Paragraph 2 InterpretationI1

In this Part of this Schedule—

• “additional costs” means any additional costs reasonably and properly incurred and evidenced by the licensee in carrying out the licensee’s operations (which for the avoidance of doubt includes decommissioning operations) caused by the construction, operation or decommissioning of the authorised development (and includes all reasonable costs incurred by the licensee in engaging and retaining such experts, consultants and contractors as may be reasonably necessary to allow the licensee to carry out its operations under the licence) but excluding any costs prior to 1 June 2029 and consequential loss;

• “AP-1 helideck” means the helideck located on the accommodation platform at CPC the coordinates of which are—

  Location	Lat WGS84 (DD MM SS.sss)	Lon WGS84 (DD MM SS.sss)
  AP-1 helideck	53° 50’ 44.348” N	003° 35’ 00.579” W

• “authorised development” has the same meaning as in Schedule 1 of this Order and shall include any part of the said works including any preparatory works;

• “cable” means the power and telecommunications cables connecting CPC to the DP3 wells shown terracotta pink and annotated as CPC to DP3 on the Spirit Protective Provisions Plan;

• “Calder Platform” means the normally unattended, minimum facilities wellhead platform located in the United Kingdom Continental Shelf Block 110/7a D;

• “cessation of production” or “COP” means the date on which production from the relevant field/reservoir permanently ceases for whatever reason, as formally notified to the Oil and Gas Authority of the United Kingdom (trading as the North Sea Transition Authority);

• “consequential loss” means, with the exception of foreseeable losses—

  1. (a)

     any consequential or indirect loss under English law; or

  2. (b)

     any of the following in each case whether direct or indirect to the extent that these are not included in (a)—

     1. (i)

        loss or damage arising out of any delay, postponement, interruption or loss of production of hydrocarbons, any inability to produce, process or deliver hydrocarbons or any loss of or anticipated loss of use, profit or revenue (for the avoidance of doubt the undertaker and licensee do not consider such to be foreseeable losses);

     2. (ii)

        loss or damage incurred or liquidated or pre-estimated damages of any kind whatsoever borne or payable under any contract for sale, exchange, transportation, processing, storage or other disposal of hydrocarbons (for the avoidance of doubt the undertaker and licensee do not consider such to be foreseeable losses);

     3. (iii)

        loss of expectation or opportunity; or

     4. (iv)

        any other loss or anticipated loss or damage whatsoever in the nature of or consequential upon the foregoing, in either case (a) or (b) above howsoever caused or arising whether under contract, by virtue of any fiduciary duty, in tort or delict (including negligence), as a consequence of breach of any duty (statutory or otherwise) or under any other legal doctrine or principle whatsoever whether or not recoverable at common law or in equity and whether or not foreseeable at the date stated in article 1 (citation and commencement) of this Order;

• “CPC” means the hydrocarbon production and processing facilities complex known generally as such or the Central Processing Complex located in the United Kingdom Continental Shelf Block 110/2a, 110/3a and 110/8a;

• “DP-1 helideck” means the helideck located on drilling production platform 1 located at CPC the coordinates of which are—

  Location	Lat WGS84 (DD MM SS.sss)	Lon WGS84 (DD MM SS.sss)
  DP-1 helideck	53° 50’ 45.272” N	003° 34’ 50.140” W

• “DP-6 helideck” means the helideck located on drilling production platform 6 the coordinates of which are—

  Location	Lat WGS84 (DD MM SS.sss)	Lon WGS84 (DD MM SS.sss)
  DP-6 helideck	53° 51’ 50.155” N	003° 37’ 04.993” W

• “DP-8 helideck” means the helideck located on drilling production platform 8 the coordinates of which are—

  Location	Lat WGS84 (DD MM SS.sss)	Lon WGS84 (DD MM SS.sss)
  DP-8 helideck	53° 53’ 26.724” N	003° 37’ 27.233” W

• “foreseeable losses” means losses, damages, costs, or expenses suffered by the licensee that arise naturally from, out of, or relating to the construction, operation, maintenance, repair, replacement and decommissioning of the authorised development (or any part thereof) or the failure of it (or any part thereof) that were reasonably contemplated by the undertaker and licensee at 4 November 2025, including, but without limitation to the forgoing—

  1. (a)

     losses, damages, costs or expenses suffered by the licensee in respect of additional aviation and / or maritime resources (including walk-to-work vessels); and

  2. (b)

     losses, damages, costs or expenses suffered by the licensee in respect of additional activities required to be performed in order for the licensee’s operations to be compliant with prevailing laws and regulations;

• “helidecks” means the AP-1 helideck, the DP-1 helideck, the DP-6 helideck and the DP-8 helideck and “helideck” shall mean any one of them (as the context so requires);

• “hydrocarbon free” means the condition of facilities, equipment or systems where the same have been cleaned and verified to contain hydrocarbon levels below the flammable threshold, in accordance with the Energy Institute’s EI15 guidance;

• “interim to enduring aviation buffer change date” means the earlier of: (a) the date CPC is hydrocarbon free; or (b) 1 April 2031;

• “legacy wells” means the legacy wells known as DP3 (C1-5), 110/3-3, 110/8-2, 110/8A-7, 110/8-2 Relief and 110/8a-C5 Relief, the coordinates for which are—

  Wells	Latitude	Longitude
  DP3 (C1-5)	53°49’0.6155”N	3°33’36.1013”W
  110/3-3	53°50’15.4200”N	3°34’50.9700”W
  110/8-2	53°49’40.9985”N	3°33’22.7997”W
  110/8A-7	53°46’4.3984”N	3°34’24.5556”W
  110/8-2 Relief	53°49’57.1774”N	3°33’23.0190”W
  110/8a-C5 Relief	53°49’40.4140”N	3°34’2.7666”W

  and “legacy well” shall mean any of them (as the context so requires);

