Petroleum Tenement Type
This vocabulary maps all terms used by Australian State, Territory and Commonwealth jurisdictions to describe types of petroleum tenements to a common simplified classification.
This file contains the 2021.01 SKOS-RDF version of the GGIC Petroleum Tenement Type vocabulary; adopted April 2021; converted to MS Excel XML for SKOS generation using SKOS_from_XLS_2019.01.xslt
2021-03-17 - Ollie Raymond - Original SKOS implementation
A licence, permit, or authority to explore for a resource.
exploration
GGIC
A licence, permit, or authority to explore for a geothermal energy resource.
exploration - geothermal
QLD: An EPG allows you to explore for geothermal resources and evaluate the feasibility of geothermal production, including by production testing.
Exploration Permit Geothermal
QLD
SA: Licence to explore for geothermal energy. (https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/PETROLEUM%20AND%20GEOTHERMAL%20ENERGY%20ACT%202000/CURRENT/2000.60.AUTH.PDF)
Geothermal Exploration Licence
SA: Application for licence to explore for geothermal energy. (https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/PETROLEUM%20AND%20GEOTHERMAL%20ENERGY%20ACT%202000/CURRENT/2000.60.AUTH.PDF)
Geothermal Exploration Licence Application
A licence, permit, or authority to explore for a greenhouse gas resource or storage site.
exploration - greenhouse gas
QLD: To search for greenhouse gas (GHG) capture and storage locations in Queensland you need an exploration permit for greenhouse gas (EPQ). An EPQ allows you to explore for GHG storage reservoirs within the permit area. It also allows you to carry out injection testing (with ministerial approval) and activities necessary for exploration.
Exploration Permit Greenhouse Gas
SA: Licence to explore for a natural reservoir for the purposes fo gas storage. (https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/PETROLEUM%20AND%20GEOTHERMAL%20ENERGY%20ACT%202000/CURRENT/2000.60.AUTH.PDF)
Gas Storage Exploration Licence
SA: Application for a licence to explore for a natural reservoir for the purposes of gas storage. (https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/PETROLEUM%20AND%20GEOTHERMAL%20ENERGY%20ACT%202000/CURRENT/2000.60.AUTH.PDF)
Gas Storage Exploration Licence Application
A licence, permit, or authority to explore for a petroleum (hydrocarbon) resource.
exploration - petroleum
QLD: To explore for petroleum, oil, coal seam gas and natural gas in Queensland, you must hold a current authority to prospect (ATP). An ATP allows you to: Explore for petroleum Test for petroleum production, Evaluate the feasibility of petroleum production, Evaluate or test natural underground reservoirs for the storage of petroleum or a prescribed storage gas.
Authority to Prospect
NT: An Exploration Permit gives the companies the exclusive right to explore but not produce petroleum in the title area. It allows companies to carry out exploratory operations (airborne and ground based geophysical surveys and well drilling) for oil and gas and operations to establish the nature and extent of a petroleum resource which is discovered and the feasibility of production. Petroleum Act 1984: (https://legislation.nt.gov.au/Legislation/PETROLEUM-ACT-1984). NOPTA: (definition TBA)
Exploration Permit
NT, NOPTA
SA: Permit to explore for petroleum in Commonwealth waters. (https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2017C00051)
Exploration Permit for Petroleum
NT: Repealed Petroleum (Prospecting and Mining) Act: (https://dpir.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/258975/Petroleum_Prospecting_Mining_Act.pdf). Titles remain in force by virtue of section 119 of the Petroleum Act 1984. WA: (definition TBA)
Oil Permit
NT, WA
SA: Licence to explore for petroleum. (https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/PETROLEUM%20AND%20GEOTHERMAL%20ENERGY%20ACT%202000/CURRENT/2000.60.AUTH.PDF). NSW: (definition TBA)
Petroleum Exploration Licence
SA, NSW
SA: Application for a licence to explore for petroleum. (https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/PETROLEUM%20AND%20GEOTHERMAL%20ENERGY%20ACT%202000/CURRENT/2000.60.AUTH.PDF)
