Explanatory note

This Order designates BP Petroleum Development Limited as the owner of the pipe-lines described in the Schedule. In the case of the pipe-lines specified in Part I of the Schedule, the designation applies only to those parts which are in controlled waters, that is the territorial sea and areas designated under the Continental Shelf Act 1964 (c. 29).

The pipe-lines referred to in Part I of the Schedule lie between installations above the West Sole gasfield and British Gas’s terminal at Easington in Humberside. Those referred to in Part II lie between different installations above the West Sole gasfield (situated north east of the coast of Humberside), between installations above the Magnus and Ninian oilfields (situated north east of the Shetland Islands), and between specified wells into the Magnus oilfield and an installation above that oilfield.