Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 1
t to the safety of a person, installation or support craft, or (vi) pollution; (b) any event that results in a missing person; or (c) any event that causes (i) the impairment of any structure, facility, equipment or system critical to the safety of persons, an installation or support craft, or (ii) the impairment of any structure, facility, equipment or system critical to environmental protection. ( incident ) lost or restricted workday injury means an injury that prevents an employee from reporting for work or from effectively performing all the duties connected with the employee’s regular work on any day subsequent to the day on which the injury occurred whether or not that subsequent day is a working day for that employee. ( blessure entraînant une perte de temps de travail ) minor injury means an employment injury for which medical treatment or first aid is provided and excludes a lost or restricted workday injury. ( blessure sans gravité ) multi-pool well means a well that is completed in more than one pool. ( puits à gisements multiples ) natural environment means the physical and biological environment. ( milieu naturel ) near-miss means an event that would likely cause an event set out in paragraph (a) of the definition of incident , but does not due to particular circumstances. ( quasi-incident ) operator means a person that holds an operating licence under paragraph 5(1)(a) of the Act and an authorization. ( exploitant ) permafrost means the thermal condition of the ground when its temperature remains at or below 0°C for more than one year. ( pergélisol ) physical environmental conditions means the meteorological, oceanographic and related physical conditions, including ice conditions, that might affect a work or activity that is subject to an authorization. ( conditions environnementales ) pollution means the introduction into the natural environment of any substance or form of energy outside the limits applicable to the activity that is subject to an authorization, including spills. ( pollution ) production control system means the system provided to control the operation of, and monitor the status of, equipment for the production of oil and gas, and includes the installation and workover control system. ( système de contrôle de la production ) production project means an undertaking for the purpose of developing a production site on, or producing oil or gas from, a pool or field, and includes any work or activity related to the undertaking. ( projet de production ) proration test means, in respect of a development well to which a development plan applies, a test conducted to measure the rates at which fluids are produced from the well for allocation purposes. ( essai au prorata ) recovery means the recovery of oil and gas under reasonably foreseeable economic and operational conditions. ( récupération ) relief well means a well drilled to assist in controlling a blow-out in an existing well. ( puits de secours ) rig release date means the date on which a rig last conducted well operations. ( date de libération de l’appareil de forage ) safety plan means the safety plan submitted to the Board under section 6. ( plan de sécurité ) seafloor means the surface of all that portion of land under the sea. ( fond marin ) slick line means a single steel cable used to run tools in a well. ( câble lisse ) support craft means a vessel, vehicle, aircraft, standby vessel or other craft used to provide transportation for or assistance to persons on the site where a work or activity is conducted. ( véhicule de service ) surface casing means the casing that is installed in a well to a sufficient depth, in a competent formation, to establish well control for the continuation of the drilling operations. ( tubage de surface ) suspended , in relation to a well or part of a well, means a well or part of a well in which drilling or production operations have temporarily ceased. ( suspension de l’exploitation ) termination means the aband