Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 2
2 (1) In these Regulations, barrel means 35 gallons; ( baril ) blowout means the unintentional and uncontrolled escape of oil or gas, as from a drilling well when high formation pressure is encountered; ( éruption ) blowout preventer means a casing-head control fitted with special gates or rams that can be closed around the drill pipe and completely close the top of the casing if the pipe is withdrawn; ( dispositif anti-éruption ) field means (a) the general surface area or areas underlain or appearing to be underlain by one or more pools, or (b) the subsurface regions vertically beneath the surface area or areas; ( champ ) gas-oil ratio means the number of cubic feet of gas produced per barrel of oil; ( rapport gaz-pétrole ) gas well means a well (a) that produces natural gas not associated or blended with oil at the time of production, (b) that produces more than 30,000 cubic feet of natural gas to each barrel of oil from the same producing horizon, (c) wherein the gas producing stratum has been successfully segregated from the oil and the gas is produced separately, or (d) that is classified as a gas well by the Minister for any reason; ( puits de gaz ) oil well means any well capable of producing oil and not being a gas well; ( puits de pétrole ) pipeline means any pipe or any system or arrangement of pipes wholly within Canada lands whereby oil or gas is conveyed from any wellhead or other place at which it is produced, to any other place, or from any place where it is stored, processed or treated, to any other place, and includes all property of any kind used for the purpose of, or in connection with, or incidental to, the operation of a pipeline in the gathering, transporting, handling and delivery of oil or gas, and without restricting the generality of the foregoing, includes tanks, surface reservoirs, pumps, racks, storage and loading facilities, compressors, compressor stations, pressure measuring and controlling equipment and fixtures, flow controlling and measuring equipment and fixtures, metering equipment and fixtures, and heating, cooling and dehydrating equipment and fixtures, but does not include any pipe or any system or arrangement of pipes which constitutes a distribution system for the distribution of gas to ultimate consumers; ( pipe-line ) pool means a natural underground reservoir containing or appearing to contain an accumulation of oil or gas or both separated or appearing to be separated from any other such accumulations; ( nappe ) waste includes (a) the inefficient, excessive or improper use or dissipation of reservoir energy, (b) the locating, spacing, drilling, equipping, operating or producing of any well or wells in a manner that results or could result in reducing the quantity of oil or gas ultimately recoverable from any pool, (c) the inefficient storing of oil or gas, whether on the surface or underground, (d) the producing of oil or gas in excess of transportation or marketing facilities or of reasonable market demand, and (e) the locating, drilling, equipping, operating or producing of a well or wells in a manner that causes or could cause unnecessary or excessive surface loss or destruction of oil or gas; ( déperdition ) zone means any stratum or strata designated by the Minister as a zone, either generally or in respect of any designated area, or any specified well or wells. ( zone ) (2) All other words have the same meaning as in the Canada Oil and Gas Land Regulations .