In this Chapter—

• “foreign sector of the continental shelf” means an area within which rights are exercisable with respect to the sea bed and subsoil and their natural resources by a country or territory outside the United Kingdom;

• “gas” means any substance which is or, if it were in a gaseous state, would be gas within the meaning of Part 1 of the Gas Act 1986;

• “gas processing facility” means any facility which—

  1. a

     carries out gas processing operations in relation to piped gas;

  2. b

     is operated otherwise than by a gas transporter; and

  3. c

     is not an LNG import or export facility (within the meaning of section 12 of the Gas Act 1995);

• F1“the OGA” means the Oil and Gas Authority;

• “oil processing facility” means any facility which carries out oil processing operations;

• “payments” means payments in money or money's worth;

• “petroleum” has the same meaning as in Part 1 of the Petroleum Act 1998, and includes petroleum that has undergone any processing;

• “piped gas” means gas which—

  1. a

     originated from a petroleum production project; and

  2. b

     has been conveyed only by means of pipes;

• “pipeline” means a pipe or system of pipes for the conveyance of any thing;

• “upstream petroleum pipeline” means a pipeline or one of a network of pipelines—

  1. a

     which is operated or constructed as part of a petroleum production project and is not a carbon dioxide pipeline;

  2. b

     which is used to convey petroleum from the site of one or more such projects—

     1. i

        directly to premises, in order for that petroleum to be used at those premises for power generation or for an industrial process;

     2. ii

        directly to a place outside Great Britain;

     3. iii

        directly to a terminal; or

     4. iv

        indirectly to a terminal by way of one or more other terminals, whether or not such intermediate terminals are of the same kind as the final terminal; or

  3. c

     which is used to convey gas directly from a terminal to a pipeline system operated by a gas transporter or to any premises.

For the purposes of this section—

• “carbon dioxide pipeline” means—

  1. a

     a pipeline used to convey carbon dioxide to a carbon dioxide storage site; or

  2. b

     a pipeline which is not being used for any purpose but which is intended to be used to convey carbon dioxide to such a site;

• “carbon dioxide storage site” means a facility—

  1. a

     for the storage of carbon dioxide (with a view to its permanent disposal, or as an interim measure prior to its permanent disposal); and

  2. b

     in respect of the use of which a person is required to have a licence under section 18 of the Energy Act 2008;

• “gas processing operation” means any of the following operations—

  1. a

     purifying, blending, odorising or compressing gas for the purpose of enabling it to be introduced into a pipeline system operated by a gas transporter or to be conveyed to an electricity generating station, a gas storage facility or any place outside Great Britain;

  2. b

     removing from gas for that purpose any of its constituent gases, or separating from gas for that purpose any oil or water;

  3. c

     determining the quantity or quality of gas which is or is to be so introduced, or so conveyed, whether generally or by or on behalf of a particular person,

  4. d

     separating, purifying, blending, odorising or compressing gas for the purpose of—

     1. i

        converting it into a form in which a purchaser is willing to accept delivery from a seller, or

     2. ii

        enabling it to be loaded for conveyance to another place (whether inside or outside Great Britain); and

  5. e

     loading gas—

     1. i

        at a facility which carries out operations of a kind mentioned in paragraph (d), or

     2. ii

        piped from such a facility,

     for the purpose of enabling the gas to be conveyed to another place (whether inside or outside Great Britain);

• “gas transporter” has the meaning given by section 7(1) of the Gas Act 1986;

• “oil processing operations” means any of the following operations—

  1. a

     initial blending and such other treatment of petroleum as may be required to produce stabilised crude oil and other hydrocarbon liquids to the point at which a seller could reasonably make a delivery to a purchaser of such oil and liquids;

  2. b

     receiving stabilised crude oil and other hydrocarbon liquids piped from an oil processing facility carrying out operations of a kind mentioned in paragraph (a), or storing oil or other hydrocarbon liquids so received, prior to their conveyance to another place (whether inside or outside Great Britain);

  3. c

     loading stabilised crude oil and other hydrocarbon liquids piped from a facility carrying out operations of a kind mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) for conveyance to another place (whether inside or outside Great Britain);

• “petroleum production project” means a project carried out by virtue of a licence granted under section 3 of the Petroleum Act 1998 or section 2 of the Petroleum (Production) Act 1934, or an equivalent project in a foreign sector of the continental shelf, and includes such a project which is used for the storage of gas;

• “terminal” includes—

  1. a

     facilities for such initial blending and other treatment as may be required to produce stabilised crude oil and other hydrocarbon liquids to the point at which a seller could reasonably make a delivery to a purchaser of such oil and liquids;

  2. b

     oil processing facilities;

  3. c

     gas processing facilities; and

  4. d

     a facility for the reception of gas prior to its conveyance to a place outside Great Britain.