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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
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Public Consultation
Draft Bill for amendments to the Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Act 2000 - Public submissions close at 5pm (ACST) Friday 25 June 2021
Read the draft Bill
Roundtable for Oil and Gas
The next meeting of the Roundtable has been deferred until 2021
Visit the Roundtable page
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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
Visit the Data Centre
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
DEM’s Energy Resources Division manages the State’s petroleum and geothermal energy resources as the lead agency facilitating ecologically sustainable exploration, development and production. Its operations cover the full cycle - investment attraction through provision of geoscientific data, regulation through policy and legislation, and optimisation of royalty income streams.
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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
Frequently asked questions
Our FAQ section aims to provide the public with easily accessible and comprehensive responses to a range of questions asked by the public in relation to a variety of Energy Resources activities.
Frequently asked questions
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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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