Product catalogue
Collection of porosity and permeability data from petroleum wells (known as RESFACS database/ Porosity and Permeability)
Porosity and permeability data form part of Geoscience Australia’s Reservoir, Facies and Shows (RESFACS) database, which contains depth-based information regarding porosity and permeability measured or interpreted from core, sidewall core and well-log analysis of rocks intersected by offshore petroleum wells. Porosity and permeability are rock properties related to the number, size, and connectivity of openings in the rock. More specifically, porosity of a rock is a measure of its ability to hold a fluid within pore-spaces and the permeability is a measure of the ease of flow of a fluid through a porous solid.
Data entered into the porosity and permeability tables are primarily sourced from the Basic and Interpretive volumes of Well Completion Reports (WCR) provided by the petroleum industry to the Commonwealth under the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act (OPGGSA) 2006 and the previous Petroleum (submerged Lands) Act (PSLA) 1967. Data is also sourced from sedimentologic evaluations and petrophysical studies by Geoscience Australia and its predecessor organisations, the Australian Geological Survey Organisation (AGSO) and the Bureau of Mineral Resources (BMR), as well as from state and territory geological organisations, and scientific publications.
The database structure has evolved over time and will keep changing as different types of relevant data become available and the delivery platform changes. Data hosted within Geoscience Australia’s Oracle petroleum wells database was initially delivered through the Petroleum Wells web page, http://dbforms.ga.gov.au/www/npm.well.search, which is in the process of being decommissioned . The porosity and permeability data will now be available to view and download through the Geoscience Australia Portal Core, https://portal.ga.gov.au/. Use Porosity and Permeability as your search term to find the relevant data.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2023-01-12
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-10-11T05:06:29
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/147644
- Citation identifier
- Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/147644
- Cited responsible party
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Publisher Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
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The database structure has evolved over time and will keep changing as different types of relevant data become available and the delivery platform changes. Data hosted within Geoscience Australia’s Oracle petroleum wells database was initially delivered through the Petroleum Wells web page, http://dbforms.ga.gov.au/www/npm.well.search, which is in the process of being decommissioned . The porosity and permeability data therefore now needs to be available to view and download through the Geoscience Australia Portal Core, https://portal.ga.gov.au/ .
- Status
- Completed
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Resource provider Minerals, Energy and Groundwater Division
External Contact Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Edwards, D.
MEG Internal Contact
- Spatial representation type
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
Extent
))
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
Resource format
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Product data repository: Various Formats
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FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY
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Data Store directory containing the digital product files
- Description
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Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes
- theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
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EARTH SCIENCES
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- Data centre
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Porosity
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- Data centre
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Permeability
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- Data centre
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Petroleum wells
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- Data centre
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RESFACS Database
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Resource constraints
- Title
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
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CC-BY
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4.0
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details User Any
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- License
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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(c) Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2022
Resource constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security Classification System
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Classification system
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Australian Government Security Classification System
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distributor contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Distributor Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice facsimile
- OnLine resource
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Link to Geoscience Australia Portal
Link to Geoscience Australia Portal
- Distribution format
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Resource lineage
- Statement
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Porosity and permeability data form part of Geoscience Australia’s Reservoir, Facies and Shows (RESFACS) database, which contains depth-based information regarding porosity and permeability measured or interpreted from core, sidewall core and well-log analysis of rocks intersected by offshore petroleum wells. Porosity and permeability are rock properties related to the number, size, and connectivity of openings in the rock. More specifically, porosity of a rock is a measure of its ability to hold a fluid within pore-spaces and the permeability is a measure of the ease of flow of a fluid through a porous solid.
Data entered into the porosity and permeability tables are primarily sourced from the Basic and Interpretive volumes of Well Completion Reports (WCR) provided by the petroleum industry to the Commonwealth under the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act (OPGGSA) 2006 and the previous Petroleum (submerged Lands) Act (PSLA) 1967. Data is also sourced from sedimentologic evaluations and petrophysical studies by Geoscience Australia and its predecessor organisations, the Australian Geological Survey Organisation (AGSO) and the Bureau of Mineral Resources (BMR), as well as from state and territory geological organisations, and scientific publications.
Metadata constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security Classification System
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/7bb7352b-5c01-475c-80a8-238d87d0106a
- Title
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GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Edwards, D.
MEG Internal Contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with
uuid
- Citation identifier
- eCatId/147644
- Date info (Creation)
- 2023-01-16T23:46:13
- Date info (Revision)
- 2023-01-16T23:46:13
Metadata standard
- Title
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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
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ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-3
- Title
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Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014
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Version 2.0, September 2018
- Citation identifier
- https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551