THE COOPER BASIN NATIVE TITLE AGREEMENTS—AN EXPLORER’S PERSPECTIVE

2002 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 711
Author(s):  
N.W. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Australian Government ◽  
The South ◽  
New Era ◽  
Native Title ◽  
Oil And Gas Exploration ◽  
Cooper Basin

On 22 October 2001 in Adelaide, the successful bidders for the 1998 First Round Cooper Basin Acreage Release, the South Australian Government, and various native title claimant groups completed the signing of historic and long awaited native title agreements. A few days later, the Petroleum Exploration Licences (PEL) were issued in respect of the blocks covered by those agreements, and so commenced a new era of oil and gas exploration in South Australia.This paper examines the process that led to the finalisation of negotiations and the signing of the agreements, from the perspective of one of the exploration companies that participated in the negotiations.

NATIVE TITLE AND ABORIGINAL HERITAGE ISSUES AFFECTING OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION

2001 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
M.W. Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Federal Court ◽  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Common Source ◽  
Native Title ◽  
Oil And Gas Exploration ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
Exploration And Production ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right

This paper is principally concerned with native title issues as they affect oil and gas exploration and production. However, it also reviews Aboriginal heritage laws and practices because they have the potential to be just as disruptive to an expeditious exploration program or to the construction of a production facility as do native title claims.The paper focusses on onshore petroleum exploration and production because the right to negotiate under the Native Title Act (NTA) does not apply offshore. However, the paper does consider offshore because the NTA can still affect offshore petroleum explorers and producers; either because their area of interest could include an island within a State or Territory jurisdiction or because the facilities to treat the offshore oil and gas could be located onshore.The paper examines the key provisions of the NTA which are relevant to petroleum explorers and producers, principally the subject of tenure to ground. It considers the validity of already granted titles. It then examines the process of application for new titles.Although the NTA is the common source of problems throughout Australia, it is necessary for the paper to consider the situation in each State and Territory, since the titles are different and the government processes of dealing with native title issues differs in each jurisdiction.Although the focus of the paper is on how to cope with the right to negotiate, the paper considers some of the categories of future acts in respect of which the right to negotiate does not apply (specifically, procedures for infrastructure titles, renewals and extensions of titles, the expedited procedure, indigenous land use agreements, reserve land and approved exploration etc acts).The paper mentions the Federal Court decisions in the Miriuwung Gajerrong and Croker Island native title claims and ponders the options for the High Court in deciding the recent appeals.The paper’s conclusion is that a negotiated agreement is the only way to cope with native title issues. The contents of such an agreement are considered.

PESA's 50 years—the rise and rise of technology

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 372
Author(s):  
John Begg
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Professional Association ◽  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Oil And Gas Exploration ◽  
For Profit ◽  
The Past ◽  
Not For Profit

This paper presents an overview of the past 50 years of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA). PESA is a not-for-profit professional association for individuals involved in the oil and gas exploration industry.

NATIVE TITLE ISSUES AFFECTING PETROLEUM EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION

1999 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
M.W. Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Federal Court ◽  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Native Title ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
Exploration And Production ◽  
Petroleum Companies ◽  
Offshore Oil And Gas ◽  
The Right ◽  
Offshore Oil

This paper focusses on onshore exploration and production because the right to negotiate does not apply offshore. However, the Native Title Act can be relevant to offshore oil and gas explorers and producers. First, where their area of interest includes an island within the jurisdiction of Western Australia. Secondly, in respect of land required for the facilities to treat petroleum piped ashore.Under the original Native Title Act the right to negotiate proved unworkable, the expedited procedure failed to facilitate the grant of exploration titles and titles granted after 1 January 1994 were probably invalid.The paper examines the innovations introduced by the amended Native Title Act to consider whether it will be more 'workable' for petroleum explorers and producers. It examines some of categories of future acts in respect of which the right to negotiate does not apply (specifically indigenous land use agreements, renewals and extensions of titles, procedures for infrastructure titles, reserve land, water resources, low impact future acts, approved exploration etc acts and the expedited procedure).Other innovations include the new registration test for native title claims, the validation of pre-Wik titles, the amended right to negotiate procedure, the State implementation of the right of negotiate procedure and the objection and adjudication procedure for grants on pastoral land.The response of each state and territory parliament to the amended Act is considered, as is the Federal Court decision in the Miriuwung Gajerrong land claim (particularly the finding that native title includes resources, questioning whether these resources extend to petroleum).The paper observes that the full impact of the new Act cannot be determined until the states and territories have passed complementary legislation and it is all in operation. However, the paper's preliminary conclusion is that it does not provide a workable framework for the interaction between petroleum companies and native title claimants.The writer's view is that the right to negotiate procedure is unworkable if relied upon to obtain the grant of a title. If a proponent wishes to develop a project in any commercially acceptable timeframe, it will have to negotiate an agreement with native title claimants. The paper's conclusion is that a negotiated agreement is the only way to cope with native title issues.

