Gas

2006-12-191996-09-052007-04-20TSO (The Stationery Office), St Crispins, Duke Street, Norwich, NR3 1PD, 01603 622211, customer.services@tso.co.uk68642101/58

Phoenix Natural Gas Ltd.

Notice is hereby given that Phoenix Natural Gas Ltd. has applied for an extension to its current conveyance licence to connect the Temple Quarry at 26 Ballycarngannon Road, Lisburn, BT27 6YA to its pipeline system.

SCHEDULE 1 of Gas (Applications for Licences and Extensions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Form of application for a Gas Conveyance Licence, Gas Storage Licence or Gas Supply Licence

1. Full name of applicant(s).
Phoenix Natural Gas Ltd.
2. Address of the applicant(s) or, in the case of a body corporate, the registered or principal office.

197 Airport Road West, Belfast, BT3 9ED

3. Where the applicant is a partnership or other joint venture (other than a body corporate), the name and address of each party concerned.
Not applicable.
4. The name, address and telephone number of the person or persons resident in Northern Ireland to whom correspondence or enquiries concerning the application should be directed.

Jillian Ferris, Phoenix Natural Gas Ltd., 197 Airport Road West, Belfast, BT3 9ED. Telephone 028 9055 5531

5. The particular type of licence(s) sought that is to say whether to convey gas and/or store gas and/or supply gas, or an extension of any of these types of licence granted to the applicant at the time of this application.

We are applying for an extension to the current conveyance licence.

6. The date from which the licence or extension is desired to take effect.

We would request that the extension would take effect as soon as it is approved.

7. Status of the applicant that is to say whether the applicant is a public limited company, private limited company, overseas company, other body corporate, partnership, unincorporated association, sole trader or other entity (and in the last case particulars of the legal status).
Private limited company.

  8. If the applicant is a body corporate:

a. The jurisdiction under which it is incorporated.
b. If applicable, its registration number.
c. The full names and addresses of its current directors (including any shadow director within the meaning of Article 9(2) of the 1986 Order) or, where appropriate, the corresponding officers.
d. Where incorporated outside Northern Ireland the name, address and telephone number of a person or persons resident in Northern Ireland authorised to accept service of any notices or processes required to be served on the company.
e. The name and registered office of any holding company (within the meaning of Article 4 of the 1986 Order as substituted by Article 62 of the 1990 Order) of the applicant and the name and registered or principal office of any parent undertaking (within the meaning of Article 266 of the 1986 Order) of the applicant.
a. Northern Ireland
b. NI26420
c. See below
Peter Dixon c/o 197 Airport Road West, Belfast, BT3 9ED
Michael McKinstry As above
Richard Rodgers As above
Ivan Bell As above
Alastair Pollock As above
d. Not applicable
e. Parent undertaking:

TFCP Holdings Limited, East Wing, Trafalgar Court, Admiral Park, St Peter Port, Guernsey, GY1 6HJ

Holding company: East Surrey Energy Investments Ltd, Carmelite, 50 Victoria Embankment, Blackfriars, London, EC4Y ODX

9. If the applicant is neither a body corporate nor a sole trader, the name(s) and address(es) of the person or persons in whom effective control of the applicant rests.
Not applicable
10. Where a holding of 20% or more of the shares (see Note 1) of an applicant is held by a body corporate or partnership or an unincorporated association carrying on a trade or business with or without a view to profit, the name(s) and address (es) of the holder(s) of such shares shall be provided specifying in each case the class of share held, the number of shares so held and the percentage of the aggregate number of shares of that class represented thereby.

The shareholding of Phoenix Natural Gas Ltd is as follows:

Shareholder Class of Number Percentage of
and address share held of shares aggregate number of shares
East Surrey Energy Ordinary 6,622,519 100%
Investments Ltd
Carmelite Redeemable 164,464,967 100%
50 Victoria preference
Embankment
Blackfriars
London
EC4Y ODX
11. Details of any licences under the Order or the Electricity (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 held, applied for (whether or not successfully) or intended to be applied for by the applicant or (so far as is known to the applicant) by any person who is a related person in relation to the applicant(s). (See Note 2).

Phoenix Natural Gas Ltd held combined licences for the conveyance and supply of gas in Northern Ireland, which was awarded on 5th September 1996.

Phoenix Supply Ltd was granted a licence for the supply of gas in Northern Ireland on 19th December 2006. This will replace supply within the original Phoenix Natural Gas Ltd combined licences in order to facilitate compliance with the unbundling requirements of the Gas Directive.

At the date of application, Phoenix Natural Gas Ltd has applied for conveyance licences in order to facilitate mutualisation of the transmission business.