Purpose of a retention lease

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A retention lease enables the holder of an exploration permit to retain certain rights to a petroleum discovery that it is not commercially viable to develop under a production licence at the time the lease is granted, but which might become viable to develop within 15 years.

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36 Purpose of a retention lease