Conducting activities after approval
If you carry out activities for geophysical or aerial surveys, well drilling and petroleum recovery after approval, you must submit reports of these activities.
Read below for more information.
Geophysical surveys
Once you start the geophysical survey, you must produce a weekly survey report to the Petroleum Operations team.
After you complete the survey
Once you complete the geophysical survey, you must:
- complete clean up and demobilisation from survey site
- ensure the environment is rehabilitated as per the approved environmental management plan
- supply periodic report for environmental rehabilitation
- confirm rehabilitation is complete - this may involve third party validation.
An assessment of the final environment rehabilitation report will take place prior to release of the security deposit.
Aerial surveys
Once you start the aerial survey, you must produce a weekly survey report to the Petroleum Operations team.
After you complete the survey
Once you complete the aerial survey, you must submit survey completion reports and data sets to the Petroleum Data Management team.
Well drilling and workover
For well drilling and workover, you must complete a well plan summary.
Well plan summary
You must provide a well plan summary seven days before starting well activity under an approved well operations management plan (WOMP).
Interest holder | Well activity | WOMP acceptance date | Well plan summary |
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Central Petroleum Limited | Palm Valley (PV12) well drilling | 25 March 2022 | Palm Valley PV12 well plan summary PDF (195.7 KB) |
Imperial Oil and Gas Pty Limited | Carpenteria 2 well drilling | 11 October 2021 | Carpenteria 2 well plan summary PDF (1.1 MB) |
Origin Energy | Velkerri 76 S2 1 well drilling | 22 July 2021 | Velkerri 76 S2 1 well drilling PDF (265.5 KB) |
Santos QNT Pty Ltd | Tanumbirini 3H well drilling | 6 May 2021 | Tanumbirini 3H well drilling PDF (1.2 MB) |
Santos QNT Pty Ltd | Tanumbirini 2H well drilling | 6 May 2021 | Tanumbirini 2H well drilling PDF (1.2 MB) |
Central Petroleum Limited | West Mereenie 27 (WM27) well drilling | 25 March 2021 | West Mereenie 27 well plan summary PDF (269.3 KB) |
Central Petroleum Limited | West Mereenie 28 (WM28) well drilling | 25 March 2021 | West Mereenie 28 well plan summary PDF (270.4 KB) |
Imperial Oil and Gas Pty Limited | Carpentaria 1 well drilling | 21 September 2020 | Carpentaria 1 summary PDF (1.3 MB) |
Santos QNT Pty Ltd | Tanumbirini 1 hydraulic fracturing, flow testing, suspension, monitoring and decommissioning activities. | 30 October 2019 | Tanumbirini 1 summary PDF (642.9 KB) |
Origin Energy | Kyalla 117 N2-1/N2-1H well drilling, hydraulic fracturing, completion, flow testing, suspension, monitoring and decommissioning activities. | 24 August 2019 | Kyalla summary PDF (8.6 MB) |
Well barrier integrity validation report
You must submit a well barrier integrity validation (WBIV) report if you identify degraded performance of a well barrier or you do any of the following to a well barrier:
- validate
- install
- replace
- modify.
Before submitting, you must have the WBIV report certified by an independent and reputable validator.
Interest holder | Well name | Well completion date | Verified WBIV | WOMP acceptance date |
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Imperial Oil and Gas Pty Ltd | Carpentaria 1 | 27 October 2021 | Carpentaria 1 Post hydraulic fracturing PDF (183.7 KB) | 31 May 2021 |
Imperial Oil and Gas Pty Ltd | Carpentaria 2/2H | 16 December 2021 | Carpentaria 2/2H - suspended PDF (172.7 KB) | 11 October 2021 |
Origin Energy | Kyalla 117 N2-1H | 21 February 2020 | Kyalla 117 N2-1H - Shut-in - 2-7/8" Tubing Installed WBIV PDF (445.4 KB) | 24 August 2019 |
Origin Energy |
Velkerri 76S2-1 |
Well Suspended - 15 October 2021 | Velkerri 76S2-1 - Suspension - 5-1/2" Casing Installed WBIV PDF (416.5 KB) | 22 July 2021 |
Santos QNT Pty Ltd | Tanumbirini 2HST1 | ongoing | Tanumbirini 2HST1 Pre-hydraulic fracture stimulation WBIV PDF (402.5 KB) | 6 May 2021 |
Santos QNT Pty Ltd | Tanumbirini 3HST1 | ongoing | Tanumbirini 3HST1 Pre-hydraulic fracture stimulation WBIV PDF (404.5 KB) | 6 May 2021 |
Imperial Oil and Gas Pty Limited | Carpentaria 1 | 23 October 2020 | Carpentaria 1 pre-hydraulic fracture stimulation WBIV PDF (273.7 KB) | 31 May 2021 |
Origin Energy | Kyalla 117 N2-1/N2-1H | 21 February 2020 | Kyalla 117 N2-1/N2-1H pre-hydraulic fracture stimulation WBIV PDF (1.6 MB) | 24 August 2019 |
Santos QNT Pty Ltd | Tanumbirini 1 | 12 December 2019 | Tanumbirini 1 WBIV PDF (597.7 KB) | 30 October 2019 |
Imperial Oil and Gas Pty Ltd | Carpentaria 1 | 23 October 2020 | Carpentaria 1 post-drilling and well suspension WBIV PDF (207.8 KB) | 21 September 2020 |
Daily reports
You must submit daily reports every day before midday Australian Central Standard Time (ACST) of the drilling or workover operations for the previous 24 hours.
The report should include the following:
- name of the well
- drilled depth
- operations carried out to the nearest 15 minutes
- lithology of formations penetrated and the interpreted depth of any marker horizons
- any indications of petroleum
- results of surveys made in the well bore
- estimated daily and cumulative well costs.
How to submit your reports
Submit your reports by email to petroleum.operations@nt.gov.au.
Contact
Contact Petroleum Operations by calling 08 8999 7348 or emailing petroleum.operations@nt.gov.au.
Last updated: 19 May 2022
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