2021 Offshore Petroleum Acreage Release Areas MapServer

The annual offshore petroleum exploration acreage release is part of the government’s strategy to promote offshore oil and gas exploration. Each year, the government invites companies to bid for the opportunity to invest in oil and gas exploration in Australian waters. The 2021 acreage release consists of 21 areas offshore of Western Australia, Victoria, Tasmania and the Ashmore and Cartier Islands.

Simple

Identification info

Date (Creation)
2021-04-28T09:00:00
Date (Publication)
2021-06-22T00:45:21
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Custodian

Owens, R.

 MEG Internal Contact
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

N
S
E
W


Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification: Fields of Research

  • Earth Sciences

Keywords

  • MapServer

  • web service

  • Australia

  • Web service

  • Geoscience

  • Acreage Release

  • Oil and Gas

  • Exploration

Keywords

  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License

Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified

Associated resource

Association Type
null
Title

GA Template for OGC WMS Services in 19115-1:2014 and 19115-3

Citation identifier
145358

Citation identifier
951f0fa0-8b70-44a6-a1d7-a533d3d6497a

Website

https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/service/ga/145358

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Service Version

10.6.1

Coupling Type
Tight

Contains Operations

Operation Name

Services Directory

Distributed computing platform (DCP)
WebServices
Operation Description

The Services Directory operation is used to provide a view of the ArcGIS Server REST API in HTML format, providing service-level metadata about the current web service.

Connect Point

http://services.ga.gov.au/gis/rest/services/2021OffshorePetroleumAcreageReleaseAreas/MapServer

Contains Operations

Operation Name

REST API Information

Distributed computing platform (DCP)
WebServices
Operation Description

The REST API Information operation is used to obtain service metadata in JSON format, which is a machinereadable description of the ArcGIS Server information content.

Connect Point

http://services.ga.gov.au/gis/rest/services/2021OffshorePetroleumAcreageReleaseAreas/MapServer?f=pjson

Name

f

Type name

TEXT

Parameter direction
Description

The mandatory f parameter indicates the format of the response. When invoking the REST API Information operation the value json or pjson shall be used.

Optionality
false
Repeatability
false
Operates On

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
OnLine resource

2021 Offshore Petroleum Acreage Release Areas

2021 Offshore Petroleum Acreage Release Areas

Distribution format

  • ESRI Map Service

Resource lineage

Statement

This service is being developed to display the location and closing date information of the 2021 Acreage Release in the Acreage Release Persona of the GA Portal.

Hierarchy level
Service

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/GDA94 (EPSG:4283)

Title

European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry

Date (Publication)
2008-11-12T00:00:00
Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details

European Petroleum Survey Group

 http://www.epsg-registry.org/

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)

Title

European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry

Date (Publication)
2008-11-12T00:00:00
Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details

European Petroleum Survey Group

 http://www.epsg-registry.org/

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/a033fd30-bfef-406f-805b-c645ecc30647

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Owner

Woods, M

 Geoscience Australia Internal Contact
Title

2021 Offshore Petroleum Acreage Release Areas

Citation identifier
563c6b2c-b67d-4cc9-af9f-c0ecc4e6f760

Citation identifier
145356

Type of resource

Resource scope
Service
Name

service

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/145357

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/bf9952c0-6cd5-40d8-afb0-dbac575cc9d3

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/a033fd30-bfef-406f-805b-c645ecc30647

Date info (Creation)
2025-06-03T22:12:55.884Z
Date info (Creation)
2016-02-10T09:49:39
Date info (Revision)
2025-06-03T22:13:06.157Z

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W


Keywords

Acreage Release Australia Exploration Geoscience MapServer Oil and Gas Web service web service
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification: Fields of Research
Earth Sciences

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