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<section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="3-2101" title_number="3" title_name="Courts of General Jurisdiction -- Jurisdiction/special Causes of Action" subtitle_number="21" subtitle_name="Offshore Drilling Liability Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Gas” means any natural gas or other fluid hydrocarbons that are produced from a natural reservoir.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Gas” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Carbon dioxide; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Hydrogen sulfide.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Offshore drilling activity” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The exploration, development, or production of oil or gas in, on, or under the federal outer continental shelf waters; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Transporting oil or gas by pipeline, ship, or otherwise from a specific site of exploration, development, or production of oil or gas on the federal outer continental shelf.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Oil” means oil of any kind or in any form, including petroleum, petroleum by–products, fuel oil, sludge, crude oil, oil refuse, and oil mixed with wastes.</text>
  </level>
</section>
