4.1 This industry award covers employers throughout Australia who are engaged in the hydrocarbons industry in respect of work by their employees engaged in the classifications listed in this award, to the exclusion of any other award.
4.2 Definition of hydrocarbons industry
For the purposes of this clause, hydrocarbons industry means:
(a) the exploration and/or drilling for hydrocarbons by use of on and offshore drilling rigs or platform drilling rigs or any other means;
(b) the preparatory work and development of an oil or gas field, including well servicing, and decommissioning of hydrocarbon facilities;
(c) the extraction, separation, production and processing, piping, storage, distribution and transport (including handling or loading facilities) of hydrocarbons;
(d) provision of services incidental to the activities set out in clause 4.2(a) to (c) above, including:
(i) provision of clerical and administrative, warehousing, stores and materials, medical, laboratory, utility or general services, or platform services at a location where the activities in clause 4.2 (a) to (c) above are being performed;
(ii) provision of catering, cleaning and accommodation services where owned or operated by an employer engaged in the activities set out in clause 4.2 (a) to (c) above at a location where the activities in clause 4.2 (a) to (c) above are being performed;
(iii) provision of supply base services owned or operated by an employer engaged in the activities set out in clause 4.2(a) to (c) above;
(e) the commissioning, servicing, maintaining (including mechanical, electrical, fabricating or engineering and preparatory work), modification, upgrading or repairing of facilities, plant and/or equipment used in the activities set out above by employees principally employed to perform work on an ongoing basis at a location where the activities described above are being performed; or
(f) the provision of temporary labour services used in the activities set out in clause 4.2 (a) to (e) above, by temporary labour personnel principally engaged to perform work at a location where the activities described above are being performed.
4.4 This award covers employers which provide group training services for apprentices and trainees engaged in the industry and/or parts of industry set out at clause 4.1 and those apprentices and trainees engaged by a group training service hosted by a company to perform work at a location where the activities described herein are being performed. This subclause operates subject to the exclusion from coverage in this award.
4.5 Where an employer is covered by more than one award, an employee of that employer is covered by the award classification which is most appropriate to the work performed by the employee and to the environment in which the employee normally performs the work.
NOTE: Where there is no classification for a particular employee in this award it is possible that the employer and that employee are covered by an award with occupational coverage.
hydrocarbons means hydrocarbons or other products extracted from oil and gas fields, or other hydrocarbon products extracted from the earth, whether in solid, liquid or gas form, including without limitation gas, butane and methane, crude oil or condensate but excluding coal