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Petroleum, includes any mineral oil or relative hydrocarbon and natural gas existing in its natural condition in strata, but does not include coal or bituminous shales or other shales or other stratified deposits from which oil can be extracted by destructive distillation. [Petroleum (Production) Act, 1934 (UK)]Includes any mineral oil or relative hydrocarbon and natural gas existing in its natural condition in strata, whether or not it has undergone any processing; but does not include coal or bituminous shales or other stratified deposits from which oil can be extracted by destructive distillation. [Pipelines Act, 1962 (UK)]Petroleum, is an oily, inflammable liquid made up mostly of hydrocarbons compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, the New Bank of Popular Science, Vol. 2; Special Reference No. 1 of 2001, In Re (2004) 4 SCC 489.Means liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons are so intimately associated in nature that it has become customary to shorten the expression 'petroleum and na...
Petroleum product
Petroleum product, means any commodity made from petroleum or natural gas and shall include refined crude oil, processed crude petroleum, residuum from crude petroleum, cracking stock, uncracked fuel oil, fuel oil, treated crude oil residuum, casing head gasoline, natural gas gasoline, naphtha, distillate gasoline, kerosene, waste oil, blended gasoline, lubricating oil, blends or mixture of oil with one or more liquid products or by-products derived from oil condensate, gas o petroleum hydrocarbons, whether herein enumer-ated or not. [Petroleum and Natural Gas Rules, 1959, s. 3(n)]...
Auto liquefied petroleum gas
Auto liquefied petroleum gas, means a mixture of certain light hydrocarbons derived from petro-leum, which are gaseous at normal ambient tem-perature and atmospheric pressure but may be condensed to the liquid state at normal ambient temperature by the application of moderate pressure, and which conform to such specifications for use as fuel in vehicles, as the Central Government may, in consultation with the Bureau of Indian Standards, notify from time to time. [The Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board Act, 2006, s. 2(e)]...
Dangerous petroleum
Dangerous petroleum, defined, Act (8 of 1899), s. 2(b)]...
Entity
Entity, means a person, association of persons, firm, company or co-operative society, by whatsoever name called or referred to, other than a dealer or distributor and engaged or intending to be engaged in refining, processing storage, transpor-tation, distribution, marketing, import and export of petroleum, petroleum products and natural gas including laying of pipelines for transportation of petroleum, petroleum products and natural gas, or laying, building, operating or expanding city or local natural gas distribution network or establishing and operating a liquefied natural gas terminal, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board Act, 2006, s. 2(p)....
Marque
Marketing Service Obligations, means obliga-tions--(i) to set up marketing infrastructure and retail outlets in remote areas in respect of notified petroleum and petroleum products,(ii) to maintain minimum stock of notified petroleum and petroleum products,(iii) of a local distribution entity to supply natural gas to consumers, and(iv) such other obligations as may be specified by regulations. [Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board Act, 2006. s. 2(w)]...
Benzine
A liquid consisting mainly of the lighter and more volatile hydrocarbons of petroleum or kerosene oil used as a solvent and for cleansing soiled fabrics called also petroleum spirit petroleum benzine Varieties or similar products are gasoline naphtha rhigolene ligroin etc...
Coke
Coke, the meaning of the word 'coke' given in Webster's New International Dictionary, Vol. I which is as follows: 'The infusible, cellular, coherent residue obtained when coal is subjected to destructive distillation. It consists mainly of carbon, is hard, porous, and grey, and has a submetallic lustre. Any similar substance left as a residue when petroleum, shale oil, etc. are distilled to dryness.' When the Parliament used the word 'coke' in s. 14(i) of the Central Act it has no intention to give it a meaning other than the ordinary dictionary meaning which would cover petroleum coke. At any rate, the language employed is so wide viz., 'Coke in all its forms' that petroleum coke which is a form of coke cannot possibly be excluded merely by reference to the word 'Coal', India Carbon Limited v. Superintendent of Taxes, (1972) 1 SCR 316: (1971) 3 SCC 612: AIR 1972 SC 154. [Central Sales Tax Act (74 of 1956), s. 14(i)]...
Maximum retail price
Maximum retail price, means the maximum price fixed by an entity at which the petroleum, petroleum products and natural gas may be sold to the retail consumers and includes all taxes, cess and levies local or otherwise and freight or commission payable to the dealers. [The Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board Act, 2006, s. 2(n)]...
Cosmoline
A substance obtained from the residues of the distillation of petroleum essentially the same as vaseline but of somewhat stiffer consistency and consisting of a mixture of the higher paraffines a kind of petroleum jelly...
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