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OFFSHORE PETROLEUM AND GREENHOUSE GAS STORAGE ACT 2010 - SECT 218

Rights of greenhouse gas injection licensees following application for greenhouse gas‑related pipeline licences by other persons

    (1)     If—

        (a)     a person applies for a pipeline licence in relation to the construction, in the offshore area, of a greenhouse gas pipeline for—

              (i)     the conveyance of a greenhouse gas substance within a greenhouse gas injection licence area in the offshore area; or

              (ii)     the conveyance of a greenhouse gas substance from a place outside a greenhouse gas injection area to a place in the greenhouse gas injection licence area; and

        (b)     the greenhouse gas substance is to be injected into an identified greenhouse gas storage formation that is wholly situated in the greenhouse gas injection licence area; and

        (c)     the person is not the greenhouse gas injection licensee

the greenhouse gas injection licensee may, within—

        (d)     90 days after the publication in the Government Gazette of notice of the application; or

        (e)     such longer period, not more than 180 days, as the Minister allows—

apply under section 215 for such a pipeline licence and, in the application, request that the application mentioned in the Government Gazette notice be rejected.

Note

For publication in the Government Gazette of notice of the application, see section 731.

    (2)     If a pipeline licence is granted to the greenhouse gas injection licensee as a result of an application covered by subsection (1), the Minister must, by written notice given to the person mentioned in subsection (1)(a), reject the application mentioned in subsection (1)(d).

    (3)     The Minister may allow a longer period under paragraph (1)(e) only on written application made by the greenhouse gas injection licensee within the period of 90 days mentioned in subsection (1)(d).



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