Part 3: Infrastructure and Information Northern Ireland Section 74: Part 1A of the Petroleum Act 1998: Northern Ireland
This section amends Part 1A of the Petroleum Act 1998, (maximising economic recovery of UK petroleum) to ensure that the provisions within that Act extend to Northern Ireland (as well as to England and Wales and Scotland). Section 9H of the Petroleum Act 1998 is substituted to define "upstream petroleum infrastructure" by reference to relevant upstream petroleum pipelines, relevant oil processing facilities and relevant gas processing facilities (as defined in section 82(1) of the Energy Act 2011), and restrict it to infrastructure used in relation to petroleum which for the time being exists in its natural condition in strata beneath the territorial sea adjacent to Great Britain, or the UK Continental Shelf.