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Thermal history of the Carrara Sub basin insights from modelling of the NDI Carrara 1 drill hole

Created 19/11/2025

Updated 19/11/2025

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NDI Carrara 1 is a 1750 m stratigraphic drill hole completed in 2020 as part of the MinEx CRC National Drilling Initiative (NDI) in collaboration with Geoscience Australia under the Exploring for the Future program and the Northern Territory Geological Survey. It is the first stratigraphic test of the Carrara Sub-basin, a recently discovered depocentre in the South Nicholson region. The drill hole intersected Cambrian and Proterozoic sediments consisting of organic-rich black shales and a thick sequence of interbedded black shales and silty sandstones with hydrocarbon shows. A comprehensive analytical program carried out by Geoscience Australia on the recovered core samples from 283 m to total depth at 1751 m provides critical data for calibration of burial and thermal history modelling. Using data from this drilling campaign, burial and thermal history modelling was undertaken to provide an estimate of the time-temperature maxima that the sub-basin has experienced, contributing to an understanding of hydrocarbon maturity. Proxy kerogen kinetics are assessed to estimate the petroleum prospectivity of the sub-basin and attempt to understand the timing and nature of hydrocarbon generation. Combined, these newly modelled data provide insights into the resource potential of this frontier Proterozoic hydrocarbon province, delivering foundational data to support explorers across the eastern Northern Territory and northwest Queensland. Citation: Palu Tehani J., Grosjean Emmanuelle, Wang Liuqi, Boreham Christopher J., Bailey Adam H. E. (2023) Thermal history of the Carrara Sub-basin: insights from modelling of the NDI Carrara 1 drill hole. The APPEA Journal 63, S263-S268. https://doi.org/10.1071/AJ22048

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Title Thermal history of the Carrara Sub basin insights from modelling of the NDI Carrara 1 drill hole
Language eng
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Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/91537ad1-0e0c-4085-87d2-a8abf071fd74
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Reference Period 24/07/2023
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Thermal history of the Carrara Sub basin insights from modelling of the NDI Carrara 1 drill hole". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/thermal-history-of-the-carrara-sub-basin-insights-from-modelling-of-the-ndi-carrara-1-drill-hol1