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

Schedule 1   Amendments relating to greenhouse gas storage etc.

Offshore Petroleum Act 2006

225   Section 326

Insert:

greenhouse gas well means a hole in the seabed or subsoil made by drilling, boring or any other means in connection with:

(a) exploration for potential greenhouse gas storage formations; or

(b) exploration for potential greenhouse gas injection sites; or

(c) the injection of a greenhouse gas substance into an identified greenhouse gas storage formation; or

(d) the injection, on an appraisal basis, of:

(i) a greenhouse gas substance; or

(ii) air; or

(iii) petroleum; or

(iv) water;

into a part of a geological formation.


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