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Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 28
28 (1) Where it appears to the Oil Conservation Engineer that any equipment, casing or tubing used in drilling or production is inadequate, defective or hazardous, he may require the replacement or reconditioning of the equipment, casing or tubing, and may require that operations be discontinued until the required action is taken. (2) The subsurface equipment shall include a pincollar or its equivalent at the lower end of the production tubing as a safeguard against loss of testing equipment, but the Oil Conservation Engineer may grant permission to dispense with the pincollar. (3) The surface equipment shall include such valve connections as are necessary to sample the oil, gas or water produced.
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 29
29 The lessee shall furnish to the Oil Conservation Engineer upon request a plan in duplicate showing the position of all wells, pipelines, tanks, buildings or other structures on the leased area.
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 30
30 (1) The licensee, permittee or lessee shall at all times take reasonable measures to the satisfaction of the Oil Conservation Engineer to prevent or to remedy the injurious access of water, gas or oil into a formation. (2) Where any well is a menace to oil, or water-bearing formations or to life or property, and if remedial measures are considered necessary and the licensee, permittee or lessee of the well fails to use such measures as may be directed by the Minister, the Minister shall, at the expense of the licensee, permittee or lessee, take such steps and employ such persons as he considers necessary to carry out the remedial measures and for that purpose may (a) enter upon, seize and take possession of any such well, together with the whole or part of the movable and immovable property in, on or about the well or used in connection therewith or appertaining thereto; and (b) take over the management and control thereof for the time necessary to carry out the remedial measures.
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 31
31 (1) The permittee or lessee shall enclose and keep enclosed all openings or excavations made in connection with or for the purpose of exploring for and producing oil and gas or other operations. (2) The licensee, permittee or lessee shall at all times make such provisions to the satisfaction of the Oil Conservation Engineer for the disposal of the earth, rock, waste or refuse that it shall not be an inconvenience, nuisance or obstruction to any roadway, pass, passage, river, creek or place or to any private or Canada lands, or conflict or embarrass the operating of any mines on the said lands, or in any manner whatsoever occasion unnecessary private or public damage, nuisance or inconvenience.
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 32
32 The licensee, permittee or lessee shall take all reasonable care and carry out such measures as may be satisfactory to the Oil Conservation Engineer with regard to the disposal of salt water.
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 33
33 When an area is designated as a field by the Minister, or where it is expected that oil and gas will be encountered, adequate provision shall be made (a) for the conservation of oil and gas before a well is drilled in; and (b) for producing and storage equipment before a well is placed on production.
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 34
34 (1) No oil shall be stored in an unprotected excavation or in storage receptacles that are inadequate or likely to cause reasonably avoidable waste or loss. (2) All tanks or batteries of tanks shall be surrounded by a dike or ditch of a capacity greater than that of the tank or battery of tanks and the dike or ditch shall be maintained in good condition and free from high grass, weeds or combustible material. (3) All oil tanks or batteries of tanks shall be located at least 200 feet from the outer perimeter of the ditch or dike to any road allowance, surveyed road, railway other than siding, high voltage power line or other right-of-way, dwelling, industrial plant, existing or proposed aircraft runway or taxiway, building used for military purposes, farm building, school, church or cemetery and shall not be located in the flightway of an airfield within 1,000 feet of the end of the runway without a special permit. (4) Reasonable precautions shall be taken to prevent salt water, drilling fluid, waste, oil or refuse from tanks or wells from flowing over the land. (5) Any rubbish or debris that might constitute a fire hazard shall be removed to a distance of at least 150 feet from the vicinity of any well, tank or pump station. (6) All waste, oil and refuse from tanks or wells shall be drained into proper receptacles located not less than 100 feet from any tank, well or building and shall be burned immediately or transported from the premises, and when necessary and practicable, surrounded by a fireguard. (7) No flammable product or waste produce of any kind from any oil or gas well shall be permitted to run into any lake, stream or other body of water or on to any highway or public road. (8) No flare pit or end of flare line shall be located closer than 250 feet to any road allowance, surveyed road, railway, pipeline, high voltage power line or other right-of-way, dwelling, industrial plant, aircraft runway or taxiway, building used for military purposes, permanent farm building, school, church or cemetery, except where the Oil Conservation Engineer finds a lesser distance is justified under the circumstances.
