Volume 1 - Otway Basin

Petroleum Geology of South Australia Volume 1 - Otway Basin

Edited by J.G.G.Morton & J.F.Drexel, PIRSA
 1995, 211 pp, spiral bound
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Petroleum Geology of South Australia : The Otway Basin. Click to Order.The Otway Basin is one of a series of basins along the southern margin of the Australian continent. The divergent, passive continental margin extends 4 000 km west-east, and was formed by rifting of Australia and Antarctica, which was initiated in the Jurassic. The Otway Basin occurs on and offshore in South Australia and Victoria, and is an established commercially productive basin with several gasfields supplying local markets, and several sub-commercial oil wells.

In the last 10 years, considerable deep drilling and high-resolution seismic data have allowed a better appreciation of the structural and stratigraphic complexity of the basin. This has been reflected in the improved success ratios and there is keen competition for vacant acreage by Australian explorers.

Volume 1 comprises 211 spiral bound pages with 24 colour figures,105 black and white figures, and numerous black and white plates. A folder of enclosures includes a map of environmental and cultural features, interpreted seismic sections, depth structure maps and annotated well log cross-sections.