Environment plans

The Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Regulations 2021 require authority holders to submit an environment plan for acceptance before any work under the authority can commence.

We publish environment plan submission details and summaries of accepted environment plans to keep stakeholders informed.

Environment plan submissions

Regulation 13 of the Regulations requires us to publish the following details of any environment plan that is submitted:

  • the name of the authority holder
  • a description of the activity or stage of the activity to which the environment plan relates
  • the location of the activity
  • details of the titleholder's nominated contact for the activity
  • the decisions (if any) made by the Minister in relation to the environment plan.

A list of currently submitted environment plans is below:

Authority holder(s)

Details


Tasmanian Gas Pipeline Pty Ltd
Licence: VIC/PL30(V)

Activity and stage: Mandatory five yearly variation (i.e. update) for operation of the pipeline

Location: Offshore Gippsland

Contact:
Wacek Lipski
Chief Executive Officer
Tasmanian Gas Pipeline Pty Ltd
Level 37, 360 Elizabeth Street
Melbourne, Victoria 3000
Email: enquiries@tasmaniangaspipeline.com.au

Decision: Under assessment

Date submitted: 29/06/2025

GB Energy (Vic) Pty Ltd
Licence:
VIC/RL1(V)

Activity and stage: Geophysical investigations of the well site and pipeline route

Location: Offshore Gippsland

Contact:
Rajan Lal
Regulatory & Compliance Manager
GB Energy (Vic) Pty Ltd
Level 18
90 Collins Street
Melbourne, Victoria 3000
Email: rl@gbenergy.com.au

Decision: Under assessment

Date submitted: 03/07/2025

Environment plan summaries

Regulation 13E of the Regulations requires environment plan summaries to contain the following material from the accepted environment plan:

  • the location of the activity
  • a description of the receiving environment
  • a description of the activity
  • details of environmental impacts and risks
  • a summary of the control measures for the activity
  • a summary of arrangements for ongoing monitoring of the authority holder's environmental performance
  • a summary of environmental emergency response arrangements
  • details of consultation already undertaken and plans for ongoing consultation
  • details of the authority holder's nominated contact for the activity.

Summaries of accepted environment plans are available below.

Accessible versions of these documents are currently not available. Work to create an accessible version may already be in progress or an accessible version can be provided on request. Please contact us if you need further information.

Cooper Energy - Gippsland Pipelines Operations

Esso - Bass Strait Eight Pipelines Operations

Cooper Energy - Otway Pipeline – Operations

GB Energy - Golden Beach Geotechnical Investigations

Beach Energy - Otway Pipeline Operations

Beach Energy - Enterprise Offshore Gas Field Production

Woodside Energy - Minerva Pipeline Operations

Beach Energy - BassGas Pipeline Operations

Beach Energy - Black Watch 1 Drilling

Beach Energy - Halladale Black Watch Speculant Wells Operations

Beach Energy - Enterprise Well Drilling

GB Energy - Golden Beach Geophysical and Geotechnical Investigations

GB Energy - Golden Beach 2 Offshore Appraisal Drilling

Cooper Energy Casino Henry Netherby Pipeline - Continued operations

The CarbonNet Project - Pelican 3D Marine seismic survey

Origin Enterprise II - 3D Transition zone seismic survey

Origin Enterprise I - Seismic survey

Tasmanian Gas

Page last updated: 01 Aug 2025