Petroleum Exploration Licence Application
VIC: Permit to explore for or recover petroleum within the permit area. (https://www.legislation.vic.gov.au/in-force/acts/petroleum-act-1998/025, https://www.legislation.vic.gov.au/in-force/acts/offshore-petroleum-and-greenhouse-gas-storage-act-2010/014). NSW: (definition TBA)
Petroleum Exploration Permit
VIC, NSW
Petroleum Exploration Permit App
NSW
NSW: EXPLORING APPLICATION (1982)
Petroleum Exploration Permit Application
NSW: EXPLORING APPLICATION (1991)
Petroleum Explor'n Licence Appl'n
VIC: Allows the holder to carry out petroleum exploration activities within the PSDA area. (https://www.legislation.vic.gov.au/in-force/acts/petroleum-act-1998/025)
Petroleum Special Drilling Authorisation
VIC
NSW: EXPLORING APPLICATION (1967)
Petroleum Special Prosp Auth Appn (67 Act)
Petroleum Special Prosp Auth Appn (91 Act)
Petroleum Special Prospecting Authority
SA: Authority to undertake petroleum exploration operations, other than drilling a well in Commonwealth waters. (https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2017C00051)
Special Prospecting Authorities
SA: Applicationn for authority to undertake petroleum exploration operations, other than drilling a well in Commonwealth waters. (https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2017C00051)
Special Prospecting Authorities Application
Special Prospecting Authority
NOPTA
NT: Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1981: (https://legislation.nt.gov.au/Legislation/PETROLEUM-SUBMERGED-LANDS-ACT-1981)
Coastal Exploration Permit
Coastal Special Prospecting Authority
Drilling Reservation
Historic Coastal Exploration Permit
Permit to Explore
A licence, permit, or authority to extract or process a resource.
production
A licence, permit, or authority to extract or process a geothermal energy resource.
production - geothermal
QLD: Geothermal leases are long-term authorities to allow the commercial development of the resource. A geothermal lease allows you to carry out a range of activities related to exploration, testing and production of geothermal energy.
Geothermal Lease
A licence, permit, or authority to extract or process a petroleum (hydrocarbon) resource.
production - petroleum
Offshore Petroleum Production Licence
NSW: OFFSHORE APPLICATION
Offshore Petroleum Production Licence Application
Petroleum Mining Lease
Petroleum Mining Lease Application
Petroleum Production Lease
NSW: MINING APPLICATION (1991)
Petroleum Production Lease Application
SA: Licence to recover and process petroleum. (https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/PETROLEUM%20AND%20GEOTHERMAL%20ENERGY%20ACT%202000/CURRENT/2000.60.AUTH.PDF). VIC: Licence to produce or explore for petroleum within the licence area. (https://www.legislation.vic.gov.au/in-force/acts/petroleum-act-1998/025, https://www.legislation.vic.gov.au/in-force/acts/offshore-petroleum-and-greenhouse-gas-storage-act-2010/014)
Petroleum Production Licence
SA, VIC
SA: Application for a licence to recover and process petroleum. (https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/PETROLEUM%20AND%20GEOTHERMAL%20ENERGY%20ACT%202000/CURRENT/2000.60.AUTH.PDF)
Petroleum Production Licence Application
NT: Repealed Petroleum (Prospecting and Mining) Act: (https://dpir.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/258975/Petroleum_Prospecting_Mining_Act.pdf). Titles remain in force by virtue of section 119 of the Petroleum Act 1984
Production Lease
NT: A production licence gives the companies the right to explore, test for and produce hydrocarbons from within a licence area. It gives the right to carry out operations to recover petroleum within a licence area, e.g. drilling a development well. Petroleum Act 1984: (https://legislation.nt.gov.au/Legislation/PETROLEUM-ACT-1984). WA: (definition TBA). NOPTA: (definition TBA)
Production Licence
NOPTA, NT, WA
Coastal Production Licence
Historic Onshore Production Licence
A licence, permit, or authority to invesitgate or evaluate the feasibility to exploit or store a discovered resource.
