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Offshore Decommissioning: named together in 3 articlesOffshore Decommission…The PRRT: named together in 3 articlesThe PRRTSantos: named together in 3 articlesSantosThe ATO: named together in 2 articlesThe ATOChevron: named together in 2 articlesChevronWoodside: named together in 2 articlesWoodsideAnthony Albanese: named together in 1 articleAnthony AlbaneseINPEX: named together in 1 articleINPEXKerry Stokes: named together in 1 articleKerry StokesPM&C: named together in 1 articlePM&CRegulatory Capture: named together in 1 articleRegulatory CaptureThe Revolving Door: named together in 1 articleThe Revolving DoorShell: named together in 1 articleShell
DOSSIER / ACTORFEDERAL REGULATOR

NOPSEMA

National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority

Status In court

The offshore petroleum regulator. It accepts operators' environment and decommissioning plans; a court is deciding whether it ever tested that a company can actually pay to remove its own rig.

Last on record
2026-07
Named in
3 articles
Across
1 case

Named in 3 articles across 1 case 13 connections: companies 5, mechanisms 4, agencies and departments 2, people 2

Key figure on file
A decade
Period of subpar performance NOPSEMA found at SGH’s Longtom gas field before ordering remediation Boiling Cold / NOPSEMA
3
Articles naming it
1
Cases it recurs across
13
Linked in the graph
2
Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

Australia's Gas HeistA decadePeriod of subpar performance NOPSEMA found at SGH’s Longtom gas field before ordering remediation3 articles →
Fig. 01Source: article scan · every article naming itAs of 2026‑07Auto-assembled

Fig. 02 / On the record

  1. A decadePeriod of subpar performance NOPSEMA found at SGH’s Longtom gas field before ordering remediationSource: Boiling Cold / NOPSEMAThe decommissioning rort →
  2. Dismissed 7 August 2026On 7 August 2026 the Federal Court dismissed The Wilderness Society v NOPSEMA (NSD1342/2025, Justice Abraham, heard 7 April 2026) and ordered the applicant to pay both respondents' costs. The reasons, [2026] FCA 1082, hold that section 571(2) and regulation 16 "focus on the petroleum activity the subject of the environment plan", and that "decommissioning costs did not fall within the financial assurance provisions for the purposes of deciding whether to accept the Reindeer EP".Source: Wilderness Society Ltd v NOPSEMA [2026] FCA 1082 at [100], [104] and [106]The A$60 billion boomerang: who cleans up the offshore rigs when the gas money is gone →
Fig. 02Source: figures on file for this name, each tied to the article it came fromAs of 2026‑07Auto-assembled

Fig. 03 / Named together

NOPSEMAOffshore Decommissioning: named together in 3 articlesOffshore Decommissioning3Santos: named together in 3 articlesSantos3The PRRT: named together in 3 articlesThe PRRT3Chevron: named together in 2 articlesChevron2The ATO: named together in 2 articlesThe ATO2Woodside: named together in 2 articlesWoodside2Anthony Albanese: named together in 1 articleAnthony Albanese1INPEX: named together in 1 articleINPEX1Kerry Stokes: named together in 1 articleKerry Stokes1PM&C: named together in 1 articlePM&C1Regulatory Capture: named together in 1 articleRegulatory Capture1Shell: named together in 1 articleShell1
The 12 names most often in the same articles as NOPSEMA. A line's weight, and the number by each name, is how many articles name both. Grey chords join the neighbours most often named together themselves (two articles or more). Circles are people and organisations, squares are mechanisms. Named together is all this shows: it is not a finding about what the relationship is.
Fig. 03Source: article scan · articles naming bothAs of 2026‑07Auto-assembled

How this page is assembled. The name, status and role are the desk's entity record. The article list, case counts, connections and the figures under On the record are read by script from the published articles that name NOPSEMA: the desk's key figures where it declared them, otherwise figures harvested from those articles. A connection is a name that appears in the same articles; it is not a finding about the relationship. The page is rebuilt when an article is published or changed.

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