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The figure to be used will be the volume of the blend actually lifted by the participator on a particular day unless the following circumstances apply:

• The sales contract under which the lifting occurs allows for the purchaser to nominate the volumes (within the loading tolerances) to be lifted.
• The facility lifting agreement allows for a different basis of allocation to fields to apply to (i) the volumes nominated by the purchaser, and (ii) any ‘balancing parcelâ€� - see below
• The volume nominated by the purchaser is allocated differently than the balancing parcel.

In which case ‘volume of oil� in ‘A� will be the volume nominated for lifting by the purchaser, not the actual lifted volume.

Note that the use of this alternative definition of “A� is not at the discretion of the production company; it will depend upon the contractual terms and the lifting agreements with the facility and / or shipping programme operator.