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Department for Energy and Mining - Energy Resources
Department for Energy and Mining - Energy Resources
https://www.petroleum.sa.gov.au
+61 8 8463 3000
+61 8 8463 3000
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Leading the global transformation community: supporting a successful energy and mining sector that enables South Australia to responsibly grow and thrive
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Public Consultation
Draft Bill for amendments to the Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Act 2000 - Submissions are now closed
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Roundtable for Oil and Gas
The next meeting of the Roundtable will be held in late 2022
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South Australia offers: mature producing basins & sparsely explored frontier basins; diverse petroleum plays, including CCS; easy to access data; and a favourable royalty & tax regime
Geology and prospectivity
Data at your fingertips
The Department provides easy access to extensive data holdings as well as cores and cuttings
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Venting steam at Habanero 4
South Australia has large areas of interpreted high crustal temperature and heat flow which are prospective for geothermal energy
Learn more about geothermalWelcome to the Department for Energy and Mining – Energy Resources Division
We manage South Australia’s petroleum, hydrogen transport, carbon capture storage and geothermal energy resources, facilitating sustainable exploration, development and production that is part of the transformation economy
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Approvals process
The approvals process consists of three stages: licensing, environmental assessment and activity notification and approval
Licence Register
Comprehensive information is available for all Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Act 2000 licences
Environmental Register
The Environmental Register is available for public inspection here, including SEO, EIR and ESA reports
Compliance and monitoring
DEM-ERD’s compliance policy and reports as well as monitoring programs are available for public inspection
Wells
Well completion reports, digital logs, cores, cuttings and thin sections
PEPS South Australia
PEPS South Australia is now web based and continues to provide comprehensive well and production data
Cooper Basin
The Cooper Basin remains the nation’s largest onshore oil and gas producer
Geology and prospectivity
Information about the petroleum geology of the state's prospective basins
Roundtable for Oil & Gas
Formed in 2010, the Roundtable has more than 2,250 representatives from over 1,150 organisations including industry, governments, environmental groups, First Nations people, and research institutions. It provides a forum for members to help inform the Government of South Australia on the planned directions paper, oil and gas strategy and the new expanded Roadmap of onshore and offshore oil and gas projects. Membership of the Roundtable is free and open to all.
Fast Facts
Our Fast Facts page aims to provide the public with easily accessible and comprehensive information about Energy Resources activities, including Departmental brochures and fact sheets, and non-Departmental guides.
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Serious Incident Reporting
To report a serious incident to DEM, as required by Section 85(2) of the Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Act 2000, licensees should contact the serious incident report hotline on: (08) 8463 6666. In the event the number is unattended, please record a message and DEM will return the call as soon as practicable.
South Australian Resources Information Gateway
An online web application enabling users to search, view and download information relating to mineral, petroleum and geothermal exploration in South Australia.
Department for Energy and Mining - Energy Resources
https://www.petroleum.sa.gov.au
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