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| 4.3.8 Well Operations 4.3.8.1 Normal Well Operations Normal well operations are those designated petroleum activities that can be carried on pursuant to Production Safety Permit and which do not require a Well Work Safety Permit The Production Safety Case must clearly identify and describe normal well operations to be carried out. Once the Production Safety Permit is issued, these operations can be carried out in accordance with the Production Safety Case and Production Safety Permit, without further submission of safety cases to the CER. 4.3.8.2 Well Work If the Production Installation can carryout well work activities, then this should be described in the Production Safety Casein such away that it covers all well work activities that are capable of being carried out from that Production Installation (otherwise a material change of the Production Safety Case will be needed before such well work activities could be undertaken. The safety case requirements areas given in section 6.3.4 for Non-production Installations. If such well work activities are planned, a Well Work Safety Case would have to be submitted and demonstrate that the Production Installation’s well work equipment is capable of safely carrying out the operation. 4.3.8.3 Suspension and Abandonment The safety case must provide a summary of the proposed method for well plugging by cement, and not solely mechanical means, carried out for the purposes of suspension or abandonment. The safety case should demonstrate that the well can be plugged in this way Ina safe manner and In such away to ensure that as far as is reasonably practicable there can be no unplanned escape of fluids from the well. Download 0.73 Mb. Share with your friends:
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