Queensland Consolidated Regulations

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY REGULATION 2022 - REG 33

33 Keeping core sample—Act, s 193

(1) For section 193 (1) of the Act , the following matters are prescribed—

(a) a core sample for each geothermal well drilled under the geothermal tenure must be kept;

(b) the core sample must be kept until the later of the following—

(i) the end of the term of the tenure; or

(ii) when the sample, or part of the sample, is given to the chief executive under section 194 of the Act ;

(c) the core sample must be kept in a way that prevents unnecessary deterioration or loss of the sample.

(2) Despite subsection (1) , the geothermal tenure holder is not required to keep a core sample (the
"new sample" ) for a geothermal well drilled under the tenure if, on written application by the holder, the chief executive exempts the holder from having to keep the new sample because—

(a) the holder has previously given the chief executive all or part of a core sample (the
"previous sample" ) from the same geothermal well or another geothermal well drilling the same geothermal reservoir; and

(b) the new sample has similar properties to the previous sample.