Data from the survey over permits T/42P and T/43P will be processed and interpreted to create new and more detailed subsurface mapping of the sub-basin.
The survey, one of four Bass Basin surveys to be recorded in 2008 as part of a multi-operator consortium using the Pacific Titan vessel, is also expected to define high-potential leads identified in BSOC's database.
Located in the eastern sector of Tasmania's Bass Basin near Flinders Island, the Durroon is an intracratonic rift basin filled with 3000-5000m of Cretaceous-age sediments.
Meanwhile, BSOC has started shooting 250km of 2D seismic in VIC/P41 that aims to better define the eastern part of the permit where several leads are defined only on sparse existing data.
This eastern area has not been targeted for significant exploration in the past, partly due to the area being further out in the basin than existing producing fields as well as increasing water depths in the southeastern corner of the permit.
The survey will also meet the third-year work program commitments for the permit.
