Publication Name: AEGC 2021
Authors: Wolfgang Fischer
Date Published: September 2021
Number of Pages: 12
Abstract:
The Gulf of Carpentaria was extensively explored in the 1970s and 1980s targeting the Carpentaria (Jurassic-Cretaceous) and Karumba (Tertiary) sag basins, the sediments of which show little or no structuring. This activity failed to recognise the presence of the deeper and older Bamaga Basin and in 1984 Duyken-1, the only well so far in the Gulf of Carpentaria, tested the Carpentaria and Karumba sediments without success, but missed the unrecognised Bamaga Basin 120 km to the northeast.