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Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Resource Management and Administration) Regulations 2025
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Explain section Part 1—Preliminary
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Simplified outline of this instrument
5 Objects
6 Definitions
7 Meaning of title area
8 Meaning of excluded information
9 Notices and reports
Part 2—Notification and reporting of discovery of petroleum
10 Simplified outline of this Part
11 Purpose of this Part
Division 2—Petroleum titleholders
12 Application
13 Requirement to provide information when informing Titles Administrator of discovery of petroleum
14 Titles Administrator may request information to be included in discovery assessment report
15 Requirement to provide discovery assessment report
16 Further information about discovery assessment report
Division 3—Greenhouse gas titleholders
17 Application
18 Responsible Commonwealth Minister may request information to be included in discovery assessment report
19 Requirement to provide discovery assessment report
20 Further information about discovery assessment report
21 Information may be provided to responsible State Minister and responsible Northern Territory Minister
Part 3—Title assessment reports
22 Simplified outline of this Part
23 Purpose of this Part
24 Application
Division 2—Title assessment reports
25 Requirement to provide annual title assessment report
26 Information to be provided in annual title assessment report—petroleum exploration permit
27 Information to be provided in annual title assessment report—petroleum retention lease
28 Information to be provided in annual title assessment report—petroleum production licence
29 Information to be provided in annual title assessment report—greenhouse gas assessment permit
30 Information to be provided in annual title assessment report—greenhouse gas holding lease
31 Annual title assessment reports may include any other relevant information
32 Approved forms
Division 3—Miscellaneous matters relating to title assessment reports
33 Reports may be combined with permission
34 Title assessment reports—transitioning to new reporting period
35 Title assessment report for part of a year
Part 4—Field development plans and approvals of petroleum recovery
Next section 243 Notification and reporting of discovery of petroleum
36 Simplified outline of this Part
Division 2—Field development plan requirements for petroleum production licensees
