Post-closure obligations
3.—(1) After a storage site has been closed and until the licence is terminated, the operator must continue to comply with the obligations in the storage permit to—
(a)monitor the storage site;
(b)report and notify leakages and significant irregularities (with the exception of the obligation to provide information on the quantities, properties and composition of the CO2 streams that have been delivered to and injected into the storage site); and
(c)take corrective measures.
(2) For the purpose of complying with the obligations referred to in sub-paragraph (1), any reference to the monitoring plan or the corrective measures plan is to be read as a reference to the post-closure plan.
(3) The operator must seal the storage site and remove the injection facilities in accordance with its obligations under Part 4 of the Petroleum Act 1998.