Canada–Nova Scotia Offshore Area Petroleum Operations Framework Regulations (SOR/2024-26)

Marginal note:Fail-safe subsurface safety valves

• 165 (1) An operator must ensure that a completed development well is equipped with a fail-safe subsurface safety valve that

  • (a) can be operated from the surface; and

  • (b) if the well is located where permafrost is present in unconsolidated sediments, is installed in the production tubing below the base of the permafrost.

• Marginal note:Additional valve

  (2) The operator must ensure that a completed development well on a fixed platform that has gas-lift, injection or production capabilities in the A-annulus is equipped with an additional fail-safe safety valve on the A-annulus.

• Marginal note:Requirements

  (3) The operator must ensure that all fail-safe safety valves are designed, installed, tested, maintained and operated to prevent uncontrolled well flow when they are activated.