2021 GHG Acreage Release Areas

The 2021 Offshore Greenhouse Gas Storage Acreage Release is a key strategy of the Australian Government to reduce emissions and support Australia's resource sector. The GHG acreage release will provide companies the opportunity to explore for offshore carbon dioxide injection and storage locations. The 2021 GHG acreage release consists of 5 areas across the Bonaparte, Browse and Northern Carnarvon Basins.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2021-11-15T09:00:00
Date (Publication)
2021-12-06T02:52:13
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/146092

Citation identifier
Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/146092

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Publisher

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Purpose

This dataset describes the location of the 2021 Greenhouse Gas 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

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
2021-11-15 2021-11-15
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Website

Data Store directory containing the digital product files

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

Keywords

  • Geoscience

Keywords

  • Petroleum

Keywords

  • Acreage release

Keywords

  • Oil and gas

Keywords

  • GHG

Keywords

  • Greenhouse gas

Keywords

  • Carbon dioxide

Keywords

  • 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 Classification System

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 GHG Acreage Release Areas MapServer

Citation identifier
146093

Citation identifier
3e9a96a4-33c4-4408-b10e-5365989c0463

Website

https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/service/ga/146093

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Associated resource

Association Type
Operated on by
Title

2021 GHG Acreage Release Areas WMS

Citation identifier
146094

Citation identifier
a351f941-0e1f-4bd7-bb4b-a48405fc0955

Website

https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/service/ga/146094

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 [28.6 KB]

Download the data [28.6 KB]

Distribution format

OnLine resource

2021 GHG Acreage Release Areas MapServer

2021 GHG Acreage Release Areas MapServer

Distribution format

  • ESRI Map Service

OnLine resource

2021 GHG Acreage Release Areas WMS

2021 GHG Acreage Release Areas WMS

Distribution format

  • OGC WMS

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.

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/8514a496-14ca-42f4-8da6-95858442e965

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
Name

2021 GHG Acreage Release Areas

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/146092

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/8514a496-14ca-42f4-8da6-95858442e965

Date info (Creation)
2021-11-15T00:00:39
Date info (Revision)
2021-11-15T00:00:39

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 Carbon dioxide Exploration GHG Geoscience Greenhouse gas Oil and gas Petroleum
theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
EARTH SCIENCES

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