Clarence-Moreton Basin

The Clarence–Moreton Basin is in the Northern Rivers region of NSW. The NSW Government policy is that there will be no further petroleum or gas exploration or production in the Northern Rivers region of NSW.

The Clarence–Moreton Basin is an intra-cratonic Mesozoic basin located onshore and offshore in northeastern New South Wales and southern Queensland. The basin is filled with mostly fluvio-lacustrine sedimentary rocks deposited in a large intramontane depocentre with thicknesses reaching 4 km in the central part of the basin.