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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 ASEA’s Final HSSE/Environment Rules include general
guidelines for industrial safety, operation security and provisions that establish guidelines in industrial safety,
environmental protection for seismic exploration and operational security, and environment protection
production of hydrocarbons. Following comments for performing exploration and extraction activities.
from the IAGC requesting exclusion from these System Finalized in December 2016, the HSSE/Environment
Management Rules, ASEA is allowing operators to Rules incorporated several positive revisions that are
provide system management documentation, through considerably important to our members and suggested
bridging documents, in order to meet compliance with by the IAGC in its November 2016 comments.
the regulations.
Among those positive changes in the final Rules are
The IAGC encourages members to obtain CURR two key recommendations that were incorporated:
(bridging documents) that will allow permitting to removal of shutdowns for dolphins and inclusion
move forward under the new regulations. 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
Renewal Initiative
Canada's Atlantic Offshore The IAGC and Canadian Association of Geophysical
Occupational Health and Safety Contractor's (CAGC) comments on the Frontier and
Initiative Offshore Regulatory Renewal Initiative (FORRI)
support modernizing and streamlining the regulations
IAGC comments support adoption of Canada's for onshore and offshore oil and gas exploration and
streamlined Atlantic Offshore Occupational Health development in Canada. However, the associations
and Safety (OHS) regulations for offshore oil and gas find that individual Boards' interpretation of
exploration and development and urges consistency regulations may not align with the policy intent of
among the regulators, the Canada-Newfoundland FORRI.
and Labrador Offshore Petroleum 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 Geophysical
Initiative language appears to be more applicable Data. The concern centers on the Canada-
to and drafted for exploration and development Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum
operations and 'marine installations' such as Board's and the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore
platforms and other fixed/semi-fixed structures Petroleum Board's application of the initiative rather
rather than G&G vessels. than the initiative itself.
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