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To report a serious incident to DEM, as required by Section 85(2) of the Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Act 2000, licensees should contact the serious incident reporting hotline on: (08) 8463 6666. For more information please visit the Compliance and Monitoring webpage | DEM-ERD has just released the first “Basin in a Box” data-package covering the Simpson and Pedirka Basins. The dataset is available via the “Data and Publications” page. Each package is a consolidated set of seismic and well data to facilitate new ventures and exploration assessments of frontier basins in South Australia. Data releases for other frontier basins will follow.

The Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, Senator the Hon Matt Canavan, released the Gas Acceleration Program (GAP) guidelines on 20 December 2017. The GAP Grant Program provided matched funding grants of up to $6 million to accelerate the responsible development of onshore natural gas for domestic gas consumers. The program supports projects with the greatest likelihood of securing new and significant volumes of gas for domestic gas customers from onshore gas fields by 30 June 2020.

The grant round opened on 15 January 2018 and closed on 13 February 2018. Successful applicants were announced on 29 March 2018.

Click here for successful grant applicants  https://www.business.gov.au/Assistance/Gas-Acceleration-Program/Gas-Acceleration-Program-successful-applicants

Round 1 Successful SA applicant

Recipient organisation Project description Grant
(Exc. GST)		 Expected total
investment
(Exc. GST)		 Project location
Beach Energy Limited (Adelaide Energy Pty Ltd) Katnook Gas Processing Facility:
Construction of a new Katnook Gas Processing Facility to process gas from the south east of South Australia. 		$6,000,000 $22,600,000 Otway Basin,
South Australia