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“Environmental management plan” means a plan that specifies the 
environmental, health and safety terms for the mitigation, monitoring, and 
institutional measures to be implemented during the development and 
operation of a facility or operation to eliminate adverse environmental 
and social impacts to tolerable levels. 
"factory acceptance test" means a test that is carried out at the 
fabrication shop or test yard on an equipment before shipment into the 
country or site; 
“Feedstock shrinkage” means the loss of feedstock during delivery or 
transfer 
"fiscal metering" means metering carried out in connection with 
purchase, sale and the calculation of taxes and royalties; 
“Fishery Expert” means such 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 — 
(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; 
(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;