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THE OIL AND GAS ACT
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART 1 - DEFINITIONS
PART 2 WELL AND BATTERY NAMES
2 Repealed
3 Well and battery names
4 Change of well name
5 Well and battery signs
PART 3 - WELL LICENCE
6 Application for well licence
7 Change in ownership of well
8 Transfer of well licence
9 Restrictions on locating a well
10 Performance deposits
PART 4 - SPACING UNITS, TARGET AREAS,
AND OFF-TARGET PENALTIES
11 Standard size of spacing unit and target area
12 Application to vary size of spacing unit or target area
13 Horizontal well penetrating more han one spacing unit
14 Well completed outside target area
15 Delegation
16 Application for waiver of off-target penalty
PART 5 - EQUIPMENT REGISTRATION
PART 6 - DRILLING, COMPLETING, SERVICING,
AND ABANDONMENT
18 Licensee to give notice to district office
19 Variation in well operation approved under Act
20 Posting of licence and signs
21 Drilling BOP requirements
22 Drilling accumulator system
23 Drilling BOP system controls
24 Drilling kill system requirements
25 Drilling bleed-off and manifold system requirements
26 Mud gas separator
27 Mud tank warning device
28 Drilling mud system
29 Drilling operations conducted in cold weather
30 Equipment to be maintained on drilling rig
31 Air drilling
32 Drilling BOP pressure tests
33 Drilling BOP equipment training
34 Service rig BOP system
35 BOP shop servicing
36 Director may vary BOP requirements
37 Internal combustion engines
38 Construction and use of drill pit
39 Clean-up of wellsite
40 Removal of drilling rig
41 Surface casing
42 Surface casing vent
43 Drill stem testing
44 Production casing
45 Adequate equipment and methods
46 Use of condensate
47 Approval of well operations
48 Production and injection through tubing
49 Packer for injection or disposal
50 Isolation of tubing and casing
51 Casing leak
52 Application to complete multi-pool well
53 Suspended wells
54 Non-refundable levy for inactive well
54.1 Account reviewed annually
55 Dry hole abandonment
56 Cased hole abandonment
57 Director may vary abandonment requirements
57.1Flowline to be abandoned
58 Site clean-up and contouring
59 Rehabilitation
60 Certificate of Abandonment
PART 7 - PRODUCTION OPERATIONS
61 Definition
62 Maximum production rate
63 Multiple wells in spacing unit
64 Repealed
65 Delegation
66 On-production date
67 Initial production test
67.1 On injection report
68 Well recompleted
69 Well testing
70 Application for salt water disposal permit
71 Application for approval of enhanced oil recovery
72 Delegation
73 EOR report
74 Operator to give notice to district office
75 Application for battery operating permit
76 Application for battery modification
76.1Flaring or venting at existing batteries
77 Operator to maintain site of well and battery
78 Suspension of battery
78.1
79 Application to abandon battery
80 Tanks
81 Pop tank
82 Construction or use of emergency storage pits
83 Process vessels
84 Flare design and operation
85 Fire protection
85.1 Hydrogen sulfide gas safety requirements
85.2 Well and battery emissions
85.3 Off lease odours
86 Electrical installations at well or battery
87 Machine guarding
88 Fencing requirements
89 Oilfield waste
89.1Royalty rate on seizure
PART 8 - FLOW LINE
90 Definition
91 Licensee to give notice to district office
92 Flow line requirements
93 Application
94 Corrosion protection
95 Temporary flow lines
96 Pressure testing
97 Flow line replacement
98 Suspension of flow line
99 Abandonment of flow line
100 Report of suspension or abandonment
PART 9 - SPILLS
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
101 Spill report
102 Operator to recover fluid during clean-up
103 Reclamation of a spill or abandon site
104 Environmental protection plan
PART 10 - MEASUREMENT
105 Measurement of oil
106 Measurement of gas
107 Measurement of water
108 Measurement of injection fluids
109 Measurement of production
PART 11 - WELL DATA
110 Deviation and directional surveys
111 Drill cutting samples
112 Core and core analysis
113 Open hole logs
114 Drill stem test results
115 Licensee of exploratory well to obtain samples
116 Reservoir pressure measurement
PART 12 - RECORDS AND REPORTS
117 Submission of sample or report under Part 11
117.1 Digital submission of report under part 11 and 12
118 Tour reports
119 Weekly status report
120 Production and injection report
121 Statement by purchaser of oil and gas
122 Operator to report fire, blow-out, or accident
PART 13 - RELEASE OF INFORMATION
123 Definition
124 Release of information
PART 13.1 - REVIEW
PART 14 - REPEAL AND
COMING INTO FORCE
125 Repeal
126 Coming into force
SCHEDULES
Schedule A: Schedule of Fees and Levies
Schedule B: Form of Transfer of Well Licence
Schedule C: Table of Minimum Distance Requirements
Schedule D: Repealled
Schedule E: Requirements for a Drilling Blow-out Prevention System
Schedule F: Off-Target Penalty Factors
Schedule G: Concentrations of Hydrogen Sulphide and Sulphur Dioxide
PART 1 - DEFINITIONS
1 In this regulation,
