Library / B 2103 Federal Republic of Nigeria Official Gazette No. 205
B 2103 Federal Republic of Nigeria Official Gazette No. 205

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(j)  an environmental management plan for a pipeline in excess of 20
kilometres in length;
(k)  a decommissioning and abandonment plan;
(l)  a statement as to whether the pipeline is intended for own use of the
licensee or as a common carrier;
(m)  the timing and plan for the request for approval of pipeline tariffs; and
(n)  an explanatory note indicating the applicability to the pipeline of the  —
(i)  Gas Transportation Network Code, where the proposed pipeline is
a natural gas transportation pipeline, or
(ii)  Petroleum Liquids Transportation Network Code, where the
proposed pipeline is a petroleum liquids transportation pipeline.
(4)  The applicant shall publish a notice of its application on its website,
one national and one local newspaper and in the Federal Government official
gazette in such manner as the Authority may prescribe and the notice shall
include —
(a)  a date not less than six weeks from the date of publication of the
notice for the public hearing of objections if any, to the grant of the petroleum
pipeline licence;
(b)  the person designated to receive any such objections; and
(c)  the place at which such objections shall be heard.
(5)  The Authority shall, upon the—
(a)  successful review of all submissions;
(b)  receipt of no objection from relevant third-parties on the right of way
during the public hearing; and
(c)  payment of prescribed petroleum pipeline licence fees,
grant a petroleum pipeline licence to the applicant.
(6)  The Authority may grant a petroleum pipeline licence upon inspection
of the right of way and the payment of prescribed fees where the pipeline —
(a)  does not have any third-party interference;
(b)  is for the evacuation of petroleum liquids from jetty into a storage
facility; or
(c)  is for gas distribution to end-users at low-pressure whose route does
not have any third-party interference and is of relatively short length.
(7)  The holder of a petroleum pipeline licence shall, during the laying of
the pipeline —
(a)  comply with all health, safety and environmental regulations made by
the Authority;
(b)  submit to the Authority all Inspection and Test Plans ‘‘ITPs’’ of all line
pipes and major pipeline ancillaries;