Requirements as to contents of licences; requirement as to consent for use of floating installations in connection with a development or use of mobile installation for the testing of a wellU.K.

4.—(1) The [F1OGA] shall not grant any licence which does not require the licensee to obtain the prior consent of the [F1OGA] to the operations to which paragraph (2) below applies.

(2) This paragraph applies to any of the following operations wholly or partly in the relevant area–

(a)the commencement or re-commencement of the drilling of any well;

(b)the extraction of petroleum (otherwise than as a by-product of the drilling or the testing of any well) where the amount extracted exceeds 500 tonnes per day in the case of oil and 500,000 cubic metres per day in the case of gas; F2...

(c)the erection of any structure in connection with a development [F3; or

(d)the carrying on of a storage or unloading activity.]

(3) The [F4OGA] shall not exercise any power conferred on [F5it] to vary the terms of a licence so as to relieve the licensee of any requirement to obtain the consent of the [F4OGA] to any of the operations to which paragraph (2) above applies.

(4) Notwithstanding any provision in any licence, an undertaker shall not without the prior written consent of the [F6OGA] granted in accordance with these Regulations–

(a)use a floating installation in connection with a relevant project comprising a development; F7...

(b)use any mobile installation for the extraction of petroleum where the principal purpose of the extraction is the testing of any well [F8; or

(c)use any mobile installation for the purpose of carrying out test injections of carbon dioxide or combustible gas.]

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