• “licence” means United Kingdom Petroleum Production Licence P.153, United Kingdom Petroleum Production Licence P.1483 and United Kingdom Petroleum Production Licence P.251 (as any or all of the same may be assigned, amended or replaced from time to time);

• “licensee” means the holder from time to time of any of the licences, which at the date stated in article 1 (citation and commencement) of this Order is Spirit Energy Production UK Limited;

• “licensee’s operations” means exploration, appraisal, development, production, transportation maintenance, repair replacement, interventions or decommissioning activity in accordance with and pursuant to the licence;

• “O&G decommissioning date” means the date on which Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment and Decommissioning (or any successor body) confirms acceptance of the close-out reports for the decommissioning of Spirit Energy’s East Irish Sea assets under the licence;

• “offshore substation platform” or “OSP” means Work No. 2(a) as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order but excluding transition pieces;

• “pipeline” means—

  1. (a)

     the decommissioned 24” gas Morecambe DP3 to CPC pipeline with pipeline reference number PL195; and

  2. (b)

     the decommissioned 2” Morecambe CPC to DP3 pipeline with pipeline reference number PL205;

  shown purple and annotated as PL195 and PL205 on the Spirit Protective Provisions Plan, together with any associated umbilicals, plant and equipment serving those pipelines; F1

• “pipeline and cable proximity area” means the area five hundred meters (500m) either side and directly above the pipeline and cable measured from the centre line of the pipeline and cable, which is partially shown (insofar as the pipeline and cable are located within F2the Order limits) edged pink and annotated as the pipeline and cable proximity area on the Spirit Protective Provisions Plan;

• “Spirit Protective Provisions Plan” means the plan dated 3 November 2025 with reference FLO-MOR-GIS-MAP038a-V3-Protective Provisions-Rev001 and certified as the Spirit Protective Provisions Plan by the Secretary of State under article 12 (certification of documents and plans, etc.) of this Order;

• “temporary surface infrastructure” means any fixed temporary infrastructure to be used in the construction, operation and maintenance, and decommissioning of the authorised development including, but not limited to, jack-up barges and buoys, but does not include—

  1. (a)

     temporary surface infrastructure in transit;

  2. (b)

     vessels undertaking geotechnical, geophysical or other surveys, or vessels undertaking sea bed preparation works (insofar as these are outside the WTG and OSP aviation enduring buffer zone, WTG and OSP marine buffer zone, WTG marine corridor, well buffer zone and pipeline and cable proximity area); and

  3. (c)

     temporary surface infrastructure used for the construction of WTGs, offshore platforms, transition pieces or inter-array cables where the erection of such WTGs, offshore platforms, transition pieces or inter-array cables is permitted (at that time and in that place) by paragraph 3;

• “TP and OSP aviation interim buffer zone” means a circular area of three nautical miles (3nm) of unobstructed airspace measured from each of the AP-1 helideck and DP-1 helideck in all directions and extending vertically from mean sea level shown edged light purple and annotated as the TP and OSP aviation interim buffer zone on the Spirit Protective Provisions Plan;

• “transition piece” means the connecting piece of infrastructure which connects a foundation to a tower, any wind turbine generator foundation or any offshore substation platform foundation (none of which shall protrude from the water above a maximum of 30m above mean sea level);

• “well buffer zone” means—

  1. (a)

     in respect of each legacy well DP3 (C1-5) 110/8-2 and 110-8a-C5 Relief a five hundred metre (500m) radius buffer shown by pale blue shading edged grey and annotated as well buffer zone on the Spirit Protective Provisions Plan; and

  2. (b)

     in respect of legacy well 110/8A-7 a five hundred metre (500m) radius buffer of clear seabed space, shown by pale blue shading edged grey and annotated as well buffer zone on the Spirit Protective Provisions Plan, but with exception that wind turbine generator blades would be permitted to over sail up to the limit of a four hundred metre (400m) radius buffer shown hatched light purple and edged purple and annotated as the well over sail buffer zone on the Spirit Protective Provisions Plan;

• “wind turbine generator” or “WTG” means Work No. 1(a) as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order but excluding transition pieces;

• “WTG and OSP aviation interim buffer zone” means an area of three point seven two nautical miles (3.72 nm) of airspace measured from each of the AP-1 helideck and DP-1 helideck in all directions and extending vertically from mean sea level shown edged blue and annotated as the WTG and OSP aviation interim buffer zone on the Spirit Protective Provisions Plan;

• “WTG and OSP aviation enduring buffer zone” means an area of one point nine nautical miles (1.9 nm) of unobstructed airspace measured from each of the AP-1 helideck and DP-1 helideck in all directions and extending vertically from mean sea level shown edged light green and annotated as the WTG and OSP aviation enduring buffer zone on the Spirit Protective Provisions Plan;

• “WTG and OSP marine buffer zone” means an area of one point five nautical miles (1.5 nm) of unobstructed sea space measured from each of the AP-1 helideck and DP-1 helideck in all directions shown to its southern extent edged in orange and annotated as the WTG and OSP marine buffer zone on the Spirit Protective Provisions Plan; and

• “WTG marine corridor” means a one nautical mile (1 nm) wide corridor of unobstructed sea space between the Calder Platform and the AP-1 helideck shown edged in dashed dark green and annotated as the WTG marine corridor on the Spirit Protective Provisions Plan.