Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
Authors: K. Higgins, G. Bernardel, R. Hackney, T. Hashimoto, G. Logan, P. Petkovic and N. Rollet
Date Published: September 2008
Number of Pages: 2
Abstract:
Geoscience Australia is currently investigating the geology and petroleum prospectivity of the Remote Eastern Frontier region, offshore eastern Australia using funding provided to the organisation under the Australian Government’s Offshore Energy Security Initiative. Given the frontier nature of the region and a lack of exploration wells, the acquisition of new datasets has been essential for a better understanding of the region. Two surveys (GA302 and GA2436) in the Capel and Faust basins (Lord Howe Rise) by Geoscience Australia in 2006-07 have acquired 2D seismic, gravity, magnetics and multibeam bathymetry data. Geoscience Australia’s Remote Eastern Frontiers Project is currently interpreting and integrating these datasets to both better understand the petroleum prospectivity and improve the marine resource management of the region.