Downloads and useful links

OCNS and OSPAR updated documentation, forms and guidelines:

Cefas issued documents and information

1. Ranked Lists of Products approved under the Offshore Chemical Notification Scheme (OCNS)
   • Definitive Ranked Lists of Approved Products, Adobe Acrobat format - currently unavailable for download
     The definitive lists of products approved under the OCNS in Adobe Acrobat® .pdf format. On double clicking to obtain the downloaded file it will open the 5 chemical lists - one for each major CHARM type - as Adobe Acrobat® (.pdf) documents. Adobe Acrobat® Reader can be used to search files for text strings using the Edit, Find function from the menu bar. This may be useful for locating specific products on these lists.
   • Definitive Ranked Lists of Approved Products, Excel format (ZIP, 350.52 KB, updated 16 March 2010)
     For convenience the lists of products approved under the offshore chemical notification scheme in Excel workbook .xls format may be downloaded as a zip file from here. Please note that once unzipped the contents should be verified against the definitive Adobe Acrobat listings.
   • Colour banding NOT applicable to Netherlands products
2. Generic Templates PDF file containing generic templates to cover chemicals that are generated 'in situ' on offshore installations.
   • Sodium Hypochlorite with Copper ions (PDF, 28 KB, updated 8 February 2010)
   • Sodium Hypochlorite (PDF, 28 KB, Updated 8 February 2010)
   • Chlorine Dioxide (PDF, 28 KB, Updated 8 February 2010)
3. Criteria for Accepting Alternative Toxicity data to support an HOCNF application (PDF, 17 KB)
   To relieve some of the burden on chemical suppliers needed to satisfy the requirement for substance toxicity data. OIC 2003 provided guidance on the acceptability of toxicity data other than that derived from the 4 previously recommended tests. The downloadable file gives the criteria that this data must meet in order for it to be acceptable under the UK OCNS.
4. Netherlands OCNS Protocol
   • Netherlands OCNS Protocol Part 1 (PDF, 10.8 MB)
   • Netherlands OCNS Protocol Part 2 (PDF, 408 KB)
   • Bioconcentration Factors of Surfactants (PDF, 421 KB)

OSPAR documents

• Blank HOCNF Form (Word) 

All relevant OSPAR decisions, recommendations, agreements, implementation reports and formats can be found under the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry or Hazardous Substances work areas of the OSPAR web site at www.ospar.org

Information on the OSPAR List of chemicals for priority action and the OSPAR List of Substances of possible concern can be found on the OSPAR web site

Useful web links

• OSLO and Paris Commission (OSPAR)
• UK Government Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)
• Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR)
• Website of Marine Scotland
• State Supervision of Mines (SodM)
• Association of Oil and Gas Producers The official version of the CHARM model can be downloaded (free of charge) from this website by visiting 'publications' and then 'Non-OGP publications'.
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)  for information on OECD guidelines for the testing of chemicals.
• European Oilfield Speciality Chemicals Association.
• Health and Safety Executive  has useful information on Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH)