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Petroleum Repository Price List – September-2013
Geoscience Australia houses one of the world’s largest collections of petroleum data.
Much of this data is available to the petroleum industry, research organisations and the public. The collection includes seismic survey data and well data submitted by Industry under legislative requirements as well as data collected by research projects and marine surveys undertaken by Geoscience Australia or other government agencies or institutions.
Geoscience Australia is authorised under the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas
Storage Act 2006 (OPGGSA) to distribute data lodged under the Act and its predecessor
Acts once the relevant confidentiality period has expired.
Data available for distribution can be found by visiting the GA website http://www.ga.gov.au/energy/petroleum-resources.html
or emailing ausgeodata@ga.gov.au
Copyright and Licensing
Geoscience Australia distributes data lodged under the OPGGSA and its predecessor
Acts under the provisions of the OPGGSA.
Data collected by Geoscience Australia is Copyright © Commonwealth of Australia
(Geoscience Australia).
All data is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons “ Attribution 3.0
Australia
” licence (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ ).
Basis of Pricing
Geoscience Australia sets prices for products from its Petroleum Data Repository in accordance with the Australian Government’s Spatial Data Access and Pricing Policy
2001. http://spatial.gov.au/sites/default/files/legacy/osdm.gov.au/index.html
Under the policy prices are set at the “marginal cost of transfer”.
Marginal cost of transfer is defined as;
Free, when the data is routinely available on-line for self service;
Run-on cost, for standard, bulk-produced products (ie the cost to duplicate and supply the second and subsequent copies of a product);
Full cost of distribution for all other products – this may include staff costs, material consumed, energy costs, telecommunication & internet costs, equipment depreciation, maintenance and repairs, contract, packaging and freight.
GST
The prices in this price list are exclusive of Australian Goods and Service Tax (GST).
GST will apply and will be invoiced where applicable.
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Order Confirmation
Prior to placing an order for Repository data, clients should request a quotation preferably by using the website form or emailing ausgeodata@ga.gov.au
Geoscience Australia will send clients a quotation which will describe the data to be supplied, a firm price, and an approximate delivery time. Quotes will be valid for 30 days. The order will be processed once the quotation has been accepted and confirmed by the client.
Storage System
Geoscience Australia has migrated the majority of the petroleum data holdings to a near-line storage system. The system now allows for the “marginal cost of transfer” for data supply due to reduced handling costs. The data migration is complete for most open file data although some legacy media may require copying by contract services. This will be indicated on the order confirmation.
Freight
All prices are inclusive of airfreight within Australia. Overseas freight will be invoiced at cost - an estimate will be provided in the order confirmation. The Client is responsible for customs clearance and any local import duties or taxes that may be payable.
Price Updates
This price list will be updated at least annually to take into account changes to the marginal cost of transfer.
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PRICES – DATA MIGRATED TO THE NEW STORAGE SYSTEM
Pricing for data migrated to the new storage system comprises a handling charge for each data type per Well or Survey (Table 1) plus a charge for each unit of output media
(Table 2).
Table 1 – Standard handling charge (migrated)
Data Type
Field, Processed or Reprocessed Seismic data
Charge
$150 per Survey
Navigation or Velocity data
Well logs
Survey Reports
Well Reports
$75 per Survey
$75 per Well
$50 per Survey
$50 per Well
Table 2 – Charge per unit of Output Media (migrated)
Output Media
Tape – 3592
On-line (FTP)
Disk - DVD
Data Volume
< 700GB
< 40MB
<4.7GB
Disk - Memory Stick or USB Drive < 50GB
Disk - USB Drive 50GB - 100GB
100GB - 349GB
350GB - 699GB
700GB - 1TB
1TB - 1.5TB
PRICE
$600
$30
$50
$75
$150
$400
$600
$850
$1200
1.5TB - 2TB $1600
Notes to Table 2:
1. Customer must nominate whether Tape or Disk media or on-line delivery is preferred.
2. On-line FTP delivery is only available for file sizes <40MB
3. SEG-D formatted data is available only on Tape.
4. GA will fit requested data on the minimum practical number of requested media while avoiding splitting lines or datasets between media.
5. No more than one survey will be written onto a single Tape.
6. Multiple surveys may be written onto a Disk
7. Alternative media may be quoted at additional cost on request (e.g. DLT, LTO)
Acreage Release Workstation Packages
In support of the annual offshore acreage release process, Geoscience Australia provides seismic data in a 'workstation ready' package to allow data to be loaded directly into interpretation platforms; saving considerable time and expense.
Pre 2012 workstation packages are available in GeoFrame™, Kingdom™ and
Landmark™ 2003 formats. The 2012 and 2013 workstation package is available in
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GeoFrame™ 4.5, Kingdom™ 8.5 and a full exported SEGY with navigation, sp and cdp in the headers. The data is packaged on USB hard drive and contains:
 all available open-file 2D and 3D seismic in the release areas; and
 well logs, well completion reports, destructive analysis reports and Tiff images of scanned well log plots.
Table 3 – Charge for Acreage release Workstation Packages
Year
2013
2012
PRICE per Unit
$ 1500
$ 1500
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2007 & 2008
$ 1000
$ 1000
$ 1000
$ 500
$ 500
$ 900
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PRICES – DATA NOT MIGRATED TO THE NEW STORAGE SYSTEM
Pricing for data that is in digital form but not migrated to the new storage system comprises a handling charge for each data type per Well or Survey (Table 4) plus a charge for each unit of input media (Table 5).
Table 4 – Standard handling charge (not migrated)
Data Type
Field, Processed or Reprocessed Seismic data
Charge
$500 per Survey
Navigation or Velocity data
Well logs
Table 5 – Charge per unit of Input media (non migrated)
$250 per Survey
$250 per Well
Input Media (tape)
3592JA or 3592JB
3590
3490
3480
4mm
8mm
PRICE per Unit
$450
$100
$30
$20
$125
$125
9 track
DLT/LTO
Notes to Table 5:
$30
$250
1. All notes for Table 2 also apply to Table 5;
2. Prices include delivery on 3592JB tape or USB drive - alternative media may be quoted at additional cost on request (e.g. 3592JA, DLT, LTO);
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3. This pricing applies to Survey or Well orders priced at $20,000 or less. Larger orders will be quoted separately on request.
Non-digital Survey and Well Reports
Many Survey reports, seismic sections, Well reports and Well logs are only available in hard copy and need to be scanned prior to migration. In these cases the standard handling charges and per unit fees are listed in Table 6.
Table 6 – Charges for non-digital Survey & Well reports
Item
Observer logs
Seismic report
Handling Charge
$50
$50
PRICE per Unit
$300 per Survey
$150 per Survey
Seismic section
Well report
Well logs
$250
$50
$250
$15 per Section
$300 per Well
$15 per Log
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