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The Overflow No. 1 Well was drilled on the South Moreton Anticline in Authority to Prospect 7lP, south-east Queensland, to a total depth of 2993 feet. The well drilled in Bundamba Sandstone to 310 feet, Ipswich Coal Measures from 310 feet to 1605 feet, and volcanic rocks of probable early Triassic or Upper Palaeozoic age from 1605 feet to total depth. Drilling operations commenced on 8th April, 1960, and the well was abandoned as a dry hole on 18th May, 1960. The drilling contractor was Mines Administration Pty Limited, Brisbane, and the rig used was a National Ideal 55. The operation provided for a programme of electric and mud logging, testing and coring. The well was abandoned short of the target depth of 6500 feet because of the hard drilling and poor petroleum prospects in the thick volcanic sequence. Minor oil and gas showings in the well were closely associated with coal seams.

Conorada Ooroonoo No. 1, located in the north-western part of Authority to Prospect 75P, Queensland, was drilled as an off-structure stratigraphic test by Conorada Petroleum Corporation. The contractor was Mines Administration Pty Ltd, and the rig used was a Sullivan 300A owned by the contractor. The well was spudded in on 20th July, 1960, and abandoned as a dry hole at total depth of 3852 feet on 23rd August, 1960. A complete section of Great Artesian Basin sediments was drilled and granitic basement penetrated at 3840 feet. The coring and sampling programme carried out enabled as much information to be obtained about the section as was possible.

An aeromagnetic survey and a gravity survey were carried out for Magellan Petroleum Corporation in the Tambo-Augathella area of Queensland in 1959-1960. The results of the aeromagnetic survey were reduced, studied, and interpreted by Aero Service Corporation, who had subcontracted Adastra Airways Pty Ltd, to provide the aircraft and also the flying personnel and associated ground staff. The gravity survey was done by Century Geophysical Corporation. The main objectives of the two surveys were to delineate the thickness of the sedimentary rocks, and to investigate the major geological structures in the area. The results of the aeromagnetic survey suggested the presence of several structures in the basement rocks. The Nebine Ridge appeared to be quite shallow over most of the area; major east-west trending faults were indicated. The results of the gravity survey did not fully agree with the results of the aeromagnetic survey. The gravity results indicate a central basinal feature bounded on the west by a platform, but the aeromagnetic results indicate deep basement on the north-west and only a few thousand feet of sediments to the south and east. These conflicting results indicate that some additional control, as would be obtained from wells drilled for stratigraphic information, is necessary for evaluation of the respective surveys.

O.D.N.L. Penola No. 1 Well, located in the north-east corner of Section 500, Hundred of Penola, South Australia, was drilled by Oil Development N.L. under a "farm-out" agreement with General Exploration Company of Australia Limited to a total depth of 4985 feet. Drilling was commenced on 7th February, 1961, and the well was abondoned as a dry hole on 5th May, 1961. The drilling contractor was Australian Tube Wells Pty Ltd, and the rig used was a Failing 2500 - Holemaster. The operation provided for a programme of electric and mud logging, testing and coring. The Penola Well was designed to test the petroleum potentialities of the Coonawarra subsurface structure, which was first detected by a single reconnaissance seismic reflection traverse made through the Penola area. Beneath a thin Pleistocene cover Penola No. 1 penetrated a sequence of marine and paralic Tertiary, and marine and non-marine Mesozoic rocks, ranging in age from Oligocene to probable Upper Jurassic. The Tertiary sediments consisted of 215 feet of Gambier Limestone (Oligocene); 160 feet of Compton Conglomerate (Oligocene); followed by about 630 feet of paralic sands and grits of the Knight Group (middle to upper Eocene). There is a marked discontinuity at l040 feet where the well passed abruptly from the Eocene to Cretaceous arkosic sandstones and siltstones of the Merino Group. The Upper Member of the Runnymede Formation of Albian to (?) Cenomanian age was 2380 feet thick, and of marine origin in at least the lower 800 feet, between 2586 and 3420 feet. The lower nonmarine member of the Runnymede Formation (? Aptian) was represented between 3420 and 4300 feet. A slight angular unconformity is interpreted at about 4300 feet, below which the well is considered to have entered non-marine mudstones and sandstones of the Mocamboro Member of probable Upper Jurassic age. Minor showings of gas were encountered at Penola No. 1, none being of commerial significance. No signs of live oil were observed in the well.

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Seismic refraction velocities were measured in the Archaean or crystalline basement rocks at Mount Davies (SA) and Giles (WA) where the rocks are near the surface. Refraction velocities were measured in the Proterozoic outcrops of the Rawlinson Range and Lake Hopkins. Refraction velocities were measured in the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic rocks at Lake Christopher, and in the Mesozoic rocks at Iragana Turnoff. Those velocities were used as a basis for a suggested correlation between refractors recorded at traverses between Signpost and Mount Beadell. Reflection tecniques, as tried 9 yielded fair reflections at Mount Beadell, and doubtful reflection alignments at trig. point NMF 19. It is likely that the sedimentary basin shows an increasing thickness of sediments from Signpost to Mount Beadell, At Mount Beadoll there is at least 6000 ft of apparently post-Proterozoic sediments. The thickness and degree of metamorphism of Proterozoic ratio below this have not been determined. Present evidence suggests an area of uplift under Lake Breaden.

The Undilla Basin, in north-western Queensland, is a small sedimentary basin containing Cambrian limestones which adjoin the widespread but undated CamoowJal Dolomite to the West. In the latter part of 1961 the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics did a brief reconnaissance seismic survey lasting about seven weeks in the Undilla Basin. This Record describes briefly the work done and results obtained. The occurrence of limestone near the surface throughout the basin presented difficult problems in the application of the reflection and refraction seismic methods but some progress was made towards the solution of these problems.

This Record describes a seismic refraction survey made during 1961 in the Farm Area, Alice Springs, NT. Good refraction breaks were obtained only along the east-west Traverse K; the refraction breaks along the north-south traverses were very poor. Velocities indicated in the overburden are interpreted in terms of particular geological formations within the Mesozoic and Recent sediments. Results along additional east-west traverses would be needed before a similar interpretation could be applied to the bedrock velocities.