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 35
35 (1) A well producing gas shall be equipped with a gas meter of a type approved by the Oil Conservation Engineer, and no gas shall be produced at a well unless it is metered or the Oil Conservation Engineer gives permission to dispense with a meter. (2) Each orifice meter shall be installed in accordance with the regulations made under the Gas Inspection Act . (3) Where gas from several wells is brought to a common point for metering, each meter shall be marked clearly to indicate the source of gas being measured. (4) Any by-pass around a meter shall be closed by valves or stop-cocks that effectively stop all flow of gas when closed, and, on every occasion when the by-pass is operated and on any extraordinary occasion where gas does not reach the meter, a suitable entry shall be made on the meter chart. (5) Whenever an orifice plate is installed or changed, a record of the time and the size of the orifice removed and inserted shall be recorded on the meter chart. (6) Each orifice meter-run installed shall be equipped with a thermometer well and pressure gauge connection. (7) The measured inside diameter of the pipe at the orifice shall be clearly marked on the pipe near the orifice flanges. (8) The orifice plate shall show clearly the size of orifice, in inches and decimals, by figures stamped or cut into the metal of the plate, and a plate shall not be rebored or the orifice size increased without first removing or permanently defacing the old marking. (9) Each meter shall be maintained in good and usable condition. (10) Purchasers shall keep meter charts and records of gas purchased in a permanent file for a period of at least two years and such information shall be made available to the Oil Conservation Engineer at his request.
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 36
36 (1) Orifice meter charts shall be clearly marked in such manner as to indicate the well or wells being metered and the time and the date of start and finish of records. (2) Charts shall be computed and shall be preserved for a period of one year. (3) In computing the quantity of gas passing the meter during the period covered by a chart, all metered gas shall be recorded together with a fair estimate of all gas passed during all periods in which the meter for any reason fails to record. (4) Coefficients for calculating meter charts shall be computed in accordance with the regulations made under the Gas Inspection Act .
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 37
37 (1) The Oil Conservation Engineer may permit group meter measurements. (2) The Oil Conservation Engineer, after examination, may exempt any well or wells from metering the volume of gas produced therefrom if satisfactory estimates of the volume of gas produced are supplied to the Oil Conservation Engineer in lieu of meter measurements. (3) Where, in the opinion of the Oil Conservation Engineer, adequate measurements are not being made of the gas produced from any well, the Oil Conservation Engineer may require that such well be closed in until such time as adequate measurements or other satisfactory arrangements for determining quantities have been made.
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 38
38 (1) Before production is taken initially from any gas well it shall be tested by the back-pressure method. (2) Each producing gas well shall be tested at least every 12 months. (3) At the request of the lessee or lessees of a majority of the gas wells in any pool not subject to special pool regulation, the Oil Conservation Engineer may direct that such gas wells in the pool be tested by any standard method recognized as being practicable, except that all gas wells in any one pool shall be tested by the same method. (4) Tests shall be made in accordance with detailed instructions obtainable from the Oil Conservation Engineer and shall be forwarded promptly to the Oil Conservation Engineer on a form approved by the Chief. (5) Shut-in pressures shall be taken on all producing gas wells semi-annually unless the taking of such pressures is covered by special pool order. (6) Surface shut-in pressure shall be taken with a dead-weight gauge after a minimum shut-in period of 24 hours. (7) All shut-in pressures and the duration of the shut-in period thereof shall be reported to the Oil Conservation Engineer on the regular monthly gas well report. (8) Open-flow and back-pressure tests on gas wells may be witnessed or observed by the Oil Conservation Engineer and he shall be given reasonable notice by the permittee or lessee of the well on which the tests are to be taken, setting the time that such tests will commence.
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 39
39 (1) The licensee, permittee or lessee shall not allow a well to be shot with nitroglycerine or similar type of explosive until the Oil Conservation Engineer has been notified of the contemplated action. (2) All reasonable precautions shall be taken when shooting, perforating, hydraulically fracturing or chemically treating a well, to ensure that no irreparable injury is done to the well, and to prevent ingress of water or other foreign substance into productive zone. (3) The licensee, permittee or lessee shall submit to the Oil Conservation Engineer a report on all wells shot, perforated, hydraulically fractured or chemically treated on a form approved by the Chief and shall include particulars of the results obtained. (4) In case any injury is done to the well by shooting, perforating, hydraulically fracturing or chemically treating, the licensee, permittee or lessee may repair or abandon the well and it shall be repaired or abandoned promptly to the satisfaction of the Oil Conservation Engineer if such repair or abandonment is reasonably necessary to prevent waste of oil or gas or damage to persons or property.
