AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Puri No. 1 Well, Papua Of Australasian Petroleum Company Pty Ltd

This publication presents the scientific and technical results obtained from the drilling of a deep test well at Puri in Western Papua, by the Australasian Petroleum Company Pty Ltd. These results were originally submitted by the company in a completion report on the well, written in two parts:
Part I, Geology, by C.E.P. Hull, which -includes a report on the palaeontological examination of samples from the well, by F .C. Dilley.
Part II, Petroleum Engineering, by M.W. Clegg, including the information obtained from testing and the results of oil, gas anj water analyses.
This information has been combined into one volume. The authors of the various chapters are indicated in the table of contents.
The formal Papuan stratigraphic nomenclature is at present being studied by the geological staff and advisers of the Australasian Petroleum Company Pty Ltd in London.
As this study is not complete, the stratigraphical names in common use by the operating company have not been submitted for the formal approval of the Australian Stratigraphical Nomenclature Committee. Accordingly, within this report Miocene stratigraphical units are designated by informal geographical stage names and an appropriate lithological term. The Eocene and Cretaceous sediments encountered in the well are not subdivided but are merely referred to a Eocene limestone and Cretaceous shale. 
Two deviated holes, Puri No lA andPuri No 1B, were drilled from Puri No 1, but as these were not subsidized under the Petroleum Search Subsidy Acts, information from these holes is not included in this report.

Tags: Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Other Publication, Published_External, petroleum exploration
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Australian Mineral Exploration - A Review of Exploration for the Year 2006

Australian mineral exploration spending in 2005-06 rose by 20.6% to a record $1240.7 million, 36.9% of which was spent on the search for new deposits. 
Western Australia dominated with 47.6% of Australian mineral exploration spending while South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland had record expenditure. Tasmanian spending rose by 172%. 
Gold remained the main target, but its share of spending was eroded by growth in nickel, copper, iron ore, coal and uranium exploration. 
Exploration results were announced for a wide range of commodities from across the country including:
Mineral sands (Gullivers, South Australia, and Cooljarloo North, Western Australia) 
Nickel (Saxon, Tasmania) 
Gold-copper (Tekapo, Northern Territory) 
Gold (Tandarra, Victoria, and Tropicana, Western Australia) 
Base metals (Cuttaburra, New South Wales) 
Copper (Rocklands, Queensland)

Tags: AU, Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Published_External, Series, mineral deposits, mineral exploration
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Edith River area - prospecting activities 20th July to 6th August, 1953

Prospecting was carried out along favourable structures in an area of granite and sediments. One uranium prospect was discovered near the Yenberrie wolfram field but appears to be very small and low in grade. Some general notes on the geology of the area were also made.

Tags: AU-NT, Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Published_External, Record, geology, mineral exploration, prospectivity, uranium
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
A reassessment of the petroleum systems in the offshore northern Perth Basin

The discovery of commercial oil in the Cliff Head-1 well in 2001 set an important milestone in the exploration history of the offshore northern Perth Basin. The region had been largely underexplored before then, partly due to the perception that the Hovea Member, a 10 to 40 m-thick unit straddling the Permian-Triassic boundary (PTB) and recognized as the main source of onshore petroleum accumulations, was not developed offshore (Crostella, 2001). The typing of the Cliff Head oil to the Hovea Member provided evidence that the key onshore petroleum system extends offshore and revitalized exploration in the area with 13 new field wildcat wells drilled since 2002. Three discoveries have been made subsequently further offshore in the Abrolhos Sub-basin with gas retrieved in Frankland-1 and Perseverance-1 and oil and gas in Dunsborough-1.
A review of source rock and oil geochemical data was undertaken by Geoscience Australia in the offshore northern Perth Basin as part of a major integrated study aimed at reassessing the basin's prospectivity. This work supports the release of offshore exploration areas W13-19 and W13-20, two major blocks straddling the Houtman and Abrolhos Sub-basins with small portions extending into the Zeewyck and Gascoyne Sub-basins (Fig. 1). Well control is provided by 5 wells from the Wittecarra Terrace in the northern Abrolhos Sub-basin and Houtman-1 in the Houtman Sub-basin.

