9. In section 66(1)—E+W+S
(a)after the definition of “diversion”, there shall be inserted—
““foreign sector of the continental shelf” means an area within which rights are exercisable with respect to the sea bed and subsoil and their natural resources by a country or territory outside the United Kingdom;
“gas” means any substance which consists wholly or mainly of—
(a)
methane ethane, propane, butane, hydrogen or carbon monoxide;
(b)
a mixture of two or more of those gases; or
(c)
a combustible mixture of one or more of those gases and air;
“gas pipe-line” means—
(a)
a pipe-line, other than an upstream petroleum pipe-line, which is used to convey gas to premises or to a pipe-line system operated by a public gas transporter and in respect of which an exemption has been granted by or under the Gas Act 1986 from the requirement for a public gas transporter’s licence; or
“gas processing facility” means any facility in Great Britain operated otherwise than by a public gas transporter (within the meaning of Part I of the Gas Act 1986) which carries out gas processing operations;
“gas processing operation” means any of the following operations, namely—
(a)
purifying, blending, odorising or compressing gas for the purpose of enabling it to be introduced into a pipe-line system operated by a public gas transporter (within the meaning of Part I of the Gas Act 1986) or to be conveyed to an electricity generating station, a gas storage facility or any place outside Great Britain;
(b)
removing from gas for that purpose any of its constituent gases, or separating from gas for that purpose any oil or water; and
(c)
determining the quantity or quality of gas which is or is to be so introduced, or so conveyed, whether generally or by or on behalf of a particular person;”
(b)after the definition of “in”, there shall be inserted—
““interconnector” means a pipe-line, other than an upstream petroleum pipe-line or a pipe-line operated by a public gas transporter (within the meaning of Part I of the Gas Act 1986), which is used to convey gas to or from a place outside Great Britain;”
(c)in the definition of “owner”, at the end of paragraph (c), there shall be added—
“and, for the purposes of section 10 in the case of gas pipe-lines only (other than section 10(1)), and for the purposes of sections 10B to 10F (other than the first reference in section 10E(2)), includes a person who has the right to use capacity in the pipe-line, where such right has been acquired by that person on terms that—
(i)
he is entitled to use the capacity for a period of one year or more; and
(ii)
the right is capable of being assigned or otherwise disposed of to another person;”
(d)after the definition of “owner” there shall be inserted—
““petroleum” includes any mineral oil or relative hydrocarbon and natural gas existing in its natural condition in strata, whether or not it has undergone any processing; but does not include coal or bituminous shales or other stratified deposits from which oil can be extracted by destructive distillation;
“petroleum production project” means a project carried out by virtue of a licence granted under section 3 of the Petroleum Act 1998, or an equivalent project in a foreign sector of the continental shelf, and includes such a project which is used for the storage of gas;”
(e)after the definition of “street works consent” there shall be inserted—
““terminal” includes—
(a)
facilities for such initial blending and other treatment as may be required to produce stabilised crude oil and other hydrocarbon liquids to the point at which a seller could reasonably make a delivery to a purchaser of such oil and liquids;
(b)
gas processing facilities; and
(c)
a facility for the reception of gas prior to its conveyance to a place outside Great Britain;
“upstream petroleum pipe-line” means a pipe-line or one of a network of pipe-lines operated or constructed as part of a petroleum production project or used to convey petroleum from the site of one or more such projects—
(a)
directly to premises, in order for that petroleum to be used at those premises for power generation or for an industrial process;
(b)
directly to a terminal; or
(c)
indirectly to a terminal by way of one or more other terminals, whether or not such intermediate terminals are of the same kind as the final terminal.”