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B 2103 Federal Republic of Nigeria Official Gazette No. 205

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“fishery expert” means an officer responsible for the conservation and
protection of marine life;
“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 —
(i)  gas quantity,
(ii)  flow rates,
(iii)  facility name,
(iv)  facility terrain,
(v)  coordinates, and reports relating to the data,
(vi)  historical flare gas data per facility,
(vii)  historical flare gas data per flare stack,
(viii)  flared gas composition by stack, and
(ix)  any other data that may be required by the Authority;
“gas chromatograph” means a device for measuring gas composition;
“gas derivatives” means products derived from the processing or
blending of natural gas or gas products including urea fertiliser, methanol,
hydrogen, etc.;
“gas distribution licence” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Act;
“gas distribution network” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Act;
“gas distributor” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Act;
“gas flaring” means burning or incineration of gas from a flare stack;
“gas processing facilities” means facilities for processing natural gas which
include gas processing plant, gas conditioning plant, gas-to-fertiliser plant,
LNG plants, GTL plants, methanol plants, LPG plants and other gas derivatives
plants;
“gas transportation network” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Act;
“gas transportation pipeline” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Act;
“GTL” means gas to liquid;
“hydrocarbon processing facilities” means facilities used for processing
hydrocarbon liquids and gas, excluding blending plants, emulsion processing
facilities, waste recycling plants which include crude oil refineries,
petrochemical facilities, gas processing facilities, fertilisers, gas derivative
plant, LNG, GTL and other gas processing facilities, FPSO, floating processing
facilities, etc.;
“hydrocarbon refining facilities” means crude oil refining plants, natural
gas processing plants, conditioning plants, treatment plants, gas refining plants,
petrochemical plants and any other plants for the processing of crude oil,