The department’s offices will be closed on September 30, 2025.
As a result, deadlines (such as application, data submission and payment deadlines) related to petroleum and natural gas, oil sands, geothermal, coal, metallic and industrial mineral, ammonite shell, and carbon capture utilization and storage tenure business that are due on September 30, 2025, will fall to the next business day.
Note that the department’s electronic systems will continue to operate normally during this period, and clients can continue to submit applications and electronic data through the Electronic Transfer System, or the corresponding business email.
Last Update Sept. 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Effective August 11, 2025 all data for PNG Tenure and Geothermal Resource applications will be required electronically, for more information please see Information Bulletin 2025-04.
Last Updated: August 08, 2025 at 8:45 am
Any application requesting lands on a 30 day reserved area, are not eligible for request until after the 30 day date has expired.
Requests with an official received date and time after 12:00:01 am on the 31st day would be deemed valid. If there are multiple applications for the same land, we accept the application with the earliest official received date after 12:00:01 am.
Last Update Aug. 16, 2022 at 03:30 PM
The PAUA issue has now been fixed and Oil Sands transfers may be completed.
Last Update May. 27, 2025 at 11:30 AM