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Australia is endowed with abundant, high quality energy resources, which provide both affordable and reliable energy for domestic use, and underpin our status as a major global energy provider. Australia continues to have the world’s largest economic uranium resources, the third largest coal resources, and substantial conventional and unconventional natural gas resources. Gas production has grown rapidly in recent years enabled by a series of new LNG projects on the North West Shelf, together with established CSG projects in Queensland. In 2019, Australia became the world’s largest LNG exporter on an annualised basis. Results from Geoscience Australia’s 2021 edition of the Australian Energy Commodity Resources assessment highlight that the nation’s energy commodity resources are widely distributed and include a significant resource potential in many onshore and offshore basins. Knowledge of the existing and untapped resource potential allows decision makers to prioritise development of energy resources that are able to support Australia’s recovery from the recent economic downturn. This aligns well with the Australian Government’s plans to support the development of natural gas resources in order to enable a rapid transition to a low carbon economy. A key component of Australia’s clean energy future and economic recovery will be the development of a hydrogen industry, with hydrogen produced either through electrolysis of water using renewable energy resources (green hydrogen), or manufactured from natural gas or through coal gasification with CCS of the co-produced CO2 (blue hydrogen). Geoscience Australia’s assessment includes a synopsis of the current status of Australia’s rapidly evolving hydrogen industry. Appeared in The APPEA Journal 61(2) 325-330, 2 July 2021

The Browse Basin lies offshore from Western Australia's Kimberley region and hosts vast accumulations of gas and condensate, making it Australia's next major gas producing province on the North West Shelf. This presentation provides a summary of three areas of the basin where significant petroleum accumulations have been encountered. A summary of the regional geology, evolution and tectonic development of the basin is provided along with a discussion concerning the petroleum potential and reserves of the basin.

Promotional flyer comprising map showing petroleum exploration permits and current and proposed gazettal areas for acreage release. map is supplemented by short information (text) about geological aspects of release areas and summeries of Austrlaia's oil and gas production levels.

New South Wales (NSW) Trade and Investment (now Department of Regional NSW) and Geoscience Australia established a National Collaborative Framework agreement to undertake seismic monitoring of the NSW coal seam gas (CSG) areas, as well as performing baseline seismic monitoring in the region between 2015 and 2019. Through this partnership, Geoscience Australia’s deployed and maintained additional seismic stations to identify of events of local magnitude ML 2.0 and greater within the Camden CSG field. There is no substantive evidence that attributes higher rates of seismicity to CSG activities within the Camden CSG field. However, a significant increase in earthquake location accuracy and confidence in magnitude estimation can be achieved using the enhanced network monitoring in the Camden and Sydney Basin region. Additionally, these dense seismic networks allow the capture of critical strong-ground motions that can be used to calibrate seismic hazard models and provide input to engineering design that will reduce the risk to communities from future large earthquakes in the region.

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This article summarises the report by le Poidevin et al (2015) by briefly discussing three selected areas of the basin where significant petroleum accumulations have been encountered, and provides an interpretation of the effective system(s). For a full description of these and other major petroleum accumulations for the Browse Basin see le Poidevin et al (2015). A summary of the regional geology, evolution and tectonic development of the basin is also documented, along with a discussion concerning the basin's petroleum potential and reserves. The report by le Poidevin et al (2015) also contains appendices of shows by formation and accumulation data summary sheets for the Browse Basin.

Annual update of map backing the combined GA/RET NAPE Conference brochure.

The Roebuck Basin has been the focus of a great deal of recent interest with some excellent exploration results, yet much of the basin remains poorly understood. To better understand the petroleum prospectivity of this region, Geoscience Australia is undertaking a regional study of the Triassic succession across the Roebuck Basin and parts of the adjacent Northern Carnarvon, Browse, and offshore Canning basins. Presented here are the initial results of extensive mapping of the basal Triassic unconformity (TR10.0 sequence boundary), showing improvement in the resolution of previously identified features and the identification of new basin features This is a Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA) News article promoting new work by the NWMES team. Updated interpretation of the Tr10.0 sequence boundary in the Roebuck Basin and surrounds as part of the Triassic and Older Source Rocks Study.