Australian onshore petroleum acreage and releases 2018
Elinor AlexanderEnergy Resources Division Department of the Premier and Cabinet, South Australia. Email: Elinor.alexander@sa.gov.au
The APPEA Journal 58(2) 426-436 https://doi.org/10.1071/AJ17057
Accepted: 15 March 2018 Published: 28 May 2018
Abstract
This paper is a compilation of information provided by state and territory jurisdictions about onshore acreage and its availability for petroleum exploration in 2018. Australian state and territory governments continue to research and promote petroleum prospectivity to stimulate local and international investment in petroleum exploration by generating new exploration concepts and opportunities, facilitating discoveries and fostering new ideas to assist the nation’s upstream petroleum sector to keep on delivering the maximum net benefits to all Australians.
Present and future policy directions that relate to onshore petroleum exploration are described, particularly for jurisdictions that are not making petroleum acreage available this year.
Keywords: coal seam gas, CSG, exploration, framework, gas, geoscience, oil, project, prospectivity, release, state, territory.
Elinor Alexander graduated with BSc (Geology) (Hons) from the University of Adelaide in 1985. She then joined the Oil, Gas and Coal Division of the Department of Mines and Energy as a petroleum geologist. She is now Director of the Geoscience and Exploration Branch in the Energy Resources Division of the South Australian Department of the Premier and Cabinet. She leads a team of geoscientists and technical staff responsible for promoting petroleum opportunities in South Australia using applied geoscientific studies, regulating company exploration work program compliance and managing geological data. Elinor is a past president of PESA (South Australian branch). |
