Cooper Basin

The Cooper Basin (English: Cooper Basin ) is a 130,000 km ² large sedimentary basins in Australia, which is partly in the northeastern part of South Australia (share; 35,000 km ²) and extending up to the south-west of Queensland. It is named after the Cooper Creek which flows into Lake Eyre. The Cooper Basin originated from the late Carboniferous to Middle Triassic. The sediments are 1250-3670 meters thick.

Nature in the Cooper Basin is mostly desert -like and includes branches of the Simpson Desert, Channel Country and the Sturt Stony Desert.

Energy sources

Oil and Gas

The Cooper Basin is the area of the most significant oil and gas deposits on Australia's mainland, which were discovered in the 1960s. In 1963 the first gas well, Gidgealpa 2, discovered. Pipelines to transport the gas to Brisbane, Adelaide and Sydney.

The largest oil and gas producer in the Cooper Basin Santos Limited with production facilities in Moomba.

The petroleum and natural gas reserves in the Cooper Basin are fragmented small volume and wide. There are 8 geothermal springs and 1.800 for the oil and gas production, are exploited economically. In the area of the Cooper Basin few companies in that exploit the presence of this region. These are for the oil and gas production, the Austin Exploration Limited, Cooper Energy, Beach Petroleum Limited, Innamincka Petroleum, Magellan Petroleum, Impress Energy and other; in geothermal energy, it is the Geodynamics Limited.

Geothermal

The company, which examined the Cooper Basin, were looking for a far-reaching yield. They met with their holes to a depth of 3,500 meters to about 240 ° C hot granite and the Cooper Basin was selected for a geothermal project. The stone deposits are considered the hottest in the world, located in a commercially reasonable depth and not in the vicinity of volcanoes. When the reservoir was drilled, there was a small earthquake with a rash on the Richter scale of 3.7.