sec.27Detecting and managing leaks at petroleum operating plant

sec.27 Detecting and managing leaks at petroleum operating plant

The operator of a petroleum operating plant must ensure the following activities are carried out in a way that complies with the leak management code— an assessment of the risks from petroleum leaks at the plant; inspections to detect petroleum leaks at the plant; remedial work to manage or repair petroleum leaks found at the plant. The operator must also ensure that petroleum leaks found at the plant are reported in a way that complies with the leak management code. In this section— leak management code means the document called ‘Code of practice for leak management, detection and reporting for petroleum operating plant’, published on a Queensland Government website. petroleum operating plant means an operating plant on the area of a petroleum tenure that consists of 1 or more of the following— a facility for the distillation, processing, refinement or storage of petroleum (commonly called ‘a processing plant’); a well site comprised of a petroleum well and the infrastructure above the ground that is joined to the well; a system of pipelines that connects a well site to a processing plant (commonly called ‘a gathering system’). (sec.27-ssec.1) The operator of a petroleum operating plant must ensure the following activities are carried out in a way that complies with the leak management code— an assessment of the risks from petroleum leaks at the plant; inspections to detect petroleum leaks at the plant; remedial work to manage or repair petroleum leaks found at the plant. (sec.27-ssec.2) The operator must also ensure that petroleum leaks found at the plant are reported in a way that complies with the leak management code. (sec.27-ssec.3) In this section— leak management code means the document called ‘Code of practice for leak management, detection and reporting for petroleum operating plant’, published on a Queensland Government website. petroleum operating plant means an operating plant on the area of a petroleum tenure that consists of 1 or more of the following— a facility for the distillation, processing, refinement or storage of petroleum (commonly called ‘a processing plant’); a well site comprised of a petroleum well and the infrastructure above the ground that is joined to the well; a system of pipelines that connects a well site to a processing plant (commonly called ‘a gathering system’).

• (a) an assessment of the risks from petroleum leaks at the plant;
• (b) inspections to detect petroleum leaks at the plant;
• (c) remedial work to manage or repair petroleum leaks found at the plant.
• (a) a facility for the distillation, processing, refinement or storage of petroleum (commonly called ‘a processing plant’);
• (b) a well site comprised of a petroleum well and the infrastructure above the ground that is joined to the well;