The National Oil Supplies Emergency Committee (NOSEC), a committee of the Ministerial Council on Energy (MCE), provides the main executive channel through which Commonwealth and State Governments formulate their overall management response to a national liquid fuel emergency.
The task of the NOSEC is to ensure that Minister Ferguson and the Ministerial Council on Energy receives relevant advice and information on issues confronting national supply of crude oil and petroleum products. NOSEC also fulfils the role of National Emergency Sharing Organisation, which is an ongoing requirement of Australia’s membership of the International Energy Agency.
NOSEC comprises representatives from the Commonwealth (chair), the states/territories and the oil industry. Representatives from industry include:
- Shell
- ExxonMobil
- Caltex
- BP
- Woolworths
- the Australian Institute of Petroleum.