Queensland Consolidated Acts

PETROLEUM AND GAS (PRODUCTION AND SAFETY) ACT 2004 - SECT 10

10 Meaning of petroleum

(1)
"Petroleum" is—

(a) a substance consisting of hydrocarbons that occur naturally in the earth’s crust; or

(b) a substance necessarily extracted or produced as a by-product of extracting or producing a hydrocarbon mentioned in paragraph (a) ; or

(c) a fluid that—

(i) is extracted or produced from coal or oil shale by a chemical or thermal process or that is a by-product of that process; and

(ii) consists of, or includes, hydrocarbons; or

Example of a fluid that is petroleum under paragraph (c)—

mineral (f)

(d) another substance prescribed under a regulation, consisting of, or including, hydrocarbons; or

(e) a gas, that occurs naturally in the earth’s crust, as prescribed under a regulation.

(2) A substance mentioned in subsection (1) (c) is a
"gasification or retorting product" .

(3) To remove any doubt, it is declared that
"petroleum" does not include any of the following—

(a) alginite;

(b) coal;

(c) lignite;

(d) peat;

(e) oil shale;

(f) torbanite;

(g) water.

(4) A substance does not cease to be petroleum merely because it is injected or reinjected into a natural underground reservoir.

(5) To remove any doubt, it is declared that, for this Act and petroleum authorities under it, this section preserves, for this Act, the effect of section 150 (2) and (3) of the 1923 Act .

(6) In this section—

"hydrocarbon" means a hydrocarbon in a gaseous, liquid, or solid state.