39 Requirement to have accepted field development plan
40 Requirement to undertake activities consistently with accepted field development plan
Division 3—Obtaining acceptance of field development plan
41 Application for acceptance of field development plan
42 Titles Administrator may request further information
43 Joint Authority decision on field development plan
44 Criteria for acceptance of field development plan
45 Contents of field development plan
Division 4—Varied field development plans
Subdivision A—Varied field development plans
46 Circumstances when petroleum production licensee must apply for acceptance of varied field development plan
47 Titles Administrator may request further information about varied field development plan
48 Joint Authority decision on varied field development plan
49 Amendment of varied field development plan
50 Effect of rejection of varied field development plan
Subdivision B—Varied field development plans required by Joint Authority
51 Joint Authority may require varied field development plan
52 Objection to requirement for varied field development plan
53 Joint Authority decision on objection to requirement for varied field development plan
Division 5—Withdrawal of acceptance of field development plan
54 Withdrawal of acceptance of field development plan
55 Steps to be taken before withdrawing acceptance
56 Notice of withdrawal of acceptance
Division 6—Recovery of petroleum without accepted field development plan
57 Application for permission to recover petroleum without accepted field development plan
58 Decision on application
Division 7—Rates of recovery of petroleum
Subdivision A—Recovery rate approvals
59 Requirement to obtain recovery rate approval
60 Recovery rate approval
61 Withdrawal of recovery rate approval
62 Steps to be taken before withdrawing recovery rate approval
63 Notice of withdrawal of recovery rate approval
Subdivision B—Short‑term permission to recover petroleum at non‑approved rate
64 Application for short‑term permission to recover petroleum at non‑approved rate
65 Decision on application for short‑term permission to recover petroleum at non‑approved rate
66 Approval of equipment and procedures to determine rates of recovery of petroleum
Division 8—Requirement to give notice of significant events
67 Meaning of significant event
68 Requirement to give notice of significant event
69 Simplified outline of this Part
73 When a well operations management plan is in force
74 Well includes associated well‑related equipment
75 Well activity taken to occur if well is not operational
Division 2—Well operations management plan requirements
76 Requirement to have well operations management plan in force
77 Requirement to carry out well activities in accordance with well operations management plan etc.
Division 3—Obtaining acceptance of well operations management plan
78 Application for acceptance of well operations management plan
79 Decision on well operations management plan
80 Further information about submitted plan
81 Criteria for acceptance of well operations management plan
82 Contents of well operations management plan
Division 4—Revision of well operations management plan
83 Revision based on certain circumstances
84 Revision based on directions
85 Revision required by NOPSEMA
86 Revision required by NOPSEMA—objection to requirement
87 Revision at end of each 5 year period
88 Form of proposed revision
89 Application of Division 3 to revised well operations management plan
90 Effect of non‑acceptance of proposed revision
Division 5—Withdrawal of acceptance of well operations management plan
91 Withdrawal of acceptance
92 Notice of proposal to withdraw acceptance
93 Decision on proposal to withdraw acceptance
94 Withdrawal does not affect well that is not operational
95 Relationship between withdrawal and other provisions
Division 6—Annual well integrity reports and information about particular well activities
96 Annual well integrity report
97 Well activities for which advance notice is required
98 Updating information given about a well activity
99 Completion of notified well activity
Division 7—Reportable incidents
100 Meaning of reportable incident
101 Requirement to notify NOPSEMA about reportable incident
102 Requirement to provide written report about reportable incident
103 Requirement for ongoing reporting after reportable incident
104 Titleholder must retain copy of report
Division 8—Role of Titles Administrator
105 Titleholder must give copies of documents to Titles Administrator
106 NOPSEMA must give copies of documents to Titles Administrator
Division 9—Application of this Part if a remedial direction is in force
107 Application of this Part if a remedial direction is in force
Part 6—Authorisation of petroleum titleholders to conduct greenhouse gas exploration
