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

Schedule 1   Amendments relating to greenhouse gas storage etc.

Offshore Petroleum Act 2006

289   Subsection 444(1) (after table item 2)

Insert:

2A

(a) the exploration for potential greenhouse gas storage formations; and

(b) the exploration for potential greenhouse gas injection sites; and

(c) the carrying on of operations, and the execution of works, for any of those purposes.

2B

(a) the injection of a greenhouse gas substance into a part of a geological formation; and

(b) the storage of a greenhouse gas substance in a part of a geological formation; and

(c) the carrying on of operations, and the execution of works, for any of those purposes.