Regulations on the Administration of Environmental Protcetion in the Exploration and Development of Offshore Petroleum (from government website)
Regulations on the Administration of Environmental Protcetion in the Exploration and Development of Offshore Petroleum (from government website)
Regulations on the Administration of Environmental Protcetion in the Exploration and Development of Offshore Petroleum
December 29, 1983
Article 1 These Regulations are formulated in order to implement the Marine Environmental Protcetion Law of the People's Republic of China and prevent pollution damage to marine environment resulting from offshore petroleum exploration and development.
Article 2 These Regulations are applicable to enterprises, institutions, operators and individuals engaged in the exploration and development of petroleum in the see areas under the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China, and the stationary and mobile platforms and other relevant facilities they use.
Article 3 The departments in charge of environmental protcetion in exploration and development of offshore petroleum are the State Oceanographic Bureau of the People's Republic of China and its agencies, hereinafter referred to as the "competent departments".
Article 4 Enterprises or operators, while compiling the overall programs for developing oil (gas) fields, must compile a marine environmental impact report and submit it to the Ministry of Urban and Rural Construction and Environmental Protcetion of the People's Republic of China. The Ministry of Urban and Rural Construction and Environmental Protcetion, in conjunction with the State Oceanographic Bureau and the Ministry of Petroleum Industry, is to organize examination and approval in accordance with the stipulations governing the administration of environmental protcetion over the projcets of state capital construction.
Article 5 The marine environmental impact report shall include the following:
1. the name, geographical position and size of the oil field;
2. the natural environment and the conditions of marine resources of the sea areas where the oil field is located;
3. the types, composition, amount and the means of disposal of the waste materials to be discharged in developing the oil field;
4. an assessment of the impact on the marine environment; the possible impact from development of offshore petroleum on the natural environment and marine resources of the surrounding sea areas; the possible impact on the sea fishery, shipping and other sea activities; measures for environmental protcetion to be adopted to avoid and reduce various types of harmful impact;
5. the impact that can not be avoided in the final outcome and the graveness and causes of the impact;
6. measures for preventing major oil pollution accidents; the organization of prevention, provision of personnel, tcehnical equipment and communications and liaison.
Article 6 Enterprises, institutions and operators shall have the capacity of dealing with emergencies with regard to the prevention and control of oil pollution accidents, formulate emergency plans, have oil rceovery facilities and equipment for containing oil and eliminating oil commensurate with the scale of exploration and development of offshore petroleum in which they are engaged.
If oil-eliminating chemical agents are to be used, their brand names and composition shall be reported to the competent departments for verification and approval.
Article 7 The requirements for the pollution-prevention equipment of the stationary and mobile platforms are:
1. oil and water separation equipment shall be fitted;
2. the oil extraction platforms shall be fitted with the equipment for treating oil-polluted water; the oil content of the polluted water, after treatment by this equipment, shall reach the discharge standards set by the State;
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