Understanding the interplay between basin architecture, depositional environments and sediment pathways in the Cooper Basin

Abstract

The late Carboniferous to Middle Triassic Cooper Basin is Australia’s premier onshore petroleum province hosting a range of conventional and unconventional resources (Hall et al., 2019). Despite being considered a mature petroleum basin with over 1900 wells drilled and over 104,000 km of seismic surveys shot (Resources, 2022), many aspects of the Cooper Basin remain enigmatic with very different structural and sedimentary histories between the eight troughs and intervening ridges (Kulikowski et al., 2022).