Legal glossary
“mineral oils”
Defined in 1 Acts. A definition holds for the Act that gives it; the same word can mean something else in another Act.
The Oilfields (Regulation and Development) Act, 1948 · s. 3
(c) "mineral oils" means any naturally occurring hydrocarbon, whether in the form of natural gas or in a liquid, viscous or solid form, or a mixture thereof, and includes crude oil, natural gas, petroleum, condensate, coal bed methane, oil shale, shale gas, shale oil, tight gas, tight oil, gas hydrate in their usual industrial connotation and other gases occurring in association with mineral oils, but does not include coal, lignite and helium occurring in association with petroleum or coal or shale;]
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