Offshore Petroleum Amendment (Greenhouse Gas Storage) Act 2008 (117 of 2008)

Schedule 1   Amendments relating to greenhouse gas storage etc.

Offshore Petroleum Act 2006

117A   After subsection 78(1)

Insert:

(1A) Express references in this Act to the injection or storage of a substance do not imply that subsection (1) does not operate so as to authorise the permittee:

(a) to carry on operations to inject a substance into the seabed or subsoil of an offshore area; or

(b) to carry on operations to store (whether on a permanent basis or otherwise) a substance in the seabed or subsoil of an offshore area.

(1B) The regulations may provide that an exploration permit authorises the permittee, in accordance with the conditions (if any) to which the permit is subject:

(a) to explore in the permit area for a potential greenhouse gas storage formation; and

(b) to explore in the permit area for a potential greenhouse gas injection site; and

(c) to carry on such operations, and execute such works, in the permit area as are necessary for those purposes.