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Canada–Nova Scotia Offshore Area Petroleum Operations Framework Regulations — 174
Landing area 174 (1) An operator must ensure that the aircraft landing area on an installation or vessel and the equipment that is used in that area or that otherwise supports the take-off or landing of aircraft are designed to ensure safety and the protection of the environment and to prevent incidents or damage resulting from the use of aircraft. Requirements (2) The operator must ensure that the landing area (a) has an obstacle-free take-off and approach area and is oriented relative to prevailing winds; (b) can withstand all functional loads imposed by aircraft; (c) can accommodate aircraft of expected sizes; (d) has emergency response and firefighting equipment; (e) has conspicuous markings and signage; (f) has adequate lighting, including in reduced visibility conditions; (g) has monitoring and status light systems and communication and meteorological equipment; (h) is readily and safely accessible, including from the accommodations areas and from any temporary safe refuge; and (i) in the case of a landing area on an installation, is equipped with fuel storage tanks. Fuel storage tanks (3) The operator must ensure that any fuel storage tanks that are in proximity to a landing area are stored safely and protected from damage, impact and fire.
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Procedures 175 The operator must ensure the establishment of procedures associated with the support of aircraft operations, including procedures for emergency response, and of a training program for personnel for those purposes.
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Aircraft service provider 176 An operator must ensure that, before the start of any operations that require the use of an aircraft, the aircraft service provider has accepted in writing all conditions with respect to the use of the equipment in any landing area, the procedures associated with the support of aircraft operations, including the procedures for emergency response, and the training program for personnel in respect of those matters.
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Classification 177 An operator must ensure that any support or construction vessel to be used in conjunction with an installation holds a valid certificate of class issued by a classification society according to the work or activity to be carried out by it.
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Definition of shotpoint 178 In this Part, shotpoint means the surface location of a seismic energy source.
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Reportable incidents 179 (1) An operator must notify the Board of a reportable incident as soon as the circumstances permit, but not later than 24 hours after becoming aware of the incident. Investigation (2) The operator must ensure that (a) any reportable incident is investigated; (b) the person who conducts the investigation includes in their investigation report the root causes of the reportable incident, the contributing factors, measures to be implemented to prevent its recurrence and any other relevant information; and (c) the investigation report is submitted to the Board not later than 14 days after the day on which the reportable incident occurred.
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Accessibility of records 180 An operator must ensure that any records that are necessary to support operational requirements and the requirements of these Regulations are readily accessible to the Board for examination.
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Critical information 181 (1) An operator must ensure that records are kept of all information — including the following — that is critical to safety, the protection of the environment or the prevention of waste: (a) information on the location and movement of support craft; (b) information on reportable incidents; (c) information on emergency drills and exercises; (d) information on the quantities of consumable substances at any operations site; (e) data resulting from any required observation of wildlife; (f) information on verification, inspection, monitoring, testing, maintenance and operating activities; (g) information on the status of all systems and equipment identified in the safety plan as being critical to safety or in the environmental protection plan as being critical to the protection of the environment, including any test result indicating that the systems or equipment are not functioning as intended and information on any equipment failure that has led to an impairment of any of those systems; and (h) information on the physical and environmental conditions observed and forecasted under section 42 . Retention periods (2) The operator must retain the records referred to in subsection (1) for the following periods: (a) in the case of the records referred to in paragraphs (1)(a) and (e) to (g) and those referred to in paragraph (1)(h) regarding forecasted conditions, five years after the day on which the record is created; (b) in the case of the records referred to in paragraphs (1)(b) and (c), (i) five years after the day on which the drill or exercise is carried out, and (ii) 10 years after the day on which the reportable incident is reported; (c) in the case of the records referred to in paragraph (1)(d), for as long as the consumable substance is at the operations site; and (d) in the case of the records referred to in paragraph (1)(h) regarding conditions observed, for the duration of the authorized work or activity.
