Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2010
439Application for greenhouse gas search authority
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439 Application for greenhouse gas search authority
(1) A person may apply to the Minister for the grant of a greenhouse gas search authority over a block or blocks, so long as none of the following is in force over that block or any of those blocks—
(d) a petroleum exploration permit;
(e) a petroleum retention lease;
(f) a petroleum production licence.
(a) the operations relating to—
(i) the exploration for potential greenhouse gas storage formations; and
(ii) the exploration for potential greenhouse gas injection sites—
that the applicant proposes to carry on; and
(b) the block or blocks within which the applicant proposes to carry on those operations.