Canada Oil and Gas Land Regulations — 2
2 (1) In these Regulations, allowable expenditure means the expenditure referred to in section 43; ( dépenses admissibles ) arbitrator means the arbitrator referred to in section 97; ( arbitre ) bond means bond or other securities of or guaranteed by the Government of Canada; ( titre or garantie ) Canada lands means (a) territorial lands as defined in the Territorial Lands Act , and (b) public lands as defined in the Public Lands Grants Act for the sale, lease or other disposition of which there is no provision in the law, and includes land under water; ( terres du Canada ) Chief means the administrator of the Canada Oil and Gas Lands Administration of the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources and of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development; ( chef ) commercial quantity means the output of oil or gas from a well that, in the opinion of the Chief, would warrant the drilling of another well in the same area, and in determining that opinion the Chief may consider the costs of drilling and producing and the volume of production; ( quantité commerciale ) Crown reserve lands means Canada lands in respect of which no interest granted or issued by or pursuant to these Regulations is in force and includes the submerged lands described in Schedule IV; ( terres de réserve de la Couronne ) Department means, (a) in respect of Canada lands located in that part of Canada described in Schedule VI, the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, and (b) in respect of Canada lands other than those lands located in that part of Canada described in Schedule VI, the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources; ( ministère ) development structure means any structure, facility or undertaking erected for the purpose of drilling an exploratory well or a development well or erected for the production, gathering, storing, processing, transmission or other handling of oil and gas; ( plate-forme d’exploitation ) development well means a well (a) drilled pursuant to an order made under section 93, or (b) the location of which is, in the opinion of the Chief, so related to the location of producible wells that there is every probability that it will produce from the same pool as the producible wells; ( puits d’extension ) exploration agreement means an exploration agreement entered into by the Minister or a person designated by the Minister pursuant to section 30; ( contrat d’exploration ) exploratory well means any well that is not a development well; ( puits de sondage ) exploratory work includes test drilling, aerial mapping, surveying, bulldozing, geological, geophysical and geochemical examinations and other investigations relating to the subsurface geology and all work, including the construction and maintenance of those facilities necessarily connected therewith and the building and maintenance of airstrips and roads required for the supply of or access to exploratory operations; ( travaux de sondage ) extraction plant means any plant or equipment, other than a well, used for the extraction of oil or other substances produced in association with oil from surface or subsurface deposits of oil sand, bitumen, bituminous sand, oil shale or other deposits from which oil may be extracted; ( usine d’extraction ) gas means natural gas and includes all other minerals or constituents produced in association therewith, other than oil, whether in solid, liquid or gaseous form; ( gaz ) holder means, in relation to any interest granted or issued under these Regulations, the person or persons registered as holder or holders of the interest; ( titulaire ) interest includes an exploration agreement; ( intérêt ) legal survey means a survey referred to in section 10; ( arpentage officiel ) lessee means a person holding an oil and gas lease; ( concessionnaire or titulaire de concession ordétenteur de concession ) licence means an exploratory licence issued pursuant to section 24; ( licence ) licensee means a person holding a licence; ( titu