About the Journal

The APPEA Journal is published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of Australian Energy Producers, formerly known as The Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA).

The APPEA Journal has its roots in the development of the Association. Conceived in the late 1950s by a group of prominent Australian geoscientists, the Australian Petroleum Exploration Association (APEA) was formed in 1960. Part of its brief was to hold an annual conference where technical papers would be presented and then published. The aim was to move the fledgling Australian upstream industry forward. The first number of the APEA Journal was published in 1961. From volume 64, 2024, the Journal will be renamed to The Australian Energy Producers Journal, inline with the associations rebrand in September 2023.

As the industry grew and matured the Association – and therefore the journal – changed its name to the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) in 1996. Each year the APPEA Conference highlights and defines the issues and challenges of upstream petroleum exploration and development on a national and international level. The type of papers presented at the annual conference, and peer-reviewed for publication in The Journal, has also changed. Currently, there is a multidisciplinary approach with a variety of main streams based on the current environment of the Industry.

In an effort to keep the industry up to date with the latest innovations, proceedings from the annual Conference are published as a supplement to the Journal, including Extended Abstracts, PESA Reviews, oral and visual presentations, and plenary videos. 

The 2024 Technical and Business Program of the APPEA Conference is proudly sponsored by BP.

The APPEA Journal was published by Media Dynamics from 1993-2016 (as The APEA Journal until 1995 and as The APPEA Journal from 1996 onwards). From 2017, The APPEA Journal is published by CSIRO Publishing.

Plenary videos from the annual conference are also available to subscribers.

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