
%0 Journal Article
%A Maughan, D.M. 
%T The definition and development of the Mackerel field, Gippsland Basin
%J Exploration Geophysics
%D 1980/06/01
%V 11
%N 2
%P 1-7
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/EG980001
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/EG980001 
%X The Esso?Hematite Mackerel oilfield (Fig. 1) is located approximately 70 kilometres offshore in the Gippsland Basin, southeastern Australia, in 75 m?90 m of water. It is one of a number of fields in this basin in which the reservoir occurs at an unconformity at the top of the Paleocene?Eocene Latrobe Group. The trap has been formed within a topographic erosional feature, sealed by calcareous shales and mudstones of the Oligocene Lakes Entrance Formation. The Latrobe Group within the Mackerel Field consists of a generally massive sandstone section with few fine grained lithologies. The sandstones have high porosities and consequently, have excellent productivity. 
