AUSTRALIA Energy Resources (AER)

About AUSTRALIA Energy Resources

AUSTRALIA Energy Resources (AER) is a collaboration between petroleum geologists and regulators across the nation’s Commonwealth and State/Territory jurisdictions.

Its main purpose is to promote, domestically and internationally, emerging investment opportunities in Australia’s many underexplored energy resource-bearing basins.

AER strongly supports the exploration for and development of energy resource commodities to fast-track Australia’s transition to a low emission economy.

Responsibilities

Australian Government (federal)

National policy and regulation:

Allocation of offshore petroleum titles
Fiscal, monetary and taxation policy
Foreign investment and trade
Environmental approvals

State/Territory Governments (regional)

Regional policy and regulation:

Allocation of onshore petroleum and mining titles
Collection of onshore royalties
Land access, environmental approvals

Contact information

If you have any queries, please contact us at Australia.Petroleum@ga.gov.au. Alternatively the contact details for individual jurisdictions are below:

Jurisdiction	Name and position	Contact
Northern Territory (NT)	Dorothy Close Northern Territory Geological Survey Darwin, NT	Email: dorothy.close@nt.gov.au
Western Australia (WA)	Jeff Haworth Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety Perth, WA	Email: jeffrey.haworth@dmirs.wa.gov.au
South Australia (SA)	Elinor Alexander Department for Energy and Mining Adelaide, SA	Email: elinor.alexander@sa.gov.au
Victoria (Vic)	Louise Goldie Divko Geological Survey of Victoria Melbourne, Vic	Email: louise.goldiedivko@ecodev.vic.gov.au
New South Wales (NSW)	Kevin Ruming Geological Survey of New South Wales Maitland, NSW	Email: geoscience.petroleum@geoscience.nsw.gov.au
Australian Capital Territory (ACT)	Tom Bernecker Geoscience Australia Canberra, ACT	Email: tom.bernecker@ga.gov.au

Whilst the Queensland jurisdiction is not currently participating in AUSTRALIA Energy Resources, you can visit their website: Queensland Government - Department of Resources.

Fact sheets

NAPE 2021

Presentations and downloads

Download the information on this page as a PowerPoint presentation or PDF:

AACC: Virtual Seminar

AER presented an online seminar about current and emerging investment opportunities in Australia for the Australian American Chamber of Commerce (AACC) in February 2021.