2013 Offshore Petroleum Acreage Release Areas

31 marine areas were designated for petroleum exploration in Australia's 2013 Offshore Petroleum Acreage Release. The dataset, published by Geoscience Australia, provides GIS data for these thematic zones.

Use Cases

• Analyze spatial distribution of the 31 release areas for marine resource planning using GIS data.
• Integrate area boundaries with other thematic layers like marine geology for exploration targeting.
• Use the published GIS dataset to study historical trends in offshore petroleum acreage releases.

Strengths

• Contains 31 distinct geographic areas for analysis.
• Published by Geoscience Australia, an authoritative organization for earth science data.
• Includes GIS data formats suitable for spatial analysis.

Limitations

• No row or column count is provided, limiting understanding of data structure.
• Sample data is unavailable, preventing preview of attribute fields.
• Data is from a single year (2013), offering a static snapshot with no temporal series.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

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Time Range

2013

Freshness

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Geography

Australian offshore areas