi.org/10.1071/AJ22045

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Title Australias Onshore Basin Inventories Foundational knowledge synthesis for better design of precompetitive data acquisition
Language eng
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Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/28bda096-9214-481e-ab12-6bf3b8ccb32f
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Reference Period 12/10/2023
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Australias Onshore Basin Inventories Foundational knowledge synthesis for better design of precompetitive data acquisition". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/australias-onshore-basin-inventories-foundational-knowledge-synthesis-for-better-design-of-prec1