Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WATER REGULATION 2016 - REG 87

87 Relevant sub-blocks for petroleum tenures and classes of relevant sub-blocks

(1) A sub-block is a
"relevant sub-block" if—

(a) either—

(i) the sub-block is within a cumulative management area; or

(ii) the sub-block is outside a cumulative management area and the office performs functions under the Act for the sub-block; and

(b) either—

(i) the sub-block is in the area of a petroleum lease; or

(ii) the sub-block is in an area that is—

(A) in the area of an authority to prospect, or an area to which an application for an authority to prospect applies; and

(B) in which gas field development is being, or is proposed to be, carried out.

(2) For this part, relevant sub-blocks are divided into the following classes—

(a) relevant sub-blocks outside the cumulative management area;

(b) relevant sub-blocks within the cumulative management area that are used, or intended to be used, for conventional petroleum or gas production;

(c) relevant sub-blocks within the cumulative management area that are used, or intended to be used, for coal seam gas production.

(3) In this section—

"authority to prospect" means an authority to prospect under the Petroleum and Gas Act or the Petroleum Act 1923 .

"coal seam gas production" has the same meaning it has under the Petroleum and Gas Act .

"conventional petroleum or gas production" means petroleum production, or gas production, that is not coal seam gas production.

"gas field development" means the development of an area for coal seam gas production, or conventional petroleum or gas production, for which the EIS process has been completed under the Environmental Protection Act 1994 .

Note—

See the Environmental Protection Act 1994 , section 60 for when the EIS process is completed for a project.

"petroleum lease" means a petroleum lease under the Petroleum and Gas Act or the Petroleum Act 1923 .