2021 Offshore Petroleum Acreage Release Areas

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.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2021-04-28T09:00:00
Date (Publication)
2021-06-22T00:44:15
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/145356

Identifier

Codespace

Digital object Identifier

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Custodian

Woods, M.

 MEG Internal Contact
Custodian

Bernecker, T.

 MEG Internal Contact
Purpose

This dataset provides the spatial extents of the 2021 Offshore Petroleum Acreage Release areas.

Status
Completed
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Woods, M.

 MEG Internal Contact
Resource provider

Minerals, Energy and Groundwater Division

 External Contact
Spatial representation type

Spatial resolution

Level of detail

This dataset is based on the Petroleum Graticular Block Framework dataset produced by Geoscience Australia. Spatial accuracy is sub metre.

Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

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Temporal extent

Time period
2021-04-28 2021-04-28
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Protocol

FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY

Name of the resource

Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Description

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

  • EARTH SCIENCES

Keywords

  • Australia

  • Petroleum

  • 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

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

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

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

Classification
Unclassified

Associated resource

Association Type
Operated on by
Title

2021 Offshore Petroleum Acreage Release Areas MapServer

Citation identifier
145357

Citation identifier
a033fd30-bfef-406f-805b-c645ecc30647

Website

https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/service/ga/145357

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Associated resource

Association Type
Operated on by
Title

2021 Offshore Petroleum Acreage Release Areas WMS

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

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
OnLine resource

Download the data [86 KB]

Download the data [86 KB]

Distribution format

  • dbf prj shp shx

OnLine resource

2021 Offshore Petroleum Acreage Release Areas MapServer

2021 Offshore Petroleum Acreage Release Areas MapServer

Distribution format

  • ESRI Map Service

OnLine resource

2021 Offshore Petroleum Acreage Release Areas WMS

2021 Offshore Petroleum Acreage Release Areas WMS

Distribution format

  • OGC WMS

Resource lineage

Statement

The 2021 offshore petroleum acreage release areas have been generated in ArcGIS. These areas are generated from the Australian Petroleum Blocks 2014a dataset ( https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/83151).

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/563c6b2c-b67d-4cc9-af9f-c0ecc4e6f760

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

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

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Woods, M.

 MEG Internal Contact

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Name

2021 Offshore Petroleum Acreage Release Areas

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/145356

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/563c6b2c-b67d-4cc9-af9f-c0ecc4e6f760

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/accessDenied.jsp/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/563c6b2c-b67d-4cc9-af9f-c0ecc4e6f760

Date info (Creation)
2021-04-28T00:02:51
Date info (Revision)
2025-08-07T04:59:27.904Z

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 Oil and Gas Petroleum
theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
EARTH SCIENCES

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