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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
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Author

Paterson, R.

External Contact
Publisher

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
Purpose

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
Point of contact
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
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

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Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Website

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
  • EARTH SCIENCES

  • TECHNOLOGY

Keywords
  • Hydrogen Storage

Keywords
  • 3D Basin Modelling

Keywords
  • Salt

Project
  • EFTF - Exploring for the Future program

Project
  • Australia’s Future Energy Resources (AFER) project

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License
Other constraints

(c) Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2022

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Associated resource

Association Type
Informed
Title

Adavale Basin 3D Geological Model - Petrel Dataset

Citation identifier
147256

Citation identifier
fbf3ceab-125b-4dd2-ad80-132b887c845f

Website

http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/147256

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
OnLine resource

Download Report (pdf) [14.2 MB]

Download Report (pdf) [14.2 MB]

Distribution format
  • pdf

    File decompression technique

    nil

OnLine resource

Download Geological Model (zip) [1.0 GB]

Download Geological Model (zip) [1.0 GB]

Distribution format
  • zip

    File decompression technique

    unzip

OnLine resource

Download Boree Salt Shapefile (zip) [28.2 KB]

Download Boree Salt Shapefile (zip) [28.2 KB]

Distribution format
  • shp

    File decompression technique

    unzip

Resource lineage

Statement

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

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/02dbe38b-c766-4ac0-a8a0-797aebbbf68a

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
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

Adavale Basin 3D Geological Modelling

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/146942

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/5167d912-6784-4371-9938-3931e84ca6f1

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/02dbe38b-c766-4ac0-a8a0-797aebbbf68a

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/accessDenied.jsp/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/02dbe38b-c766-4ac0-a8a0-797aebbbf68a

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/dashboard/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/02dbe38b-c766-4ac0-a8a0-797aebbbf68a

Date info (Creation)
2019-04-08T01:55:29
Date info (Revision)
2019-04-08T01:55:29

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

Spatial extent

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Keywords

3D Basin Modelling Australia’s Future Energy Resources (AFER) project EFTF - Exploring for the Future program Salt
theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
EARTH SCIENCES TECHNOLOGY

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