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
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Publisher

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Custodian

Woods, M.

 MEG Internal Contact
Purpose

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
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

Accuracy of the areas is sub metre based on the accuracy of the Australian Graticular Framework upon which these areas are built.

Topic category
  • 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

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
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 [38 KB]

Download the data [38 KB]

Distribution format

  • dbf prj sbn sbx shp shx

Resource lineage

Statement

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

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/75accc48-cf3b-4069-804b-c44646ba9bf0

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
Point of contact

Woods, M.

 MEG Internal Contact

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/145837

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/75accc48-cf3b-4069-804b-c44646ba9bf0

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

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

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E
W


Keywords

Acreage Release Australia Exploration Oil and gas Petroleum
theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
EARTH SCIENCES

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