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  "legislation_title": "The Offshore Gas Storage and Unloading (Licensing) Regulations 2009",
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  "heading": "Licensee to keep records",
  "text": "(1) The Licensee shall keep accurate records in a form from time to time approved by the Minister of the drilling, deepening, plugging or abandonment of all Wells and of any alterations in the casing of the Wells. Such records shall contain particulars of the following matters—\n(a) the site of and number assigned to every Well;\n(b) the subsoil and strata through which the Well was drilled;\n(c) the casing inserted in any Well and any alteration to such casing;\n(d) any Petroleum, water, mines or workable seams of coal encountered in the course of such activities; and\n(e) such other matters as the Minister may from time to time direct.\n(2) The Licensee shall keep within the United Kingdom accurate geological plans and maps relating to the Licensed Area and such other records relating to that area as may be necessary to preserve all information which the Licensee has about the geology of the Licensed Area.\n(3) The Licensee shall deliver copies of the said records, plans and maps referred to in the two foregoing paragraphs to the Minister when requested to do so either—\n(a) within any time limit specified in the request; or\n(b) if there is no time limit specified, within four weeks of the request.",
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