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Safety report 182 (1) An operator must ensure that a safety report that relates to an authorized work or activity conducted in a given calendar year is submitted to the Board within 90 days after the day on which the work or activity is concluded or suspended or, in the case of a work or activity that will continue into the following calendar year, that a safety report that relates to the work or activity conducted in the preceding calendar year is submitted to the Board not later than March 31 of that following calendar year. Requirements (2) The safety report must contain (a) a description and analysis of the efforts undertaken to improve safety; (b) a summary of the operator’s safety performance during the applicable calendar year, including with respect to the objective of reducing safety risks; (c) a summary of the safety measures and actions taken to mitigate the effects of any reportable incident, as well as of their effectiveness and any adjustments made for their continued improvement; and (d) a summary of any emergency response drills and exercises relating to safety that were completed.
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Annual reports 183 An operator must ensure that the Board is made aware, at least once a year, of any report containing relevant information regarding applied research work or studies that the operator has participated in, funded or commissioned concerning the operator’s authorized works and activities in relation to safety, the protection of the environment or resource management and must ensure that a copy of the report is submitted to the Board on request.
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Notice — key dates 184 When any geoscientific program, geotechnical program or environmental program is commenced, concluded, suspended or cancelled by an operator, the operator must, without delay, notify the Board in writing of the date of the commencement, conclusion, suspension or cancellation of the program.
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Weekly status reports 185 (1) An operator must ensure that weekly reports are submitted to the Board on the status of field work carried out in relation to any geoscientific program, geotechnical program or environmental program from the commencement of the program until its conclusion, suspension or cancellation. Content of reports (2) The weekly status reports must contain the following documents and information: (a) the program number assigned by the Board; (b) information identifying, and indicating the current location and status of, all operations sites and support craft used in the program; (c) key dates of the works and activities under the program, in particular their commencement, suspension and completion dates, (d) a description of the works and activities carried out during the preceding week, including (i) the quantity of data collected, broken down by data acquisition technique, (ii) information identifying and indicating the location of data collection points, lines or areas, (iii) a schedule indicating each type of work or activity carried out under the program, as well as any period in which data acquisition was delayed or interrupted, along with a summary of the causes of that delay or interruption, and (iv) a description of any failure to comply with a condition of the authorization; (e) maps illustrating, in relation to the proposed data acquisition plan referred to in subparagraph 8 (i)(iii), the portion of the data acquisition that has been completed, the portion that was completed in the preceding week and the portion that remains to be carried out; (f) an indication of the total number of persons involved in the program who, during the preceding week, were at, or transferred to or from, the operations sites and, if applicable, the means by which they were transferred; (g) a summary of any communications or interactions that occurred during the preceding week concerning program activities between persons associated with the program and persons associated with fishing activities; (h) a summary of emergency drills and exercises that were completed and reportable incidents that occurred during the preceding week; (i) an indication of the quantities of consumable substances that are critical to safety that are currently at each operations site; (j) all wildlife observation data from the preceding week that were required to be recorded under paragraph 181 (1)(e); (k) a summary of the verification, inspection, monitoring, testing, maintenance and operating activities that are critical to safety that were carried out during the preceding week; and (l) a description of any measures taken during the preceding week to avoid disturbing wildlife or interfering with fishing activities or any other uses of the sea.
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Environmental report — programs 186 An operator must ensure that an environmental report that contains the following documents and information is submitted to the Board within 90 days after the day on which a geoscientific program, geotechnical program or environmental program is concluded or suspended: (a) a description of the general physical and environmental conditions under which the program was conducted and, if applicable, a description of ice management activities and non-productive time caused by meteorological or ice conditions; (b) a summary of program performance in relation to the environment, including with respect to the objective of reducing environmental risks; (c) a summary of environmental protection measures and actions that were taken to mitigate the effects of any reportable incident, as well as of their effectiveness and any adjustments made for their continued improvement; (d) a summary of any emergency response drills and exercises for the protection of the environment that were completed; and (e) all wildlife observation data that were required to be recorded under paragraph 181 (1)(e).
