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ASEA Final Regulation: "Systems
Management Rules"
ASEA HSSE/Environment Rules
Mexico's Agencia de Seguridad, Energia y Ambiente's
(ASEA) System Management Rules establish The Agencia de Seguridad, Energia y Ambiente's
guidelines for industrial safety, operation security and (ASEA) Final HSSE/Environment Rules include general
environmental protection for seismic exploration and provisions that establish guidelines in industrial safety,
production of hydrocarbons. Following comments operational security, and environment protection
from the IAGC requesting exclusion from these System for performing exploration and extraction activities.
Management Rules, ASEA is allowing operators to Finalized in December 2016, the HSSE/Environment
provide system management documentation, through Rules incorporated several positive revisions that are
bridging documents, in order to meet compliance with considerably important to our members and suggested
the regulations. by the IAGC in its November 2016 comments.
The IAGC encourages members are to obtain CURR Among those positive changes in the final Rules are
(bridging documents) that will allow permitting to two key recommendations that were incorporated
move forward under the new regulations. include: removal of shutdowns for dolphins and
inclusion of industry manuals and recommended
mitigation measures by reference. The final
regulations still contain problematic language on
excessive exclusion zones; however, operators may
model accurate exclusion zones to comply with the
regulations.
CANADA
Proposed Policy Intentions for the
Frontier and Offshore Regulatory
Canada's Atlantic Offshore Renewal Initiative
Occupational Health and Safety The IAGC and Canadian Association of Geophysical
Initiative Contractor's(CAGC) comments on the Frontier
and Offshore Regulatory Renewal Initiative
IAGC comments support adoption of Canada's (FORRI) support modernizing and streamlining
streamlined Atlantic Offshore Occupational Health the regulations for onshore and offshore oil and gas
and Safety (OHS) regulations for offshore oil exploration and development in Canada. However,
and gas exploration and development and urges the associations find that individual Boards'
consistency among the regulators, the Canada- interpretation of regulations may not align with the
Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum policy intent of FORRI.
Board and the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore
Petroleum Board. The IAGC and CAGC are concerned about the
proposed section 14.23, Final Geoscientific,
The IAGC requested exemptions for G&G vessels, Geotechnical or Environmental Program Data
where appropriate, because the drafted OHS Reporting and section 14.25, Retention of
Initiative language appears to be more applicable Geophysical Data below. The concern centers on
to and drafted for exploration and development the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore
operations and 'marine installations' such as Petroleum Board's and the Canada-Nova Scotia
platforms and other fixed/semi-fixed structures Offshore Petroleum Board's application of the
rather than G&G vessels. initiative rather than the initiative itself.
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