Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

OFFSHORE PETROLEUM AND GREENHOUSE GAS STORAGE (RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION) REGULATIONS 2011 - REG 4.09

    A petroleum production licensee commits an offence if:

  (a)   the licensee undertakes the recovery of petroleum from a petroleum pool in the licence area; and

  (b)   at the time of the recovery of the petroleum, the licensee has an accepted field development plan for a field that includes the petroleum pool; and

  (c)   the licensee makes a major change in relation to the recovery of petroleum from the field; and

  (d)   the licensee did not, at least 90   days before the occurrence of the major change, apply for a variation of the accepted field development plan.

Penalty:   60 penalty units.