Access to Petroleum Data

The Western Australian Petroleum Information Management System (WAPIMS) is a petroleum exploration database containing data on titles, wells, geophysical surveys and other non-confidential petroleum exploration data submitted to DoIR by the petroleum industry. WAPIMS also contains information on mineral boreholes drilled in the State.

Access to WAPIMS can be either as a registered user (free of charge) or by just selecting ‘Start’. It is recommended that you register as a user as you can then personalise the settings to suit your own requirements and searching can be done via a data tree rather than map-based searching.

The information currently stored in WAPIMS covers petroleum exploration and development activities in Western Australia since the 1950s.

The data available to download via WAPIMS are:

• Well log data in zip files containing LIS, DLIS, LAS or ASCII files;
• Well reports (including well completion reports) in PDF;
• 2D Seismic Survey post-stack SEGY and navigation data in UKOOA;
• Excel spreadsheets containing information on all wells and surveys conducted in Western Australia (last updated 31 January 2006).

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