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B 133 Federal Republic of Nigeria Official Gazette No. 51

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(e) fails to comply with any provisions of these Regulations or any
directives given or condition of any permit or licence issued in these
Regulations,
is liable to a penalty issued by the Authority of not more than USD 100,000
and in addition, any permit, licence or authorisation granted to that person may
be suspended, cancelled or terminated.
(2)  Notwithstanding the provisions of these Regulations, all penalties
shall be paid within 14 days of the date of the penalty demand order issued by
the Authority, and failure to comply with such penalty demand order shall
attract a 20% surcharge penalty for each day of non-compliance.
15.  The fees in the Schedule to these Regulations shall be applicable to
flare gas in midstream petroleum operations in Nigeria.
16.—(1)The Authority may request a licensee or permit holder to provide
data relating to flare gas, facility maintenance management and operations.
(2)  Where a request for data is made under subregulation (1), the licensee
or permit holder shall provide such data in the required format, within 30
calendar days of the date of the request.
17.  The Authority may issue guidelines, directives, and notices for the
effective implementation of these Regulations.
18.  In these Regulations —
“Act” means the Petroleum Industry Act No. 6, 2021 ;
“declared national emergency” means a state of emergency resulting
from a danger or threat of danger to a midstream facility as confirmed by
the Authority ;
“flare gas” means any hydrocarbon or substance that is directed to and
combusted in the flare system or incinerator in a midstream petroleum
operation resulting from but not limited to pilot gas, relieving devices, blow
down, facility start up, testing, mal-operation or deliberate burning ;
“flare gas data” means the dynamic pressure, volume and
temperature (PVT) data, and other logs and records generated in the
course of production activities, submitted to the Authority in these
Regulations, which shall include —
(a)  gas quantity ;
(b)  flow rates ;
(c)  facility name ;
(d)  facility terrain ;
(e)  coordinates, and reports relating to the data ;
(f )  historical flare gas data per facility ;
Fees
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Reporting
Authority
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