How confident are you in your approval schedule? We measured all 713.
Plan, sequence and resource your next approval against what plans like yours actually took. ProveINTEL is Klarite's tool for analysing the NOPSEMA public register of Environment Plans: every plan filed since 2012, counted, frozen and checked against NOPSEMA's own published figures.
Environmental Data and Intelligence for you and your Agents
Every Environment Plan on the register since 2012.
- Every Environment Plan on the register since 2012: 713 plans, filed 1 January 2012 to 17 July 2026, decisions to 24 June 2026.
- A frozen copy for the 2026 Census, taken 21 July 2026 and frozen 27 July 2026, so every figure can be re-checked. The live holding is kept up to date from the register.
- For each plan: the register record, its outcome and dates, the documents NOPSEMA publishes with it, and NOPSEMA's published decision notices, including which acceptance criteria were recorded as not met.
- The lifecycle stage NOPSEMA publishes on its register, present on 709 of 713 plans: exploration 255, development 183, decommissioning 111, plus appraisal and operation and production.
- 109 filing entities, grouped by company name into 59 titleholder groups, for counting only.
What plans like yours actually took.
How long approval takes now
The typical accepted plan took 111 to 126 days for plans decided 2017 to 2020, and 275 to 292 days in 2024 and 2025. It hasn't come back down.
What to schedule against
In 2023 and 2025, one accepted plan in ten took more than two years. A long wait doesn't mean a decision is close.
How plans end
60 of 713 cancelled (8.4%), 13 refused (1.8%). Seismic surveys: 25 of 156 cancelled (16.0%), against 5.2% for drilling.
Your stage
Decommissioning: 78.5 days (n=24, decided 2017 to 2020) to 383 days (n=25, 2023 to 2025). Development: 75 days (n=38) to 239 days (n=32), same windows. Exploration: filings fell from 122 plans (2012 to 2014) to 22 (2023 to 2025).
Why plans come back
Which acceptance criteria NOPSEMA recorded as not met, criterion by criterion (full edition).
How you compare
Your filing record beside every other titleholder, by name, from public data only, nothing ranked (Market Comparison Report).
ProveINTEL for Claude.
Connect ProveINTEL to Claude as a connector and ask about the register in your own words: find Environment Plans by activity, lifecycle stage, region and outcome, and bring the Census measures into your own analysis. Your organisation signs in through its Klarite account.
Public register data only: register records and measured figures, never the text of a plan, and no personal names.
Or email services@klarite.com.au with your organisation's name and we will be in touch about access.
Not a predictor: it gives no decision date for any plan and no probability of acceptance. Not a scorer of plan quality. Not a statement by the regulator. It gives no causes. It tells you what plans like yours took.
At titleholders: approvals and environment leads, project and schedule managers, and decommissioning teams. Investors, lenders and analysts. See use cases
Klarite Pty Ltd is a Perth specialist consultancy that prepares environmental approvals for offshore energy projects in Australia, from early planning and consultation through to regulator submission.
Matt Smith, Founder | Designing the next generation of environmental approvals systems
ProveINTEL is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, NOPSEMA. Every figure traceable to the NOPSEMA public register. services@klarite.com.au