Petroleum Retention Licences

Published: 01 Jan 1941 Created: 19 Nov 2024 Revised: 31 Mar 2025

Location of all current Retention Licences/Leases issued under the Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Act 2000 (the P&GE Act supersedes the Petroleum Act 2000), Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act, 1982, or Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act, 1967 for the regulated resource or commodity of petroleum. Retention Licences/Leases protects the interest of a licensee/lessee in a discovery or a regulated resource for a reasonable period of time to properly evaluate the productivity potential of the discovery, and/or, carry out the work necessary to bring the discovery to commercial production. Retention Licence/Lease authorizes the licensee/lessee, subject to the applicable Act and regulations and in accordance with the conditions to which the licensee/lease is subject, to explore for petroleum, and to carry on such operations and execute such works as are necessary for that purpose, in the licence/lease area, for 5 years which is renewable. Comment is sought on applications for Retention Licences/Leases from numerous sources before granting. Exploration programs are subject to strict environmental and heritage conditions. Exploitation of identified resources must be made under separate petroleum production leases.

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About this record

Record No	mesac879
Topic	Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource	Dataset
Category Type	Earth Sciences Energy Exploration Geochemistry Geology Geophysics Geospatial Information Systems Physical Geography Policy And Administration
Document Type
Contributor
Sponsor
Tenement
Tenement Holder
Operator
Geological Province
Other
Mine Name
Stratigraphy
Commodity
Notes
Language	English
Metadata Standard	ISO 19115-3

Citations

Use constraints	License
License	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Persistent identifier	https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/dataset/mesac879
Citation	1941. Petroleum Retention Licences https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/dataset/mesac879

Technical information

Status	On Going
Maintenance and Update Frequency
Geographic Reference	GDA2020 (EPSG:7844)
Geo bounding box	{"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[129,-38],[141,-38],[141,-26],[129,-26],[129,-38]]]}
Purpose	The dataset was developed to record information necessary for the administration of the Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Act 2000 (the P&GE Act supersedes the Petroleum Act 2000), Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1982, or the Offshore Petroleum... The dataset was developed to record information necessary for the administration of the Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Act 2000 (the P&GE Act supersedes the Petroleum Act 2000), Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1982, or the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006. More +
Lineage	Source Data History: Retention Licences/Leases boundaries were sourced from the official Petroleum Register licences/leases documents. Licence/lease boundaries are legally defined to follow lines of latitude and longitude, based on potentially... Source Data History: Retention Licences/Leases boundaries were sourced from the official Petroleum Register licences/leases documents. Licence/lease boundaries are legally defined to follow lines of latitude and longitude, based on potentially several geodetic datums. Processing Steps: Coordinates entered by keyboard from licence/lease documents. Non GDA94 coordinates transformed into GDA94. Linework cleaned to remove duplicate arcs. Data adjusted for accurate state border and coastline. Where appropriate cadastral parcels removed from licence/lease polygons. Associated attribute data also captured from licence/lease documents. Positional accuracy: Most boundary locations are constructed from lines of latitude and longitude, hence are scale independent. The accuracy of other boundaries is dependent upon the source, eg. state border, coastline, cadastre. Attribute accuracy:Validation checks are performed periodically, resulting in an estimated 90% accuracy. Logical consistency:The dataset contains no overshoots, undershoots or duplicate lines. All polygons representing licences/leases contain only one label. Completeness:Spatial data is 100% complete. Associated attribute data is 100% complete. Contact Information More +

Attribute details

Name	Definition
Granted Date	Date of licence/permit grant
Expiry Date	Date licence/permit ceases
Area Km2	Approximate area of licence/permit application in square kilometres
No Blocks	Number of graticular blocks - offshore permit application only
Field Name	Field name that tenement is located within
File Reference	Government internal file reference number
Act	Title of Act under which the licence/permit application is issued
Tenement No	Label for licence/permit application (concatenation of TEN-TYPE and TEN-NUM)
Licensee	Name of licensee(s)