Field development plan

A petroleum production licensee must have an accepted Field Development Plan (FDP) in place in order to undertake the recovery of petroleum from a pool in the licence area. Only an applicant for a production licence, or the holder of a production licence, can apply for acceptance of a FDP.

Guidance

View the relevant legislation and regulations on our Legislation page.

Visit our Guidelines and Fact sheets pages for more information including:

• Developing a petroleum resource fact sheet
• Cessation of pipeline operations and/or petroleum production fact sheet.

Also refer to:

• Application fees and annual levies
• Petroleum production licences
• Rate of recovery and equipement proceedures.

Forms

Relevant forms and Forms Guidance are on our Forms page. These include:

• Approval to undertake recovery of petroleum without accepted field development plan application
• Extension of approval to undertake recovery of petroleum without accepted field development plan application
• Acceptance of field development plan application
• Variation of field development plan application.