The Cooper Basin is the location of the most important on-shore petroleum and natural gas deposits in Australia The oil and gas window is located 1,250 m below the surface^[1] and was originally discovered in the 1960s (although there are larger oil and gas deposits off-shore). The first commercial discovery of gas occurred in 1963.^[1] It includes Australia’s largest onshore oil field, the Jackson oil field.^[2] This field was discovered in 1981. Pipelines transport gas to the major markets of Brisbane, Adelaide and Sydney. Overall about 1,800 petroleum wells have been drilled.^[1]

The largest producer in the basin is Santos Limited with its main production facility at Moomba, South Australia. The oil and gas deposits in the Cooper Basin tend to be fairly small and fragmentary. Overall there are 160 gas fields and 75 oil fields in production containing about 630 producing gas wells and more than 340 producing oil wells.^[3] There are many small listed companies exploring for additional deposits in the region. Some of these companies are Austin Exploration Limited, Cooper Energy, Beach Petroleum Limited, Senex Energy, Strike Energy, Acer Energy, Magellan, Impress Energy and many others.*

* source wikipedia.com

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Nigel Hearne, managing director of Chevron Australia emphasized that the decision was … after cancelling the plans to look for shale gas and oil in the Cooper Basin 2 years ago.

Karoon Gas Australia has successfully bid for a prospective 171 sq km offshore block in the Santos Basin in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, just south of Rio de Janeiro with a water depth of approx. 400m. Karoon was awarded Block S-M-1537 by the…..more

It offered 20,000-23,000 barrels per day of Cooper Basin crude to be lifted in cargo size of 300,000-600,000 barrels. For Barrow Island, the buyer must lift 4,500 bpd of the oil from all of the sellers, namely Chevron, Santos and Mobil Australia Resources …

Lattice’s portfolio includes Origin’s stakes in an oil-and-gas venture in the Cooper Basin in South Australia, gas operations in Western Australia, Victoria and New South Wales states and exploration projects in New Zealand. The exit leaves Origin focused …

Origin joins other energy producers such as Santos Ltd. in slashing debt following an oil rout and ballooning costs of … to increase its exposure to energy assets in central Australia’s Cooper Basin. Beach shares, which have declined 2.9% this …

All of the write offs in FY17 related to its oil … Australia capable of replacing GBJV. Perhaps CSG gas in Victoria might have that possibility. I’ve never seen any studies on the technical merits. Certainly, it’s not coming from NSW or the Cooper Basin.

Cooper Energy and Origin Energy are also planning wells in Bass Strait from early next year, in what will be the first drilling in the nation’s most prolific oil and gas region for three years. Exxon Australia … Gippsland Basin, where it operates …

Kuala Lumpur: T7 Global Bhd’s investment, Triangle Energy (Global) Ltd, has strike oil in the coastal Xanadu-1 well in the Perth Basin. In a filing to Bursa Malaysia, the company, formerly known as Tanjung Offshore Bhd, also said, it has secured two …

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 18 (Bernama) — T7 Global Bhd’s investment, Triangle Energy (Global) Ltd, has strike oil in the coastal Xanadu-1 well in the Perth Basin. In a filing to Bursa Malaysia, the company, formerly known as Tanjung Offshore Bhd, also said …

LONDON (Alliance News) – Mosman Oil & Gas Ltd said on Friday it has completed its acquisition of the Welch Permian Basin asset for USD130,000, as the company continues to progress its operations in the US, Australia and New Zealand. The project is situated …