Queensland Consolidated Acts

PETROLEUM ACT 1923 - SECT 87

87 Water monitoring activities

(1) Despite the Water Act , a 1923 Act petroleum tenure holder may carry out any of the following activities in the area of the holder’s tenure to comply with its underground water obligations for the tenure—

(a) gathering information about, or undertaking an assessment of, a water bore;

(b) monitoring effects of the exercise of underground water rights for the tenure;

(c) constructing or plugging and abandoning a water observation bore;

(d) gathering information for preparing an underground water impact report or final report under the Water Act , chapter 3 ;

(e) carrying out any other activity necessary to comply with an underground water obligation of the holder.

(2) An activity mentioned in subsection (1) is a
"water monitoring activity" .

(3) In this section—

"underground water rights" means the taking of water necessarily taken as part of petroleum production or testing for petroleum production under 1 or more 1923 Act petroleum tenures.

"water bore" see the Water Act , schedule 4 .