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Paragraph 141 Interpretation

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In this Part of this Schedule—

  • “block” means a block of the United Kingdom Continental Shelf designated as such on the map deposited at the principal office of the North Sea Transition Authority;

  • “Barque Assets” means the facilities and infrastructure owned, operated, leased or otherwise contracted to the owner for the purposes of the licence or, following relinquishment of the licence, the facilities and infrastructure subject to a decommissioning programme related to the licence approved by OPRED, annotated as the ‘Barque Assets’ on the Shell protective provisions plan;

  • “coexistence and proximity agreement” means an agreement entered on reasonable terms between the undertaker and the owner in respect of the undertaker’s works and licensee’s works to reconcile and protect the interests of the parties as are known at the time to secure the implementation of the undertaker’s works and the licensee’s works;

  • “licence” means United Kingdom Petroleum Production Licence P8 in respect of blocks 48/13a and 48/14a in relation to the Barque Assets;

  • “licensee” means the licensee from time to time of the licences;

  • “licensee’s works” means the operation of the Barque Assets in accordance with the licence and the decommissioning of the Barque Assets in accordance with a decommissioning programme to be approved by OPRED and as amended from time to time, but excluding any post-decommissioning monitoring and evaluation;

  • “ministerial statement” means the written statement given by the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change to the UK Parliament regarding Crown Estate Leases for Offshore Renewables Projects on 12 July 2011, or any similar supplementary or replacement policy;

  • “OPRED” means the Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment and Decommissioning;

  • “OPRED notice” means a letter or notice from OPRED confirming the acceptance of the close-out report submitted by or on behalf of the licensee indicating that OPRED is satisfied that the permanent decommissioning of the Barque Assets has been completed;

  • “owner” means the licensee until such time as the licence is relinquished following cessation of production at the Barque Assets, and thereafter the party responsible for decommissioning the relevant assets in accordance with a decommissioning programme approved by OPRED until such time as the OPRED notice is issued;

  • “relevant activities” means all development activity relating to the carrying on of the undertaker’s works and licensee’s works within, or adjacent to the WTG exclusion zone, including (but not limited to) the preparation of development proposals, the submission of applications for statutory consents associated with those proposals and consultation in respect thereof, the acquisition of or application for new licence oil or gas blocks;

  • “Shell protective provisions plan” means the plan entitled the Shell protective provisions plan and certified as the Shell protective provisions plan for the purposes of this Part of this Schedule;

  • “undertaker’s works” means the offshore works permitted by this Order;

  • “WTG exclusion zone” means an area of 2,500 metre radius measured from the centre of the Barque Assets production helideck and shown coloured green and annotated and shown as the ‘WTG exclusion zone’ on the Shell protective provisions plan.