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us surveys, (iii) in the case of seabed surveys, the geophysical correlation between shallow seismic data and data from cores and geotechnical boreholes, (iv) corrections or adjustments that were applied to the data during processing or compilation, (v) the velocity information that the operator used in a time-to-depth conversion, (vi) cores and samples, (vii) other geoscientific and geotechnical analyses, and (viii) geohazards; and (e) a description of (i) synthetic seismograms, (ii) seismic modelling studies that use synthetic seismograms, (iii) vertical seismic profiles at wells that were used in the interpretation of the data, (iv) amplitude versus offset studies, (v) seismic inversion studies, if any, and (vi) any other seismic studies related to the program. Acquired data (5) The following acquired data must accompany the final reports, as applicable: (a) time-stamped track plot, shotpoint and sample location data; (b) bathymetric data; (c) all final processed seismic data for each 2-D seismic line in time and depth; (d) all final processed 3-D volumes and each line generated from that volume in time and depth; (e) any vertical seismic profiles, synthetic seismograms, amplitude versus offset data and seismic inversion data; (f) in the case of any seabed, geohazard or pipeline route survey, (i) processed high-resolution data for each line, (ii) digital location maps for any samples, (iii) any photographs and videos, and (iv) sub-bottom profiler and side-scan sonar data; (g) in the case of an environmental program, any photograph, video or other graphic information that is relevant and contributes to the interpretation of the final data and the drafting of the final report; (h) in the case of a gravity or magnetic survey, a series of gravity and magnetic profiles across all gravity and magnetic surveys; and (i) in the case of controlled-source electromagnetic data, final processed cross-sections on all receiver lines, curves from all receivers and all 2-D and 3-D final models generated. Incorporation of previous data (6) The operator must incorporate into any map referred to in paragraph (4)(b) that is included in a final interpretation report any data previously collected by the operator that are related to the area covered by the map and that are of a type similar to the data from which the map was produced.
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Exception — data made available to public 188 (1) An operator that has conducted a geoscientific program, a geotechnical program or an environmental program need not submit a final interpretation report if the data acquired from the program are made available to the public for purchase or for use under licence. Data no longer available (2) If the operator ceases to make data available for purchase or use under licence, the operator must ensure that, within 12 months after the day on which the operator ceased to make the data available, the final interpretation report is submitted to the Board.
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Data purchases 189 (1) A purchaser of data referred to in subsection 188 (1) that were acquired in an area that is subject to an interest , as defined in section 49 of the Act, must submit to the Board a final interpretation report that contains the documents and information referred to in subsection 187 (4), as applicable, if the costs of the purchase of the data are to be credited against a deposit or other costs in relation to the interest. Reports from data purchaser (2) If the purchaser has reprocessed or reinterpreted the data, and if the costs of the reprocessing or reinterpretation are to be credited against a deposit or other costs of the interest, the purchaser must submit to the Board, with the acquired data referred to in subsection 187 (5), as applicable, a final data processing report that contains the documents and information referred to in subsection 187 (3) and a final interpretation report that contains the documents and information referred to in subsection 187 (4), as applicable. Timing of submissions (3) The reports and data required under subsections (1) and (2) must be submitted by the purchaser to the Board before the costs referred to in those subsections are credited. Notice to Chief Conservation Officer (4) A person who has submitted a report referred to in this section must, in respect of data that pertain to shotpoints or the location of stations, notify the Chief Conservation Officer, without delay, of any errors or omissions identified in or corrections made to the data after the report is submitted.
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Reference 190 When submitting any information to the Board about a well, pool, zone or field under these Regulations, an operator must refer to each by the name given to it under section 59 or paragraph 60 (b), as the case may be.
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Results, data, analyses and schematics 191 (1) An operator must ensure that a copy of the final results, data, analyses and schematics obtained from any well operation, including those obtained as a result of the following activities, is submitted to the Board: (a) the testing, sampling and pressure measurements that are conducted as part of the field data acquisition program referred to in section 13 and the well data acquisition program referred to in section 18 , as well as any evaluation, testing and sampling of formations that is conducted under section 62 ; and (b) any verification conducted under paragraph 71 (2)(a) and any segregation test conducted under paragraph 71 (2)(b). Period for submission (2) Unless otherwise agreed to in writing by the Board, the operator must ensure that the copy is submitted within 60 days after the day on which the activity that gave rise to the results, data, analyses or schematics is concluded.
