PETROLEUM (SUBMERGED LANDS) ACT 1982 - SECT 147
PETROLEUM (SUBMERGED LANDS) ACT 1982 - SECT 147
147—Ascertainment of quantity of petroleum recovered
For the purposes of this Act, the quantity of petroleum recovered by a
permittee, lessee or licensee from a well during a period shall be taken to
be—
(a) the
quantity measured during that period by a measuring device approved by the
Minister and installed at the well-head or at such other place as the Minister
approves; or
(b)
where no such measuring device is so installed, or the Minister is not
satisfied that the quantity of petroleum recovered by the permittee, lessee or
licensee from that well has been properly or accurately measured by such a
measuring device—the quantity determined by the Minister as being the
quantity recovered by the permittee, lessee or licensee from that well during
that period.