The www.med.govt.nz/crown_minerals homepage now features two GIS maps of petroleum exploration information. The first viewer uses Xplorer, an ArcIMS product. initiated and development by Crown Minerals as part of its ongoing enhancement of services to the New Zealand petroleum industry.
The system provides spatially-linked information relating to permits, blocks on offer, seismic data, prospects and leads, wells, petroleum pipelines and infrastructure. Initially it will be limited to the Taranaki Basin. The system also provides a means of accessing information held in Crown Minerals' resource data library catalogues.
A separate link is available to PetmapNZ, a service provided by Kenex Knowledge Systems Ltd that utilises the Mapinfo Discovery product. PetmapNZ incorporates much of the above mentioned information developed by Crown Minerals, but covers all of the country's petroleum basins.
