exploration
as defined in Directive 2009/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April…, Article 3, point (8) (Definitions)
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‘exploration’ means the assessment of potential storage complexes for the purposes of geologically storing CO2 by means of activities intruding into the subsurface such as drilling to obtain geological information about strata in the potential storage complex and, as appropriate, carrying out injection tests in order to characterise the storage site;
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Also defined in
- Directive 2013/30/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 June 2013 on safety of offshore oil and gas… 32013L0030, Article 2, point (15)
drilling into a prospect and all related offshore oil and gas operations necessary prior to production-related operations