INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLETION OF FORMS
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Form A. Application to become a Party
This form should be completed and returned to The Offshore
Pollution Liability Association Limited (The Association) by
an Operator or an intending Operator of an Offshore Facility
located within an area to which the Offshore Pollution Liability
Agreement (OPOL) dated 4th 1974 applies.
A copy of the form will be returned to the Applicant by the
Association, countersigned to
indicate acceptance.
Form B. Establishment of Financial Responsibility
It is a requirement of OPOL that each Party shall provide
the Association with satisfactory evidence of financial responsibility
to meet its obligations under OPOL. Rules indicating the means
whereby such evidence may be provided are attached, together
with appropriate forms for completion. Such forms should be sent
to the Association before any Offshore Facility, as
defined in OPOL, becomes operative.
Form C. Operator's Designation of Licence
OPOL provides that each Party shall make the Agreement applicable
to Offshore Facilities by Designating the Licence covering the
installation or operation of the Offshore Facilities. This form
should be used to give notice of such designation to the Association,
and any Offshore Facilities that already exist or are about to
be installed should be notified on Form D. A separate form should
be sent in for each Licence that is designated.
Forms D. Operator's Notice of Designated Offshore Facilities
(Well and Other than Well)
The appropriate Form D should be completed and accompany Form
C where any Offshore Facilities already exist or are about to
be installed under the Licence designated. It should also be
used to give notice of subsequent changes in the Offshore Facilities
under a Licence, specifying:
(i) the designation of Offshore Facilities not originally
notified;
(ii) the addition of any further Offshore Facilities; and
(iii) the removal of any Offshore Facilities previously designated.
A separate form may be submitted on the occasion of each change
or, if preferred, notification may be at monthly intervals.
OFFSHORE FACILITIES TO BE DESIGNATED
(Rule 3.1)
A. (i) "Oil Well" means any well drilled
for the purpose of exploring for and the production of Oil. It
excludes any abandoned well, including temporarily abandoned
wells.
(ii) "Gas Well" means any well being drilled for
the purpose of exploring for or the appraisal of gas. It excludes
any abandoned well, including temporarily abandoned wells.
B. "Drilling Unit" means a mobile unit of
any type being used for offshore drilling purposes, together
with supporting facilities.
C. "Production Platform" means a complex
comprising:
(i) A fixed or floating offshore structure erected or positioned
for the purpose of producing Oil from the seabed or its subsoil
other than a structure designed solely to accommodate personnel
or, when serving the purpose of such a single structure, a series
of such structures; and
(ii) the completed underwater Oil Well or Wells within the
same oilfield served by such a
structure or series of such structures; and
(iii) the flarelines and flowlines from such completed underwater
Oil Well or Wells; and
(iv) the intra-field pipelines (flowlines) from one such structure
to another such structure.
D. "Oil Storage/Loading System" means an
offshore fixed or floating Oil storage facility together with
any associated offshore Oil loading facilities.
E. "Pipeline System" means either:
(i) a trunk line from an oil field to shore; or
(ii) a feeder line from an oil field to a trunk line; or
(iii) a feeder line from an oil field to another feeder line;
including any intra-field feeder lines (flowlines), pumping
booster stations and connecting stations
associated with (i), (ii) or (iii) above.
F. "Oil Loading System" means a system comprising
all offshore Oil loading facilities associated
with a Production Platform which are not part of an Oil Storage/Loading
System or of a
Pipeline System.
Note: With reference to Section C (i) above and for
the purpose of clarification the term "A fixed or
floating offshore structure erected or positioned for the purpose
of producing Oil from the seabed or its subsoil" should
be interpreted to include a fixed drilling platform.
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