The National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) is Australia’s independent offshore energy regulator.

We regulate health and safety, well integrity, and environmental management for all oil and gas operations and greenhouse gas storage activities in Commonwealth waters, and in coastal waters where we have been given regulatory powers.

Our role is also to assess risk management plans, inspect to monitor compliance, investigate to verify and learn from non-compliance, take enforcement action to correct and deter non-compliance and promote and advise with the objective of fostering continuous improvement in industry performance.

NOPSEMA fulfils its legislated functions by undertaking assessment, inspection, investigation, enforcement, promotion and advisory activities.