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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2001 No. 1914

OFFSHORE INSTALLATIONS

The Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) Order 2001

  Made 4th May 2001 
  Coming into force 25th May 2001 

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 22(1) and (2) of the Petroleum Act 1987[1] (hereinafter referred to as "the Act") and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement
     1. This Order may be cited as the Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 25th May 2001.

Establishment of safety zones
     2. A safety zone is hereby established around each installation specified in column 1 of the Schedule hereto (being an installation stationed in waters to which subsection (7) of section 21 of the Act 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 European Datum (1950) specified in columns 2 and 3 of the Schedule.



Signed by authority of the Secretary of State.


Whitty
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

4th May 2001



SCHEDULE
Article 2


Safety Zones


(1) (2) (3)
Name or other designation of the offshore installation Latitude North Longitude
Wellheads and Swift Manifold, Block 12-5, Magnus Field 61°36'21.08" 01°17'41.44"E
Wellheads and Swift Manifold, Block 12a-17, Magnus Field 61°39'33.86" 01°21'57.96"E
Wellheads and Swift Manifold, Block 12a-11z, Magnus Field 61°35'13.15" 01°18'35.79"E
Wellheads and Swift Manifold, Block 11/7a-3A, Magnus Field 61°40'05.54" 01°22'10.7"E
Wellheads and Swift Manifold, Block 12a-12A, Magnus Field 61°34'34.41" 01°17'12.4°E
Wellheads and Swift Manifold, Block 12a-13, Magnus Field 61°35'15.18" 01°16'44.56"E
Wellheads and Swift Manifold, Block 12a-21, Magnus Field 61°39'07.56" 01°20'30.61"E
Wellheads and Swift Manifold, Block 211/12a, Magnus Field 61°37'51.64" 01°16'51.3"E
Kyle Well 29/2c-13, Block 29/2c, Kyle Field 56°54'53.26" 01°13'24.67"E
Beauly Well 16/21c-32, Block 16/21c, Beauly Field 58°11'01.753" 01°07'45.796"E
Nuggets NGA Wellhead, Block 3/19a, Nuggets Field 60°27'59.16" 01°45'35.81"E
Nuggets NGB Wellhead, Block 3/20a, Nuggets Field 60°28'12.16" 01°49'14.81"E
Nuggets NGC Wellhead, Block 3/19b, Nuggets Field 60°20'35.74" 01°36'57.29"E
Nuggets NGD Wellhead, Block 3/19a, Nuggets Field 60°20'26.45" 01°41'44.65"E
North Water Injection, Block 13/24a, Blake Field 58°11'50.9" 01°23'15.3"W
Manifold, Block 13/24a, Blake Field 58°10'30.4" 01°22'39.6"W
South Water Injection, Block 13/29b, Blake Field 58°09'19.15" 01°19'56.16"W
Subsea Development, Block 9/19, Skene Field 59°25'57.747" 01°40'52.691"E


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order establishes, under section 22 of the Petroleum Act 1987, safety zones 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)) (article 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 1987/1331).

Notes:

 [1] 1987 c. 12.back


ISBN 0 11 029474 2


 © Crown copyright 2001

Prepared 22 May 2001

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