Abstract: Petroleum geologic data is an important national asset, but its actual value relies on the level of data management. Data submission and release are important components of data management. The Australia federal government and state governments have laws and regulations on petroleum data submission and release. Among them, fines and mineral right review are the major means to restrict the submission behaviors of petroleum titleholders. The localized management makes it easy for petroleum titleholders to submit petroleum data, and a sound data management system enhances the efficiency of data management and utilization. In contrast, there are many problems in petroleum data management in China. Such problems can be solved by the following actions such as, promoting data submission through strict implementation of mineral rights management system, reducing the cost of data management through implementation of localized management, improving the current commission control system, increasing capital investment in oil and gas geological data management, as well as accelerating the establishment of the national petroleum data management system. We also suggest to improve the level of data sharing through the combination of public service and commercial service.

Key words: petroleum geologic data, submission, management, release