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Offshore Installations and Wells (Design and Construction, etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996
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- Northern Ireland Statutory Rules
- 1996 No. 228
- Part IV
- Regulation 15
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Design with a view to suspension and abandonment
15. The well-operator shall ensure that a well is so designed and constructed that, so far as is reasonably practicable—
(a)it can be suspended or abandoned in a safe manner; and
(b)after its suspension or abandonment there can be no unplanned escape of fluids from it or from the reservoir to which it led.
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