# The Morecambe Offshore Windfarm Generation Assets Order 2025, Paragraph 2: Interpretation

Extent: E+W+S

In this Part of this Schedule—
“additional costs” means any additional costs reasonably and properly incurred and evidenced by the duty holder in carrying out the duty holder’s operations caused by the construction, operation or decommissioning of the authorised development (and includes all reasonable costs incurred by the duty holder in engaging and retaining such experts, consultants and contractors as may be reasonably necessary to allow the duty holder to carry out its operations) but excluding any costs incurred 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 the Calder Platform to CPC located in the South Morecambe Field (Block 110/3a) shown terracotta pink and annotated as Calder to CPP1 on the Spirit Protective Provisions Plan;
“Calder helideck” means the helideck located on the Calder Platform the coordinates of which are—
Location
Lat WGS84
(DD MM SS.sss)
Lon WGS84
(DD MM SS.sss)
Calder Helideck
53° 48’ 26.462” N
003° 39’ 48.682” W
“Calder Platform” means the normally unattended minimum facilities wellhead production platform located in the United Kingdom Continental Shelf Block 110/7a D;
“consequential loss” means, with the exception of foreseeable losses—
(a)any consequential, or indirect loss under English law; or
(b)any of the following in each case whether direct or indirect to the extent that these are not included in (a)—
(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 the duty holder do not consider such to be foreseeable losses);
(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 the duty holder do not consider such to be foreseeable losses);
(iii)loss of expectation or opportunity; or
(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;
“duty holder” means Spirit Energy Production UK Limited as duty holder of the Calder Platform;
“duty holder’s operations” means the operations and services provided by the duty holder to the licensee in accordance with and pursuant to an operating agreement between the duty holder and the licensee;
“duty holdership termination date” means the date that the duty holder ceases to provide operations and services to the licensee in accordance with and pursuant to an operating agreement between the duty holder and the licensee;
“foreseeable losses” means losses, damages, costs or expenses suffered by the duty holder 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 the duty holder at 4 November 2025, including, but without limitation to the forgoing—
(a)losses, damages, costs or expenses suffered by the duty holder in respect of additional aviation and / or maritime resources (including walk-to-work vessels); and
(b)losses, damages, costs or expenses suffered by the duty holder in respect of additional activities required to be performed in order for the duty holder’s operations to be compliant with prevailing laws and regulations;
“Harbour Energy” means Chrysaor Resources (Irish Sea) Limited, a subsidiary of Harbour Energy PLC;
“licence” means United Kingdom Petroleum Production Licence P.099 (as the same may be assigned, amended or replaced from time to time);
“licensee” means the holder from time to time of the licence, which at the date stated in article 1 (citation and commencement) of this Order is Harbour Energy;
“North East corner of the Calder Platform” means the north east corner of the Calder Platform the coordinates of which are—
Location
Lat WGS84
(DD MM SS.sss)
Lon WGS84
(DD MM SS.sss)
North East corner of the Calder Platform
53° 48’ 27.021” N
003° 39’ 47.105” W
“O&G decommissioning date” means the date on which the Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment and Decommissioning (or any successor body) confirms acceptance of the close-out reports for the decommissioning of Harbour Energy’s 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—
(a)the 3” Rivers onshore terminal to Calder chemical pipeline with pipeline reference number PL1965; and
(b)the 24” Calder to Rivers onshore terminal gas pipeline with pipeline reference number PL1966
shown purple and annotated as the Calder to Rivers Onshore Terminal (PL1966) and Rivers Onshore Terminal to Calder (PL1965) on the Spirit Protective Provisions Plan, together with any associated umbilicals, plant and equipment serving those pipelines;
“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 the 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—
(a)temporary surface infrastructure in transit;
(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 (Calder) buffer zone, WTG and OSP marine (Calder) buffer zone, WTG marine corridor, and pipeline and cable proximity area); or
(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;
“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 30 m above mean sea level);
“wind turbine generator” or “WTG” means Work No. 1(a) as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order excluding transition pieces;
“WTG and OSP aviation interim (Calder) buffer zone” means an area of three point seven two nautical miles (3.72 nm) of airspace measured from the Calder helideck in all directions and extending vertically from mean sea level shown dashed blue and annotated as the WTG and OSP aviation interim (Calder) buffer zone on the Spirit Protective Provisions Plan;
“WTG and OSP aviation enduring (Calder) buffer zone” means an area of one point five nautical miles (1.5 nm) of unobstructed airspace measured from the Calder helideck in all directions and extending vertically from mean sea level shown yellow and annotated as the WTG and OSP aviation enduring (Calder) buffer zone on the Spirit Protective Provisions Plan;
“WTG and OSP marine (Calder) buffer zone” means an area of one point five nautical miles (1.5 nm) of unobstructed sea space measured from the North East corner of the Calder Platform in all directions shown edged in dashed orange and annotated as the WTG and OSP marine (Calder) 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1366/schedule/3/part/4/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/morecambe-offshore-windfarm-generation-assets-order-2025/schedule-3/part-4/paragraph-2
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