250.1500—Definitions.
Terms used in this subpart have the following meaning:
Contractor and contract personnel mean anyone, other than an employee of the lessee, performing well control, deepwater well control, or production safety duties for the lessee.
Deepwater well control means well control when you are using a subsea BOP system.
Employee means direct employees of the lessees who are assigned well control, deepwater well control, or production safety duties.
I or you means the lessee engaged in oil, gas, or sulphur operations in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).
Lessee means a person who has entered into a lease with the United States to explore for, develop, and produce the leased minerals. The term lessee also includes an owner of operating rights for that lease and the MMS-approved assignee of that lease.
Periodic means occurring or recurring at regular intervals. Each lessee must specify the intervals for periodic training and periodic assessment of training needs in their training programs.
Production safety includes measures, practices, procedures, and equipment to ensure safe, accident-free, and pollution-free production operations, as well as installation, repair, testing, maintenance, and operation of surface and subsurface safety equipment. Production operations include, but are not limited to, separation, dehydration, compression, sweetening, and metering operations.
Well completion/well workover means those operations following the drilling of a well that are intended to establish or restore production.
Well control means drilling, well completion, well workover, and well servicing operations. For purposes of this subpart, well completion/well workover means those operations following the drilling of a well that are intended to establish or restore production to a well. It includes small tubing operations but does not include well servicing. Well servicing means snubbing, coil tubing, and wireline operations.
Well servicing means snubbing, coiled tubing, and wireline operations.