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The Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) (No. 2) Order 2020

S.I. 2020/1185 · Made 28 October 2020

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Offshore Installations

Made 28th October 2020

Coming into force in accordance with article 1(2)

The Secretary of State makes this Order—

  1. (a)

    in exercise of the powers conferred by section 22 of the Petroleum Act 1987f1; and

  2. (b)

    for the purpose of giving effect to proposals submitted by the Health and Safety Executive under section 24(2A)f2 of that Act.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1987 c. 12.

f2

Section 24(2A) was inserted by S.I. 1993/1823 and amended by S.I. 2008/960.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Establishment of safety zones
  3. 3Amendment of the Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) (No.2) Order 2019
  4. Signature
  5. Schedule: INSTALLATIONS
  6. 1Installations stationed at the time this Order is made
  7. 2Installations not stationed at the time this Order is made
  8. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) (No. 2) Order 2020.

(2)

This Order comes into force 21 days after the day on which it is made (“the general coming into force date”), except for article 2(2) which comes into force as provided in article 2(3).

2Establishment of safety zones

(1)

A safety zone is established around each installation specified in column 1 of the table in Part 1 of the Schedule (being an installation stationed in waters to which subsection (7) of section 21 of the Petroleum Act 1987 applies) having a radius of five hundred metres, as respects that installation, from the point which has the co-ordinates of latitude and longitude according to the World Geodetic System 1984f1 specified in columns 2 and 3 of the table in Part 1 of the Schedule.

(2)

A safety zone is established around the installation specified in column 1 of the table in Part 2 of the Schedule (being an installation to be stationed in waters to which subsection (7) of section 21 of the Petroleum Act 1987 applies) having a radius of five hundred metres, as respects that installation, from the point which has the co-ordinates of latitude and longitude according to the World Geodetic System 1984 specified in columns 2 and 3 of the table in Part 2 of the Schedule.

(3)

Paragraph (2) comes into force, as respects the installation—

(a)

on the general coming into force date, where the installation arrives at its station before that date; and

(b)

when the installation arrives at its station, in any other case.

3Amendment of the Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) (No.2) Order 2019

(1)

The Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) (No.2) Order 2019f1 is amended as follows.

(2)

In the Schedule (installations), in Part 2, omit the entry relating to “Well WPOZ”.

Signature

Mims Davies

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department of Work and Pensions

28th October 2020

1Installations stationed at the time this Order is made

(1) Name or other designation(2) Latitude(3) Longitude
Amethyst A1D, Amethyst, Block 47/14a53° 36.63’N00° 43.35’E
Amethyst A2D, Amethyst, Block 47/14a53° 37.35’N00° 47.35’E
Amethyst B1D, Amethyst, Block 47/15a53° 33.66’N00° 52.63’E
Amethyst C1D, Amethyst, Block 47/14a53° 38.70’N00° 36.13’E
Callanish (F5) Subsea, Callanish, Block 15/29b57° 59.521’N00° 45.116’E
Columbus Tie-In Structure, Lomond (Columbus), Block 23/16f57° 20.940’N02° 05.105’E
DUTA Structure, Huntington, Block 22/14b57° 36.85’N01° 38.40’E
Penguins Riser Base Manifold, Penguins, Block 211/13a61° 35.20’N01° 32.72’E
Seagull Well 22/29c-JA, Seagull, Block 22/29c57° 09.23’N01° 40.40’E
Solan Well P3, Solan, Block 205/26a60° 03.59’N03° 59.56’W

2Installations not stationed at the time this Order is made

(1) Name or other designation(2) Latitude(3) Longitude
Elgood Wellhead, Elgood, Block 48/22c53° 18.331’N01° 23.171’E

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Article 2 of this Order establishes, under section 22 of the Petroleum Act 1987 (c. 12) (“the Act”), safety zones having a radius of 500 metres from the specified point around the 11 installations (which are subsea installations) specified in the Schedule to this Order stationed, or to be stationed, in waters to which section 21(7) of that Act applies (these include territorial waters and waters in areas designated under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964 (c. 29)).

An automatic safety zone is currently established around each of the installations known respectively as Amethyst A1D, Amethyst A2D, Amethyst B1D and Amethyst C1D. It is intended that each of these installations will be dismantled by 31st December 2025. In accordance with section 21(3) of the Act, an automatic safety zone will cease to apply to an installation where, relevantly for these purposes, an order made under section 22 of the Act applies. In order to maintain a safety zone around these installations as they are dismantled, the automatic safety zones will be replaced and replicated by the safety zones established by this Order.

Section 23(1) of the Act prohibits vessels, which for these purposes include hovercraft, submersible apparatus and installations in transit, from entering or remaining in a safety zone except with the consent of the Health and Safety Executive or in accordance with regulations made under section 23(1) of the Act (currently regulation 21H of the Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (Management and Administration) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/738), inserted by paragraph 14 of Schedule 13 to S.I. 2015/398).

It is estimated that the installation specified in the table in Part 2 of the Schedule (Elgood Wellhead) will arrive at its station at the earliest by January 2021.

Article 3 amends the Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) (No.2) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/116) to omit, from Part 2 of the Schedule to that Order, the reference to Well WPOZ.