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Onshore Basin Inventory Volume 2: The Canning, Perth and Officer basins

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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A large proportion of Australia’s onshore sedimentary basins remain exploration frontiers. Industry interest in these basins has recently increased due to the global and domestic energy demand, and the growth in unconventional hydrocarbon exploration. In 2016, Geoscience Australia released an assessment of eight central Australian basins that summarised the current status of geoscientific knowledge and petroleum exploration, and the key questions, for each basin. This publication provides a comprehensive assessment of the geology, petroleum systems, exploration status and data coverage for additional three basins in western and central Australia: the Canning, Perth and Officer basins. The Perth and Canning basins are producing petroleum basins, however, they may be regarded as frontier basins for unconventional hydrocarbon resources. The Officer Basin is a large, unproven frontier basin which has seen little exploration to date.

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Title Onshore Basin Inventory Volume 2: The Canning, Perth and Officer basins
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/be3d75b3-5666-4806-8784-aff75628ac9e
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Onshore Basin Inventory Volume 2: The Canning, Perth and Officer basins". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/onshore-basin-inventory-volume-2-the-canning-perth-and-officer-basins