OFFSHORE PETROLEUM AND GREENHOUSE GAS STORAGE ACT 2010 - SECT 414 Application for site closing certificate

OFFSHORE PETROLEUM AND GREENHOUSE GAS STORAGE ACT 2010 - SECT 414

    (1)     A greenhouse gas injection licensee may apply to the Minister for a site closing certificate in relation to a particular identified greenhouse gas storage formation specified in the licence.

Notes

1     Part 3.8 contains additional provisions about application procedures.

2     Section 459 requires the application to be accompanied by an application fee.

3     Section 461 enables the Minister to require the applicant to give further information.

    (2)     An application under this section must be accompanied by—

        (a)     a written report that sets out—

              (i)     the applicant's modelling of the behaviour of the greenhouse gas substance injected into the identified greenhouse gas storage formation; and

              (ii)     information relevant to that modelling; and

              (iii)     the applicant's analysis of that information; and

        (b)     a written report that sets out the applicant's assessment of—

              (i)     the behaviour of the greenhouse gas substance injected into the identified greenhouse gas storage formation; and

              (ii)     the expected migration pathway or pathways of that greenhouse gas substance; and

              (iii)     the short‑term consequences of the migration of that greenhouse gas substance; and

              (iv)     the long‑term consequences of the migration of that greenhouse gas substance; and

        (c)     the applicant's suggestions for the approach to be taken by the Commonwealth, after the issue of the certificate, to the monitoring of the behaviour of a greenhouse gas substance stored in the identified greenhouse gas storage formation; and

        (d)     such other information (if any) as is specified in the regulations.

    (3)     Subsection (2) does not apply if there have not been any operations for the injection of a greenhouse gas substance into the identified greenhouse gas storage formation.