Tags: Conference Paper, Earth Sciences, External Publication, Published_External, marine
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Darwin Harbour Habitat Mapping Program: Predicted standard error for interpolated surface of Sediment Oxygen Demand in sediments

This resource contains a predicted sediment oxygen demand standard error grid for the greater Darwin Harbour region as part of a baseline seabed mapping program of Darwin Harbour and Bynoe Harbour. This project was funded through offset funds provided by an INPEX-led Ichthys LNG Project to the Northern Territory Government’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources (NTG-DENR) with co-investment from Geoscience Australia (GA) and the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS). The intent of this program is to improve knowledge of the marine environments in the Darwin and Bynoe Harbour regions by collating and collecting baseline data that enable the creation of thematic habitat maps and information to underpin marine resource management decisions. The predicted sediment oxygen demand standard error grid was derived from a compilation of multiple surveys undertaken by GA, AIMS and NTG-DENR between 2011 and 2017, including GA0333 (Siwabessy et al., 2015), GA0341 (Siwabessy et al., 2015), GA0351/SOL6187 (Siwabessy et al., 2016), GA4452/SOL6432 (Siwabessy et al., 2017), GA0356 (Radke et al., 2017), and GA0358 and GA0359 (Radke et al., 2018), adding to those from previous surveys GA4425 and GA0333 collected by GA, AIMS, NTG-DENR and Darwin Port Authority.

Tags: Exclusive Economic Zone, Geochemistry, Marine Environmental Baselines, Marine Survey, Published_External
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Fergusson River, NT, 1975 (P425), radiometric line data, AWAGS levelled

The radiometric, or gamma-ray spectrometric method, measures the natural variations in the gamma-rays detected near the Earth's surface as the result of the natural radioactive decay of potassium (K), uranium (U) and thorium (Th). The data collected are processed via standard methods to ensure the response recorded is that due only to the rocks in the ground. The results produce datasets that can be interpreted to reveal the geological structure of the sub-surface. The processed data is checked for quality by GA geophysicists to ensure that the final data released by GA are fit-for-purpose.
 This Fergusson River, NT, 1975 (P425), radiometric line data, AWAGS levelled were acquired in 1975 by the NT Government, and consisted of 15697 line-kilometres of data at 1500m line spacing and 150m terrain clearance. To constrain long wavelengths in the data, an independent data set, the Australia-wide Airborne Geophysical Survey (AWAGS) airborne magnetic data, was used to control the base levels of the survey data. This survey data is essentially levelled to AWAGS.

Tags: AWAGS, Australia, EARTH SCIENCES, Earth sciences, GADDS2.0, NASVD, NT, Published_External, airborne digital data, gamma-ray, geophysical survey, geophysics, line, potassium, radiometrics, spectrometry, survey 425, thorium, uranium, vector
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Mount Anderson 1:50 000 topographic map

Product Specifications Coverage: Partial coverage, predominantly in northern Australia, along major transport routes, and other selected areas. About 1000 maps have been published to date. Currency: Ranges from 1968 to 2006. Coordinates: Geographical and UTM. Datum: AGD66, new edition WGS84; AHD. Projection: Universal Transverse Mercator UTM. Medium: Paper, flat copies only.

Tags: 50K scale, AU-WA, Published_External, Topographic Map, Topology, topography
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Mount Jack 1:50 000 topographic map

Product Specifications Coverage: Partial coverage, predominantly in northern Australia, along major transport routes, and other selected areas. About 1000 maps have been published to date. Currency: Ranges from 1968 to 2006. Coordinates: Geographical and UTM. Datum: AGD66, new edition WGS84; AHD. Projection: Universal Transverse Mercator UTM. Medium: Paper, flat copies only.

