Geoscience Australia houses one of the world's largest collections of petroleum data. Much of this data is non-confidential and available to the petroleum industry, research organisations and the public. The collection includes seismic survey data submitted by industry under legislative requirements as well as data collected by research projects and marine surveys undertaken by Geoscience Australia or other government agencies or institutions. The collection comprises digital 2D and 3D seismic survey field data, navigation data, processed data, velocity data, observer's logs, operational reports, processing reports, bathymetry data, potential field data (gravity and magnetic) and also hard-copy data submitted during the pre-digital era including seismic sections and other analogue formats <b>Value: </b> Data used for interpreting the geologic structure of the subsurface. This work can be used for the assessment of resource potential. <b>This data can be discovered through the National Offshore Petroleum Information Management System (NOPIMS) - https://www.ga.gov.au/nopims</b>

Geoscience Australia's Oracle organic geochemical database comprises analytical results for samples relevant to petroleum exploration, including source rocks, crude oils and natural gases from both onshore and offshore basins. The data is non-confidential and available to the petroleum industry, research organisations and the public. The data are produced by a wide range of destructive analytical techniques conducted on samples submitted by industry under legislative requirements, as well as on samples collected by research projects undertaken by Geoscience Australia or other government agencies or institutions. Some of the results have been generated by Geoscience Australia's laboratory, whereas other data is compiled from service company reports, well completions reports and published papers. <b>Value: </b>These data comprise the raw organic geochemistry values generated for Australian source rocks, crude oil and natural gases and is the only public comprehensive database at the national scale. The raw data are used as input to other studies, such as petroleum systems modelling, resource assessments and national mapping projects. Derived datasets and value-add products are created based on calculated values and interpretation to provide information on the subsurface petroleum prospectivity of the Australian continent. The data collection aspires to build a national-scale understanding of Australia's oil and gas resources. <b>Scope: </b>This data collection is useful to government for evidence-based decision making on natural energy resources and the petroleum industry for de-risking conventional and unconventional exploration programs. Results for many of the oil and gas samples held in the Australian National Offshore Wells Data Collection are included in this database.