Petroleum Geology of the Arafura and Money Shoal basins

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

This report presents the interpretive results of a comprehensive geological framework study based on new and existing available well and seismic data. The study was initiated in 2003, as part of Geoscience Australia's Big New Oil Program to address exploration risks in a shallow water frontier basin.

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Title Petroleum Geology of the Arafura and Money Shoal basins
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/89d8fbd4-c2e7-47fa-8c55-c1896f0fc00e
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 22/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Geoscience Australia

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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Petroleum Geology of the Arafura and Money Shoal basins". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/petroleum-geology-of-the-arafura-and-money-shoal-basins