{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-and-wells-design-and-construction-etc-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-and-wells-design-and-construction-etc-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/228",
  "legislation_title": "Offshore Installations and Wells (Design and Construction, etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-and-wells-design-and-construction-etc-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Provision of drilling etc. information",
  "text": "(1) Where an operation to which this paragraph applies is being carried out on a well the well-operator shall cause to be sent to the Department, at such intervals as may be agreed or, failing agreement, at intervals of one week calculated from its commencement, a report comprising the following information—\n(a) the identifying number, and any slot number, of the well;\n(b) the name of any installation or vessel involved;\n(c) a summary of the activity in the course of the operation since its commencement, or the previous report;\n(d) the diameter and true vertical and measured depths of—\n(i) any hole drilled; and\n(ii) any casing installed;\n(e) the drilling fluid density immediately before making the report; and\n(f) in the case of an existing well, its current operational state.\n(2) Paragraph (1) applies to—\n(a) a drilling operation;\n(b) a workover operation;\n(c) an abandonment operation;\n(d) an operation consisting in the completion of a well;\n(e) any other operation of a kind involving substantial risk of the unplanned escape of fluids from a well.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 19 in operation at 21.7.1996, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1999/150",
      "affecting_title": "Health and Safety (Modifications) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/228",
      "affecting_title": "Offshore Installations and Wells (Design and Construction, etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/228/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-14T03:32:24.476906+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}