The Natural Gas Enterprise Act (henceforth the Act) is instituted to advance further development of natural gas enterprises, protect rights and interests of consumers, and ensure the public interest.

The “Competent Authorities” stated in this Act are the Ministry of Economic Affairs (the “MOEA”) as the central level, municipal governments hence on municipal level, and the county (city) governments hence on county (city) level. (henceforth the AUTHORITIVE structure)

Definitions of terms used in the Act:
1. “Natural Gas”: Refers to gas that are mixtures of hydrocarbon compounds originating from below ground level containing no less than eighty percent of methane.
2. “Natural Gas Enterprise”: Refers to the enterprises engaged in the production of NG, importation of NG, and public natural gas utilities. (henceforth the ENTERPRISES)
3. “Natural Gas Production Enterprise”: Refers to enterprises producing natural gas to supply public natural gas utilities, industrial sectors, power plants, cogeneration system or transportation sectors, etc. (henceforth the PRODUCER)
4. “Natural Gas Import Enterprise”: Refers to enterprises importing liquefied natural gas to supply public natural gas utilities, industrial sectors, power plants, cogeneration system or transportation sectors, etc. (henceforth the IMPORTER)
5. Natural gas utility enterprise: Refers to enterprises which supply natural gas to households, commercial sectors, and service businesses via natural gas conduit network. (henceforth the UTILITY)
6. Public natural gas conduits installation enterprise: Refers to enterprises which undertake the installation of gas conduits for natural gas utility enterprises and users, and also the conduit safety and maintenance. (henceforth the CONDUIT INSTALLER)
7. Transmission and storage Facilities: Refers to following Facilities installed by natural gas enterprises for provisions: (henceforth the FACILITIES)
(1)Storage Facilities: Refers to FACILITIES for natural gas storage, including spherical type tanks and tube type tanks (henceforth the STORAGE)
(2)Transmission and distribution Facilities: Refers to transmission pipelines, booster stations, regulator stations, and other relevant equipment installed from the production or provision sources (henceforth the TRANSMISSION)
(3) Blending Facilities: Refers to FACILITIES for blending air or hydrocarbon gases to adjust heating value the natural gas provided. (henceforth the BLENDER)
(4)Regasification Facilities: Refers to FACILITIES for purpose as to regasify LNG into gaseous state. (henceforth the REGASFIER)
(5)Unloading Facilities: Refers to FACILITIES for the unloading of LNG at the LNG receiving terminals. (henceforth the TERMINAL)