Data as at 14 September 2026 · from the Queensland EP Act public register
EPPG00652213 · AUSTRALIA PACIFIC LNG CSG MARKETING PTY LIMITED
Minerals environmental authority EPPG00652213 (AUSTRALIA PACIFIC LNG CSG MARKETING PTY LIMITED), Granted. 69 conditions indexed. No PRC plan.
- Status
- Granted
- Holders
- AUSTRALIA PACIFIC LNG CSG MARKETING PTY LIMITED
- PRC plan
- None
- How it was read
- Numbered conditions
- Register
- Register record · Instrument PDF
Conditions
69 numbered conditions read from the current instrument. Page numbers link into the register PDF.
- PEEC1
The applicant for the environmental authority is the holder of, or an applicant for only the following tenure types under the Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Act 2004 or the Petroleum Act 1923: - data acquisition authority (DAA); - water monitoring authority (WMA); or authority to prospect (ATP).
- PEEC2
The petroleum activities are authorised petroleum activities for the purposes of the Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Act 2004 and the Petroleum Act 1923.
- PEEC3
The petroleum activities when combined do not cause a total significant disturbance to more than 1% of the total land area on the relevant tenure(s) at any point in time.
- PEEC4
The petroleum activity is not, or will not be, carried out under an environmental authority under which any of the following is, or is to be, authorised: (a) the injection of a waste fluid or gas for gas storage into a natural underground reservoir or aquifer; (b) a regulated dam; (c) the carrying out of the following environmentally relevant activities (ERAs): i. ERA 8 - Chemical Storage; ii. ERA 60(1a) - (1d) - Regulated waste disposal; iii. ERA 60(2d) - (2h) - General waste disposal > 10,000t/year; iv. ERA 63(1a)(ii) - (1b)(ii), (1c) - (1g) - Sewage treatment with a total daily peak design capacity of greater than 21 equivalent persons (EP) which releases to other than an infiltration trench or irrigation scheme or where the sewage treatment activities have a total combined daily peak design capacity exceeding 1500 EP; v. ERA 64(2a) and (2b) and (4a) and (4b) - Water treatment where desalination of more than 0.5ML of water is treated, allowing the release of waste to waters other than seawater; or carrying out, in a day, advanced treatment of 5ML or more of water, allowing the release of waste only to seawater; or to waters other than seawater. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Permit Environmental authority Standard Conditions Schedule A - Authorised activities
- PESCA1
All reasonable steps must be taken to ensure the petroleum activities comply with the eligibility criteria for the activity.
- PESCA2
The following types of petroleum activities are not authorised: (a) processing or storing petroleum or petroleum by-products that are not necessarily associated with well operations; (b) extracting earthen materials (other than drilling waste rock) of more than 100,000t/year; (c) extracting by dredging of more than 1000t/year of material from the bed of naturally occurring surface waters; (d) drilling wells with fluids that are oil-based or synthetic oil-based; and (e) carrying out stimulation activities using stimulation fluid that contains chemical additives where polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are in concentrations above the reporting limit.
- PESCA3
Only low impact petroleum activities can be undertaken within Category B Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESAs) or Category C ESAs other than state forests or timber reserves; or within the primary protection zone of Category A ESAs Explanatory note: Category A ESAs are excised from DAA, WMA and ATP tenure types and therefore petroleum activities cannot occur in these areas.
- PESCA4
Only essential petroleum activities can be undertaken in: (a) the primary protection zone of Category B ESAs or Category C ESAs other than state forests or timber reserves; (b) the secondary protection zone of Category A ESAs or Category B ESAs; and (c) Category C ESAs that are state forests or timber reserves.
- PESCA5
Essential petroleum activities carried out in a primary protection zone must: (a) be located in areas of pre-existing disturbance; and (b) not negatively impact the ESA. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Permit Environmental authority Schedule B - Protecting environmental values
- PESCB1
Petroleum activities that cause significant disturbance to land must not be carried out until financial assurance has been given to the administering authority as security for compliance with the environmental authority and any costs or expenses, or likely costs or expenses, mentioned in section 298 of the Environmental Protection Act 1994.
- PESCB2
Petroleum activities must not cause environmental nuisance from dust, odour, light, smoke or noise at a sensitive place, other than where an alternative arrangement is in place.
- PESCB3
Contaminants must not be directly or indirectly released to land or air except for those releases authorised by standard conditions (PESCC 11), (PESCC 15), (PESCC 22), (PESCC 23), (PESCC 25), (PESCC26), (PESCC 27), (PESCC 28), (PESCC 29), (PESCC 30), (PESCC 31), (PESCC 32), (PESCC 34) or (PESCC35).
