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Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Operations Regulations 2025

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“Midstream and Downstream Gas Operations” has the meaning ascribed
to it in the Act;
“Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Liquids Operations” has the
meaning ascribed to it in the Act;
“Minister” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Act;
“MMSCFD” means million standard cubic feet per day;
“modification” means the expansion, rehabilitation, refurbishment,
revamping or upgrading of a midstream and downstream petroleum facility;
“N+1” means the representation of an additional system to serve as
redundancy;
“natural gas” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Act;
“natural gas conditioning or refining plant” means a facility for processing
of natural gas to meet transport and sales specifications;
“natural gas liquids” or “NGL” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Act;
“network” means a set of interconnected pipelines;
“new technology” means a piece of equipment, device or solution that has
never been implemented in Nigeria;
“NGN” means Nigerian Naira;
“offence’’ means an illegal act, activity or breach of the Act, regulations,
notices or directives made by the Authority pursuant to the Act;
“one calendar year” means 12 months from January 1st to December
31st;
“one year” refers to a general period of 365 days that can start on any
other named day of the calendar and ending on the day before this named day
in the following year;
“open access” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Act;
“operating envelope” means the limited range of process parameters in
which operations may result in safe and acceptable performance of a plant or
facility;
“operator” means an entity or company managing the operations of a
facility;
“optimisation” means maximising plant yields and efficiency;
“peddling” means direct distribution of  DPK and AGO to end users with
not more than 10,000 litres capacity truck or its equivalent;
“permit holder” means a holder of a permit issued by the Authority for
midstream or downstream petroleum operations in Nigeria;
“permit to access flare gas” means a permission granted to a permit holder
by the Authority to take flare gas at a flare point;
“petrochemical plant” means a facility for the processing of chemicals
derived from petroleum;
“petroleum” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Act;
“petroleum-based additive” means  chemical compounds that improve the
quality of petroleum liquids, natural gas or other hydrocarbon materials;