The design and use of the Australian Petroleum Exploration Data Index

Abstract

The concept of the Petroleum Exploration Data Index (PEDIN) database was initiated by the Bureau of Mineral Resource's (BMR) Petroleum Branch. Funding by National Energy Research, Development and Demonstration Council (NERDDC) during 1984 and 1985 has seen the design and implementation of the database by Data Science Pty Limited and B. R. Senior and Associates. Data Science's role was to design and implement the database, to set up a system to manage data in BMR's Core and Cuttings Laboratory, to extract and enter data regarding Petroleum Search Subsidy Act (PSSA) geophysical surveys, and to enter some well data. B. R. Senior and Associates extracted and entered Petroleum Search Subsidy Act (PSSA) well data.