The Great Australian Bight Project is a joint project between Fugro Multi Client Services and MultiClient Geophysical, and encompasses the following:

• 21,290 km of 2D PSTM reprocessed seismic data with gathers, angle stacks and AVO
• 1,250 km² of post-stack reprocessed 3D seismic
• Approximately 60,000 line km of new aeromagnetic data
• Existing satellite gravity and marine gravity data
• Satellite seep data
• Integrated interpretation report

The Great Australian Bight sits on the southern margin of Australia and remains one of the least explored passive margins in the world. The Great Australian Bight encompasses a number of basins along the southern margins of Western Australia and South Australia, and is roughly a 1000 km in length. Exploration activity peaked in the early 1970s but has been almost dormant since the early 1980s, with only 8 wells drilled in total and in hindsight none of them on a viable target. Early activity in the region was hampered by poor quality seismic data with recent seismic acquisition and reprocessing giving new insights into basin architecture and prospectivity. Evidence suggests the presence of movable hydrocarbons throughout the acreage gives the area huge potential.

Geoscience Australia have recently published results from a geological sampling study, with promising evidence for a world class Cretaceous source rock.

Fugro Multi Client Services' Frontier Basin Project will combine PSTM reprocessed seismic data (Fugro Seismic Imaging), new potential field data (Fugro Airborne) and satelitte SAR seep data (Fugro NPA) into a regional integrated interpretation report. This will provide exploration companies a superior starting point for their evaluation of this frontier region.

Click here for PDF of Great Australian Bight project flier (1.8 mb).

For further information on this basin, please contact Owen Dyer.