retention
Coastal Retention Licence
SA: Licence to establich the nature and extent of a discovery of geothermal energy. (https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/PETROLEUM%20AND%20GEOTHERMAL%20ENERGY%20ACT%202000/CURRENT/2000.60.AUTH.PDF)
Geothermal Retention Licence
SA: Application for a licence to establich the nature and extent of a discovery of geothermal energy. (https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/PETROLEUM%20AND%20GEOTHERMAL%20ENERGY%20ACT%202000/CURRENT/2000.60.AUTH.PDF)
Geothermal Retention Licence Application
SA: Licence to establich the nature and extent of a discovery of a natural reservoir for the purposes of gas storage. (https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/PETROLEUM%20AND%20GEOTHERMAL%20ENERGY%20ACT%202000/CURRENT/2000.60.AUTH.PDF)
Geothermal Storage Retention Licence
SA: Application for a licence to establich the nature and extent of a discovery of natural reservoir for the purposes of gas storage. (https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/PETROLEUM%20AND%20GEOTHERMAL%20ENERGY%20ACT%202000/CURRENT/2000.60.AUTH.PDF)
Geothermal Storage Retention Licence Application
Offshore Petroleum Retention Lease
Offshore Petroleum Retention Lease Application
QLD: You can apply for a petroleum lease over an area of your authority to prospect (ATP) if you make a discovery that is currently commercially viable. If the lease is granted, the area is excised from the ATP.
Petroleum Lease
VIC: Extension of exploration permit due to the discovery of petroleum, a production licence maybe subsequently granted. (https://www.legislation.vic.gov.au/in-force/acts/petroleum-act-1998/025, https://www.legislation.vic.gov.au/in-force/acts/offshore-petroleum-and-greenhouse-gas-storage-act-2010/014)
Petroleum Retention Lease
SA: Licence to establich the nature and extent of a discovery of petroleum. (https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/PETROLEUM%20AND%20GEOTHERMAL%20ENERGY%20ACT%202000/CURRENT/2000.60.AUTH.PDF)
Petroleum Retention Licence
SA: Application for a licence to establich the nature and extent of a discovery of petroleum. (https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/PETROLEUM%20AND%20GEOTHERMAL%20ENERGY%20ACT%202000/CURRENT/2000.60.AUTH.PDF)
Petroleum Retention Licence Aplication
QLD: You can apply to have an area of your authority to prospect (ATP) declared as a potential commercial area (PCA) so that you can evaluate the potential production and market opportunities for the resource. The PCA is a way of retaining an area of your ATP beyond its term to provide extra time to commercialise the resource. The maximum term for an ATP is 12 years, while the declaration for the PCA can be for up to 15 years. When you apply for a PCA, you must include a commercial viability report that shows that the area is likely to be commercially viable within 15 years. You must also include an evaluation program showing how you will overcome any factors inhibiting the commercial viability of the project.
Potential Commercial Area
QLD: If you discover commercial quantities of geothermal resources, you can apply to have an area of your exploration permit declared as a potential geothermal commercial area (PGA). This will allow you to evaluate the potential production and market opportunities for the resource. When an area is declared as a potential commercial area, it remains part of the exploration permit. The land must be brought into production through an application for a production lease within 5 years of the declaration or before the exploration permit expires. If you do not make an application for a lease within the accepted time frame, the potential commercial area lapses and the land ceases to be part of the exploration permit.
Potential Geothermal Commercial Area
Retention Lease
WA, NOPTA
NT: A Retention Licence or lease allows the companies to work towards making a discovered resource commercially viable. Petroleum Act 1984: (https://legislation.nt.gov.au/Legislation/PETROLEUM-ACT-1984)
Retention Licence
A licence, permit, or authority to carry out certain exploration or other operations within or outside the holder's authority area.
