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Petroleum Production Licence - Northern Territory

Description

You will need this licence if you intend to explore, test for and produce hydrocarbons from within a licence area. Hydrocarbons are naturally occurring compounds which form the basis of oil and gas from which petroleum is made.

A production licence gives you the exclusive right to carry out petroleum recovery operations within the licence area, according to an approved field management plan and individual activity work approvals.

Service type

Licence

A licence defines the need to obtain recognition / certification and registration to undertake a certain business activity.

Eligibility requirements

To be eligible this licence you must make a commercially viable petroleum discovery under your exploration permit.

When you discover petroleum in your coastal waters permit area, you may nominate the blocks which contain the petroleum to be declared as a location. You must declare a location before you can apply for a production licence over the area.

Duration

21 or 25 years

Fees

Fees Details for this service in table format.

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Fees for 2024-25 can be found here.

Other resources

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Act(s) name

Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1981 Northern Territory

Petroleum Act 1984 Northern Territory

Regulation(s) name

Petroleum Regulations 2020 Northern Territory

Administering agency

Department of Mining and Energy

Energy Division

Contact details

Contact Email, Phone and Address Details for this service in simple two column table format, header then data.