- PESCB4
(a) Only low impact petroleum activities are permitted in a designated precinct of a Strategic Environmental Area. (b) Only essential petroleum activities are permitted within all other areas of a Strategic Environmental Area not identified in condition (a). Site planning
- PESCB5
Prior to carrying out petroleum activities, the location of petroleum activities must be selected to: (a) firstly avoid, then minimise, then mitigate any negative impacts on areas of vegetation or other areas of ecological value; (b) minimise disturbance to land that may otherwise result in land degradation; (c) minimise isolation, fragmentation or dissection of tracts of vegetation that would lead to a reduction in the current level of ecosystem functioning or ecological connectivity; and (d) minimise clearing of mature or hollow bearing trees.
- PESCB6
Records must be kept to demonstrate compliance with standard condition (PESCB 5).
- PESCB7
Prior to any significant disturbance to land: (a) an ecological assessment of areas with native vegetation that are to be significantly disturbed, must be conducted in accordance with the Queensland Government's Biocondition, a Condition Assessment Framework for Terrestrial Biodiversity in Queensland, Assessment Manual; and (b) an assessment of the impacts that will occur as a result of significant disturbance to land must be undertaken. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Permit Environmental authority Schedule C - Operating standards Documentation
- PESCC1
All plans, procedures and reports must: (a) be certified by a suitably qualified person; and (b) be kept on record for a minimum of 5 years.
- PESCC2
All plans and procedures required to be developed must be implemented. Plant and equipment
- PESCC3
All plant and equipment reasonably necessary to ensure compliance with the standard conditions must be installed.
- PESCC4
All plant and equipment must be maintained and operated in their proper and effective condition.
- PESCC5
All measures reasonably necessary to ensure compliance with the standard conditions must be implemented.
- PESCC6
Measures to prevent fauna entrapment must be implemented during the construction and operation of well infrastructure and dams. Contingency and emergency response
- PESCC7
Petroleum activities involving significant disturbance to land or which have the potential to cause environmental harm can only commence after the development of written contingency procedures which address the risks of non-compliance with Schedule B standard conditions.
- PESCC8
The contingency procedures must include, but not necessarily be limited to: (a) environmental nuisance and complaint management procedures including: i. a description of the petroleum activities that might result in non-compliance with Schedule B standard conditions and what mitigation measures are required to be implemented; and ii. the action that will be undertaken when a member of the public makes a valid complaint (b) management procedures including details of what actions will be taken to protect environmental values and minimise potential environmental harm from petroleum activities as a result of floods, severe storms and fires (c) environmental emergency management procedures including details of the response and mitigation measures that will be actioned to reduce negative impacts to environmental values in the event of a non-compliance with Schedule B standard conditions. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Permit Environmental authority Explanatory note: The contingency procedures may incorporate other documents by reference. Activities in wetlands, lakes, springs and watercourses
- PESCC9
Petroleum activities that require earthworks, vegetation clearing and/or placing fill, other than that associated with the construction of linear infrastructure, are not permitted in or within: (a) 200 metres of any wetland, lake or spring; or (b) 100 metres of the outer bank of any other watercourse.
- PESCC10
The construction and/or maintenance of linear infrastructure that will result in significant disturbance to a wetland, lake, spring or watercourse must be conducted in accordance with the following order of preference. Conducting works: 1. firstly, in times where there is no water present 2. secondly, in times of no flow 3. thirdly, in times of flow, but in a way that does not impede low flow.
- PESCC11
Petroleum activities must not result in water turbidity increases of more than 10% in high ecological value waters outside contained construction or maintenance areas.
- PESCC12
The construction and/or maintenance of linear infrastructure that will result in significant disturbance to a lake, spring or watercourse must be designed and undertaken by a suitably qualified person in accordance with the guideline Activities in a watercourse, lake or spring associated with a resource activity or mining operations.
- PESCC13
The construction and/or maintenance of linear infrastructure that will result in significant disturbance to a wetland must be designed and undertaken by a suitably qualified person taking into consideration sections 5 and 6 of the guideline Activities in a watercourse, lake or spring associated with a resource activity or mining operations. Soil management
- PESCC14
Measures to minimise stormwater entry onto significantly disturbed land must be implemented and maintained.
