Understanding offshore oil and gas well notifications (link)
This guidance has recently been made available on the OSDR website. Its purpose is to brief wells inspectors and administrative support staff of the line to take on queries about well notifications and clarify common misunderstandings concerning notifications on the part of industry. In particular it addresses:
– the occasional failure by industry to understand that notifications are not part of a consent
process;
– which well operations are subject to notification and the relevant notification periods;
– the purpose of the regulations on material changes to notifications, what can be considered as a material change and what changes should be addressed by a new notification; and,
– the process for revalidating old notifications where operations have yet to start.
This guidance updates and replaces SPC/TECH/OSD/45 (which is now withdrawn) for offshore oil and gas notifications.
Source: OSDR.