1. Mr Geoff Armitage Program Manager, Data & Statistics Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics (BREE)

2. bree.gov.au Australian Petroleum Statistics Geoff Armitage Program Manager, Data & Statistics

3. bree.gov.au Overview  Purpose of the Australian Petroleum Statistics  Users of the statistics  Data coverage  Data quality  Database & reporting  Impediments  Improvements  Future directions

4. bree.gov.au Purpose of the Australian Petroleum Statistics  To inform evidence based energy policy management and development, competition and consumer information, national & state reporting, national statistical accounts, research and international reporting.  The Australian Petroleum Statistics is collected monthly on a voluntary basis, published monthly and used as the basis for meeting Australia’s domestic and international reporting obligations.  The Australian Petroleum Statistics is a unique statistical collection and does not duplicate any other statistical survey.

5. bree.gov.au Users of the statistics  Commonwealth government departments  Industry, ABS, ACCC, BITRE, CER, PC, DoD  State and territory governments  Upstream petroleum companies  Downstream petroleum companies, including refineries and wholesalers  Industry associations  Financial and investment organisations (domestic and foreign)  International organisations  IEA, APEC, IEF, UN  Foreign governments  Research institutions  Consultancies

6. bree.gov.au  All petroleum liquid fuels and gases produced inland and offshore Australia.  Data categories include:  Indigenous production, by product  Refinery inputs and outputs, by product  Sales, by product  Stocks, by product  Exports, by product  Imports, by product  Domestic & international fuel prices and taxes Data coverage

7. bree.gov.au Data quality  Substantive improvements since 1 July 2012  Additional oil & gas production companies  Regular data validations against other datasets  Collect additional data from:  Company quarterly ASX reports  Commonwealth, state & territory petroleum datasets  Audited statistical survey categories:  Basins, sub-basins, fields, products, product densities  FPSOs, oil, gas & LNG port and inland storage facilities  Developing statistical models to replace long term estimates

8. bree.gov.au Database & reporting  Fixed database programme errors in database  Data entry screens  Stockholding coverage calculations  Report functions  Developed new data export functions  Developed automated data upload function and templates  Migrated database to a virtual server environ with multiple access points  Implemented new backup procedures – 2 hourly and nightly  Developed documentation on database processes, functions and reporting  Publication of monthly Australian Petroleum Statistics report by 15 th of each month

9. bree.gov.au Impediments  Voluntary nature of survey  Refusal of companies to participate in survey

10. bree.gov.au Improvements  Additional staff resources  Completed programme corrections to PSIMS database  Completed corrections to statistical reporting functions  Continuing improvements to data coverage and quality  Continuing identification of new oil, gas and LNG projects  Development of statistical models  Reviewing petroleum stocks on water data  Revising database programme code to automate generation of international reports – IEA oil & gas MOS and IEF JODI questionnaires

11. bree.gov.au Future directions  Development of statistical models  Revision of estimated constant data with modelled data  Development of dataset on diesel oil and fuel oil stocks held by the mining sector  Independent assessment of PSIMS database structure & programme code  Ongoing enhancements to PSIMS database  Potential introduction of mandatory reporting regime

12. bree.gov.au Thank You (geoff.armitage@bree.gov.au)