- PESCC15
Sediment and erosion control measures to prevent soil loss and deposition beyond significantly disturbed land must be implemented and maintained. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Permit Environmental authority Chemical Storage
- PESCC16
Chemicals and fuels on the relevant tenures must be stored in, or serviced by, an effective containment system that meets Australian Standards, where such a standard is relevant. Structures that are dams or levees
- PESCC17
Other than for flare pits and sumps used to store residual drilling material and drilling fluids, the hazard category of any dam or levee to be used in carrying out petroleum activities must be assessed in accordance with the Queensland Government Manual for Assessing Hazard Categories and Hydraulic Performance of Dams.
- PESCC18
Low hazard dams must be: (a) constructed, operated and maintained in accordance with accepted engineering standards currently appropriate for the purpose for which the dam is intended to be used; and (b) designed with a floor and sides made of material that will contain the wetting front and any entrained contaminants within the bounds of the containment system during both its operational life and including any period of decommissioning and rehabilitation.
- PESCC19
All low hazard dams must be monitored for early signs of loss of structural or hydraulic integrity as specified in the initial hazard assessment.
- PESCC20
When no longer required all low hazard dams must be decommissioned to no longer accept inflow from the petroleum activities and be either: (a) rehabilitated; or (b) agreed to in writing by the administering authority and the landholder to remain in situ following the cessation of the petroleum activity (ies) associated with the dam, with the contained water of a quality suitable for the intended ongoing uses(s) by that landholder. Blasting
- PESCC21
A Blast Management Plan must be developed for each blasting activity in accordance with Australian Standard 2187.
- PESCC22
Blasting operations must be designed to not exceed an airblast overpressure level of 120 dB (linear peak) at any time, when measured at or extrapolated to any sensitive place. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Permit Environmental authority
- PESCC23
Blasting operations must be designed to not exceed a ground-borne vibration peak particle velocity of 10mm/s at any time, when measured at or extrapolated to any sensitive place. Waste management
- PESCC24
Measures must be implemented so that waste is managed in accordance with the waste and resource management hierarchy and the waste and resource management principles.
- PESCC25
Waste, including waste fluids but excluding waste gas, must be transported off-site for lawful re-use, remediation, recycling or disposal unless the waste is specifically authorised by standard conditions (PESCC 26), (PESCC 27), (PESCC 28), (PESCC 29), (PESCC 30), (PESCC 31), (PESCC 32) or (PESCC 34) to be disposed of or used on-site.
- PESCC26
Sumps may be used for residual drilling material and drilling fluids only for the duration of drilling activities.
- PESCC27
Green waste may be used on-site for rehabilitation and/or sediment and erosion control purposes. Treated sewage effluent
- PESCC28
Treated sewage effluent or greywater can be released to land provided it: (a) meets or exceeds secondary treated class B standards for a treatment system with a daily peak design capacity of between 150 EP and 1500 EP; or (b) meets or exceeds secondary treated class C standards for a treatment system with a daily peak design capacity of less than 150 EP; and (c) is released within fenced and signed contaminant release area(s) and does not result in pooling or run- off or aerosols or spray drift or vegetation die-off. Produced water
- PESCC29
Produced water and stimulation flow-back water may be reused in: (a) drilling and well hole activities; or (b) stimulation activities where its use will not result in negative effects on waters beyond the stimulation impact zone.
- PESCC30
Produced water may be used for dust suppression and construction activities provided that it does not result in adverse effects on the composition and structure of soil or subsoils and can be demonstrated to meet the following standards: (a) pH between 6-9 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Permit Environmental authority (b) electrical conductivity (EC) not exceeding 3000S/cm (c) sodium adsorption ratio (SAR) not exceeding 8 (d) bicarbonate ion concentration not exceeding 100mg/L.
- PESCC31
Produced water used by an owner or occupier for domestic purposes or stock purposes in accordance with section 186 of the Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Act 2004 or section 86 of the Petroleum Act 1923 must meet the irrigation or livestock watering criteria as relevant to those purposes in the Australian and New Zealand Guidelines for Fresh and Marine Water Quality (2000). Residual drilling material
- PESCC32
Residual drilling material can only be disposed of on-site: (a) by mix-bury-cover method if the residual drilling material meets the approved quality criteria; or (b) if it is certified by a suitably qualified third party as being of acceptable quality for disposal to land by the proposed method and that environmental harm will not result from the proposed disposal.
