Definition(s)
Offshore Installation
Regulation 3 defines an ‘offshore installation’ for the purpose of these Regulations. This definition replaces that formerly contained in section 1 of MWA12 as the definition of an offshore installation for the purposes of health and safety law. Existing Regulations which refer to installations (for example SCR4) are amended by these Regulations to use the new definition. Regulations, such as PFEER,10 refer to the definition given in MAR. Any variation from it will be explained in the guidance on those Regulations.
Source: A Guide to the Offshore Installations and Pipelines Works (Management and Administration) Regulations 1995, Guidance on Regulations (UK HSE L70), Second Edition, 2002. Regulatory
Offshore Installation
“Offshore installation” means an installation that is located at an offshore production site or offshore drill site, and includes an accommodation installation and a diving installation (installation au large des côtes).
Source: Canada Oil and Gas Installations Regulations, SOR/96-111, Canada, current to May 1, 2014. Regulations
Source: Canada Oil and Gas Installations Regulations, SOR/96-118, February 2013. Regulations
Offshore Installation
The Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (Management and Administration) Regulations (MAR) 1995 (the 1995 Regulations) introduced a new definition of an ‘offshore installation’ and modified the definition of ‘person in control’. Further details are set out in the guidance to MAR, regulation 3.
Source: Health Care and First Aid on Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works, Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (First-Aid) Regulations 1989, Approved Code of Practice and Guidance (UK HSE L123), Second Edition, 2000. Regulatory Guidance
Offshore Installation
A general term for mobile and fixed structures, including facilities, which are intended for exploration, drilling, production, processing or storage of hydrocarbons or other related activities or fluids. The term includes installations intended for accommodation of personnel engaged in these activities. Offshore installation covers subsea installations and pipelines. The term does not cover traditional shuttle tankers, supply boats and other support vessels which are not directly engaged in the activities described above.
Source: Offshore Standard DNV-OS-C101, Design of Offshore Steel Structures, General (LRFD Method, Det Norske Veritas, April 2011. Global Standards
Offshore Installation
“Offshore installation” has the meaning given in article 4(2) and (3) of this Order.
Source: The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application outside Great Britain) Order 2001, UK S.I. 2013/214, 2013. Regulations
Offshore Installation
In this Order “offshore installation” means subject to paragraph (3) of this article, a structure which is, is to be, or has been, used while standing or stationed in water, or on the foreshore or other land intermittently covered with water—
- for the exploitation, or exploration with a view to exploitation, of mineral resources by means of a well;
- for undertaking activities falling within article 8(2);
- for the conveyance of things by means of a pipe;
- for undertaking activities that involve mechanically entering the pressure containment boundary of a well; or
- primarily for the provision of accommodation for persons who work on or from a structure falling within any of sub-paragraphs (a) to (d), together with any supplementary unit which is ordinarily connected to it and all the connections.
Any reference in paragraph (2) to a structure or supplementary unit does not include—
- a structure which is connected with dry land by a permanent structure providing access at all times and for all purposes;
- a well;
- a mobile structure which has been taken out of use and is not yet being moved with a view to its being used for any of the purposes specified in paragraph (2) of this article;
- any part of a pipeline; and
- a structure falling within article 10(c).
Source: The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application outside Great Britain) Order 2001, UK S.I. 2013/214, 2013. Regulations
Offshore Installation
“Offshore installation” includes any part of an offshore installation whether or not capable of being manned by one or more persons.
Source: The Offshore Installations (Inspectors and Casualties) Regulations 1973, UK S.I. 1973/1842, 1973. Regulations
Offshore Installation
“Offshore installation” means an offshore installation within the meaning of the 1971 Act which is within
- tidal waters and parts of the sea in or adjacent to Great Britain up to the seaward limit of territorial waters;
- waters in any area designated under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964. Note: 1964 c. 29;
- inland waters within Great Britain.
Source: The Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (First-Aid) Regulations 1989, UK S.I. 1989/1671, 1989. Regulations
Offshore Installation
“Offshore installation” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 3.