access
NT: Authority granted to a permittee, licensee or the lessee of a lease granted under the repealed Act or to the holder of a petroleum title granted outside the Territory. Access authority authorises the holder to carry on in the access authority area exploration for petroleum or operations relating to the recovery of petroleum in or from the exploration permit, licence, lease or petroleum title. Petroleum Act 1984: (https://legislation.nt.gov.au/Legislation/PETROLEUM-ACT-1984). WA: (definition TBA). NOPTA: (definition TBA)
Access Authority
NT, WA, NOPTA
SA: Licence to carry out regulated activities outside of the area of the primary licence. (https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/PETROLEUM%20AND%20GEOTHERMAL%20ENERGY%20ACT%202000/CURRENT/2000.60.AUTH.PDF)
Associated Activities Licence
SA: Application for a licence to carry out regulated activities outside of the area of the primary licence. (https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/PETROLEUM%20AND%20GEOTHERMAL%20ENERGY%20ACT%202000/CURRENT/2000.60.AUTH.PDF)
Associated Activities Licence Application
SA: Superseded by Associated Activities Licence. (https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/PETROLEUM%20AND%20GEOTHERMAL%20ENERGY%20ACT%202000/CURRENT/2000.60.AUTH.PDF)
Associated Facilities Licence
SA: Superseded by Associated Activities Licence Application. (https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/PETROLEUM%20AND%20GEOTHERMAL%20ENERGY%20ACT%202000/CURRENT/2000.60.AUTH.PDF)
Associated Facilities Licence Application
Coastal Access Authority
QLD: A data acquisition authority (DAA) authorises you to conduct limited geophysical survey activities and collect data outside the area of your authority to prospect (ATP) or petroleum lease (PL). A DAA is only granted on land that is contiguous to the granted ATP or PL and for activities that are directly relevant to authorised activities of your ATP or PL.
Data Acquisition Authority
VIC: Authority to carry out certain exploration operations or recovery of petroleum within the holders authority area (https://www.legislation.vic.gov.au/in-force/acts/offshore-petroleum-and-greenhouse-gas-storage-act-2010/014)
Petroleum Access Authority
VIC: Special access authority for specific purposes, not necessarily the authority holder of the PEP, PRL or PPL. (https://www.legislation.vic.gov.au/in-force/acts/petroleum-act-1998/025)
Petroleum Special Access Authorisation
A licence, permit, or authority to carry out survey, scientific study, other preliminary exploration activities within or outside the authority area.
assessment
NSW: ASSESSMENT APPLICATION (1992)
Assessment Lease Application
Assessment Lease Appl'n (Section 56)
Petroleum Assessment Lease
NSW: ASSESSMENT APPLICATION (1991)
Petroleum Assessment Lease Application
QLD: A petroleum survey licence (PSL) gives you the right to enter land to survey the proposed route of a pipeline or the suitability of land for a petroleum facility licence. It can be granted for a maximum of 2 years and only allows you to conduct activities that have a minimal impact on the land. There are no area limitations.
Petroleum Survey Licence
SA: Licence to carry out a survey, environmental evaluation of other form of assessment. (https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/PETROLEUM%20AND%20GEOTHERMAL%20ENERGY%20ACT%202000/CURRENT/2000.60.AUTH.PDF)
Preliminary Survey Licence
SA: Appplication for licence to carry out a survey, environmental evaluation of other form of assessment. (https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/PETROLEUM%20AND%20GEOTHERMAL%20ENERGY%20ACT%202000/CURRENT/2000.60.AUTH.PDF)
Preliminary Surveys Licence Application
Scientific Investigation
SA: Non-exclusive licence to carry out limited exploration activity. (https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/PETROLEUM%20AND%20GEOTHERMAL%20ENERGY%20ACT%202000/CURRENT/2000.60.AUTH.PDF)
Speculative Survey Licence
SA: Application for non-exclusive licence to carry out limited exploration activity. (https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/PETROLEUM%20AND%20GEOTHERMAL%20ENERGY%20ACT%202000/CURRENT/2000.60.AUTH.PDF)
Speculative Survey Licence Application
QLD: As the holder of a mining lease, mineral development licence, authority to prospect or petroleum lease, you have an obligation to make good any damage you cause to surrounding water bores. You can apply for a water monitoring authority over land outside the area of your lease/licence to comply with your obligations.
