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Oil and Gas Regulation 2002

Unvalidated References:
This reprint of this Statutory Instrument incorporates all amendments, if
any, made before25 November 2006 and in force at 19 December 2002.

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Legislative Counsel
Dated 25 November 2006


INDEPENDENT STATE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA.
No. 10 of 2002.
Oil and Gas Regulation 2002
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
1. Interpretation.
2. Responsibility of Licensee.
3. Exemption.
4. Posting of the regulations.
5. Person -In -Charge.
6. Deputy Person -In -Charge.
7. Name of Site Person -In -Charge to be displayed.
8. Accident, Incident and Employment Reporting.
9. Monthly Accident and Employment Return.
10. Waste or Contamination.
11. Evaluation of an Occurrence of Oil or Gas.
12. Entry onto Private Land.
13. Protection of Public Utilities and Existing Pipelines.
14. Interference with Facilities and Equipment.
15. Release of Information.
16. Responsibilities of Supervisors.
17. Responsibility of Workmen.
18. First Aid.
19. Contaminated Atmosphere.
20. Fire -Fighting Equipment.
21. Communications.
22. Clothing.
23. Personal Protective Equipment.
24. Noise Levels.
25. Radioactive Substances.
26. Notices.
27. Pressure Vessels.
28. Machinery.
29. Winching, Lifting Equipment.
30. Repair and Maintenance of Machinery.
31. Mobile Equipment.
32. Responsibility of Driver.
33. Aircraft Operations.
34. Debris Constituting a Fire Hazard.
35. Flame Type Equipment and Process Vessels.
36. Venting of Flammable Vapours.
37. Internal Combustion Engines.
38. Smoking, Naked Lights, Welding and Cutting.
39. Sitting of Production Facilities.
40. Sitting of Flares.
41. Fuel Tanks.
42. Lighting.
43. General Safety Precautions.
44. Procedure Manuals.
45. Medicinal and Therapeutic Drugs.
46. Unauthorized Use of Drugs and Intoxicants.
47. Helicopter Operations.
48. Oils Spills.
49. General.
50. Communications.
51. Rescue Craft.
52. Helicopter Operations.
53. Life Jackets and Buoyancy Vests.
54. Vessels Near Platform During Diving.
55. Other Operations During Diving.
56. Emergency Drill Exercises.
57. Notices.
58. Waste Disposal.
59. Record of Arrivals and Departures.
60. Radio Operators.
61. Cutting, Heating and Welding.
62. Storage or Dangerous Substances.
63. Wiring Rules.
64. Electrical Generators, Alternators and Motors.
65. Rig Electrical System Equipment.
66. Protection of Electrical Circuits.
67. Earthing and Lighting Protection.
68. Control of State Electricity.
69. Portable Lights and Tools.
70. Maintenance, Repair or Alterations..
71. Electricians and Inspection of Electrical Equipment.
72. Control Equipment.
73. Application of Division 1.
74. Competence of Workmen.
75. Storage of Explosives, Magazines, etc.
76. Detonators.
77. Application for use of Explosives.
78. Electrical Firing in the Vicinity of a Radio Transmitter.
79. Preloading.
80. Application of Division 2.
81. Personnel Handling Explosives.
82. Safety of Rig Personnel.
83. Safety from Accidental Detonation.
84. Application of Part 6.
85. Notice of Intention to Commence Operations.
86. Notice of Intended Survey.
87. Operations near Mines and Quarries.
88. Operations on Roads and in Inhabited Areas.
89. Marking Seismic Lines.
90. Shot Points near Buildings and Public Utilities.
91. Temporary Shot Hole Plugs.
92. Permanent Shot Hole Plugs.
93. Uncontrolled Flow of Water.
94. Six Monthly Reports on Operations.
95. Submission or Data.
96. Submission of Data on Relinquishment.
97. General.
98. Notice of Intended Geophysical Survey Offshore.
99. Commencement of Survey Offshore.
100. Seismic Energy Sources.
101. Notification Before Drilling a Well.
102. Notification before Deepening, Redrilling, etc.
103. Emergency Action.
104. Proposed Well Program.
105. Notice of Intention to Abandon.
106. Location Survey.
107. Suspension of Operations.
108. Failure to Fulfil Conditions.
109. Restoration of Site.
110. Oil or gas lost or used during well operations.
111. Well Records.
112. Daily Reports.
113. Reports originating at the wellsite .
114. Well Completion Report.
115. Special Studies.
116. Prohibited Drilling Areas.
117. Operations close to Communities.
118. Deviation Survey.
119. Equipment to comply with certain standards.
120. Inspection of Drilling Equipment.
121. Casing of Wells.
122. Pressure Testing of Casing Strings.
123. Cementing of Casing.
124. Formation Integrity Tests.
125. Samples.
126. Cores.
127. Age Dating of Samples.
128. Fluid Samples.
129. Formation and Inflow Tests.
130. Electric or other well logs.
131. Protection of Aquifers.
132. Abandonment Principles.
133. Well Completion.
134. Disposal of Produced Oil and Gas.
135. Disposal of other liquid waste.
136. Disposal of other waste.
137. Replacement of Well site Fencing.
138. Penetration Rate.
139. Detection of Petroleum.
140. Operations.
141. Masts and Derricks.
142. Spudding -In.
143. Blowout Prevention.
144. Blowout Equipment Certification.
