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Applicable to all Oil & Gas Operators GUIDELINES FOR PRODUCERS ASSOCIATED GAS UTILISATION PROJECTS Code: DPR Guide 0008 - 2020 Revision Date: 1st August 2020

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Applicable to all Oil & Gas Operators  
GUIDELINES FOR PRODUCERS ASSOCIATED GAS UTILISATION PROJECTS 
Code: DPR Guide 0008 - 2020 
 
Revision Date: 1st August 2020 
 
 
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1. 
A project with Existing Offtake Commitments prior to the effective date of the 
Regulations: 
i.  Existing Offtake Commitment project that is in operation 
ii. 
Existing Offtake Commitment project that had been approved prior to 
the effective date of the Regulations but that has not reached the 
Commercial Operations Date, referred to as Producer’s Associated Gas 
Utilisation Project for Commercialisation 
2. A Project with a Permit to Access Flare Gas issued after the effective date of the 
Regulations:  
i. 
Producer’s Approved Flare Out Project 
ii. 
Third Party Flare Gas Commercialisation Project 
3.2 
Any Producer Associated Gas Utilisation Project for Own Consumption may be 
developed only if it is incorporated in a Field Development Plan approved by the 
Department of Petroleum Resources and subject to the conditions laid out in 
Paragraph 3 (3) of the Regulations. 
3.3 
As from the effective date of the Regulations, the acceptable options to obtain a 
Permit to Access Flare Gas are: 
a. 
Third Party Flare Gas Commercialisation Projects following the procedures laid out in 
the Guidelines for Grant of Permit to Access Flare Gas; and 
b. 
Producer’s Approved Flare Out Project following the procedures laid out in these 
Guidelines. 
4. GENERAL CONSIDERATION FOR PRODUCERS’ APPROVED FLARE OUT PROJECTS 
4.1 
Producers’ Approved Flare Out Projects 
a. 
All Producers shall comply with the provisions of Paragraph 2 of the Regulations in 
respect of the right of the Federal Government of Nigeria to take Flare Gas and shall