BUSINESS AND TAX ISSUES FOR PETROLEUM EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT COMPANIES INVESTING IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

1991 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 494
Author(s):  
Catherine A. Hayne
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Oil And Gas Exploration ◽  
Corporate Executives ◽  
Exploration And Production

Oil and gas exploration and production opportunities in the United States represent possibilities for investment by Australian petroleum companies in the 1990s. This paper focuses on the unique characteristics of the oil and gas industry, and is intended as an entrepreneurial guide to some of the practical business and tax issues which corporate executives will confront when proposing to do business in the United States. It provides a detailed examination of the key issues, but, due to the complexity of United States and Australian laws, this paper should not be used as a substitute for detailed advice.

RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS TO PALAEOZOIC GEOLOGY IN THE SOUTH CANNING BASIN, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

1966 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
W. J. Koop
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Distinct Pattern ◽  
Lower Permian ◽  
The South ◽  
Middle Ordovician ◽  
Oil And Gas Exploration ◽  
Canning Basin ◽  
Porous Sandstone ◽  
Continental Glaciation ◽  
Marine Basin

Regional aeromagnetic surveys of the interior Canning Basin, completed in 1964, showed a distinct pattern of deep sub-basins separated by relatively shallow platforms south of the Broome Platform. Seismic work on the margins of two of these basins-the Parda and Kidson Sub-basins--resulted in three drill sites. In 1965 WAPET drilled Sahara No. 1 in the Kidson Basin (suspended T.D. 6,956 feet in salt); Parda No. I near the southern margin of the Broome Platform (T.D. 6,256 feet in Basement); and Willara No. 1 in the Parda Basin (T.D. 12,806 feet in Ordovician). This paper is a preliminary report of the section encountered in these three wells.No commercial quantities of oil or gas were encountered in the recent wells but they have added significantly to our knowledge of the South Canning. The three major contributions to our stratigraphic knowledge are:The Ordovician thickens from about 2,000 feet to over 6,500 feet basinward from the Broome Platform (Parda No. 1) southward to the Parda Basin (Willara No. 1). This demonstrates that the Parda Basin was a depositional basin (mainly shale) during the Ordovician. An oil show was noted in the Goldwyer shale unit in Parda No. 1.A Redbed-Evaporite sequence with major amounts of rock salt occurs between the Middle Ordovician and the 1liddie Devonian. This sequence has not been previously encountered in the Canning Basin.The Sakmarian Grant Formation of the Lower Permian which is typically glacial and fluvioglacial includes an upper marine shaly member in two of the recent wells (Sahara No. 1 and Willara No. 1). It is suggested that an arm of the sea extended across large portions of the South Canning while adjacent areas were subjected to continental glaciation. A small hydrocarbon show was recorded in the Upper Grant in Willara No. 1.The significance of these drilling results to oil and gas exploration can be summarised as:A major Ordovician marine basin with rapid thickening and carbonate-shale facies changes in the South Canning presents attractive hydrocarbon prospects.The presence of widespread evaporites as an indicator of restricted marine conditions and as a seal to prevent the escape of hydrocarbons is a favourable factor.The presence of a marine shaly unit with porous sandstone beds in the Permian Grant Formation presents an additional shallow drilling target in the South Canning, especially in the light of the show encountered in Willara No. 1.

