Lauren Found, Simon Crellin, Helen Debenham – Searcher
The offshore Gulf of Papua is a significantly under-explored region of the world, with only 32 offshore wells drilled in an area covering over 180,000 km2. These wells are constrained to the shallow (<500 m) waters of the Fly River Platform and Aure Trough, with the deep-water regions historically unexplored and frontier. Legacy interpretation, likely driven by lack of data over the region, interpreted the deep-water Gulf of Papua as a dramatically thinned section of sediments underlain by oceanic crust associated with the