(a) a facility used to explore
for, produce or process petroleum, including machinery used for completing,
maintaining, repairing, converting or decommissioning a petroleum well;
Example of machinery used for maintaining or repairing a petroleum well—
machinery known in the petroleum and gas industry as a work over rig
(b) a
facility that—
(i) is related to the exploration, production or processing
of petroleum; and
(ii) is used to take, interfere with or treat associated
water and any petroleum incidentally collected with the water;
(d) a pipeline authorised under a petroleum authority,
other than a pipeline that transports only an excluded compound or produced
water without any petroleum;
(e) a distribution pipeline;
(f) a distribution
system;
(g) a facility that is in the area of a geothermal tenure and is used
for—
(i) geothermal exploration other than for wet geothermal production; or
(ii) geothermal production other than wet geothermal production;
Examples—
the following facilities if they are not used for wet geothermal production—
• a drilling rig for a geothermal well
• equipment used for injecting
into, maintaining or repairing a geothermal well
• pipes and associated
valves used in the geothermal production process
(h) a facility that is in
the area of a GHG authority and is—
(i) used for GHG storage exploration or
GHG stream storage; or
(ii) involved in GHG storage injection testing;
(i) a
GHG stream pipeline under the GHG storage Act ;
(j) a facility used to drill,
complete, maintain, repair, convert or decommission an authorised water bore.
(3) However, if a facility has, under a regulation under the
Work Health and Safety Act 2011, been classified as a major hazard facility,
it is an operating plant only to the extent to which that Act does not apply
to the facility.
(4) Subsection (2) applies for a facility or pipeline even
if it is—
(5) An
"operating plant" is also a place, or a part of a place, at which a following
activity is carried out, but only to the extent of the carrying out of the
activity—
(a) a fuel gas delivery network prescribed under a regulation;
(b) an authorised activity under an authority if the activity is a geophysical
survey for data acquisition;
(c) an underground gasification activity;
(d)
another activity prescribed under a regulation and associated with the
delivery, storage, transport, treatment or use of petroleum or fuel gas.
(6)
An
"operating plant" is also—
(a) all of the authorised activities for a
petroleum authority other than authorised activities related to the operation
of a pipeline used only to transport an excluded compound; or
(b) all of the
authorised activities for a geothermal tenure or GHG authority; or
(c) all of
the authorised activities for a mineral hydrocarbon mining lease that are not
a coal mining operation or an on-site activity under the
Coal Mining Safety and Health Act.
(7) For subsection (6) (a) , (b) and (c)
—
(a) the operating plant is all of the authorised activities jointly; and
(b) the authorised activities are an operating plant severally only if they
are an operating plant under subsection (2) or (5) .
(8) To remove any doubt,
for subsection (2) it is declared that the following are not an operating
plant—
(a) a facility relating to geothermal energy to the extent any part
of its processes happen after an isolation valve or distribution point where
the pipeline transporting the energy ends at the entry to the facility;
(b) a
facility that produces a GHG stream at its source before the stream enters a
GHG pipeline that transports the stream, or the stream is otherwise
transported, to a GHG storage site under the GHG storage Act ;
(c) a facility
mentioned in subsection (2) (j) for an authorised water bore after either of
the following happens—
(i) a transfer of the bore takes effect under
section 288or the 1923 Act , section 75Q ;
(ii) the bore is decommissioned
and the relevant time for the bore under section 294(2) or the 1923 Act ,
section 75W (2) passes.
(9) A reference to an operating plant includes a
reference to each stage of the plant that has commenced.
(10) In this
section—
"authorised water bore" means a water injection bore, water observation bore
or water supply bore that a relevant holder or a person for the relevant
holder—
(a) drills or converts under this Act or the 1923 Act ; or
(b)
decommissions under this Act or the 1923 Act .
(b) an authority to prospect, petroleum lease, or water monitoring
authority, under the 1923 Act .
"relevant holder" means the holder of a petroleum tenure, water monitoring
authority, 1923 Act petroleum tenure or water monitoring authority under the
1923 Act .
