Victorian Current Acts

PETROLEUM ACT 1998 - SECT 7

Petroleum exploration is the carrying out of one or more of the following activities for the purpose of finding petroleum or reservoirs—

        (a)     conducting geological, geophysical and geochemical surveys;

        (b)     making wells;

        (c)     taking samples for the purposes of chemical or other analysis;

        (d)     extracting petroleum from land for the purpose of determining whether it will be viable to extract it commercially.