The Log Interpretation Analysis of the Block A in the South of the Fergana Basin

2014 ◽  
Vol 962-965 ◽  
pp. 397-400
Author(s):  
Chao Li ◽  
Jin Gong Zhang ◽  
Jiang Min Du ◽  
Wen Ying Liu ◽  
Qiang Hong Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Formation Pressure ◽  
The South ◽  
Resource Potential ◽  
Oil And Gas Exploration ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Testing Data ◽  
Log Interpretation ◽  
Exploration Area ◽  
Exploration And Development

Fergana Basin, Central Asia's oldest oil and gas exploration area, reached an output of approximately 1.5 million tons per year in 1950s.【1,2】. Even after years of exploration and development, there is still a great resource potential【3】The exploration of block A in the south of the Fergana basin was started in 1930s suspended when the USSR collapsed. It was resumed in 2011 after it was acquired by company Z. There are some problems for the log interpretation such as the lack of related data, the low formation pressure caused by excessive exploration,. These problems cause the decline in terms of similarity between the log interpretation and the testing data. Based on the above issues, this paper studies the analysis of the problems and put forward reasonable proposals to the next step of the work to provide a sound basis for further exploration.

2009 Release of offshore petroleum exploration acreage

2009 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 463
Author(s):  
John Hartwell
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Carbon Capture ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Carbon Capture And Storage ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Australian Government ◽  
Wide Range

John Hartwell is Head of the Resources Division in the Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism, Canberra Australia. The Resources Division provides advice to the Australian Government on policy issues, legislative changes and administrative matters related to the petroleum industry, upstream and downstream and the coal and minerals industries. In addition to his divisional responsibilities, he is the Australian Commissioner for the Australia/East Timor Joint Petroleum Development Area and Chairman of the National Oil and Gas Safety Advisory Committee. He also chairs two of the taskforces, Clean Fossil Energy and Aluminium, under the Asia Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate (AP6). He serves on two industry and government leadership groups delivering reports to the Australian Government, strategies for the oil and gas industry and framework for the uranium industry. More recently he led a team charged with responsibility for taking forward the Australian Government’s proposal to establish a global carbon capture and storage institute. He is involved in the implementation of a range of resource related initiatives under the Government’s Industry Action Agenda process, including mining and technology services, minerals exploration and light metals. Previously he served as Deputy Chairman of the Snowy Mountains Council and the Commonwealth representative to the Natural Gas Pipelines Advisory Committee. He has occupied a wide range of positions in the Australian Government dealing with trade, commodity, and energy and resource issues. He has worked in Treasury, the Department of Trade, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Department of Primary Industries and Energy before the Department of Industry, Science and Resources. From 1992–96 he was a Minister Counsellor in the Australian Embassy, Washington, with responsibility for agriculture and resource issues and also served in the Australian High Commission, London (1981–84) as the Counsellor/senior trade relations officer. He holds a MComm in economics, and Honours in economics from the University of New South Wales, Australia. Prior to joining the Australian Government, worked as a bank economist. He was awarded a public service medal in 2005 for his work on resources issues for the Australian Government.

Australian exploration review 2016

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 363
Author(s):  
Steve Mackie
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Gas Flows ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Oil And Gas Exploration ◽  
Leading Industry

In 2016, explorers in Australia were called upon to demonstrate realistic optimism. The year clearly demonstrated that during an industry contraction, such as that seen by the upstream oil and gas industry since the oil price crash of late 2014, near field conventional exploration still produces discoveries. These include Shefu, Muruk, Davis, Outtrim and Spartan. Amungee NW demonstrated unconventional gas flows in the Beetaloo Basin. As usual, new reservoirs were discovered in appraisal programs such as at Roc and Phoenix South. Exploration lows, however, were the general mood with the inevitable unsuccessful wells, decreases in permit awards and associated work programs, the general low level of drilling activity both offshore and onshore, frustrations at approval delays and constraints and the still contracting business environment. This Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia review looks in detail at the trends and highlights for oil and gas exploration both onshore and offshore Australia during 2016; not just outcomes with the drill bit, but also leading industry health indicators such as drilling, seismic data acquisition and permit awards. It also seeks to be insightful and to make conclusions about the condition of oil and gas exploration in Australia, as well as comment on future implications for the industry.

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