Does Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act compliance apply to mining and resources?

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act compliance. The Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 (OPGGS Act) and its regulations govern offshore petroleum and greenhouse gas activities in Commonwealth waters. NOPSEMA regulates occupational health and safety, well integrity and environmental management.

Trigger: Constructing, installing, operating, modifying or decommissioning an offshore facility, drilling or managing a well, or carrying out any petroleum or greenhouse gas activity under a title.

Rules Mate runs its applicability engine across 9 business structures and 6 size bands for each of the 35 industries it maps. For 34 of those industries the answer for "Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act compliance" is no. Mining & resources is one of the 1 where the answer is different: only if.

The deciding fact for mining and resources: Industry: Mining & resources; applies only if you hold an interest in a petroleum project.

About the industry: Mining operations subject to state mining safety regimes, NGER, and royalty obligations.

Compare a professional services (general) business with 6–19 employees structured as a Pty Ltd company: the obligation does not apply (Requires a trigger outside this questionnaire).

Each cell is the engine's outcome for a business in mining & resources with that structure and size, assuming it sells to consumers and small businesses and holds customer contact details. "Check" means the obligation turns on a fact the industry does not settle.

When due

Before each stage: safety case accepted (NOPSEMA has 90 days to decide a new safety case and 30 days for a revision) and environment plan accepted. Notify NOPSEMA at least 10 days before an activity starts and within 10 days after it ends. Reportable incidents: oral notice as soon as practicable (within 2 hours for a reportable environmental incident) and a written report within 3 days. Recordable environmental incidents: monthly report within 15 days after month end.

Evidence to keep

Operator registration and agreed scope of validation; accepted safety case and its five-yearly revisions; accepted environment plan; incident notifications and written reports; monthly death and injury summaries and recordable-incident reports (including nil reports); activity start and completion notices.

Maximum penalty

Contraventions are offences and civil penalty matters under the OPGGS Act. NOPSEMA can issue improvement, prohibition and do-not-disturb notices, give directions, withdraw acceptance of a safety case or environment plan, issue infringement notices, seek injunctions and adverse publicity orders, and bring civil or criminal proceedings.

Regulator

See source

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth (national)

• Comply with the respirable crystalline silica workplace exposure limit (0.05 mg/m³): Yes
• EPBC Act — assess + approve controlled actions affecting MNES: Only if
• Maintain Hazardous Chemicals Register + manifest (WHS Reg): Yes
• Notify + remediate contaminated land (state): Only if
• NSW mining safety obligations (Work Health and Safety (Mines and Petroleum Sites) Act: Yes
• QLD coal mining safety obligations (Coal Mining Safety and Health Act 1999): Yes
• All 18 answers for mining & resources