Potential 2022 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 areas shown have been nominated by petroleum industry stakeholders to be considered for the 2022 acreage release. Areas nominated for release will not receive endorsement from government until submissions resulting from a public consultation process can be considered. This publication does not indicate a commitment to a particular course of action.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2021-09-05T12:00:00
- Date (Publication)
- 2021-11-10T05:46:10
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/145837
- Citation identifier
- Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/145837
- Cited responsible party
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Publisher Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Custodian Woods, M.
MEG Internal Contact
- Purpose
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This dataset describes the location of the Potential 2022 Acreage Release areas as part of the 2021 Offshore Petroleum Acreage Release process.
- Status
- Proposed
- Point of contact
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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
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Accuracy of the areas is sub metre based on the accuracy of the Australian Graticular Framework upon which these areas are built.
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
Extent
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2021-09-15 2021-09-15
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
Resource format
- Title
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Product data repository: Various Formats
- Protocol
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FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY
- Name of the resource
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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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- Keywords
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Australia
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Petroleum
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Acreage Release
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Oil and gas
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Exploration
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- Keywords
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Published_External
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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
- Edition
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4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- License
Resource constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
- 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
- OnLine resource
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Download the data [38 KB]
Download the data [38 KB]
- Distribution format
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dbf prj sbn sbx shp shx
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Resource lineage
- Statement
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These areas have been generated in Esri's ArcGIS software from the Graticular Block Framework 5' graticular blocks as described in Section 33 of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 (OPGGS Act) and previous Acts.
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/GDA94 (EPSG:4283)
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/75accc48-cf3b-4069-804b-c44646ba9bf0
- 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 Owner Woods, M
Geoscience Australia Internal Contact Point of contact Woods, M.
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/145837
- Date info (Creation)
- 2025-07-07T04:29:36.81Z
- Date info (Creation)
- 2021-09-15T02:59:20
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-07-07T04:32:24.045Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
- Title
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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
- Edition
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Version 2.0, September 2018
- Citation identifier
- https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551