The Submarine Pipe-lines (Designated Owners) (No. 22) Order 1989

1.  This Order may be cited as the Submarine Pipe-lines (Designated Owners) (No. 22) 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;

“the Clyde Platform” means the offshore installation known as the Clyde platform, which is situated above the Clyde oilfield, east of the Fife Region of Scotland;

“Fulmar A” means the offshore installation known as the Fulmar A platform, which is situated above the Fulmar oilfield, east of the Fife Region of Scotland;

“the pipe-lines” means the two 16 inch nominal diameter pipes, brought into use on 17th March 1987, which lie between the Clyde platform and Fulmar A and the apparatus and works associated therewith;

“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 Fulmar A; and

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