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Exploring for the Future – petrophysical and geomechanical testing program data release, Officer Basin, Australia

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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The Officer Basin in South Australia and Western Australia is the focus of a regional stratigraphic study being undertaken by the Exploring for the Future (EFTF) program, an Australian Government initiative dedicated to increasing investment in resource exploration in Australia. This data release provides data from new digital photography, X-ray Computerised Tomography (XCT) scanning, unconfined compressive strength (UCS) and tensile strength, laboratory ultrasonic testing, and gas porosity and permeability experiments for 41 samples from five legacy stratigraphic and petroleum exploration boreholes drilled within the Officer Basin. Additional low permeability tests were undertaken on select samples that were identified as being ultra-tight (permeability <1 µD). These samples were analysed at CSIRO Geomechanics and Geophysics Laboratory in Perth during April to June 2021.

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Title Exploring for the Future – petrophysical and geomechanical testing program data release, Officer Basin, Australia
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/9a61a6ae-95d6-481d-beb6-e9b1f3fa883a
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Reference Period 01/03/2021 - 30/06/2021
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Exploring for the Future – petrophysical and geomechanical testing program data release, Officer Basin, Australia". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/exploring-for-the-future-petrophysical-and-geomechanical-testing-program-data-release-officer-b