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Crown Minerals Act 1991

Permits, access to land, and other matters - Decommissioning of petroleum infrastructure and wells

89F: Petroleum infrastructure

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"Petroleum infrastructure: equipment and structures used to find, extract, and transport oil and gas"

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When you hear the term petroleum infrastructure, it refers to structures or vessels used to explore for, mine, or process petroleum. This can include things like equipment attached to these structures, such as cables or pipelines, used until the petroleum is distributed or transported. You can find more information about what is considered a structure in section 101A.

Petroleum infrastructure also includes other things used in connection with prospecting or exploring for petroleum. However, it does not include things like wells, unmoored ships, vehicles, or other prescribed things.

The term petroleum infrastructure is used in the Crown Minerals Act to describe the systems and equipment used to produce petroleum, and it is an important part of the regulations surrounding petroleum production in New Zealand.

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Part 1BPermits, access to land, and other matters
Decommissioning of petroleum infrastructure and wells

89FPetroleum infrastructure

  1. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, petroleum infrastructure—

  2. means—
    1. a structure (within the meaning of section 101A) or vessel used onshore or offshore for the purpose of exploring for, or mining of, or processing, petroleum—
      1. up until the point when the petroleum enters infrastructure used by a person other than a current permit holder or licence holder; and
        1. up until the point when the infrastructure is used for distributing or transporting the petroleum, or otherwise ceases to be part of the system for producing petroleum:
        2. any equipment attached to, or used in connection with, a structure, well, vessel, or site, including cables, pipelines, flow-lines, gas lift lines, umbilicals, manifolds, and moorings:
          1. any other prescribed thing or class of thing used in connection with, prospecting or exploring for, or mining of, petroleum; but
          2. does not include—
            1. a well:
              1. any unmoored ship:
                1. any vehicle:
                  1. any other prescribed thing or class of thing.

                  Notes
                  • Section 89F: inserted, on , by section 18 of the Crown Minerals (Decommissioning and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2021 (2021 No 53).