- PESCC33
Records must be kept of drilling fluids and all additives used in drilling activities. Venting and well flaring
- PESCC34
Unless venting is authorised under section 72 of the Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Act 2004 or section 74M of the Petroleum Act 1923, waste gas from production testing must be flared in a manner such that: (a) an automatic ignition system is used; and (b) a flame is visible at all times while the waste gas is being flared; and (c) there is no visible smoke emissions other than for a total period of no more than 5 minutes in any 2 hours; or (d) it uses an enclosed flare. Explanatory note: If an enclosed flare is used, the requirements in relation to the ignition system, flame and smoke do not apply. Stimulation
- PESCC35
The petroleum activities must not involve well stimulation activities at a well located within 2 kilometres laterally of a landholder's active groundwater bore and sourced from a formation within 200 metres vertically of the stimulation impact zone.
- PESCC36
Prior to undertaking well stimulation activities, written stimulation management procedures must be developed. Explanatory note: The stimulation management procedures may incorporate other documents by reference. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Permit Environmental authority
- PESCC37
Stimulation activities must not result in: (a) negative impacts to groundwater quality beyond the stimulation impact zone; or (b) negative impacts to water quality in landholder's active groundwater bore(s) which tap into the target formation; or (c) interconnectivity between the target formation and another aquifer. Rehabilitation and financial assurance
- PESCC38
Significantly disturbed areas that are no longer required for the ongoing conduct of the petroleum activities must be progressively rehabilitated within 6 months (unless an exceptional circumstance in the area to be rehabilitated (e.g. a flood event) prevents this timeframe being met) so that: (a) the areas are reshaped to a stable landform (b) the areas are re-profiled to contours consistent with the surrounding landform (c) surface drainage lines are re-established (d) topsoil is reinstated.
- PESCC39
All significantly disturbed land caused by the carrying out of the petroleum activity (ies) must be rehabilitated to meet standard condition (PESCC 38) and the following final acceptance criteria: (a) any contaminated land (e.g. contaminated soils, decommissioned dams containing salt) is remediated and rehabilitated (b) rehabilitation is undertaken in a manner such that any actual or potential acid sulfate soils on the area of significant disturbance are treated to prevent or minimise environmental harm in accordance with the Instructions for the treatment and management of acid sulfate soils (2001) (c) for land that is not being cultivated by the landholder: i. groundcover, that is not a declared pest species is established and self-sustaining ii. vegetation of similar species richness and species diversity to pre-selected analogue sites is established and self-sustaining (d) for land that is to be cultivated by the landholder, cover crop is reinstated, unless the landholder will be preparing the site for cropping within 3 months of petroleum activities being completed.
- PESCC40
Monitoring of performance indicators must be carried out on rehabilitation activities until final acceptance criteria in standard condition (PESCC 39) have been met for the rehabilitated area.
- PESCC41
Prior to any changes in petroleum activities which would result in an increase to the maximum disturbance since the last financial assurance calculation was submitted, the holder of the environmental authority must submit, and the administering authority must have approved, an application to amend the financial assurance. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Permit Environmental authority Schedule D - Monitoring and reporting conditions Monitoring
- PESCD1
All monitoring must be undertaken by a suitably qualified person.
- PESCD2
If requested by the administering authority in relation to investigating a valid complaint, monitoring must be undertaken within 10 business days.
- PESCD3
All laboratory analyses and tests must be undertaken by a laboratory that has NATA accreditation for such analyses and tests, except as otherwise authorised in writing by the administering authority.
- PESCD4
Notwithstanding standard condition (PESCD 3), where there are no NATA accredited laboratories available to test for a specific analyte or substance, then duplicate samples must be sent to separate laboratories for independent testing or evaluation. Rehabilitation reporting for relinquishment of part of an authority to prospect area under the Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Act 2004.
- PESCD5
Prior to relinquishing all or part of an authority to prospect area, a rehabilitation report must be prepared which specifically relates to the area to be relinquished and which: (a) reports on the condition of the area to be relinquished against the requirements of standard conditions (PESCC 38) and (PESCC 39); and (b) includes the results of all rehabilitation monitoring undertaken in the area to be relinquished in accordance with standard condition (PESCC 40).
- PESCD6
The report required under standard condition (PESCD 5) must be submitted to the administering authority at least 20 business days prior to the relinquishment notice being lodged with the administering authority for the Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Act 2004. Sampling
- PESCD7
The methods of surface water sampling must comply with that set out in the Queensland Government's Monitoring and Sampling Manual 2009 - Environmental Protection (Water) Policy 2009.
- PESCD8
The methods of groundwater sampling must comply with the Australian Government's Groundwater Sampling and Analysis - A Field Guide (2009:27 GeoCat #6890.1). _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Permit Environmental authority
- PESCD9
Noise must be measured in accordance with the prescribed standards in the Environmental Protection Regulation 2008.
