---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 C.F.R. § 250.724"
title: "30"
number: "250.724"
heading: "What are the real-time monitoring requirements?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/30/250.724"
---

# §250.724. What are the real-time monitoring requirements?

- (a) When conducting well operations with a subsea BOP or with a surface BOP on a floating facility, or when operating in an high pressure high temperature (HPHT) environment, you must gather and monitor real-time well data using an independent, automatic, and continuous monitoring system capable of recording, storing, and transmitting data regarding the following:
  - (1) The BOP control system;
  - (2) The well's active fluid circulating system; and
  - (3) **The well's downhole conditions with the bottom hole assembly tools (if any tools are installed).**
- (b) You must transmit these data as they are gathered, barring unforeseeable or unpreventable interruptions in transmission, and have the capability to monitor the data, using qualified personnel in accordance with a real-time monitoring plan, as provided in [paragraph (c)](#c) of this section.
- (c) You must develop and implement a real-time monitoring plan. Your real-time monitoring plan, and all real-time monitoring data, must be made available to BSEE upon request. Your real-time monitoring plan must include the following:
  - (1) A description of your real-time monitoring capabilities, including the types of the data collected;
  - (2) A description of how your real-time monitoring data will be transmitted during operations, how the data will be labeled and monitored by qualified personnel, and how the data will be stored as required in §§ [250.740](/cfr/30/250.740.md) and [250.741](/cfr/30/250.741.md);
  - (3) A description of your procedures for providing BSEE access, upon request, to your real-time monitoring data;
  - (4) The qualifications of the personnel monitoring the data;
  - (5) Your procedures for, and methods of, communication between rig personnel and the monitoring personnel; and
  - (6) Actions to be taken if you lose any real-time monitoring capabilities or communications between rig personnel and monitoring personnel, and a protocol for how you will respond to any significant and/or prolonged interruption of monitoring capabilities or communications, including your protocol for notifying BSEE of any significant and/or prolonged interruptions.

## Notes

### Amendments

[84 FR 21977, May 15, 2019]

### Source

Source: 81 FR 26022, Apr. 29, 2016, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 30 U.S.C. 1751, 31 U.S.C. 9701, 33 U.S.C. 1321(j)(1)(C), 43 U.S.C. 1334.

### Source

Source: 76 FR 64462, Oct. 18, 2011, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[84 FR 21977, May 15, 2019]