Product catalogue
Adavale Basin 3D Geological Model
All commercially produced hydrogen worldwide is presently stored in salt caverns. Through the Exploring for the Future program, Geoscience Australia is identifying and mapping salt deposits in Australia that may be suitable for hydrogen storage. The only known thick salt accumulations in eastern Australia are found in the Boree Salt of the Adavale Basin in central Queensland, and represent potentially strategic assets for underground hydrogen storage. The Boree Salt consists predominantly of halite that is up to 555 m thick in some wells. In 2021, Geoscience Australia contracted Intrepid Geophysics to develop a 3D geological model of the Adavale Basin, using well data and 2D seismic interpretation and focussing on the Boree Salt deposit. The 3D model has identified three main salt bodies that may be suitable for salt cavern construction and hydrogen storage. Further work and data acquisition are required to fully assess the suitability of these salt bodies for hydrogen storage.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2022-09-30
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-10-11
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/146942
- Citation identifier
- Digital Object Identifier/https://doi.org/10.26186/146942
- Cited responsible party
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Author Paterson, R.
External Contact Publisher Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
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- Purpose
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This dataset provides users open access to a 3D model of the Adavale Basin in central Queensland. The dataset is available for download under the 'Download" tab.
- Status
- Completed
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Resource provider Minerals, Energy and Groundwater Division
External Contact Point of contact Feitz, A.
MEG Internal Contact
- Spatial representation type
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
Extent
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
Resource format
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Product data repository: Various Formats
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Data Store directory containing the digital product files
Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes
- theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
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EARTH SCIENCES
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TECHNOLOGY
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- Keywords
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Hydrogen Storage
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- Keywords
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3D Basin Modelling
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Salt
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- Project
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EFTF - Exploring for the Future program
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- Project
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Australia’s Future Energy Resources (AFER) project
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Resource constraints
- Title
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
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CC-BY
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4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- License
- Other constraints
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(c) Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2022
Resource constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Informed
- Title
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Adavale Basin 3D Geological Model - Petrel Dataset
- Citation identifier
- 147256
- Citation identifier
- fbf3ceab-125b-4dd2-ad80-132b887c845f
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distributor contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Distributor Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice
- OnLine resource
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Download Report (pdf) [14.2 MB]
Download Report (pdf) [14.2 MB]
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pdf
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nil
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- OnLine resource
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Download Geological Model (zip) [1.0 GB]
Download Geological Model (zip) [1.0 GB]
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zip
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unzip
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- OnLine resource
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Download Boree Salt Shapefile (zip) [28.2 KB]
Download Boree Salt Shapefile (zip) [28.2 KB]
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shp
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unzip
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Resource lineage
- Statement
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Intrepid Geophysics has undertaken the research, modelling and data production through Geoscience Australia's Exploring for the Future program. Files include: a report (PDF); shapefiles (ESRI ArcGIS) of the Boree Salt extent; the GeoModeller dataset comprising the model of the subsurface, faults, boreholes information and formation tops.
Metadata constraints
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Australian Government Security Classification System
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/02dbe38b-c766-4ac0-a8a0-797aebbbf68a
- Title
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GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Owner Rees, S
Internal Contact Point of contact Wang, L.
MEG Internal Contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Name
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Adavale Basin 3D Geological Modelling
Alternative metadata reference
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with
uuid
- Citation identifier
- eCatId/146942
- Date info (Creation)
- 2019-04-08T01:55:29
- Date info (Revision)
- 2019-04-08T01:55:29
Metadata standard
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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
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ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
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ISO 19115-3
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Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014
- Edition
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Version 2.0, September 2018
- Citation identifier
- https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551