- PESCD10
The method of measurement of ambient air quality or point source contaminant releases to air must comply with the Queensland Air Quality Sampling Manual and/or Australian Standard 4323.1:1995 Stationary source emissions method 1: Selection of sampling positions, whichever is appropriate for the relevant measurement. Notification
- PESCD11
In addition to the requirements under section 320A of the Environmental Protection Act 1994, the administering authority must be notified in writing within 5 business days of any event which has resulted in the contingency procedures required by standard conditions (PESCC 7) and (PESCC 8) being activated. Explanatory note: Notification under standard condition (PESCD 11) should occur using the form, Incident notification for resource activities other than mining (EM706) available from the administering authority's website. Reporting
- PESCD12
The annual return must include an Update Report detailing activities during the annual return period, demonstrating: (a) significant disturbance during the period; (b) rehabilitation undertaken; (c) a list of all valid complaints relating to environmental issues made including the date, source, reason for the complaint and a description of investigations undertaken in resolving the complaint; and (d) the results of all monitoring undertake. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Permit Environmental authority Appendix 1: General obligations under the Environmental Protection Act 1994 Responsibilities under the Environmental Protection Act 1994 Separate to the requirements of standard conditions, the holder of the environmental authority must also meet their obligations under the Environmental Protection Act 1994, and the regulations made under that Act. For example, the holder must be aware of the following provisions of the Environmental Protection Act 1994. General environmental duty Section 319 of the Environmental Protection Act 1994 states that we all have a general environmental duty. This means that we are all responsible for the actions we take that affect the environment. We must not carry out any activity that causes or is likely to cause environmental harm unless we take all reasonable and practicable measures to prevent or minimise the harm. To decide what meets your general environmental duty, you need to think about these issues: the nature of the harm or potential harm the sensitivity of the receiving environment the current state of technical knowledge for the activity the likelihood of the successful application of the different measures to prevent or minimise environmental harm that might be taken the financial implications of the different measures as they would relate to the type of activity. It is not an offence not to comply with the general environmental duty, however maintaining your general environmental duty is a defense against the following acts: (a) an act that causes serious or material environmental harm or an environmental nuisance (b) an act that contravenes a noise standard (c) a deposit of a contaminant, or release of stormwater run-off, mentioned in section 440ZG. Duty to notify Section 320 of the Environmental Protection Act 1994 explains the duty to notify. The duty to notify applies to all persons and requires a person or company to give notice where serious or material environmental harm is caused or threatened. Notice must be given of the event, its nature and the circumstances in which the event happened. Notification can be verbal, written or by public notice depending on who is notifying and being notified. The duty to notify arises where: a person carries out activities or becomes aware of an act of another person arising from or connected to those activities which causes or threatens serious or material environmental harm. while carrying out activities a person becomes aware of the happening of one or both of the following events: i. the activity negatively affects (or is reasonably likely to negatively affect) the water quality of an aquifer ii. the activity has caused the unauthorised connection of 2 or more aquifers. For more information on the duty to notify requirements refer to the guideline Duty to notify of environmental harm (EM467). _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Permit Environmental authority Notifiable activities It is a requirement under the Environmental Protection Act 1994 that if an owner or occupier of land becomes aware that a Notifiable Activity (as defined by Schedule 4 of the Environmental Protection Act 1994) is being carried out on the land or that the land has been affected by a hazardous contaminant, they must, within 22 business days after becoming so aware, give notice to the administering authority. Some relevant offences under the Environmental Protection Act 1994 Non-compliance with a condition of an environmental authority (section 430) Section 430 of the Environmental Protection Act 1994 requires that a person who is the holder of, or is acting under, an environmental authority must not willfully contravene, or contravene a condition of the authority. Environmental authority holder responsible for ensuring conditions complied with (section 431) Section 431 of the Environmental Protection Act 1994 requires that the holder of an environmental authority must ensure everyone acting under the authority complies with the conditions of the authority. If another person acting under the authority commits an offence against section 430, the holder also commits an offence, namely, the offence of failing to ensure the other person complies with the conditions. Causing serious or material environmental harm (sections 437-39) Material environmental harm is environmental harm that is not trivial or negligible in nature. It may be great in extent or context or it may cause actual or potential loss or damage to property. The difference between material and serious harm relates to the costs of damages or the costs required to either prevent or minimise the harm or to rehabilitate the environment. Serious environmental harm may have irreversible or widespread effects or it may be caused in an area of high conservation significance. Serious or material environmental harm excludes environmental nuisance. Causing environmental nuisance (section 440) Environmental nuisance is unreasonable interference with an environmental valu