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OFFSHORE PETROLEUM AND GREENHOUSE GAS STORAGE (RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION) REGULATIONS 2011 - REG 9.21

Requirement for monthly greenhouse gas accounting report--greenhouse gas injection licensee

  (1)   A greenhouse gas injection licensee commits an offence if the licensee does not give a monthly greenhouse gas accounting report for a licence area to the Titles Administrator within the period:

  (a)   starting on the last day of the named month to which the report relates; and

  (b)   ending on the day 15 days after that day.

Penalty:   60 penalty units.

  (2)   An offence against subregulation   (1) is an offence of strict liability.

Note:   For strict liability , see section   6.1 of the Criminal Code .

  (3)   In this regulation:

"monthly greenhouse gas accounting report" means a report that includes, for a month:

  (a)   the quantity of greenhouse gas substance that has been put into the system, as measured at:

  (i)   the source of the greenhouse gas substance; or

  (ii)   if the greenhouse gas substance becomes the responsibility of the licensee at a point other than its source--that point; and

  (b)   the quantity of greenhouse gas substance measured at the last measuring point before injection; and

  (c)   the average composition of the greenhouse gas substance injected; and

  (d)   the maximum and minimum injection rates during the month; and

  (e)   the quantity of the greenhouse gas substance lost, and emissions of additional greenhouse gases generated, in each of the following processes:

  (i)   compression;

  (ii)   transportation;

  (iii)   injection; and

  (f)   an explanation of how each of the quantities mentioned in paragraph   (e) was worked out; and

  (g)   the quantity of greenhouse gas substance lost from the well bore; and

  (h)   the quantity of greenhouse gas substance lost from the storage formation; and

  (i)   the quantity of greenhouse gases emitted from the discharge of produced formation fluids.

Note:   The responsible Commonwealth Minister or the Titles Administrator must make the information in the report publicly known within 30   days after the Titles Administrator receives the report--see regulation   10.10.


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