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National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority
The public comment period has now closed for submissions on Equinor’s proposed environment plan for drilling activity in the Great Australian Bight. For more information see the news and media page.
NOPSEMA encourages all interested persons to make submissions on Equinor’s proposed environment plan for drilling activity in the Great Australian Bight, before the public comment period closes on 20 March at 11:59 PM AEDT (8:59 PM WST). For more information see the news and media page.
Recent media reporting has highlighted NOPSEMA’s attendance at a South Australian parliamentary event relevant to the safe and environmentally responsible regulation of energy activities offshore South Australia. For more information see the news and media page.
In recognition of the important contribution of HSRs, a two day HSR Forum is planned to take place on 12-13 June 2019 in Perth. For more information see the news and media page.
NOPSEMA has published for comment a draft operational risk assessments guidance note. To read the guidance or for more information see the news and media page.
In May, NOPSEMA in collaboration with APPEA and the International Offshore Petroleum Environment Regulators’ Forum will host the premier global source control event. For more information see the news and media page.
NOPSEMA is accepting comments from the public on the proposed environment plan by Equinor for their planned drilling activity in the Great Australian Bight. For more information see the news and media page.
NOPSEMA has released the Shell Crux Development Proposal for public comment.
For more information see the offshore project proposals page.
Due to heightened media interest regarding the Ichthys project, NOPSEMA has determined that it is in the public interest to publish information in relation to electrical equipment issues at the Ichthys facilities. For more information see the news and media page.
This quarterly magazine is intended to keep stakeholders informed of NOPSEMA’s activities and priorities, relevant legislative reform, and emerging industry issues.
The Brochure - Requirements for consultation and public comment on petroleum activities in Commonwealth waters - August 2018 (PDF 165KB) provides an overview of the environment plan consultation and offshore project proposal public comment requirements for petroleum activities in Commonwealth waters.
The Annual Offshore Performance Report 2017 (PDF 3.7MB) contains data covering the industry and regulatory performance to 31 December 2017.
The Brochure - Introducing NOPSEMA - November 2018 (PDF 414KB) contains information broadly outlining NOPSEMA's history, jurisdiction, legislation, regulatory functions and governance.
The NOPSEMA Annual Report 2017-18 (PDF 7.3MB) contains information covering the authority's operations and activities conducted during the year ending 30 June 2018.
For more information about the offshore petroleum approvals process see the Community information page.
Improvement and prohibition notices are published within 21 days of issuance on the Published notices page.
For more information about how the offshore petroleum workforce may raise and a resolve a safety concern see the Raising and resolving a safety concern page.
To notify NOPSEMA of an accident, dangerous occurrence, environmental or well integrity incident call (08) 6461 7090.
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19 - Ensuring safe and environmentally responsible offshore energy industries, Convention Centre and Parliament House, Adelaide
27 - Information session: Transitioning to transparency, Perth
Visit the event page to register for the session.
15-17 - Risk Engineering & Project Controls Conference 2019, Sydney
20 - Source control workshop, Perth.
For more information, see our news and media page
20-24 - Spillcon 2019, Perth
27-30 - APPEA 2019 conference and exhibition, Brisbane
12-13 - Inaugural HSR Forum 2019, Perth. For more information. see our news and media page
Events listed are those at which NOPSEMA is presenting or exhibiting or has an organisational role. For presentations at past events see our Presentations page.
A career with NOPSEMA provides a challenging and rewarding opportunity to play a key role in protecting offshore workers and marine environments through the independent and professional regulation of safety, well integrity and environmental management of Australia’s offshore petroleum industry.
NOPSEMA is held in high regard and its teams have diverse professional backgrounds and talents. We recruit widely to find high calibre candidates, from both domestic and international markets, who use their skills to influence risk management by industry across a range of petroleum activities.
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