Legal regulation of the operation of oil and gas pipelines

The relevance of the chosen topic of the article is due to the lack of scientific research in the field of legal regulation of the operation of oil and gas pipelines. The article states that the legislation of the Russian Federation does not provide the concept of oil and gas pipelines. In the course of the study, the features of pipelines were identified and analyzed, which made it possible to give an appropriate legal definition of oil and gas pipelines. Also, the classification of pipelines was carried out in order to determine the place of oil and gas pipelines in the system of legal regulation. Taking into account the above pipelines classifications, an analysis of regulatory sources containing norms governing the operation of oil and gas fields was carried out, as a result of which their imperfection and insufficiency in relation to field and on-site pipelines was ascertained.