"Act" means The Oil and Gas Act; (<Loi>)
"approved" means approved by the director, unless otherwise indicated;
"area of common ownership" means two or more adjoining spacing units in which the interest of each owner is the same in each of the spacing units
"battery" includes a facility used to store, process, or dispose of oilfield waste;
"blow-out preventer" means a special casing head used in rotary drilling, well completion, and servicing to prevent an escape of fluid from a well;
"blow-out prevention system" means an arrangement of blow-out preventers, accumulator system, kill system, and bleed-off lines installed at a well to prevent the escape of fluid from the well;
"development well" means a well that is not an exploratory well;
"district office" means:
(a) for an operation conducted in Townships 1 to 6, the Waskada District Office of the branch; and
(b) for an operation conducted north of Township 6, the Virden District Office of the branch;
"drainage unit" means a drainage unit as defined in the Crown Royalty and Incentives Regulation;
"exploratory well" means a well that, on the day the well licence is issued:
(a) is located more than 0.8 km, measured from the centre of the respective spacing units, from the nearest well that has been cased for the production of oil and gas and that has not since been abandoned as a dry hole; or
(b) is located less than 0.8 km, measured from the centre of the respective spacing units, from the nearest well that has been cased for the production of oil and gas and has not since been abandoned as a dry hole and has a licensed depth that is in a formation that is deeper than the depth of the cased well;
"finished drilling date" means the date on which the licensed total depth is reached after the well has been spudded and continuously drilled;
"flame type equipment" means electrical or fired heating equipment that is not explosion-proof, and includes a space heater, torch, heated process vessel, boiler, electric arc welder, open flame welder, and an exposed element electric heater or appliance;
"gas-oil ratio" or "GOR" means the ratio of the number of cubic metres of gas produced from a source in a given period of time to the number of cubic metres of oil produced from the source in the same period of time;
"horizontal well" means:
(a) a well that is drilled so as to achieve an angle of not less than 80° from the vertical for not less than 100 m; or
(b) a well in which the angle or distance requirements in clause (a) are not achieved owing, in the director’s opinion, to mechanical difficulties;
"licensee" means, other than in Part 8 of this regulation, the holder of a well licence issued under Part 8 of the Act;
"multi-pool well" means a well in which there is production from or injection into more than one pool;
"off-lease odours" means odours resulting from the emission of hydrogen sulphide or another compound from a well or battery that is detectable beyond the battery or wellsite;
"oilfield waste" means:
(a) a fluid used in the drilling, completion, servicing, or abandonment of a well;
(b) waste oil, water, or sludge from a well or oil and gas facility;
(c) soil, snow, or debris contaminated with production; or
(d) any other waste material from a well or oil and gas facility;
"permittee" means the holder of a battery operating permit issued under Part 9 of the Act;
"process vessel" means a vessel used in the processing or treatment of production;
"production" means any fluid produced from a well and includes oil, water, and gas;
"road allowance" means a right of way surveyed for the purpose of a road by either the federal or provincial government survey and includes a right of way provided by a statute for the purpose of a road, a right of way dedicated to the public use as a highway, and a road allowance under the jurisdiction of a municipality;
"salt water truck" means a truck used to haul salt water or any mixture of salt water and other production;
"servicing" means activities carried on in a well after the well is completed and before the well is abandoned;
"surface improvement" means a structure of any kind and includes a well, railway, pipeline, flow line, roadway, power line and a runway and taxiway for an aircraft;
"unique well identifier" means a series of numbers and letters assigned by the branch to a well for the purpose of identifying the well;
"water covered area" means an area normally covered by flowing or standing water;
"water-oil ratio" or "WOR" means the ratio of the number of cubic metres of water produced from a source in a given period of time to the number of cubic metres of oil produced from the same source in the same period of time;
"wellhead" means equipment, other than blow-out prevention equipment, used to maintain control of a well at the surface, and includes the surface casing head;
"wellsite" means land surface to which a right of entry has been granted by the owner of the land surface or under The Surface Rights Act for the purpose of drilling and operating a well;
