Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

OFFSHORE PETROLEUM AND GREENHOUSE GAS STORAGE ACT 2006 - SECT 52

    For the purposes of this Act, if:

  (a)   a wellhead is situated in the title area of a title (the first title ); and

  (b)   the well from that wellhead is inclined so as to enter a petroleum pool at a place within an adjoining title area of a title (the second title ) of the same titleholder; and

  (c)   the pool does not extend to the title area of the first title;

any petroleum recovered through that well is taken to have been recovered in the adjoining title area under the second title.