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 40
40 (1) The maximum gas-oil ratio for a well or a pool shall be determined by the Minister. (2) No oil well shall be permitted to produce gas in excess of the maximum ratio unless all gas produced in excess thereof, except gas used in gas-lift operations, is returned to the pool from which it was produced under conditions authorized by the Minister.
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 41
41 Gas-oil ratio surveys shall be taken in the manner approved or prescribed by the Oil Conservation Engineer.
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 42
42 (1) A person shall not allow a well to produce from more than one pool unless such action is authorized by the Minister in writing. (2) The method of multiple completion shall be approved by the Oil Conservation Engineer.
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 43
43 The production from one pool shall not be commingled with that from another pool in the same field before measurement without permission from the Oil Conservation Engineer.
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 44
44 No permittee or lessee shall permit a well to produce either oil or gas from different pools through the same production string without first receiving written permission from the Oil Conservation Engineer.
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 45
45 (1) The Oil Conservation Engineer, wherever he considers it necessary to do so, may seal or cause to be sealed with a metallic seal or seals any or all valves or meters installed at a well or wells or on pipelines, tanks or other receptacles used for the storage or transportation of oil or other fluid produced or withdrawn from the well or wells. (2) The person in charge of operations at the well, and the permittee or lessee shall be notified in writing by the Oil Conservation Engineer of the affixing of the seal or seals and the reasons therefor. (3) Any seals so affixed shall not be removed, except in case of an emergency, without authority in writing from the Oil Conservation Engineer.
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 46
46 The Minister may designate an area as a pool, field or both and shall name all oil and gas pools and fields in Canada lands.
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 47
47 (1) The licensee, permittee or lessee shall mark each of his wells in a conspicuous place with a sign on which is printed, in reasonably large and legible letters, the name of the licensee, permittee or lessee, the name of the well and the legal description of the location and he shall keep the sign posted and the lettering clear. (2) There shall be maintained in the Department a record of official names, to be known as the well-name register, in which shall be entered (a) the location of each well and the name thereof, which shall be approved by the Oil Conservation Engineer; (b) the name of the licensee, permittee or lessee and his agent or operator of the well; (c) the name of the drilling contractor; and (d) any subsequent name or names assigned and approved by the Oil Conservation Engineer. (3) The last name of the well shown in the well-name register shall be the official name and the one by which the well shall be known. (4) The Oil Conservation Engineer may grant or refuse an application to change the official name, and if the application is granted, the new name shall be entered in the well-name register.
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 48
48 The Minister may in his discretion fix and regulate the production and allowables from all wells or pools in order to effect economic production and the conservation of oil and gas.
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 49
49 (1) Where an application is made to inject fluids into an underground reservoir, the Minister may authorize or refuse to authorize such action. (2) The application shall set forth (a) the location of each intake well; (b) the location of all oil and gas wells, including abandoned and drilling wells and dry holes and the names of permittees or lessees within two miles of each intake well; (c) the formations from which wells are producing or have produced; (d) the name, description and depth of each formation in which fluid is to be injected; (e) the well completion program and the depth of the casing shoe or liner below which it is to be injected; (f) the elevations of the top of the formation into which the fluid is to be injected in the intake well and the wells producing from the same formation within a two-mile radius of each intake well; (g) a log of each intake well or such information as is available; (h) a description of the fluid, stating the kind, where obtained and the estimated amounts to be injected daily; (i) the name and address of the applicant or person to be in charge of the injection operation; and (j) such other information as the Oil Conservation Engineer may require to ascertain whether the injection may be safely and legally made. (3) Application may be made to include the use of more than one intake well. (4) Each application shall be executed by the lessees who are willing to participate in the proposed operations. (5) Upon approval of the Minister, the applicant or the person in charge of injection operations shall notify the Oil Conservation Engineer (a) of the date of commencement of such operations; and (b) within the 10 days next following the discontinuance of such operations, together with reasons in writing in respect of such discontinuance. (6) Each well used for the injection of gas or water into a producing formation shall be cased with sound casing so as not to permit leakage, and the casing shall be cemented so that damage will not be caused to oil, gas or fresh water reservoirs. (7) The lessee of an intake well shall keep an accurate record of (a) the amount of fluid injected into the intake well; (b) the source of fluid injected; and (c) the pressure used in injection of the fluid.
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 50
50 Before fixing and regulating production under section 48 or authorizing the injection of fluids into a reservoir under section 49, the Minister shall have regard to all the circumstances that appear to be relevant and shall consider the interests of other permittees or lessees in the area.
