Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

PETROLEUM (SUBMERGED LANDS) (MANAGEMENT OF WELL OPERATIONS) REGULATIONS 2006 - REG 9

9 .         Request for acceptance of well operations management plan

        (1)         A titleholder that wishes to carry out a well activity for which an accepted well operations management plan is required, or that wishes to replace an accepted well operations management plan, must —

            (a)         give a well operations management plan to the Minister; and

            (b)         ask the Minister to accept the well operations management plan.

        (2)         The titleholder must give the well operations management plan to the Minister —

            (a)         at least 30 days before the proposed start of the well activity; or

            (b)         if the Minister allows, in writing, another period — within that period.

        (3)         The well operations management plan —

            (a)         must be in writing; and

            (b)         may apply to well activities for more than one well.

        (4)         The titleholder must submit the well operations management plan as a single document unless the Minister has given the titleholder permission, in writing, to submit the well operations management plan as 2 or more documents.

        (5)         The titleholder must submit the entire well operations management plan unless the Minister has given the titleholder permission, in writing, to submit parts of the well operations management plan, for particular stages of the activity, at one or more later times.