145. Blowout Preventer Closing Units.
146. Testing Blowout Prevention Equipment.
147. Installation and Removal of Blowout Prevention Equipment.
148. Well Control Records.
149. Drilling Fluid Facilities.
150. Well Testing.
151. Swabbing.
152. Equipment and Procedures.
153. Drilling and Workover Rigs -General.
154. Derrick and Mast Platforms.
155. Ladders and Stairways.
156. Hoisting Lines.
157. Pressure Lines and Hoses.
158. Safety Valves and Pumps.
159. General.
160. Mobile Drilling Unit.
161. Offshore Drilling Program.
162. Offshore Casing Design.
163. Offshore Casing Design.
164. Offshore Blowout Preventer Closing Units.
165. Disposal of Drilling fluids Offshore.
166. Abandonment of Offshore Wells and Platforms.
167. General.
168. Delivery Lines.
169. Motor Vehicles.
170. Fire precautions.
171. Siting of compressors.
172. Blooey line.
173. Supply line valves.
174. Drillstring fittings.
175. Mud stocks.
176. Gas detection equipment.
177. Definition .
178. Operations.
179. Stimulation operations.
180. Identification of well and production facilities.
181. Production of completed wells.
182. Construction approval.
183. Application for approval.
184. Gauging and metering facilities.
185. Measurement of production for royalty purposes.
186. Production lines and equipment.
187. Monitors, control mechanisms and safety devices.
188. Initial production tests.
189. Multiple completion well.
190. Disposal of produced liquids.
191. Production rate restriction.
192. Enhanced recovery.
193. Use or consumption of gas by the licensee.
194. Use of direct well pressure.
195. Tanks and storage.
196. Tank battery control valves.
197. Entering tanks or other production vessels.
198. Monthly production report.
199. Routine production operations.
200. Annual production report.
201. Reservoir data.
202. Report on an enhanced recovery project.
203. Mobile platform.
204. Mobile platform approval.
205. Movement of mobile platform.
206. Anchoring vessels near pipelines.
207. Consent to construct or install a fixed platform.
208. Application for consent to construct or install a fixed platform.
209. Consent to use a fixed platform.
210. Certificate of verification of design, construction and installation
of a fixed platform.
211. Inspections of a fixed platform.
212. Tests on a fixed platform.
213. Records of tests on a fixed platform.
214. Additional requirements for a platform.
215. Helideck.
216. Warning lights.
217. Sound signals.
218. Emergency energy source for signals.
219. Marking of platforms.
220. Lifejackets and lifebuoys.
221. Survival craft.
222. Exceeding the normal complement.
223. Alternative evacuation facilities.
224. Fire fighting equipment.
225. Communication equipment.
226. Buoys.
227. Electrical installations.
228. Furniture and furnishings.
229. Flammable and toxic gases.
230. Progress report of construction and installation.
231. Compliance with codes.
232. Signs.
233. Construction and operational reporting.
234. Commission of pipeline.
235. Discontinuation of operations.
236. Escape of substances from pipeline.
237. Pipeline or flowline abandonment.
238. Submission of data.
239. Daily report.
240. Well completion report.
241. Addresses to which reports to be sent.
242. Offences.
243. Penalties.
244. Defence of impracticability.
245. Defence of having taken reasonable steps to comply.
Oil and Gas Regulation 2002
MADE by under Head of State, acting with, and in accordance with , the
advice of he National Executive Council under the Oil and Gas Act 1998.
PART 1. - PRELIMINARY.
1. INTERPRETATION.
(1) In these regulations unless the contrary intention appears;
"A.P.I" means the American Petroleum Institute;
"approved" in relation to drilling equipment and materials, means approved
by the American Petroleum Institute (hereinafter in this Regulation
referred to as 'A.P.I'), or other testing agency or authority recognized by
the Director;
"AS" means Standards Association of Australia Standard;
"ASEG -GDF" means the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists -
General Data Format;
"authorized person" means a person appointed by the Person -In -Charge to
carry out a specific duty;
"barrel" means 34.9726 imperial gallons or 42U.S. gallons at a temperature
of 60F and an absolute pressure of 14.73 pounds per square inch or 158.988
litres under similar conditions of temperature and pressure;
"blooey line" In relation to air or gas drilling, means a system of pipes
arranged to carry the air or gas returning to the surface away from the
drilling rig;
"cable" means an electrical conductor or system of conductors for the
transmission of electrical power or communications;
"Chief Inspector" means the Chief Inspector appointed under Section 151(1)
of the Oil and Gas Act 1998;
"circulation" means the passing of fluid down the drill pipe, casing or
tubing in a well and up to the surface or in the reverse direction;
"classifying authority" means an approved authority qualified to classify
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