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Bernecker, T.
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The Australian Government formally releases new offshore exploration areas at the annual APPEA conference. In 2011, twenty-nine areas in eight offshore basins are being released for work program bidding. Closing dates for bid submissions are either six or twelve months after the release date, i.e. 13 October 2011 and 12 April 2012, depending on the exploration status in these areas and on data availability. The 2011 Release is the largest since the year 2000 with all 29 areas, located in Commonwealth waters offshore Northern Territory, Western Australia, Victoria and Tasmania, covering approximately 200,000 km2. The producing hydrocarbon provinces of the Carnarvon, Otway and Gippsland basins are represented by gazettal blocks that are located close to existing infrastructure and are supported by extensive open file data-sets. Other areas that are close to known oil and gas discoveries lie in the Caswell Sub-basin (eastern Browse Basin) and on the Ashmore Platform (north-western Bonaparte Basin). A particular aspect of the 2011 Release is provided by 13 areas in underexplored regions offshore Northern Territory and Western Australia all of which range from 100 to 280 graticular blocks in size. These areas, located in the Money Shoal; outer Browse, Roebuck, north-eastern Carnarvon, Southern Carnarvon and North Perth basins, offer new opportunities for data-acquisition and regional exploration. The release of three large areas in the Southern Carnarvon and North Perth basins is supported by new data acquired and interpreted by Geoscience Australia as part of the Offshore Energy Security Program, of which selected results are being presented at this year's conference.
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