You must take the following safety measures when you conduct drilling operations on a platform with producing wells or that has other hydrocarbon flow:
(a)
You must install an emergency shutdown station near the driller's console;
(b)
You must shut in all producible wells located in the affected wellbay below the surface and at the wellhead when:
(1)
You move a drilling rig or related equipment on and off a platform. This includes rigging up and rigging down activities within 500 feet of the affected platform;
(2)
You move or skid a drilling unit between wells on a platform;
(3)
A mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) moves within 500 feet of a platform. You may resume production once the MODU is in place, secured, and ready to begin drilling operations.
Code of Federal Regulations
[68 FR 8423, Feb. 20, 2003]