Details of information on onshore operators

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Dear Department of Energy and Climate Change,

Please provide details and correspondence of information required of Onshore Operators between DECC and Celtique/Magellan and any other operator name used for operations at or near the site south of Boxal Bridge, at Kirdford West Sussex (planning ref WSCC/083/13/KD).

Quoting from DECC's Operator Requirements "In considering any request for operatorship,DECC will look at the competence of the company - more specifically the following factors: technical experience and capability to supervise, manage and undertake the proposed operation, their risk assessment and hierarchy of decision-making, plan for public engagement and scope of relevant insurance coverage for operations and well abandonment activity.In some cases DECC may request independent verification. There is no fixed amount of information DECC requires to be satisfied of a proposed operator's competence. Unconventional gas and oil activity will require more detail than conventional activity. Clearly a new entrant or small company with little onshore experience should expect to come under greater scrutiny and will have to provide more information than an established onshore operator with a good record.Introduction of new technologies by the operator or their contractors will require more information".

In view of your requirements and the fact that Celtique is a relatively small and very new company with no experience of onshore drilling and no record please will you provide me with the following information:

1. Considering Celtique have no experience in onshore drilling how can DECC be assured of their competence in carrying out unconventional drilling with no track record.

2. Details of Celtique's relevant crisis management and public engagement experience at Kirdford and Wisborough Green.

3.Summary of approach to risk-assessment and hierarchy of decision-making for wellsite and production operation.

4. Monitoring and crisis management plan for Kirdford and Wisborough Green.

5. Community engagement plan at Kirdford and Wisborough Green including any letters, emails and plans.

6. Summary of environmental risk management and potential impacts and assessments that would have to be managed during execution of the proposed work at the site south of Boxal Bridge.

7. Insurance cover documents considered for operatorship that the DECC will use to ascertain the relevant insurance coverage is in place for operations at the site.

8. What financial viability and capacity checks were done before selling the PEDL licence to Celtique/Magellan or any other company under the Celtique group of companies.

9. On what basis are DECC confident that the company Celtique is likely to continue in sound financial health for the foreseeable future (or life of the license), and what proof is there that the company has demonstrated that it has access to sufficient funds to pay for its share of all the proposed works anticipated.

Yours faithfully,

katy fletcher

[correspondence@ecase-bis.fcos.gsi.gov.uk] on behalf of FOI Requests,

DECC Ref: FOI2014/11278

Dear Ms Fletcher

Thank you for your request for information which was received on 29th May.
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Information Act 2000 and/or the Environmental Information Regulations 2004
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