2013 Offshore Petroleum Acreage Release Areas in Australia

Australia's 2013 Offshore Petroleum Acreage Release areas were published by Geoscience Australia. The dataset contains 31 areas released for exploration. The data was last updated on the platform in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Mapping potential offshore petroleum exploration zones based on the released acreage areas.
• Analyzing the spatial distribution of energy resource opportunities for the 2013 release year.
• Supporting regulatory and environmental planning for offshore energy development.

Strengths

• Contains 31 distinct areas released for exploration.
• Sourced from Geoscience Australia, a national geological authority.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Time Range

2013

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 14:07:37.340986; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia (offshore)