Baerami Creek is a locality in the Muswellbrook Shire in the Upper Hunter region of New South Wales, Australia.

[2] Baerami Creek has a deposit of oil shale, which was reputedly the largest in New South Wales and around twice the size of that at Glen Davis.

It was accessible from the Baerami Creek valley and lay relatively close to the Merriwa railway line at Sandy Hollow.

Those plans did not proceed beyond successful experimental production using a 'Renco' retort, at Hamilton in Newcastle, over three months in 1939.

[14][15][16] In 1940, a Miller retort erected by Colonial Petroleum Oil Limited was operated at Baerami Creek.

[16] In 1952, the company gave up its efforts, after spending £90,000 over fifteen years on development works, "in the teeth of Government apathy.