Maintaining petroleum titles

If you hold a petroleum permit or licence under the Petroleum Act 1984 or the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1981, you must comply with the reporting requirements set out in the relevant legislation.

Annual reports

Find out about your annual report requirements.

Surrender and cancellation reports

If you no longer hold a petroleum interest or a part of it, for any reason, you must submit a report to the minister within 3 months of the surrender, expiry or cancellation date.

This report gives the minister detailed information about the exploration and other activities carried out on the relevant interest area during the time you held the permit or licence.

You must use the approved form when submitting the report.

Failure to submit a report is an infringement notice offence. This means that you may be issued an on-the-spot fine for not complying with the reporting requirement.

How to report

There are specific technical requirements about the way you provide your reports and data.

For details about the content, data formats, file naming and media types you should use, read petroleum activities reporting.

For more information, read the guidelines:

Guidelines for reporting and submission of petroleum data PDF (664.2 KB)
Guidelines for reporting and submission of petroleum data DOCX (871.4 KB)

Where to send reports

You can send all petroleum titles reports to the Petroleum Registrar by post or email:

Petroleum Registrar
Energy Development
Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade
GPO Box 4550
Darwin NT 0801
energytitles.ditt@nt.gov.au