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Oil and gas: inspection strategy and enforcement activity

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The Offshore Safety Directive Regulator (OSDR), a collaboration between OPRED and the HSE, produces yearly intervention plans detailing planned inspections to be undertaken of oil and gas installations. The OPRED contingent of the ODR intervention plan is based on the OPRED inspection strategy. The Offshore Environmental Inspectorate Team, enforcement policy applies to all offshore oil and gas installations operating in connection with the exploration, development or production of petroleum that come within the scope of the relevant environmental legislation. This includes:

  • floating production and storage offtake vessels

    • As part of its regulatory function OPRED undertakes a programme of planned inspections, both at operators and owners’ onshore offices and of offshore oil and gas installations, to ensure compliance with relevant Regulations and permit conditions. It is also to gain assurances that operations are undertaken with due consideration of environmental aspects and impacts and with effective controls to minimise the likelihood of releases to the environment.

    Inspectors enforce the requirements on operators set out in statutory instruments (regulations) relevant to the protection of the offshore environment which include the:

  • regulation, using permits with conditions, of the activities of discharge and use of offshore chemicals, the discharge of oil, and emissions from qualifying offshore combustion installations
  • prohibition on the release of offshore chemicals and oil
  • requirement for Licensed Operators to have an oil pollution emergency plan

    • The enforcement methods available to Inspectors are detailed in the relevant legislation and include: a warning letter, the serving of an enforcement, improvement or prohibition notice, revocation of a permit and prosecution. This policy sets out the general principles that Inspectors shall follow in relation to enforcement including prosecution.

    The Offshore Environmental Civil Sanctions Regulations 2018

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