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 51
51 The Minister may direct that injection wells may be used by others than the applicant.
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 52
52 (1) Each person who is the owner or who has the control or management of a scrubbing plant or absorption plant in the Northwest Territories and Yukon Territory shall keep, at his office or other place of business, records of (a) all gas received into a scrubbing plant or absorption plant; (b) the name and address of each person from whom the gas was received; (c) the quantity and quality of the gas received from each person; (d) the price payable in respect thereof; and (e) each disposition and price received by him of any product obtained from treating or processing gas. (2) Each person operating a plant for processing gas shall keep a daily record of such gas and file in duplicate with the Chief, not later than the 25th day of each month, a full report, on a form approved by the Chief, of the gas processed during the preceding month.
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 53
53 (1) Where a well is producing or is capable of producing oil and gas, there shall be kept, at the field office or other place of business acceptable to the Oil Conservation Engineer, a daily record, on a form approved by the Chief, of (a) the oil, gas, water and sediment produced from the well; (b) the average separator pressure if a separator is in use; and (c) the full particulars of the disposition of all products of the well. (2) Where fluid is being injected into a well, there shall be kept, at the field office or other place of business acceptable to the Oil Conservation Engineer, a daily record, on a form approved by the Chief, of (a) the gas or liquid injected into the well; (b) the source from which the gas or liquid was obtained; and (c) the particulars of any treatment to which the gas or liquid has been subjected. (3) Each permittee or lessee of a well that, during the preceding month, produced or was capable of producing oil or gas, or into which fluid was injected during the preceding month, shall file a statement in duplicate with the Chief, on forms approved by him, not later than the 25th day of the month, showing (a) the oil, gas, water and sediment produced from the well during the preceding month and the disposition thereof; (b) the liquid and gas injected into the well during the preceding month; and (c) the average separator pressure during the preceding month if a separator is in use. (4) If a well is shut in, a record so stating shall be filed in duplicate with the Chief each month until production is resumed or the well is abandoned. (5) The Oil Conservation Engineer, upon application, may permit the keeping of records or the filing of reports in accordance with this section for a battery or group of wells, but in such cases (a) the figures shall be apportioned in a manner satisfactory to the Oil Conservation Engineer to indicate as nearly as possible the actual production of the individual wells; and (b) the apportioned figures shall represent the production of each well for all purposes. (6) The permittee or lessee shall keep such other records and furnish such other reports as the Minister may require.
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 54
54 (1) A licensee, permittee, lessee or his agent shall report to the Oil Conservation Engineer immediately by telegraph, telephone or radio and confirm by letter (a) any well flowing out of control; (b) all fires that occur at oil or gas wells or storage tanks owned, operated or controlled by him or on his property; (c) all tanks struck by lightning; (d) any other fires that destroy oil or gas; and (e) any breaks or leaks in tanks or pipelines from which any serious loss of oil or gas has occurred. (2) In all reports of fires, breaks or leaks in pipes, or other accidents of this nature, the location and name of the well, tank or line break shall be given.
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 55
55 (1) The Oil Conservation Engineer may direct permittees and lessees at such time and in such manner as he may deem advisable to conduct all reasonable tests and furnish information in respect of oil or gas reservoirs. (2) Notwithstanding the generality of subsection (1), the tests and information to enable the taking of reservoir surveys may relate to (a) the practices and methods employed in operating a well; (b) the volume and source of oil and gas; (c) the pressure of the reservoir as an average; (d) the areas of the regional or differential pressure; (e) gas-oil ratios; (f) the producing characteristics of individual wells in any field; and (g) the producing characteristics of any field.
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 56
56 (1) A person who operates a drilling rig shall take all necessary and reasonable measures to enforce these Regulations and to ensure that they are observed by each and every employee; and a toolpusher and a driller shall take all reasonable measures to enforce the requirements of all such regulations as are applicable to the work over which he has supervision and to ensure that the same are observed by workmen under his charge and direction. (2) An owner or any employee shall take all reasonable measures to carry out his duties in accordance with such rules as are applicable to the work in which he is engaged.
Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations — 57
57 (1) No derrick, buildings, draw works, links, elevator, tongs, machinery, tools or other equipment shall be used that are unsafe, unsuitable or not so constructed, protected, placed and operated as to afford reasonable safety from accidents to persons employed in or around wells. (2) The spudding in or drilling operations at any oil or gas well shall not be performed until all moving parts of machinery are securely guarded and until all stairways, handrails and escape lines with escape buggy installed at the derrick platforms are properly installed and fastened in position.