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subsection (3)(a) or (c) of that section and is a relevant offshore installation only to the
extent it is used to carry on those activities;
(u) “storage facility” has the meaning given by Article 2(9) of the Gas Directive;
(v) “storage system operator” has the meaning given by Article 2(10) of the Gas Directive;
(w) “supply” has the meaning given by Article 2(7) of the Gas Directive;
(x) “supply undertaking” has the meaning given by Article 2(8) of the Gas Directive;
(y) “terminal” includes—
(i) facilities for such initial blending and other treatment as may be required to produce
stabilised crude oil to the point at which a seller could reasonably make a delivery
to a purchaser of such oil;
(ii) oil processing facilities;
(iii) gas processing facilities; and
(iv) a facility for the reception of gas prior to its conveyance to a place outside the United
Kingdom;
(z) “transmission” has the meaning given by Article 2(3) of the Gas Directive; and
(aa) “transmission system operator” has the meaning given by Article 2(4) of the Gas Directive;
(bb) “upstream petroleum pipeline” means a pipeline or one of a network of pipelines which
is—
(i) operated or constructed as part of a petroleum production project (or an equivalent
project in a foreign sector of the continental shelf) and is not a carbon dioxide
pipeline;
(ii) used to convey petroleum from the site of one or more such projects—
(aa) directly to premises, in order for that petroleum to be used at those premises
for power generation or for an industrial process;
(bb) directly to a place outside the United Kingdom;
(cc) directly to a terminal; or
(dd) 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; or
(iii) used to convey gas directly from a terminal to a pipeline system operated by a gas
transporter or to any premises.
(11) In—
(a) sub-paragraphs 2(a), 3(a), 4(a), 5(a) and 6(a), or in any provision of the Gas Directive to
which these sub-paragraphs cross-refer, any reference to “gas” or “natural gas” means any
substance in a gaseous state which consists wholly or mainly of—
(i) methane or hydrogen;
(ii) a mixture of two or more of those gases; or
(iii) a combustible mixture of one or more of those gases and air;
(b) sub-paragraphs 10(h), (q), (r), (y) and (bb), “gas” means any substance which is or, if it
were in a gaseous state, would be gas within the meaning of Part 1 of the Gas Act 1986(56).
(12) In this paragraph an upstream petroleum pipeline, oil processing facility, or gas processing
facility is “relevant” if and in so far as it is situated in—
(a) the United Kingdom;
(56) 1986 c. 44.
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