BRISBANE, Queensland, Oct. 2 -- The Queensland Department of the Premier and Cabinet issued text of the following statement:
Minister for Natural Resources and Mines, Minister for Manufacturing and Minister for Regional and Rural Development
The Honourable Dale Last
* Crisafulli Government has awarded petroleum and gas tenders for five areas in the Cooper-Eromanga Basin and Taroom Trough to secure future domestic oil and gas supply.
* Exploration forms part of a wider land release to boost gas supply and put downward pressure on prices.
* TheCrisafulli Government isopen for business, and this land release initiative is giving the resources industry the certainty it needs to invest and unlock new supply in Queensland afterLabor's decade o...