Australian National Core and Sample Collection

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

A collection of geological samples associated with drilling activities and submitted by companies under the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 (OPGGSA) and previous legislations that required petroleum data to be submitted to the National Offshore Petroleum Data and Core Repository (NOPDCR). The collection also contains cores and cuttings samples acquired by Geoscience Australia and its predecessor BMR, other government agencies and institutions from around Australia. Value: Information related to the subsurface that have the potential to support geological investigations and assessment of a variety of resources. Direct access to petroleum mining sample information is available on National Offshore Petroleum Information Management System (NOPIMS) platform (https://www.ga.gov.au/nopims) via the Core Library tab. Request to access those samples can also be made via the form available on NOPIMS. https://nopims.dmp.wa.gov.au/Nopims/RequestForms/CoreCuttingsAccess/CoreCuttingsAccess

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Field Value
Title Australian National Core and Sample Collection
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/909c7638-077c-40ff-8a4c-5735cff4e662
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 07/01/2021
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Australian National Core and Sample Collection". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/australian-national-core-and-sample-collection