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Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Operations Regulations 2025

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“petroleum derivatives” means products derived from the processing or
blending of petroleum or petroleum products including lubricants;
“petroleum liquids” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Act;
“petroleum products” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Act;
“pipeline” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Act;
“pipeline licence” means any licence which gives a licensee access to the
right of way for construction, operation and maintenance of a pipeline;
“planned maintenance” means prescribed maintenance either routine or
stipulated;
“prescribed port” means any port designated by notice in the Federal
Government Gazette as such for the purposes of these Regulations;
“producer” means a lessee as ascribed in the Act, the holder of a crude oil
refining licence or a gas processing licence;
“proving system” means system for validating the performance of a meter;
“refining” means the liquefying of petroleum gas by any method, separation
of crude oil by any method into any grade of petroleum product, treating and
up-grading of any petroleum or petroleum product by any method into other
product or products;
“refining facility” means a facility for the processing of petroleum liquids,
natural gas or its derivatives;
“repeatability” means the ability of a meter and prover system to repeat its
registered volume during a series of consecutive proving runs under constant
operating condition;
“right of way” means a legal right conferred on a licensee or permit holder
by the Authority to pass along a specific strip of land belonging to another
person;
“safety flaring” means flaring undertaken to ensure safe operations at a
facility;
“sampling device” means equipment used for the collection of fluid sample
from a system;
“sampling system” means a system for the collection of sample from the
fluid flowing in a pipe;
“SCF” means standard cubic feet;
“site acceptance test” means a test that is done on an equipment at the
place of operation during commissioning;
“sold in Nigeria” means where a petroleum product or natural gas —
(i)  is sold free on board in Nigeria,
(ii)  is loaded or offloaded for sale within a wholesale point in Nigeria, or
(iii)  transaction emanates, occurs or is concluded in Nigeria or within
its territorial waters;
“sparing philosophy” means the concept of providing additional equipment
in parallel on working and standby modes to ensure a facility or plant continues
to operate whenever the equipment fails;