Source: The Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (Management and Administration) Regulations 1995, UK S.I. 1995/738, 1995. Regulations
Offshore Installation
offshore installation
Subject to the provisions of this regulation, in these Regulations the expression “offshore installation” means a structure which is, or is to be, or has been used, while standing or stationed in relevant waters, or on the foreshore or other land intermittently covered with water—
(a) for the exploitation, or exploration with a view to exploitation, of mineral resources by means of a well;
(b) for the storage of gas in or under the shore or bed of relevant waters or the recovery of gas so stored;
(c) for the conveyance of things by means of a pipe; or
(d) mainly for the provision of accommodation for persons who work on or from a structure falling within any of the provisions of this paragraph, and which is not an excepted structure.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the excepted structures are—
(a) a structure which is connected with dry land by a permanent structure providing access at all times and for all purposes;
(b) a well;
(c) a structure or device which does not project above the sea at any state of the tide;
(d) a structure which has ceased to be used for any of the purposes specified in paragraph (1), and has since been used for a purpose not so specified;
(e) a mobile structure which has been taken out of use and is not for the time being intended to be used for any of the purposes specified in paragraph (1); and
(f) any part of a pipeline.
(3) For the purposes of these Regulations there shall be deemed to be part of an offshore installation—
(a) any well for the time being connected to it by pipe or cable;
(b) such part of any pipeline connected to it as is within 500 metres of any part of its main structure;
(c) any apparatus or works which are situated—
- on or affixed to its main structure; or
- wholly or partly within 500 metres of any part of its main structure and associated with a pipe or system of pipes connected to any part of that installation.
Where two or more structures are, or are to be, connected permanently above the sea at high tide they shall for the purposes of these Regulations be deemed to comprise a single offshore installation.
Source: The Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (Management and Administration) Regulations 1995, UK S.I. 1995/738, 1995. Regulations
Offshore Installation
In regulation 2 (interpretation) of the Offshore Installations (Emergency Pipe-line Valve) Regulations 1989 (Note: S.I. 1989/1029.) for the definition of “offshore installation” there shall be substituted the following definition: ““offshore installation” means an installation within the meaning of regulation 3 of the 1995 Regulations other than an installation which is—
- used exclusively for flaring, or
- used exclusively for the loading of substances into vessels or for their reception and storage prior to such loading and which normally has no persons on board”.
Source: The Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (Management and Administration) Regulations 1995, UK S.I. 1995/738, 1995. Regulations
Offshore Installation
In regulation 2 (interpretation) of the Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (First-Aid) Regulations 1989 (Note: S.I. 1989/1671.) for the definition of “offshore installation” there shall be substituted the following definition: ““offshore installation” has the same meaning as in regulation 3 of the 1995 Regulations”.
Source: The Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (Management and Administration) Regulations 1995, UK S.I. 1995/738, 1995. Regulations
Offshore Installation
In this section—
“offshore installation” means any installation which is an offshore installation within the meaning of the Mineral Workings (Offshore Installations) Act 1971, or is to be taken to be an installation for the purposes of sections 21 to 23 of the Petroleum Act 1987.
Source: UK Offshore Safety Act 1992, 1992 c. 15 (February 2013). Legislation
Offshore Installation
Offshore installation includes process platform, unmanned wellhead platform, drilling rig, modular rig, FPSO, FSU, SBM etc.
Source: Guidance Notes on Petroleum and Natural Gas (Safety in Offshore Operations) Rules, 2008, Oil Industry Safety Directorate (India), 2012. Regulatory Guidance
Offshore Installation
“Offshore installation” means a mobile or fixed installation including any pipeline attached thereto, which is or is to be, or has been used, while standing or stationed in relevant waters with a view to explore or exploit petroleum and natural gas.
Source: Petroleum and Natural Gas (Safety in Offshore Operations) Rules, 2008, India, 18th June 2008. Regulations
Offshore Installation
A buoyant or non-buoyant construction engaged in offshore operations including drilling, production, storage or support functions, and which is designed and intended for use at a location for an extended period.
Source: Rules for Classification – Offshore units, DNVGL-OU-0101, Offshore drilling and support units, DNV GL, July 2015. Global Standards