You will need to comply with this code when preparing an environment management plan required under petroleum legislation.
It provides a standardised framework for managing key environmental impacts and risks from common petroleum activites by:
- specifying mandatory environmental outcomes that must be achieved to meet the objectives of the Environment Regulations
- identifying common petroleum regulated activities, their environmental aspects and the resulting key environmental impacts and risk sources, and
- mandating control measures and environmental performance standards to mitigate key environmental impacts and risk sources so that environmental outcomes are achieved.
The code applies to all regulated activities conducted in relation to both conventional and unconventional petroleum exploration, appraisal, development and production.
