2010 No. 1739

Offshore Installations

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

Made

Coming into force

The Secretary of State makes this Order —

  1. a

    in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 22(1) and (2) of the Petroleum Act 19871 (“the Act”); and

  2. 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 commencement1

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

Establishment of safety zone2

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 19842 specified in columns 2 and 3 of the Schedule.

Amendment of the Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) Order 19973

In the Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) Order 19973 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 StateDepartment for Work and Pensions

SCHEDULESAFETY ZONE

Article 2

(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)).