Reserves Table 1 - Petroleum Reserves Estimates by Basin as at 1 January 2008

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Category Basin Crude Oil Condensate LPG Sales gas
GL million
barrels
GL million
barrels
GL million
barrels
BCM Tcf
Category 1
Adavale 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.48 0.02
Amadeus 0.83 5.20 0.24 1.50 0.03 0.20 7.32 0.26
Bass 0.00 0.00 1.98 12.48 1.79 11.27 6.60 0.23
Bonaparte 10.95 68.89 22.91 144.12 17.92 112.71 80.05 2.83
Bowen 1.08 6.81 0.25 1.54 0.42 2.67 10.11 0.36
Canning 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Carnarvon 79.63 500.86 71.54 449.97 72.51 456.05 528.95 18.68
Cooper 2.20 13.83 2.23 14.04 4.02 25.28 21.89 0.77
Eromanga 8.14 51.18 0.08 0.50 0.05 0.30 0.40 0.01
Gippsland 34.10 214.50 16.55 104.12 25.70 161.65 151.99 5.37
Gunnedah 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.30 0.01
Otway 0.00 0.00 0.15 0.92 0.00 0.00 11.58 0.41
Perth 2.11 13.25 0.01 0.06 0.00 0.00 0.78 0.03
Surat 0.08 0.53 0.02 0.13 0.02 0.10 0.90 0.03
Warburton 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 139.12 875.04 115.96 729.39 122.46 770.22 821.35 29.01
Previous 128.82 810.23 117.29 737.72 126.32 794.53 851.03 30.05
Category 2
Amadeus 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.57 0.02
Bass 2.11 13.28 4.70 29.56 7.40 46.54 7.42 0.26
Bonaparte 14.80 93.06 56.68 356.47 29.30 184.30 711.88 25.14
Bowen 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.04 0.01 0.04 0.49 0.02
Browse 2.16 13.59 157.34 989.66 69.67 438.19 1056.17 37.30
Canning 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.18 0.01
Carnarvon 72.52 456.16 94.51 594.45 39.28 247.04 1945.60 68.71
Cooper 0.35 2.21 0.04 0.25 0.18 1.14 3.41 0.12
Eromanga 0.77 4.83 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Gippsland 10.91 68.62 5.84 36.73 0.70 4.40 69.48 2.45
Otway 0.00 0.00 2.48 15.60 0.00 0.00 39.25 1.39
Perth 0.04 0.25 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 22.50 0.79
Surat 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Warburton 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 103.66 651.99 321.60 2022.77 146.53 921.66 3856.94 136.21
Previous 126.56 796.06 273.99 1723.36 158.45 996.63 3682.18 130.04
Category 1 and 2
Grand Total 242.78 1527.04 437.56 2752.16 268.99 1691.89 4678.29 165.21
Previous Total 255.38 1606.29 391.28 2461.08 284.77 1791.16 4533.21 160.09

Notes

Category 1 comprises current reserves of those fields which have been declared commercial. It includes both proved and probable reserves.

Category 2 comprises estimates of recoverable reserves which have not yet been declared commercially viable; they may be either geologically proved or are awaiting further appraisal.

For McKelvey resource classification see Reserves Table 2.

"Previous" totals refer to revised estimates of remaining reserves for the previous year.