PPC Section 462-A | Definition: Offences Related to Oil and Gas

Text of PPC Section 462-A

Definition:

In this chapter,unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context:-

(a)	"distribution" means the activity of transporting petroleum through pipelines and associated facilitties. In case of natural gas, distribution means the activity of transporting natural gas through pipelines and associated facility at a pressure which would not ordinarily be expected to exceed three hundred per square inch gauge (psig) or such pressure as the relevant Regulatory Authority may prescribe from time to time;
(b)	"facility" includes Liquefied Petroluem Gas (LPG) processing facility or compression facility, natural gas or LPG testing facility, natural gas storage facility, Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) processing facility or crude oil and refined oil products storage facility, repeater station or compression station other than compression system installed at Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Station;
(c)	"gas meter" means an instrument which measures gas delivered to consumer for consumption;
(d)	"gas regulator" means a regulator to control the pressure of gas;
(e)	"installation" means all facilities used in loading, unloading, reloading, transmission and distribution of petroleum, including equipment, terminals, storage tanks, pipelines and port facilities;
(f)	"meter index" means a "counter in" in a gas meter for recording the volumne of gas passed through the gas meter at line condition;
(g)	"person" includes any individual or any company, firm or corporation whether incorporated or not, or a public servant or an employee of any oil and gas company;
(h)	"petroleum" means oil, crude oil, refined oil products, natural gas, LPG, Air Mix LPG, LNG and CNG;
(i)	"pipeline" means any pipe or any system or arrangement of pipes wholly within Pakistan including offshore area which transports petroluem and includes all equipment of any kind used for the purpose of, or in connection with, or incidental to, the operation of a pipeline in transporting or handling of petroleum;
(j)	"tampering" means interfering or creating hindrance in flow or metering of petroleum by unauthorized entry into metering system or transmission and distribution lines either by breaking the seals or damaging or destructing the same or in any manner interfering with the meter or interfering with its original condition;
(k)	"transmission" means the activity of transporting natural gas through pipelines and other facilities at a pressure of not less than three hundred psig or such pressure as the relevant regulatory Authority may prescribe from time to time; and
(l)	"transportation" means an activity of transporting oil through pipelines and associated facilities where the pipelines are an integral part of a refinery, facility or gathering pipelines.