The Submarine Pipe-lines (Designated Owners) (No. 21) Order 1989

1.  This Order may be cited as the Submarine Pipe-lines (Designated Owners) (No. 21) Order 1989, and shall come into force on 11th September 1989.

2.  In this Order –

“the Act” means the Petroleum and Submarine Pipe-lines Act 1975;

“Cormorant A” means the offshore installation known as the Cormorant A Platform, which is situated above the South Cormorant oil field, north-east of the Shetland Islands;

“the platform apparatus,” means all of the 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 are part of each of the pipe-lines and attached to Cormorant A;

“the pipe-lines” means the pipe-lines described in Schedule 1 hereto; and

“the riser,” means that section of each of the pipe-lines which connects Cormorant A to that section of the pipe-line which lies in, or in close proximity to, the sea-bed and extends outwards from Cormorant A.

3.  For the purposes of Part III of the Act, except section 33(2), in respect of each of the pipe-lines, the platform apparatus and the riser shall together be treated as a pipe-line, and the remainder of each of the pipe-lines 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 Schedule 2 hereto are hereby designated as the owners of the platform apparatus and the riser comprised in each of the pipe-lines, and the persons specified in Part II of that Schedule are hereby designated as the owners of the remainder of each of the pipe-lines.

Peter Morrison

Minister of State,

Department of Energy

16th August 1989