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Paragraph 22 Licensee to keep records

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

  • Sch. 5 incorporated in part (with modifications) (temp.) by Petroleum Act 1998 s. 5 Sch. 1 para. 25-27
(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 thereof. Such records shall contain particulars of the following matters—

(a)

the site of, number and name (if any) assigned to every well;

(b)

the subsoil and strata through which the well was drilled;

(c)

the casing inserted in any well and any alteration to such casing;

(d)

any petroleum, water, mines or workable seams of coal encountered; and

(e)

such other matters as the Minister may from time to time direct.

(2)

The Licensee shall keep in the United Kingdom accurate geological plans, maps relating to the licensed area and such other records in relation to the licensed area and such other records in relation thereto as may be necessary to preserve all information which the Licensee has about the geology of the licensed area.

(3)

The Licensee shall deliver copies of the said records, plans and maps referred to in the two foregoing paragraphs to the Minister as and when required.