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Carr, L. | Henson, P. | Wang, L. | Bailey, A. | Fomin, T. | Boreham, C. | Edwards, D. | Southby, C. | Symington, N. | Smith, M. | Halas, L. | Jones, T.
Abstract
The Officer-Musgrave project investigates the groundwater and energy resource potential of the Officer Basin and neighbouring Musgrave Province near the junction of South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory (Figure 1). Groundwater investigations focus on the Musgrave Province and overlying Officer Basin to identify potential palaeovalley groundwater resources, to support geological framework data acquisition and geochemistry. Groundwater systems in remote regions, such as the Officer-Musgrave region, are poorly understood due to sparse geoscientific data and few detailed scientific inestigations having been undertaken. Characterising the distribution and quality of groundwater resources, will lead to a better understanding of the groundwater resources for community supply and economic development opportunities. The energy resource component of the project focuses on the analysis of existing legacy datasets, including seismic and well data, in the Officer Basin and acquisition of key new precompetitive data. These activities will improve understanding of regional resource potential, with the aim of stimulating industry exploration investment in the medium-term, ultimately leading to new discoveries and wealth creation. This work builds directly on work completed in the first phase of the Exploring for the Future program, which enhanced our understanding of Centralian Superbasin stratigraphy (Khider et al., 2021; Bradshaw et al., 2021). Presented to the 2022 Central Australian Basins Symposium IV (CABS) 29-30 August (https://agentur.eventsair.com/cabsiv/)
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