Variation of Pipeline Licence – T/PL3 (Thylacine Pipeline)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Sections 226 and 708

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006

VARIATION OF PIPELINE LICENCE – T/PL3

(THYLACINE PIPELINE)

I, JOANNE JENNIFER BELL, Delegate of the National Offshore Petroleum Titles Administrator, on behalf of the Commonwealth–Tasmania Offshore Petroleum Joint Authority hereby vary Pipeline Licence T/PL3, dated 24 August 2004 (the Licence), for which:

Beach Energy (Operations) Limited

(ACN 007 845 338)

Beach Energy (Otway) Limited

(ACN 099 899 395)

OGOG (Otway) Pty Ltd

(ACN 628 946 752)

are the registered titleholders, as set out below.

The variation takes effect on the day on which this notice of variation is published in the Commonwealth Government Gazette.

Made under the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006
of the Commonwealth of Australia

JOANNE JENNIFER BELL

DELEGATE OF THE TITLES ADMINISTRATOR

ON BEHALF OF THE COMMONWEALTH–TASMANIA
OFFSHORE PETROLEUM JOINT AUTHORITY

1. The Route of The Pipeline is varied by deleting the current text and replacing it with the following:

The pipeline shall commence from the downstream flange of the last valve off the  Thylacine wellhead platform (Easting 664 147, Northing 5 655 174) proceeding to the boundary of the offshore areas of Tasmania and Victoria (Easting 665 069, Northing 5 659 452). 

Coordinates are based on Geodetic Datum of Australia (GDA94).

* the end point of the T/PL3 pipeline is immediately adjacent to the commencement point of Pipeline Licence VIC/PL36

2.      The T/PL3 Pipeline Route Map on page 4 is deleted and replaced with the map at Attachment 1.

3.      In the Schedule under SPECIFICATION, section (B) Basis of Design is varied in respect to item (e) with the current text deleted and replaced with:

(e) a pipeline length of approximately 4.3 km.

The rest of the Schedule of Specifications remains as stated in the licence instrument dated 24 August 2004.

Attachment 1