108 Simplified outline of this Part
110 Requirement to notify responsible Commonwealth Minister of authorised activity
111 Authorised activities—petroleum exploration permittee
112 Authorised activities—petroleum retention lessee
113 Authorised activities—petroleum production licensee
Part 7—Data management—petroleum titleholders
114 Simplified outline of this Part
116 Requirement to securely retain information
118 Requirement to retain core, cutting or sample
119 General requirement to retain core, cutting or sample in Australia
120 Requirement to return core, cutting or sample to Australia
121 Requirement to provide report about analysis of core, cutting or sample conducted overseas
122 Requirement to provide certain samples produced from overseas analysis
124 Requirement for daily drilling report
125 Requirement for daily geological report
126 Requirement for initial well completion report and data
127 Requirement for final well completion report and data
128 Requirement for weekly survey report
129 Requirement for survey acquisition report and data
130 Requirement for survey processing report and data
131 Requirement for survey interpretation report and data
132 Requirement for survey reprocessing report and data
133 Requirement for survey reprocessing interpretation report and data
134 Requirement for daily workover report
135 Requirement for monthly production report from petroleum production licensee
Subdivision F—Cores, cuttings and samples
136 Requirement to give certain cores, cuttings or samples
137 Titles Administrator may request other cores, cuttings or samples
138 Titles Administrator may request information about reports etc.
139 Titles Administrator may specify format or medium for data
Part 8—Release of technical information about petroleum
140 Simplified outline of this Part
143 Meaning of permanently confidential information
144 Meaning of interpretative information
145 Classification dispute notices
147 Consideration of objection by Titles Administrator
148 Review of Titles Administrator’s decision by Minister
149 When an objection ceases to be in force
151 Release of open information about wells, surveys and reprocessing projects
152 Release of basic disclosable information
153 Release of interpretative disclosable information
154 Release of documentary information—prior availability or consent
155 Requirements for making survey information available to a person
156 Release of documentary information—Petroleum and Other Fuels Reporting Act 2017
Division 4—Release of petroleum mining samples
158 Release of petroleum mining samples after relevant day
159 Release of petroleum mining samples—prior availability or consent
Part 9—Data management—greenhouse gas titleholders
160 Simplified outline of this Part
162 Requirement to securely retain information
164 Requirement to retain core, cutting or sample
165 General requirement to retain core, cutting or sample in Australia
166 Requirement to return core, cutting or sample to Australia
167 Requirement to provide report about analysis of core, cutting or sample conducted overseas
168 Requirement to provide certain samples produced from overseas analysis
170 Requirement for daily drilling report
171 Requirement for daily geological report
172 Requirement for initial well completion report and data
173 Requirement for final well completion report and data
174 Requirement for weekly survey report
175 Requirement for survey acquisition report and data
176 Requirement for survey processing report and data
177 Requirement for survey interpretation report and data
178 Requirement for survey reprocessing report and data
179 Requirement for survey reprocessing interpretation report and data
180 Requirement for daily workover report
Subdivision F—Other reports for greenhouse gas injection licensees
181 Requirement for monthly greenhouse gas injection report
182 Requirement for annual greenhouse gas injection report
183 Requirement for monthly greenhouse gas accounting report
184 Requirement for annual greenhouse gas accounting report
Subdivision G—Cores, cuttings and samples
185 Requirement to give certain cores, cuttings or samples
186 Titles Administrator may request other cores, cuttings or samples
187 Titles Administrator may request information about reports etc.
188 Titles Administrator may specify format or medium for data
Part 10—Release of technical information about greenhouse gas
189 Simplified outline of this Part
192 Meaning of permanently confidential information
193 Meaning of interpretative information
194 Classification dispute notices
196 Consideration of objection by Titles Administrator
197 Review of Titles Administrator’s decision by Minister
198 When an objection ceases to be in force
200 Release of open information about wells, surveys and reprocessing projects
201 Release of information from greenhouse gas accounting reports
202 Release of basic disclosable information
203 Release of interpretative disclosable information
204 Release of documentary information—prior availability or consent
205 Requirements for making survey information available to a person
206 Release of documentary information—Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Act 1981
Division 4—Release of eligible samples
208 Release of eligible samples after relevant day
209 Release of eligible samples—prior availability or consent
210 Simplified outline of this Part
211 Fees in relation to applications etc.
212 Simplified outline of this Part
215 Giving documents to Joint Authority
216 Giving documents to Cross‑boundary Authority
217 Giving documents to responsible Commonwealth Minister
218 Giving documents to 2 or more registered holders of a petroleum title, infrastructure licence or pipeline licence
219 Giving documents to 2 or more registered holders of a greenhouse gas title
Part 13—Regulations prescribed for particular provisions of Act
220 Simplified outline of this Part
221 Regulations prescribed for particular provisions of Act
Part 14—Regulations dealing with specific matters
222 Simplified outline of this Part
224 Survey of wells, structures or equipment
225 Notice of route followed by pipeline
226 Requirement for notice of geophysical or geological survey
227 Requirement to give notice of actions for Royalty Act purposes
228 Responsible Commonwealth Minister must give copy of certain directions to NOPSEMA
229 Simplified outline of this Part
Division 2—Civil penalties
231 Civil penalty provisions
Division 3—Infringement notices
Division 4—Enforceable undertakings
233 Enforceable undertakings
234 Publication of enforceable undertakings
236 Contravening an offence provision or a civil penalty provision
237 Daily penalties for continuing offences and continuing contraventions of civil penalty provisions
Part 16—Transitional, saving and application provisions
Division 1—Provisions relating to this instrument as made
Subdivision B—General provisions
239 Things done by, or in relation to, a relevant person
240 Things started but not finished by a relevant person
241 Instruments made and other things done under old regulations
242 Conduct, events or circumstances occurring before commencement day
Subdivision C—Provisions relating to discoveries of petroleum, title assessment reports and certain reports for greenhouse gas injection licensees
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