Library / B 133 Federal Republic of Nigeria Official Gazette No. 51
B 133 Federal Republic of Nigeria Official Gazette No. 51

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(g)  historical flare gas data per flare stack ;
(h)  flared gas composition by stack ; and
(i)  any other data that may be required by the Authority ;
“gas flaring” means burning or incineration of gas from a flare stack ;
“major flaring event” means major combustion in the flare system or
incinerator in a midstream petroleum operation resulting from but not limited
to blow down for maintenance, facility start-up and shutdown, testing, or
deliberate burning outside the operating or set parameters ;
“mal-operation” means operation of facility or equipment outside its
operating parameters resulting in faulty or abnormal operation ;
“Metering and Data Collection Standards” means flare gas Metering
and Data Collection Standards and requirements issued by the Authority ;
“NGN” means Nigerian Naira ;
“permit holder” means a person that has been granted a permit to access
flare gas by the Authority ;
“permit to access flare gas” means a permission granted to a permit
holder by the Authority to take flare gas at a flare point ;
“planned maintenance” means prescribed maintenance either routine
or stipulated ;
“safety flaring” means flaring undertaken to ensure safe operations at
a facility ;
“start-up” means the act of starting a process, an equipment, system or
a plant or facility ;
“strategic operational reason” means consideration to certain
operations but not limited to relieving devices, blow down, facility start up
and testing ;
“testing” means the act of examining or validating the integrity of an
equipment, system or a facility during operation ;
“venting” means releasing of hydrocarbon or substance into the
atmosphere from midstream gas processing facilities.
19. These Regulations may be cited as the Midstream Gas Flare
Regulations, 2023.
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