A Guide to the Borehole Sites and Operations Regulations

This guide to the Borehole Sites and Operations Regulations, 1995, is intended to be relevant to management and specialists in the oil/gas, mining and quarrying industry.

It applies to the drilling, for example, of boreholes inside a mining area, proving quarry and opencast reserves, the extraction or disposal of water, extraction of landfill gas, civil engineering, and geophysical exploration and geotechnical investigation.

The Regulations do not apply to offshore installations or activities carried out from an offshore installation.