First Aussie Oil Field in 50 Years Opens in QLD

Is it any wonder that Australian Fuel Security has Never Been A Priority in Canberra?

Apr 13, 2026

As the so-called Peace Initiatives to Cease War in the Middle East have just collapsed, solutions to our national fuel security crisis are further away then ever.

The Good News

Recent news about the Taroom Trough Oil Field in southern Queensland is a small but bright light on our Oil Security Horizon.

Source: sunrise tv show

More details about this Oil Field Discovery are provided in this Karl Stephanovic interview with QLD Premier David Crisafulli.

Link to video source ~ click to watch
~ transcript below begins at 5:30 minutes;

« Karl S: How much would it increase the capacity for us to um have reserves? Um and over what period?
David C: Massively. And if it got cracking within a couple of years, I, I’ll give you some numbers that show you how vulnerable we are. We got a couple of major refineries in Australia at the moment. One of them is here in Queensland.
They produce a fraction of what we use. In the case of the Litton refinery, it’s a diesel refinery. It’s about 8%, 8% of our nation’s sovereignty.
That is absurd. And what I really find um well sad but perplexing over the last
25 years we have celebrated the destruction of refineries.
We’ve celebrated knocking over these these assets that control our own destiny and our sovereignty.
We we wore it as a badge of honor in this country and I just think that is horrendously stupid and that’s the reason why we embarked on this process before is we do believe in sovereign capability and we do believe in us being proud to be able to refine and drill and manufacture our own state.
We want that. We want that for Queenslanders. I want Queensland kids to have a job in regional Queensland where we grew up. I don’t want them to have to leave.
And uh I keep saying never again never again are we going to be in an opportunity where we are so stupid that we hand over our national sovereignty and our national interest and we did that in this case.»

Source: Proposed Taroom Trough oilfield ~ Qld dept natural resources & mines etc..

Oil Refining Infrastructure Already Nearby

There is already a small Diesel refinery west of Roma ~ the Eromanga Inland Oil Refinery. This could be upscaled to produce more Diesel, necessary for Rural operations.

Source: google ai ~ who owns IOR in queensland?

Eromanga ~ approx 1,000 km west of Brisbane, QLD.

The Not So Good News

This video by Scott Kuru will no doubt frighten everyone watching ~ Scott uses graphic tsunami imaging to;
1. Get everyone’s attention, and,

2. Make the point ~ continued conflict around the Strait of Hormuz PLUS escalation because of the proposed US counter-blockade east of the Gulf of Oman.

Source: nations online.org

Video Transcript ~ begins at 4:30 minute mark;

« It means that the oil people are consuming right now in a lot of countries is not postwar oil supply. It is pre-war supply that is only now arriving. And even if the straight of Hormuz opens tomorrow, it will take that oil four to 5 weeks to reach its destination. That is why the map ~ in this video ~ is so powerful because it tells you exactly why things still look weirdly normal.
Look at the delivery stop dates shown on it.»

« Africa starts getting hit first around March 20 to April 1.
Asia starts losing most deliveries around April 1.
Europe is around April 10.
The United States is around April 15.
Australia and New Zealand are even later around April 20.

That means this crisis does not hit the whole world at one time. It moves in stages. It rolls through this global supply chain with a lag. That’s why you’re seeing different news headlines in different countries with different impacts and you’re correlating that with what’s happening in Australia and it’s not all lining up.
That’s exactly why that is happening. Now once you understand this delay, the next question becomes obvious.
If the oil collapse is only days away from hitting us, why aren’t governments all around the world panicking? That is because we are in an artificial calm right now.

A calm before a possibly big storm.»