Canning Basin

The Canningbecken is a sedimentary basin in Western Australia. The basin covers about 506,000 km ², of which 430,000 km ² situated on the mainland. The remaining area is located offshore. The sedimentation basin is partly a thickness of 15 km. It consists of sediments that were deposited in large warehouses. The northernmost is the Fitzroy Trough - Gregory Sub - basin complex and the southernmost are the Willara sub- basin and Kidson Sub - basin complex. The Fitzroy complex offshore runs on.

The Canningbecken went through several phases in its development.

In Devon was established in Canningbecken the so-called " Devonian Great Barrier Reef", a large system of taboo Deferred stromatoporoid reefs with an original length of probably more than 1,000 kilometers. In Canningbecken the conditions for the formation of this vast Riffkomplexes were optimal, since the area was in Devon near the equator and was covered by a shallow, tropical sea.

In May 1981, the Blina oil field was found, which is located 105 km southeast of the city of Derby. It was the first economically viable oil well in Canningbecken. The oil was in the Nullara Limestone Formation ( Nullar Oil Pool ) and in the Lower Carboniferous dolomitic Yellow Drum Formation ( Yellow Drum Oil Pool ). Not far away, another oil field has been found, the Backreef -1.

The large sedimentary basins has been studied to 78,000 km through seismic blasting and there were a total of 250 wells drilled.