Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Regulations 2021
307Requirement for survey interpretation report and data
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307 Requirement for survey interpretation report and data
(1) A greenhouse gas titleholder who undertakes a geophysical or geological survey in a title area must give the Minister a survey interpretation report and interpretative survey data within—
(a) in the case of a seismic survey—18 months after the day on which the acquisition of the data is completed; or
(b) in the case of any other type of survey—12 months after the day on which the acquisition of the data is completed; or
(c) if the Minister authorises the titleholder to give the report within another period—the other period.
interpretative survey data means each type of data mentioned in an item in Schedule 11—
(b) presented on another medium or in another format which the Minister has authorised the greenhouse gas titleholder to use;
survey interpretation report means a report that includes the following information—
(b) the title under which the survey was conducted;
(d) a description of the objectives of the interpretation;
(e) in the case of a seismic survey—
(i) a list of the surfaces interpreted;
(ii) a justification of the surfaces interpreted, including synthetic seismograms if available;
(iii) the velocity field used to convert time to depth (including ASCII data) and the basis for the velocity field;
(iv) if available, time slices to describe the environment of deposition;
(f) a bathymetric map of the survey area;
(g) an index of the maps created during the interpretation.
Subdivision 4—Other reports