“…Located in the South China Sea, covering an area of ~45,000 km 2 along the northern shore of Borneo, Central Luconia encloses >200 carbonate buildups (Figure 1), of which, less than 100 have been explored and proved to be of economic significance (Koša, 2015). In the past, mostly regional investigations focused on the sedimentation history (Ali & Abolins, 1999; Epting, 1980), controls of sea‐level fluctuations (Bracco‐Gartner, Schlager, & Adams, 2004; Epting, 1980; Vahrenkamp, 1996, 1998) and tectonics of the Luconia Province (Menier, Pierson, Chalabi, Ting, & Pubellier, 2014; Ting, Chung, & Al Jaaidi, 2010; Ting, Pierson, Al‐Jaaidi, & Hague, 2012; Wei Kiat, Menier, Jamaludin, & Ghosh, 2016; Zampetti, Schlager, van Konijnenburg, & Everts, 2004) with the exception of a few studies focusing on isolated buildups (Janjuhah, Salim, & Ghosh, 2017; Kosters, Hague, Hofmann, & Hughes, 2008; Saw et al, 2019;Warrlich et al, 2010). To date, the studied platforms that belong to the same geological period have been associated with diverse palaeogeographic and structural settings (Ali & Abolins, 1999; Doust, 1981; Ho, 1978; Zampetti et al, 2010), thus emphasizing the necessity for a comprehensive understanding of the evolution of individual platforms.…”