Water Monitoring Authority
A licence, permit, or authority to establish or operate infrastructure for the exploration or production of a commodity.
infrastructure
Infrastructure Licence
QLD: You will require a petroleum facility licence (PFL) for a processing, refining, storage or transport facility if the facility is not already covered by your petroleum lease or pipeline licence. The PFL will give you the right to construct and operate the facility on 'petroleum facility land'. This is defined as land that you either own or over which you have: An easement; A written agreement with a landowner to enter to construct and operate the facility on their land; A Part 5 permission.
Petroleum Facility Licence
SA: Licence to estabish and operate facilities associated with searching for, processing or producing regulated substances. (https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/PETROLEUM%20AND%20GEOTHERMAL%20ENERGY%20ACT%202000/CURRENT/2000.60.AUTH.PDF)
Special Facilities Licence
SA: Application for licence to estabish and operate facilities associated with searching for, processing or producing regulated substances. (https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/PETROLEUM%20AND%20GEOTHERMAL%20ENERGY%20ACT%202000/CURRENT/2000.60.AUTH.PDF)
Special Facilities Licence Application
A licence, permit, or authority to prepare for, build, or maintain a pipeline.
pipeline
Coastal Pipeline Licence
Historic Onshore Pipeline Permit
Offshore Petroleum Pipeline Licence
NSW: OFFSHORE APPLICATION (1991)
Offshore Petroleum Pipeline Licence Application
QLD: To construct a petroleum pipeline outside the area of your petroleum lease, you need a petroleum pipeline licence (PPL). The PPL gives you the right to construct and operate the pipeline on designated 'pipeline land.' This is defined as land that you either own or over which you have: An easement; A written agreement with the landowner to enter to construct and operate the pipeline; A Part 5 permission.
Petroleum Pipeline Licence
NT: A licence to commence, or continue, the construction of a pipeline; or alter or reconstruct a pipeline and to operate a pipeline. Energy Pipelines Act: (https://legislation.nt.gov.au/Legislation/ENERGY-PIPELINES-ACT-1981). SA: Licence to construct, operate and maintain a transmission pipline. (https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/PETROLEUM%20AND%20GEOTHERMAL%20ENERGY%20ACT%202000/CURRENT/2000.60.AUTH.PDF)
Pipeline Licence
NT, WA, NOPTA, SA
SA: Application for a licence to construct, operate and maintain a transmission pipline. (https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/PETROLEUM%20AND%20GEOTHERMAL%20ENERGY%20ACT%202000/CURRENT/2000.60.AUTH.PDF)
Pipeline Licence Application
NT: A permit to enter land for the purpose of determining the route of the proposed pipeline, the situation of the proposed apparatus or works and the land, if any, to be used for the purpose of gaining access to the proposed pipeline and proposed apparatus or works. Energy Pipelines Act: (https://legislation.nt.gov.au/Legislation/ENERGY-PIPELINES-ACT-1981)
Pipeline Permit
A licence, permit, or authority to store a commodity.
storage
QLD: Greenhouse gas (GHG) injection and storage leases (QLs) are long-term authorities to allow you to commercially develop a storage site. A QL allows you to: Explore for GHG storage areas; Evaluate the feasibility of GHG stream storage, including GHG storage injection testing; Compress or otherwise process a GHG stream for GHG stream storage; Store a GHG stream; Monitor and verify the behaviour of the GHG streams.Monitor and verify the behaviour of the GHG streams.
Greenhouse Gas Lease
QLD: If you discover a potential storage area, you can apply to have an area of your exploration permit declared as a potential greenhouse gas storage commercial area (PSA). This will allow you to evaluate the area's potential and market opportunities
Potential Greenhouse Gas Storage Commercial Area
A miscellaneous licence, permit, or authority not otherwise described in this vocabulary.
miscellaneous
Authorisation Application
SA: Highly prospective areas restricted from over-the-counter licence applications. (https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/PETROLEUM%20AND%20GEOTHERMAL%20ENERGY%20ACT%202000/CURRENT/2000.60.AUTH.PDF)
Competitive Tender Region
SA: Areas offered for competitive bidding. (https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/PETROLEUM%20AND%20GEOTHERMAL%20ENERGY%20ACT%202000/CURRENT/2000.60.AUTH.PDF)
Petroleum Public Calls
Petroleum Tenement Type - All Concepts