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Australian Commonwealth offshore petroleum wells and seismic surveys (NOPTA / NOPSEMA). Find wells in Carnarvon/Browse/Bonaparte/Otway/Gippsland basins, search 2D and 3D seismic survey footprints. Production volumes not included — permanently confidential under Australian Regulations 8.02(3)/10.02(3). CC-BY 4.0.

Geological Survey of Queensland — ~190k datasets: well completion reports (16k+), well proposals, hydraulic-fracturing reports, petroleum production/reserves reports, boreholes, seismic, geochemistry, magnetic/radiometric/gravity grids. No-auth CKAN 3. METHODS: packageSearch, packageShow, resourceShow, searchPetroleumReports, searchBoreholes, listOrganizations, listGroups, getServiceInfo RULES: 1. Vocab values are full URIs (linked.data.gov.au/def/...); fq accepts `:*petroleum` shorthand. 2. Single org (GSQ), single group (geoscience). 3. Pagination caps at 1000 rows; use `start`. 4. `type`: report | borehole | map-collection | geochemistry | seismic | magnetic | radiometric | electromagnetic | gravity | dataset | gravity-gradiometry | spectral | magnetotelluric | electrical.

Queensland Open Data Portal — 188k+ QLD government datasets. Strong O&G: petroleum/gas production stats, CSG/condensate/crude/LPG/natural-gas reserves, tenure, environment. CKAN 3 with search, package/resource metadata, and datastore queries incl. SELECT-only SQL. Platform JWT embedded for higher rate limits. METHODS: packageSearch, packageShow, resourceShow, datastoreSearch, datastoreSearchSql, listOrganizations, listGroups, getServiceInfo RULES: 1. `datastore_active: true` ≠ parsed rows; XLSX often empty — fall back to download URL. 2. Pagination caps at 1000 rows; use `start` / `offset`. 3. datastoreSearchSql rejects non-SELECT.