Document Generated: 2022-06-22 Status: This is the original version (as it was originally made). (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; (q) “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. (9) In sub-paragraph (8)(f), (l), (m), (p) and (q) “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(40). (10) 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; (b) the territorial sea adjacent to the United Kingdom; or (c) the sea in any area designated under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964(41). The gas subsector 3.—(1) This paragraph describes the threshold requirements which apply to specified kinds of essential services in the gas subsector. (2) For the essential service of gas supply the threshold requirements are— (a) in Great Britain, supply undertakings that supply gas to more than 250,000 final customers; (b) in Northern Ireland, the holder of a supply licence under Article 8(1)(c) of the Gas (Northern Ireland) Order 1996(42) who supplies gas to more than 2,000 customers. (3) For the essential service of gas transmission the threshold requirements are— (a) in Great Britain— (40) 1986 c. 44. (41) 1964 c. 29. Section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964 was amended by section 37 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Act 1982 (c. 23), and section 103 of the Energy Act 2011 (c. 16). (42) S.I. 1996/275 (N.I. 2). Article 8(1)(c) was amended by regulation 17(1) of S.R. 2013 No. 92. There are other amendments to this instrument but none are relevant. 28