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The Cooper Basin has 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]
The Cooper Creek (formerly Cooper's Creek) is a river in the Australian states of Queensland and South Australia. It was the site of the death of the explorers Burke and Wills in 1861. It is sometimes known as the Barcoo River from one of its tributaries and is one of three major Queensland river systems that flow into the Lake Eyre basin .
A drainage basin is an extent of land where water from rain and melting snow or ice drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea or ocean. The drainage basin includes both the streams and rivers that convey the water as well as the land surfaces from which water drains into those channels, and is ...
The Bulloo-Bancannia drainage basin or Cooper Creek–Bulloo River Basin [1] is a Level 2 drainage basin that covers part of western Queensland and New South Wales.It was recognised by the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO as a subdivision of the Lake Eyre basin in the 2012 Australian Water Resources Assessment.
In 2013, a potentially significant tight oil (oil trapped in oil-bearing shales) resource was found near the outskirts of Coober Pedy in the Arckaringa Basin. [33] This resource was estimated to hold between 3.5 and 223 billion barrels (560 × 10 ^ 6 and 35,450 × 10 ^ 6 m 3) of oil, providing the potential for Australia to become a net oil ...
Major rivers of Australia. ... The North East Coast basin total: 450,705 km 2 (174,018 sq mi) 2,900 m 3 /s ... Lake Eyre Basin: Cooper Creek *
Overhead Channel Country / Cooper Creek Bulloo River crossing, 1955. The Channel Country is a region of outback Australia mostly in the state of Queensland but also in parts of South Australia, Northern Territory and New South Wales. [1] [2] The name comes from the numerous intertwined rivulets that cross the region, which cover 150,000 km². [3]
The Cooper Creek Turtle Emydura macquarii emmottii is found only in the Lake Eyre Basin. It is a short-necked turtle and one of the largest species of side-necked turtle in Australia; weighing up to eight kilograms and growing over 40 centimetres in length. [16] A Cooper Creek Turtle (Emydura sp.) surfaces