Section 273 - Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Regulations 2021 - Requirement to give core, cutting or sample

273 Requirement to give core, cutting or sample

(1) A petroleum titleholder who—

(a) drills a well or conducts another operation on a well in a title area; and

(b) collects a kind of core, cutting or sample mentioned in column 2 of the Table to subregulation (4)—

must give the core, cutting or sample to the Minister within the time specified in column 4 of that Table for that core, cutting or sample, or if the Minister authorises the titleholder to give that

core, cutting or sample in another period—the other period.

Division 2 sets out requirements for the collection and keeping of cores, cuttings and samples.

(2) The titleholder must give the Minister the quantity of the core, cutting or sample specified for that item if that quantity is available.

(3) If the specified quantity is not available, the titleholder must—

(a) give the Minister an explanation why the specified quantity was not sent; and

(b) tell the Minister the total amount of the core, cutting or sample that was recovered.

(4) For the purposes of this regulation, the following Table applies.

Column 1<br>Item	Column 2<br>Type of core, cutting or sample		Column 3<br>Quantity of core, cutting or sample	Column 4<br>Time by which core, cutting or sample must be given
1	Ditch cuttings		2 sets of 200 grams dry weight per sample interval	The day 6 months after the rig release date
2	Full hole conventional cores		1/3 of the core	The day 6 months after the rig release date
3	Full hole conventional cores		2/3 of the core	As soon as practicable after the titleholder completes tests on the core
4	Gaseous hydrocarbon samples		300 cm3	As soon as practicable after completion of the test during which the sample is collected
5	Fluid hydrocarbon samples	1 litre

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