183Requirement for monthly greenhouse gas accounting report

183  Requirement for monthly greenhouse gas accounting report

 (1) A greenhouse gas injection licensee must give the Titles Administrator a report (a monthly greenhouse gas accounting report) for each calendar month, that includes the information specified in subsection (2), within 15 days after the last day of the calendar month.

 (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a monthly greenhouse gas accounting report must include the following information:

 (a) a summary of each greenhouse gas injection and storage project in the licence area, including the following:

 (i) the location of each project;

 (ii) the arrangements for ongoing monitoring of the greenhouse gas substances injected into identified greenhouse gas storage formations in the licence area;

 (b) the fundamental suitability determinants of each identified greenhouse gas storage formation situated in the licence area;

 (c) details of each licence condition to which the licence is subject;

 (d) the quantity of greenhouse gas substances that have been put into the system, as measured at:

 (i) the source of the greenhouse gas substances; or

 (ii) if the greenhouse gas substances become the responsibility of the licensee at a point other than its source—that point;

 (e) the quantity of greenhouse gas substances measured at the last measuring point before injection;

 (f) the average composition of each greenhouse gas substance injected into identified greenhouse gas storage formations situated in the licence area during the month, including the amount of any incidental greenhouse gas‑related substances;

 (g) the maximum and minimum injection rates during the month;

 (h) the quantity of the greenhouse gas substances lost, and emissions of additional greenhouse gases generated, during the month in each of the following processes:

 (i) compression;

 (ii) transportation;

 (iii) injection;

 (i) the quantity of greenhouse gas substances lost from any well bore during the month;

 (j) the quantity of greenhouse gas substances lost from the storage formation during the month;

 (k) the quantity of greenhouse gases emitted from the discharge of produced formation fluids during the month;

 (l) an explanation of how each of the quantities mentioned in paragraphs (h) to (k) were worked out.

Note 1: The responsible Commonwealth Minister or the Titles Administrator must make the information in the report publicly known within 15 days after the Titles Administrator receives the report: see section 201.

Note 2: Incidental greenhouse gas‑related substance is defined in section 23 of the Act.