Quilpie-Thargomindah-Charleville Seismic Survey, Queensland, 1959-1960 By Phillips Petroleum Company And Sunray Mid-Continent Oil Company

A reconnaissance seismic survey, subsidised by the Commonwealth of Australia, was made for Phillips Petroleum Company of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, D.S.A. and Sunray Mid-Continent Oil Company of Tulsa, Oldahoma, D.S.A. by Petty Geophysical Engineering Company of San Antonio, Texas. This survey was located within Authority to Prospect 72P in the Quilpie-Thargomindah-Charleville area of South-western Queensland. The purpose of the survey was to obtain information on the regional geology beneath the Mesozoic formations of the Great Artesian Basin north and west of the Eulo Shelf. Three deep structural basins beneath the sub-Mesozoic unconformity are indicated.