Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Environment) Regulations 2009.

These Regulations aim at ensuring that offshore petroleum exploration and development operations are performed in a way that is consistent with the principles of ecologically sustainable development, reducing environmental risks and effects to as low as reasonably practicable and is acceptable. Any petroleum activity or greenhouse gas storage activity in the offshore area shall be carried out in accordance with an environmental plan that has: (a) appropriate environmental performance objectives and standards; and (b) measurement criteria for determining whether the objectives and standards have been met. Plans shall be prepared by operators and approved by the Regulator in accordance with these Regulations. Other provisions of these Regulations concern, among other things, discharges of produced formation water and reporting on incidents.