This includes petroleum resource exploration and development and the construction and operation of oil and gas facilities and transmission pipelines.įurther information regarding regulatory requirements can be found on the NT Government website. The Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade administers and regulates petroleum tenure and activities in these areas. The NT owns all onshore and within the coastal waters petroleum resources. View additional information on the NT's onshore basins and petroleum potential and an overview of current exploration activity. Whilst the NT's onshore basins are prospective, they all remain underexplored by world standards. This includes large onshore shale gas resources that are currently under exploration.
The NT is prospective for both conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons in a number of sedimentary basins in both the onshore and offshore. Recent figures for petroleum production from the Amadeus Basin fields plus onshore oil and gas reserves and resources for combined Northern Territory (NT) onshore basins can be found on the Department of Industry Tourism and Trade website.
