This resource is the 2022 offshore petroleum acreage release. The 2022 Petroleum Acreage Release comprises 10 areas located across four sedimentary basins: the Bonaparte Basin, the Browse Basin, the Gippsland Basin and the Northern Carnarvon Basin. Work program bidding for the 2022 release areas will remain open until 2 March 2023. For more information on investing in offshore petroleum exploration, including the acreage release map booklet and diagrams, refer to the Department of Industry, Science and Resources. For information on the 2022 acreage release areas visit the Department of Industry, Science and Resources website. The release areas can also be viewed interactively via the Acreage Release persona on Geoscience Australia's Data Discovery Portal.

This record describes a set of media items (8 CDs) dating 2002-2009 Titled: Release of Offshore Petroleum Exploration Areas Australia CDs published by the Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism. The CDs have been received from Donna Hayes for archiving by the Data Centre. Data may be accessed via the GA link below.

The Australian Government's five year (2006-2011) Offshore Energy Security Program aims to encourage the discovery of new hydrocarbon resources in Australia's vast offshore frontier areas through the provision of pre-competitive data and information. One priority region, identified in consultation with the petroleum exploration industry and the respective State and Northern Territory geological surveys, is the southwestern continental margin of Australia. Geoscience Australia's Southwest Margin Project is investigating the petroleum potential of sedimentary basins located on the continental margin extending from Cape Range to Cape Leeuwin. Primary areas of interest include the Perth and Mentelle basins. Other areas of interest include the southern Exmouth Sub-basin (Northern Carnarvon Basin), the offshore Southern Carnarvon Basin and the Wallaby Plateau. The main aims of the Southwest Margin Project are to provide pre-competitive regional information to underpin opportunities for the discovery of a new hydrocarbon province, to support promotion of selected areas for petroleum exploration, to enhance our understanding of petroleum potential and aspects of exploration risk and to inform future marine planning. Citation: Bowen, E., & Bradshaw, B. (2009). Geoscience australia’s southwest margin geophysical surveys. ASEG Extended Abstracts, 2009(1), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1071/ASEG2009ab018

To meet the formal requirements for the collection, interpretation and analysis ofenvironmental baseline data in Australia's offshore areas in which further petroleumexploration could take place, the modern geological processes, Quaternary evolutionand environmental features of the potential release area(s) in the Van Diemen Rise(East Malita Graben, Timor Sea) which will be included in the first release of 1992are described, analysed and interpreted. The potential release area(s) overlie part of the Van Diemen Rise in the eastern partof the Timor Sea in the vicinity of Cootamundra and Evans Shoals. Sea bottomsediments in the region are dominantly calcareous sand grade and derived from thebreakdown of skeletal material which has developed on an extensive number ofbanks and shoals which characterise this part of the continental shelf. The sea bottom is also marked by a number of sinuous and narrow curvilinearchannel like features which along with other geomorphic elements are attributed tothe effects of subaerial exposure and weathering of the carbonate shelf sedimentwedge during Quaternary lower sea level stages, as well as marine and coastalprocesses which occurred during sea level rise and marine inundation. The Holocene rise in sea level has resulted in inundation of a large number of wave-cut scarps, channels and flat top banks, the latter of which became the focus ofcarbonate reef growth and hence a source of much of the sand-grade carbonatesediments evident on the sea floor.

This data set contains the locations of offshore petroleum wells, drilled for exploration and/or production purposes. Data was sourced from the Australia’s National Offshore Petroleum Titles Administrator and Australian States archives. Data for all wells generated pre-2011 wells was sourced from states online archives. Data is made publically available by the NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Online resources NOPTA: http://www.nopta.gov.au/spatial-data/spatial-data.html QLD: https://www.business.qld.gov.au/industry/mining/mining-online-services/qdex-data NSW: http://www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/miners-and-explorers/geoscience-information/services/online-services/minview VIC: Wells distributed by NOPTA (Melanie Webb - melanie.webb@nopta.gov.au), obtained from VIC Government Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport & Resources TAS: http://www.mrt.tas.gov.au/mrt_maps/app/list/map SA: https://sarig.pir.sa.gov.au/Map WA: http://www.dmp.wa.gov.au/datacentre NT: http://www.nopta.gov.au/spatial-data/spatial-data.html

URL: https://geoscience.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/cr133206 PL 209 Petroleum production volumes

URL: https://geoscience.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/cr137112 PL 209 Petroleum Production Volumes

URL: https://geoscience.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/cr136260 SURAT 18 PTY LTD - PL 18 PETROLEUM PRODUCTION REPORT FOR PERIOD ENDING 31 DECEMBER 2022

URL: https://geoscience.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/cr137831 Gas and water production from Arrow's tenure in the Surat and Bowen basins for the period 1 July 2022 - 31 December 2022.