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| Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Safety) Regulations 2024
The revised regulations and changes to the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 are now in effect. The revised legislation can be found here: |
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| Protecting the offshore workforce from sexual harassment
NOPSEMA is aware of the current Western Australian parliamentary inquiry into sexual harassment against women in the mining industry. |
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| Have your say on resources for the RMA Regulations remake
NOPSEMA has been updating industry and providing key information to titleholders and other stakeholders around the remade Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Resource Management and Administration) Regulations 2025 (RMA Regulations) sin |
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| Recording and reporting MMO data | Documents |
| Gift and hospitality register
1 October - 31 December 2025 |
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| 2015 Operational review of NOPSEMA - September 2015 | Documents |
| Audit and Risk Committee Charter | Documents |
| Open for comment: discussion paper - notifications - damage to safety critical equipment
NOPSEMA has published a discussion paper on 'damage to safety critical equipment' for public comment. |
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| Making submissions to NOPSEMA guideline | Documents |
| Equinor's environment plan closed for comment
The public comment period has now closed for submissions on Equinor’s draft environment plan for drilling activity in the Great Australian Bight. |
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| The latest issue of The Regulator magazine
Our latest issue of The Regulator is here! |
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| Consultation with agencies with responsibilities in the Commonwealth marine area guideline | Documents |
| Safety zones and the area to be avoided (ATBA)
Safety zones are specified areas surrounding petroleum or greenhouse gas wells, structures or equipment which vessels or classes of vessel are prohibited from entering or being present in. |
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| Public comment closing soon
OPSEMA 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). |
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| UPS Final Report Supplementary attachment 1 | Documents |
| Report Response to Improvement notice 532 | Documents |
| Surge in hours worked and commissioning activity for offshore oil and gas in 2017
The National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) has released its Annual Offshore Performance Report, for the year ending 31 December 2017. |
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| NOPSEMA EPBC Act Program
Streamlined regulation of environmental management for offshore oil and gas activities. |
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| NOPSEMA issues direction to Triangle Energy
On 24 July 2018, NOPSEMA was notified of an incident at the Triangle Energy (Operations) Pty Ltd’s (Triangle Energy) Cliff Head Alpha offshore platform, 25km south-southwest of Dongara, Western Australia. It was reported th |
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| Oil Pollution Risk Management | Documents |
| Project CORE: Shaping the future of offshore regulation | Blog |
| 3 day report incident notification of uncontrolled release | Documents |
| EPBC streamlining performance report 2017-18 | Documents |
| Feedback and complaints
To report an accident, dangerous occurrence, environmental or structural (well) integrity please incident call |
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| NOPSEMA publishes source control planning and procedures information paper
NOPSEMA has published the source control planning and procedures information paper to inform on NOPSEMA’s expectations with regards to source control planning content of the Environment Plan (EP), Well Operating Management Plan (WOMP) and the Sour |
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| NOPSEMA concludes compliance monitoring of the Baleen Seismic Survey
NOPSEMA has concluded its compliance monitoring of the Baleen 2D HR Seismic Survey conducted by Asset Energy Pty Ltd (Asset Energy) in petroleum title PEP-11. |
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| NOPSEMA's ongoing compliance monitoring of the Baleen Seismic Survey
Following the recent completion of the Baleen 2D HR Seismic Survey, NOPSEMA continues to monitor compliance of Asset Energy to ensure they meet all their obligations under the Environment Plan and General Direction issued in relation to the survey |
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| Alerts
NOPSEMA provides brief reports on environmental management and safety and integrity improvement issues arising from its investigative and assessment activities. These are issued as individual alerts. |
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| What to expect from a NOPSEMA inspection
Compliance with the law is not a choice, it is a requirement. A key function of NOPSEMA is to promote, monitor and secure compliance. |
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| Governance
Appointed by the responsible Commonwealth resources minister, NOPSEMA's CEO has overall responsibility for the management of NOPSEMA. |
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| New inspection policy published
Following the consideration of public comment, NOPSEMA has finalised and published its new Inspection policy. |
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| Update on transparency initiatives
The Transparency Taskforce (the Taskforce) has published an end of year report detailing recent achievements and upcoming milestones for the transparency work streams. |
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| Updated EP Consultation Guidelines now available | Blog |
| Safety management system guidance note | Documents |
| International Offshore Petroleum Environment Regulators’ AGM 2021
NOPSEMA recently participated in the virtual AGM of the International Offshore Petroleum Environment Regulators’ Forum (IOPER). |
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| Report of an accident dangerous occurrence or environmental incident initial notification | Documents |
| Leadership, commitment, and responsibility
The Regulator I Issue 3 I October 2021 |
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| Contact us
Reporting an accident, dangerous occurrence or incident |
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| Resource Management and Administration (RMA) Regulations remake - Our information page
The Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Resource Management and Administration) Regulations 2025 (RMA Regulations) have been remade with some changes to allow for more effective management of Australia's oil and gas resources.  |
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| Report - NOPSEMA's involvement in environmental management collaborative networks - July 2016 | Documents |
| NOPSEMA's decommissioning strategy, plan and performance
NOPSEMA is implementing a five-year |
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| Offshore project proposals
NOPSEMA publishes offshore project proposals (OPP) that are open for public comment following its determination that the OPP is suitable for publication. The public then have an opportunity to review and provide comment on the OPP. |
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| Inspections
Inspections are a critical part of NOPSEMA’s compliance strategy and are undertaken for a range of reasons, including to monitor duty holder’s compliance with relevant legislation, including the commitments they made in |
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| Improving Offshore Crane Safety
Since mid-2020, NOPSEMA has observed a significant increase in reports of dangerous occurrences relating to offshore cranes. |
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| Release of equinor's environment plan for public comment
From today the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) is accepting comments from the public on the proposed environment plan by Equinor for their planned drilling activity in the Great Australian Bight. |
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| Well integrity
The Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Resource Management and Administration) Regulations 2011 commenced on 29 April 2011. |
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| Increase to offshore Industry levies
Offshore industry levies will increase 13 per cent from 1 July 2024 following the Hon Minister King’s approval of |
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| NOPSEMA takes compliance action against Woodside Energy Ltd
NOPSEMA has accepted a revised Nganhurra Cessation of Operations Environment Plan by Woodside, for the decommissioning of the Nganhurra riser turret mooring from title area WA-28-L. |
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| Code of Conduct policy | Documents |
| Operational risk assessment guidance note | Documents |
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