Petroleum Regulations 2021

identifies the controls, specific systems, practices and procedures to be used to ensure that—

any potential environmental risks and impacts arising from the petroleum operation are eliminated or minimised as far as is reasonably practicable; and

the environmental performance objectives and standards in the environment management plan are met; and

specifies why the controls, specific systems, practices and procedures to eliminate or minimise risks and impacts have been adopted, whether other measures were considered but not adopted and the reasons why; and

establishes a clear chain of command, setting out the roles and responsibilities of personnel in relation to the implementation, management and review of the environment management plan; and

includes measures to ensure that each employee or contractor working in connection with the petroleum operation—

is aware of the employee's or contractor's responsibilities in relation to the environment; and

has the appropriate skills and training to be able to fulfil those responsibilities; and

provides for the monitoring, audit and review of the environmental performance and implementation strategy of the holder of the authority; and

provides for the maintenance of a quantitative record of emissions and discharges into the air, or onto the land surface environment, or below the land surface environment that is accurate and that can be monitored and audited against the environmental performance standards; and

includes arrangements for recording, monitoring and reporting information about the petroleum operation (including information required to be recorded under the Act, these Regulations and any other environmental legislation applying to the activity) sufficient to enable the Minister to determine whether the holder of the authority is complying with the environment management plan; and

provides for appropriate consultation, ongoing for the life of the petroleum operation, about the authority holder's environmental performance with—

relevant agencies of the Commonwealth and the State; and

other relevant persons or organisations; and

provides for the maintenance of an up-to-date emergency response manual prepared for the petroleum operation that includes detailed response arrangements for—

dealing with any threat to individuals, public safety, public amenity or the environment in the vicinity of the petroleum operation; and

ensuring that the threat does not harm individuals, public safety, public amenity or the environment; and

dealing with any unwanted event that occurs that is harming individuals, public safety, public amenity or the environment; and

in relation to hydrocarbon gas emissions from the petroleum operation, includes—

the measures in place to ensure any hydrocarbon gas emissions will be minimised as far as reasonably practicable; and

the measures in place to identify any hydrocarbon gas emissions as they occur; and

an estimate of the hydrocarbon gas emissions that will be generated by the petroleum operation; and

in relation to any groundwater impacts of a well activity carried out during a petroleum operation—

assesses the risks and impacts to the groundwater environment from the well activity; and

identifies how these risks and impacts to the groundwater environment will be mitigated; and

if the operation is a petroleum production operation—

identifies the method by which the holder of the authority will establish the baseline water quality before petroleum production commences; and

identifies the groundwater monitoring methodology, including the frequency of the monitoring and the parameters to be monitored prior to and during petroleum production; and

identifies a reporting schedule for the holder of the authority to report to the Minister in relation to any monitoring identified in sub-subparagraph (B).