Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Resource Management and Administration) Regulations 2025
184Requirement for annual greenhouse gas accounting report
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184 Requirement for annual greenhouse gas accounting report
(1) A greenhouse gas injection licensee must give the Titles Administrator a report (an annual greenhouse gas accounting report) for each financial year, that includes the information specified in subsection (2), within 4 months after the last day of the financial year.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), an annual greenhouse gas accounting report must include the following information:
(a) for each greenhouse gas injection and storage project in the licence area, a summary of the project that includes the following:
(i) the location of the project;
(ii) the arrangements for ongoing monitoring of the behaviour of greenhouse gas substances injected into the identified greenhouse gas storage formation concerned;
(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 injected into each greenhouse gas storage formation situated in the licence area during the year;
(e) the cumulative quantity of greenhouse gas substances stored in all greenhouse gas storage formations situated in the licence area as at the end of the year;
(f) the quantity of the greenhouse gas substances lost, and emissions of additional greenhouse gases generated, during the year in each of the following processes:
(i) compression;
(ii) transportation;
(iii) injection;
(g) the quantity of greenhouse gas substances lost from any well bore during the year;
(h) the quantity of greenhouse gas substances lost from each identified greenhouse gas storage formation situated in the licence area during the year;
(i) an explanation of how each of the quantities mentioned in paragraphs (f) to (h) were worked out;
(j) an assessment of the accuracy of the measurement or estimation of the quantities of the greenhouse gas substances mentioned in paragraphs (d) to (h);
(k) a description of activities undertaken during the year to monitor:
(i) the behaviour of greenhouse gas substances stored in each identified greenhouse gas storage formation situated in the licence area; and
(ii) the loss of greenhouse gas substances from each identified greenhouse gas storage formation situated in the licence area; and
(iii) the loss of greenhouse gas substances during transportation and injection; and
(iv) the loss of greenhouse gas substances from well bores in connection with identified greenhouse gas storage formations in the licence area;