Tags: 50K scale, AU-QLD, Published_External, Topographic Map, Topology, topography
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
AUSGeoid98 v.1.0 data files: St Arnaud (sj54-04)

AUSGeoid98 data files contain a 2 minute grid of AUSGeoid98 data covering the Australian region, which you can use to interpolate geoid-ellipsoid separations for the positions required.You can use your own interpolation software, or you can use Geoscience Australia's Windows Interpolation software (Winter). The data files are text files in a standard format that cover the same area as standard topographic map areas. Files covering both 1:250,000 (approximately 100 x 150 km) and 1:1,000,000 (approximately 400 x 600 km) map areas are available. There is a 4 minute overlap on all sides of each area. Data format: AUSGeoid98 data files have a header record at the start of each file, to distinguish them from the superseded AUSGeoid93 data files. AUSGeoid98 data files show the geoid-ellipsoid separation to 3 decimal places, while the superseded AUSGeoid93 data files showed only 2 decimal places. AUSGeoid98 deflections of the vertical were computed from the geoid-ellipsoid separation surface, while the AUSGeoid93 deflections of the vertical were computed from OSU91A.

Tags: AU, AUSGeoid98, Geodesy, Geodetic Data, Published_External, dataset, geodesy
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Mallapunyah 1:100 000 topographic map

At this scale 1cm on the map represents 1km on the ground. Each map covers a minimum area of 0.5 degrees longitude by 0.5 degrees latitude or about 54 kilometres by 54 kilometres. The contour interval is 20 metres. Many maps are supplemented by hill shading. These maps contain natural and constructed features including road and rail infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, contours, localities and some administrative boundaries. Product Specifications Coverage: Australia is covered by more than 3000 x 1:100 000 scale maps, of which 1600 have been published as printed maps. Unpublished maps are available as compilations. Currency: Ranges from 1961 to 2009. Average 1997. Coordinates: Geographical and either AMG or MGA coordinates. Datum: AGD66, GDA94; AHD Projection: Universal Transverse Mercator UTM. Medium: Printed maps: Paper, flat and folded copies. Compilations: Paper or film, flat copies only.

Tags: 100K scale, AU-NT, Published_External, Topographic Map, Topology, topography
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Distribution and Estimates of Australia’s Identified Energy Commodity Resources

Australia is endowed with abundant, high quality energy resources, which provide both affordable and reliable energy for domestic use, and underpin our status as a major global energy provider. Australia continues to have the world’s largest economic uranium resources, the third largest coal resources, and substantial conventional and unconventional natural gas resources. Gas production has grown rapidly in recent years enabled by a series of new LNG projects on the North West Shelf, together with established CSG projects in Queensland. In 2019, Australia became the world’s largest LNG exporter on an annualised basis.
Results from Geoscience Australia’s 2021 edition of the Australian Energy Commodity Resources assessment highlight that the nation’s energy commodity resources are widely distributed and include a significant resource potential in many onshore and offshore basins. Knowledge of the existing and untapped resource potential allows decision makers to prioritise development of energy resources that are able to support Australia’s recovery from the recent economic downturn. This aligns well with the Australian Government’s plans to support the development of natural gas resources in order to enable a rapid transition to a low carbon economy. 
A key component of Australia’s clean energy future and economic recovery will be the development of a hydrogen industry, with hydrogen produced either through electrolysis of water using renewable energy resources (green hydrogen), or manufactured from natural gas or through coal gasification with CCS of the co-produced CO2 (blue hydrogen). Geoscience Australia’s assessment includes a synopsis of the current status of Australia’s rapidly evolving hydrogen industry.
Appeared in The APPEA Journal  61(2) 325-330, 2 July 2021

Tags: EARTH SCIENCES, Petroleum and Coal Geology, Published_External
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Coastal Waters (State/Territory Powers) Act 1980 - Australian Maritime Boundaries 2020 - Geodatabase

