78Application for acceptance of well operations management plan

78  Application for acceptance of well operations management plan

 (1) A titleholder may apply to NOPSEMA for acceptance by NOPSEMA of a well operations management plan.

 (2) The application must be made at least 30 days, or such lesser number of days approved by NOPSEMA in writing, before the proposed start of the first well activity to which the plan would apply.

 (3) The well operations management plan:

 (a) must be submitted with the application; and

 (b) must be in writing; and

 (c) may apply to more than one well if the integrity of each well is subject to similar risks; and

 (d) with the written approval of NOPSEMA—may be submitted in part.

Note: For the purposes of paragraph (3)(d), the titleholder may, for example, submit a plan that:

(a) is proposed to apply to only some of the well activities the titleholder intends to carry out during the life of the well; or

(b) applies to certain stages of well activities to which the plan is proposed to apply.