Definition(s)

Explore for a potential greenhouse gas formation

For the purposes of this Act, if:

  1. a person has reasonable grounds to suspect that a part of a geological formation could be an eligible greenhouse gas storage formation; and
  2. the person carries out an activity for the purposes of ascertaining either or both of the following:
    1. the spatial extent of the eligible greenhouse gas storage formation;
    2. any of the fundamental suitability determinants of the eligible greenhouse gas storage formation;

the person is taken to explore for a potential greenhouse gas formation.

Source: Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006, Australia, amended 2012. Legislation

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