Geoscience Australia has the primary role in the delineation of Australia's domestic and international maritime limits and boundaries. An output of this activity is the development of the Australian Maritime Boundaries (AMB) data. AMB is a GIS data product, replacing Australian Maritime Boundaries 2014a (AMB2014a), providing access to the data for Australia's maritime zones. AMB is a digital representation of Australia's limits and boundaries as established under the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973 and associated proclamations. The data also include a representation of the limits by which the scheduled and offshore areas of each of the States and of the Northern Territory are determined under the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 (OPGGSA). In the event of an inconsistency between AMB data and the limits under any legislation, the latter prevails. The data have been published by Geoscience Australia in consultation with other relevant Commonwealth Government agencies including the Attorney-General's Department, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Australian Hydrographic Office. 
AMB data comprise the territorial straight baselines and the outer limits of each zone, together with maritime boundaries determined by treaties between Australia and neighbouring countries. All data coordinates are supplied in the GDA94 datum. The data reflects the location of the coastline within the constraints of available source material at the time of production. AMB Data can also be viewed on-line via AMSIS (http://www.ga.gov.au/marine/jurisdiction/amsis.html). Product Specifications Coverage: Australia including all external territories Currency: December 2020. Coordinates: Geographical Datum: GDA94 (functionally equivalent to WGS84). Format: ESRI Geodatabase and REST web service - free online.
The area of coverage of the AMB data is for the whole of the Australian marine jurisdiction which includes waters adjacent to the mainland, offshore islands and External Territories.  The geographical extent is approximately between the latitude limits of 7 S to 70 S and the longitude limits 40 E to 175 E.
This dataset includes the following disclaimer:
AMB data is a digital representation of the territorial sea baseline and of the outer limits of Australia's maritime zones.  The baseline and zones are established under the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973.  The data also includes a representation of the limits by which the waters adjacent to each of the Australian States and of the Northern Territory are determined under the Coastal Waters (State Powers) Act 1980, Coastal Waters (Northern Territory Powers) Act 1980 and the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006.  In the event of an inconsistency between AMB data and the baselines and limits under the legislation, the latter prevails.

Tags: AU, GIS Dataset Thematic, Geospatial Information Systems, HVC_144653, Published_External, marine
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Demon Fault Gravity (P197533), gravity point data

Gravity data measures small changes in gravity due to changes in the density of rocks beneath the Earth's surface. The data collected are processed via standard methods to ensure the response recorded is that due only to the rocks in the ground. The results produce datasets that can be interpreted to reveal the geological structure of the sub-surface. The processed data is checked for quality by GA geophysicists to ensure that the final data released by GA are fit-for-purpose.
 This Demon Fault Gravity (P197533) contains a total of 135 point data values acquired at a spacing between 1200 and 1250 metres. The data is located in NSW and were acquired in 1975, under project No. 197533 for University of New England (UNE).

Tags: Australia, EARTH SCIENCES, Earth sciences, GADDS2.0, NCI, NSW, Published_External, geophysical survey, geophysics, gravity, ground digital data, point, point located data, survey 197533
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Uranium Systems Project: New Results from Geoscience Australia

Systems Project is a key part of the $59m Onshore Energy Security Program (OESP) underway at Geoscience Australia (2006-2011).  The project has three objectives:  (1) develop new understandings of processes and factors that control where and how uranium mineralisation formed, (2) map the distribution of known uranium enrichments and related rocks in Australia, and (3) assess the potential for undiscovered uranium deposits at regional to national scales.
Objective (1) has been addressed initially by reviewing current classification schemes for uranium deposits.  Most schemes emphasise differences in host rock type and list 15 or more deposit types.   An alternative scheme is proposed that links the apparently separate deposit types in a continuum of possible deposit styles.  Three end-member uranium mineral systems are: magmatic-, basin-, and metamorphic/metasomatic-related.  Most recognised deposit styles can be considered as variants or hybrids of these three end-members.  For example, sandstone hosted, unconformity-related and `Westmoreland style deposits are viewed as members of basin-related uranium systems and which share a number of ore-forming processes.  Identification of the spatial controls on uranium mineralisation is being investigated using numerical modelling, with the Frome Embayment of SA as a first case study.
Mapping the distribution of uranium in objective (2) has commenced with the release of a new map of Australia showing the uranium contents of mainly outcropping igneous rocks, based on compilation of whole rock geochemical data. A clearer picture of uranium enrichments is also emerging through cataloguing of an additional &gt;300 uranium occurrences in the MINLOC mineral occurrence database.  Finally, the recently completed Australia-wide radiometric tie-line survey is providing a new continent-scale view of uranium, thorium and potassium distributions in surface materials.

