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1. This Order may be cited as the Submarine Pipe-lines (Designated Owners) (No. 37) Order 1989, and shall come into force on 19th January 1990.
2. In this Order —
“the Act” means the Petroleum and Submarine Pipe-lines Act 1975;
“Thistle A” means the offshore installation known as the Thistle A Platform which is situated above the Thistle oilfield, north-east of the Shetland Islands;
“Dunlin A” means the offshore installation known as the Dunlin A Platform which is situated above the Dunlin oilfield, north-east of the Shetland Islands;
“Cormorant A” means the offshore installation known as the Cormorant A Platform which is situated above the South Cormorant oilfield, north-east of the Shetland Islands;
“the Thistle SALM” means the single anchor leg mooring which is situated above the Thistle oilfield, north-east of the Shetland Islands;
“the Thistle to Dunlin pipe-line” means the 16 inch nominal diameter pipe brought into use on the 5th December 1978, which lies between Thistle A and Dunlin A and the apparatus and works associated therewith;
“the Thistle to Thistle SALM pipe-line” means the two 16 inch nominal diameter pipes brought into use on the 11th Feburary 1978, which lie between Thistle A and the Thistle SALM and the apparatus and works associated therewith;
“the riser” means that section of the Thistle to Dunlin pipe-line which connects Dunlin A to that section of the pipe-line which lies in, or in close proximity to, the sea-bed and which extends outwards from Dunlin A;
“the platform apparatus” means apparatus and works of a kind specified in paragraph (a), (aa), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f) of section 33(1) of the Act(1)which is part of the Thistle to Dunlin pipe-line and is attached to Dunlin A;
“the bypass pipe-line” means the 16 nominal diameter pipe, together with the apparatus and works associated therewith, brought into use on the 5th December 1978, which lies between the Thistle to Dunlin pipe-line and the pipe-line which extends between Dunlin A and Cormorant A.
3. For the purposes of Part III of the Act, except section 33(2), the riser and the platform apparatus shall together be treated as a single pipe-line, and the remainder of the Thistle to Dunlin pipe-line shall be treated as a separate pipe-line.
4. For the purposes of Part III of the Act, the persons specified in Part I of the Schedule hereto are hereby designated as owners of the Thistle to Dunlin pipe-line and the Thistle to Thistle SALM pipe-line and the persons specified in Part II of the Schedule hereto are hereby designated as ownes of the riser, the platform apparatus and the bypass pipe-line.
Peter Morrison
Minister of State,
Department of Energy
22nd December 1989
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