Membership

APPEA has two main categories of membership: Full Member and Associate Member. In addition, individuals deemed by the APPEA Board to have rendered meritorious service to APPEA or the industry can be made Honorary Life Members.

Prospective members must submit their completed membership application form and submit it to the APPEA Secretariat.

The APPEA Board considers membership applications during its regular meetings. These take place every 3-4 months.

2011 deadlines for membership applications:

• August meeting – 18 August
• November meeting – 10 November

It is recommended that you contact the APPEA Secretariat prior to the preparation or the submission of a membership application.

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To become a Full Member of APPEA a company must:

• hold a registered petroleum exploration or production tenement (or a lawful interest in such a tenement); or
• be spending or lawfully obliged to spend money in petroleum exploration and/or production in Australia; or
• be suitable for admission having regard to its actual or potential participation in and/or contribution to the industry.

There are ten categories of full membership. These range from small exploration and/or production companies with less than 250,000 barrels of oil equivalent (boe) production per year in Australia through to large producers with greater than 90 million boe annual production.

The category into which a member company falls is determined by the Board based on the company's mix of:

• total predicted boe production;
• total petroleum-related expenditure for the current calendar year;
• anticipated total petroleum-related expenditure for the next calendar year; and
• the company’s relative size and standing (market capitalisation).

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To become an Associate Member of APPEA a company or party must:

• have bona fide interests in APPEA’s goals, influence and interests; or
• provide services in the ordinary course of business to Full Members.

The associate membership categories are:

Category 1: Small companies, government agencies, educational institutions and small service/supply providers.

Category 2: Service and supply organisations, including financial/commercial, legal, environmental, and technical support service companies, equipment and/or hardware suppliers, data processors and onshore transport and storage.

Category 3: Field operation companies, including EPCM contractors, drilling, seismic, marine and other field service companies.

It is recommended that you contact the APPEA Secretariat before preparing or submitting a membership application.

Click Here for more information on Associate Member benefits

Click Here for an Associate Member application kit

Click Here for the 2011/12 membership category and fee scale

Click Here to find out how to apply for membership

Click Here to contact the Membership Services Officer for further information about membership of APPEA.