Tags: AU, Earth Sciences, PowerPoint, Published_External, economic geology, mineral exploration
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Frome Rocks No. 1 And No. 2 Wells, Western Australia Of  West Australian Petroleum Pty Limited

Frome Rocks No. 1 Well, which is situated on the northern edge of the Jurgurra Terrace, drilled to 734 feet through Recent sand and the normal sequence of Jurassic sediments of the South Canning Basin and then entered the top of the Frome Rocks Salt Dome. The Frome Rocks Salt Dome consists of l,522 feet of dolomite breccia cap rock and 1,747 feet plus of salt. The base of the salt was not reached. The age of the sediments composing the salt dome is not known, but slender evidence suggests that the age is Devonian to Lower Carboniferous. The intrusion of the salt dome probably took place in post-Permian and pre-Jurassic times.
No signs of hydrocaroons were seen in the well and no formation tests were conducted.
The Frome Rocks No. 2 Well drilled through 206 feet of Recent and Jurassic sandstones, and a standard Permiansequence (3,351 feet thick) to 3,557 feet. A thick sequence of uppermost Devonian (Middle to Upper Famennian) sedimentswas encountered between 3,557 feet and the total depth of 7,504 feet. This thick Devonian succession (3,947 plus feet) has been divided into two formations, one of siltstone and shale with some limestone and sandstone, from 3,557 feet to 6,264 feet, and the other of siltstone, from 6,264 feet to 7,504 plus feet. The primary objective, the Ordovician, was not reached.
Persistent, though slight, hydrocarbon shows occurred in several zones throughout the upper two-thirds of the Devonian in the form of fluorescence associated With limestones, and a spotty oil staining in the uppermost sandstone bed. No hydrocarbons were detected by gas detection equipment. None of the hydrocarbon shows was of sufficient significance to warrant testing.
In the Frome Rocks area, there is an association of a salt dome, a thick impermeable sequence, source rockpotential, and some reservoir potential. Should the same association occur in other areas along the Jurgurra Terrace, particularly if the reservoir potential improves, the petroleum prospects of the area must be upgraded.

Tags: AU-WA, Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Other Publication, Published_External, petroleum exploration
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Glengarry Peak Hill Robinson Range Areas ABC,1994 (P631), radiometric line data, AWAGS levelled

The radiometric, or gamma-ray spectrometric method, measures the natural variations in the gamma-rays detected near the Earth's surface as the result of the natural radioactive decay of potassium (K), uranium (U) and thorium (Th). The data collected are processed via standard methods to ensure the response recorded is that due only to the rocks in the ground. The results produce datasets that can be interpreted to reveal the geological structure of the sub-surface. The processed data is checked for quality by GA geophysicists to ensure that the final data released by GA are fit-for-purpose.
 This Glengarry Peak Hill Robinson Range Areas ABC,1994 (P631), radiometric line data, AWAGS levelled were acquired in 1994 by the WA Government, and consisted of 118765 line-kilometres of data at 400m line spacing and 60m terrain clearance. To constrain long wavelengths in the data, an independent data set, the Australia-wide Airborne Geophysical Survey (AWAGS) airborne magnetic data, was used to control the base levels of the survey data. This survey data is essentially levelled to AWAGS.

Tags: AWAGS, Australia, EARTH SCIENCES, Earth sciences, GADDS2.0, NASVD, Published_External, WA, airborne digital data, gamma-ray, geophysical survey, geophysics, line, potassium, radiometrics, spectrometry, survey 631, thorium, uranium, vector
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data