Mr Geoff Armitage
Program Manager, Data & Statistics
Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics (BREE)
Australian Petroleum Statistics
Geoff Armitage
Program Manager, Data & Statistics
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Overview
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Purpose of the Australian Petroleum Statistics
Users of the statistics
Data coverage
Data quality
Database & reporting
Impediments
Improvements
Future directions
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Purpose of the Australian Petroleum
Statistics
 To inform evidence based energy policy management and
development, competition and consumer information, national & state
reporting, national statistical accounts, research and international
reporting.
 The Australian Petroleum Statistics is collected monthly on a voluntary
basis, published monthly and used as the basis for meeting Australia’s
domestic and international reporting obligations.
 The Australian Petroleum Statistics is a unique statistical collection
and does not duplicate any other statistical survey.
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Users of the statistics
 Commonwealth government departments
 Industry, ABS, ACCC, BITRE, CER, PC, DoD
 State and territory governments
 Upstream petroleum companies
 Downstream petroleum companies, including refineries and
wholesalers
 Industry associations
 Financial and investment organisations (domestic and foreign)
 International organisations
 IEA, APEC, IEF, UN
 Foreign governments
 Research institutions
 Consultancies
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Data coverage
 All petroleum liquid fuels and gases produced inland and offshore
Australia.
 Data categories include:
 Indigenous production, by product
 Refinery inputs and outputs, by product
 Sales, by product
 Stocks, by product
 Exports, by product
 Imports, by product
 Domestic & international fuel prices and taxes
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Data quality
 Substantive improvements since 1 July 2012
 Additional oil & gas production companies
 Regular data validations against other datasets
 Collect additional data from:
Company quarterly ASX reports
Commonwealth, state & territory petroleum datasets
 Audited statistical survey categories:
Basins, sub-basins, fields, products, product densities
FPSOs, oil, gas & LNG port and inland storage facilities
 Developing statistical models to replace long term estimates
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Database & reporting
 Fixed database programme errors in database
 Data entry screens
 Stockholding coverage calculations
 Report functions
 Developed new data export functions
 Developed automated data upload function and templates
 Migrated database to a virtual server environ with multiple access
points
 Implemented new backup procedures – 2 hourly and nightly
 Developed documentation on database processes, functions and
reporting
 Publication of monthly Australian Petroleum Statistics report by 15th of
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each month
Impediments
 Voluntary nature of survey
 Refusal of companies to participate in survey
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Improvements
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Additional staff resources
Completed programme corrections to PSIMS database
Completed corrections to statistical reporting functions
Continuing improvements to data coverage and quality
Continuing identification of new oil, gas and LNG projects
Development of statistical models
Reviewing petroleum stocks on water data
Revising database programme code to automate generation of
international reports – IEA oil & gas MOS and IEF JODI
questionnaires
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Future directions
 Development of statistical models
 Revision of estimated constant data with modelled data
 Development of dataset on diesel oil and fuel oil stocks held by the
mining sector
 Independent assessment of PSIMS database structure & programme
code
 Ongoing enhancements to PSIMS database
 Potential introduction of mandatory reporting regime
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Thank You
(geoff.armitage@bree.gov.au)
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