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Survey 192 (1) An operator must ensure that a survey, certified by a person licensed under the Canada Lands Surveyors Act , is conducted to confirm the location of any well and production installation. Copy of survey plan (2) The operator must ensure that a copy of the survey plan is (a) filed with the Canada Lands Survey Records; and (b) submitted to the Board.
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Critical information 193 (1) The records that must be kept under section 181 include, in the case of an operation involving drilling or production, records containing the following information and documents: (a) in respect of any assessment of the efficacy of a spill-treating agent under paragraph 11 (4)(a), (i) a description of the assessment, including any oil samples used, and (ii) a description of any tests conducted for the assessment and their results; (b) information concerning the inspection of any installation and its equipment or a pipeline for corrosion and erosion and any resulting maintenance activities carried out; (c) the pressure, temperature and flow rate data obtained from compressors and from systems and equipment used for treatment and processing; (d) information concerning the calibration of meters and other instruments on an installation; (e) information concerning the testing of subsea, surface and subsurface safety valves; (f) information concerning the status of each well and the status of well operations; (g) in the case of a floating platform, information concerning all loads that could affect the motions, stability or inclination of the platform, including (i) data, observations, measurements and calculations related to its stability and station-keeping capability, including records of all of its movements, (ii) the results of all tests and analyses conducted to assess its stability and station-keeping capability, (iii) a description of every change in relation to its weight, its centre of gravity or the weight or distribution of temporary or portable equipment on it that may affect its stability, and (iv) a description of the verification of the disconnect capability of any disconnectable mooring system; (h) in respect of boilers and pressure systems, the documents and information referred to in paragraphs 135 (12)(d) to (f); (i) information concerning each formation leak-off test and formation integrity test conducted under section 70 ; (j) the findings resulting from the verifications of temporary safe refuges required under subsection 117 (3); and (k) the findings resulting from the verifications of the availability and condition of life-saving appliances required under subsection 119 (11). Retention periods (2) The operator must retain the records referred to in subsection (1) for the following periods: (a) in the case of the records referred to in paragraph (1)(a), for as long as the spill-treating agent is approved for use; (b) in the case of the records referred to in paragraphs (1)(b) to (f), subparagraph (1)(g)(iv) and paragraphs (1)(i) to (k), five years after the day on which the record is created; (c) in the case of the records referred to in subparagraphs (1)(g)(i) to (iii), for the life of the floating platform; and (d) in the case of the records referred to in paragraph (1)(h), five years after the day on which the boiler or pressure system is taken out of service.
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Daily production record 194 (1) An operator must ensure that a daily production record is kept in respect of a field in which a pool or well is located until the field is abandoned and, at that time, must offer to submit the record to the Board before destroying it. Contents (2) The daily production record must contain, with respect to each day, the following information and documents: (a) information concerning the calibration of meters and other instruments referred to in paragraph 193 (1)(d); (b) any measurements obtained under section 74 ; (c) a description of the manner in which any fluids were disposed of, including through venting, burning or flaring, or transported for processing, whether through offloading or a pipeline; and (d) any other information relating to the production of petroleum and other fluids from each pool or well.
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Formation flow test records and report 195 An operator must ensure that (a) in respect of exploratory wells and delineation wells, a record of formation flow test results is submitted to the Board on a daily basis; and (b) in respect of all wells, a formation flow test report is submitted to the Board as soon as the circumstances permit after each formation flow test.
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Pilot scheme 196 (1) An operator must ensure that interim evaluations of a pilot scheme referred to in section 81 are reported to the Board in writing at the intervals referred to in paragraph 81 (2)(b). Report on completion (2) On completion of the pilot scheme, the operator must ensure that a report is submitted to the Board that contains (a) the results of the scheme and supporting data and analyses; and (b) the operator’s conclusions as to the potential of the scheme for application to full-scale production.