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In reply to the discussion: Oil discovery in Australia’s outback could ‘transform world’s oil industry’ [View all]customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)9. Not really, when you put it into other terms
16 million acres is 25000 square miles, or a square about 160 miles by 160 miles. Being as the bulk of the continent is about 2000 miles by 2000 miles, much of it interior desert, it's not really a major proportion of the place. Austrailia is nearly 3 million square miles in area, this amount of this holding represents less than one percent of it.
Australia and the continental US are about the same size in square miles, this holding is about the size of West Virginia. Or, a bit bigger than a quarter of Wyoming, if you really want something more comparable.
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Oil discovery in Australia’s outback could ‘transform world’s oil industry’ [View all]
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#22
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Jan 2013
#54