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“Property/Properties” means materials and equipment seized or 
confiscated by the Authority in the exercise of its powers under the Act; 
 
"proving system" means system for validating the performance of a meter; 
 
“Regulations” means these Midstream and Downstream Petroleum 
Operations Regulations; 
"Refining" includes the liquefying of petroleum gas or gases by whatever 
method, separating or crude oil by whatever method into any grade of 
petroleum product, treating and up-grading of any petroleum or 
petroleum product by whatever method into other product or products. 
"Refining area" means any area in which operations connected with oil 
refining or the extraction of petroleum spirit from natural gas are carried 
on or in which oil or the products thereof are stored, including any gay, oil 
via duct leading to the sea or landing stage whether enclosed or not) 
adjacent to such area. 
“Refining facilities” means any facility where petroleum refining activities 
take place and may include Floating Production Storage and Offloading 
(FPSO), Floating Production Unit (FPU), Floating Storage and Offloading 
Unit (FSO), Mobile Offshore Production Unit (MOPU), Refineries, 
petrochemical plants, terminals, gas-based fertilizer plants, methanol 
plants, and gas-derivatives facilities, oil and gas handling facilities and any 
other similar facilities. 
"repeatability" means the ability of a meter and prover system to repeat 
its registered volume during a series of consecutive proving runs under 
constant operating condition; 
"Restricted Area" has the same meaning as the "operational area"; 
“Right of Way” means a legal right conferred on an operator by the 
Authority to pass along a specific strip of land belonging to another. 
“safety flaring” means flaring undertaken to ensure safe operations at a 
facility; 
“sampling device” means equipment used for the collection of fluid 
sample from a system;