The Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) (No.2) Order 2010

Statutory Instruments

2010 No. 1739

Offshore Installations

The Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) (No.2) Order 2010

Made

5th July 2010

Coming into force

30th July 2010

The Secretary of State makes this Order —

(a)

in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 22(1) and (2) of the Petroleum Act 1987(1) (“the Act”); and

(b)

for the purpose of giving effect to proposals submitted to him by the Health and Safety Executive under section 24(2A) of the Act.

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) (No.2) Order 2010 and comes into force on 30^th July 2010.

Establishment of safety zone

2.  A safety zone is established around the installation specified in column 1 of the Schedule (being an installation stationed in waters to which subsection (7) of section 21 of the Petroleum Act 1987 applies) having a radius of five hundred metres from the point as respects that installation which has the co-ordinates of latitude and longitude according to the World Geodetic System 1984(2) specified in columns 2 and 3 of the Schedule.

Amendment of the Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) Order 1997

3.  In the Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) Order 1997(3) omit the installation Morecambe Well 110/2A-7 specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 and its co-ordinates of latitude and longitude specified in columns 2 and 3 of Schedule 1.

Chris Grayling,

Minister of State

Department for Work and Pensions

5th July 2010

Article 2

SCHEDULE SAFETY ZONE

(1) Name or other designation of the offshore installation	(2) Latitude North	(3) Longitude West
Blake Flank Development Well - 13/24b FBA, Block 13/24b, Blake Field	58° 12.51’	01° 21.43’

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

1.  This Order establishes, under section 22 of the Petroleum Act 1987, a safety zone having a radius of 500 metres from the specified point, around each installation specified in the Schedule to this Order and stationed in waters to which section 21(7) of that Act applies (these include territorial waters and waters in areas designated under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964 (c.29)).

2.  Vessels, which for this purpose include hovercraft, submersible apparatus and installations in transit, are prohibited from entering or remaining in a safety zone except with the consent of the Health and Safety Executive or in accordance with regulations made under section 23(1) of the Act (currently the Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1331)).

(1)

1987 c.12; section 24(2A) was inserted by S.I. 1993/1823 and is amended by S.I. 2008/960.

(2)

The World Geodetic System 1984 (“WGS 84”) defines a reference frame for the earth, for use in geodesy and navigation. It was developed by the United States’ National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and is maintained by it. WGS 84 is defined at paragraph 2.1 of the United States’ National Imagery and Mapping Agency Technical Report TR8350.2, third edition, amendment 1 of 3rd January 2000 entitled “Department of Defense World Geodetic System 1984” (http://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/publications/tr8350.2/wgs84fin.pdf).

(3)

S.I. 1997/735.