Safety & Environment

The following pieces of legislation are used to regulate the upstream industry:

• Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, 2002 (Act No. 28 of 2002) as amended 
  
• Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Regulations, 2004 
  
• Regulations for Petroleum Exploration and Production, 2015 
• Mineral and Petroleum Royalty Act, 2008 (Act No. 28 of 2008) 
  
• Mining Titles Registration Act, 1967 (Act No. 16 of 1967) as amended 
  
• Mining Titles Registration Regulations, 2004
  
• National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act No. 107 of 1998) 
  
• Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations, 2014
  
• National Water Act, 1998 (Act No. 36 of 1998) as amended
  
• Promotion of Administrative Justice Act, 2000 (Act No.3 of 2000) 
• Environment impact assessment regulation
• Legislation protected areas 
• Mineral & petroleum resources development act
• regulatory requirements prior to drilling

• A review of the impact of seismic survey noise on narwhal and other arctic cetaceans
• Sonic impact report