In February 2014, the first of a set of two Resource Management and Administration Regulations for petroleum and geothermal activities was released by the Department of Mines, Petroleum and Exploration (DMPE) for stakeholder comment along with supporting explanatory notes and guidelines. The draft Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Resources (Resource Management and Administration) Regulations 2015, which cover the WA onshore petroleum sector, was open for a three and a half month comment period with the closing date for submissions of 30 May 2014.
This response paper documents the issues raised in the submissions on these Regulations and outlines DMPE’s responses.
The second part of this set of regulations, the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Resource Management and Administration) Regulations 2014, which cover submerged lands adjacent to the coast of WA has been drafted based on the final draft of the onshore regulations and it is intended that the two sets of Regulations will come into effect on 1 July 2015
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