Onshore Energy Security Program

Five year Work Plan

The following documents outline Geoscience Australia's Onshore Energy Security Program and a working plan for its implementation over five years commencing August 2006. The working plan is dynamic and will be updated at the start of each financial year (the first update being in 2008-09).

Introduction: Summarises the budget, principles of the Program, consultation, objectives, outputs, program governance and structure, and communication.

Outline: Outlines the plan of activities for each of the five years, and describes where some of the major datasets will be acquired, including radiometric, seismic reflection, airborne electromagnetic and geochemical data.

National and regional project descriptions: Describes in brief the national and regional projects. The national projects are: Uranium, Geothermal, Geochemical Survey, Onshore Hydrocarbons, and Thorium. The first four regional projects of the Program, in Queensland, South Australia, Northern Territory and northern Western Australia, are summarised.

Appendix one: Outlines the objectives of current seismic reflection data acquisition as well as proposed and possible seismic reflection surveys.

Appendix two: Outlines proposed and possible airborne electromagnetic surveys.

The five year Work Plan is also available as a PDF document (670Kb)