Canada Oil and Gas Land Regulations — 2
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; ( titulaire de licence or détenteur de licence ) Minister means, (a) in respect of Canada lands located in that part of Canada described in Schedule VI, the Minister 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 Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources; ( ministre ) monument means a post, stake, peg, mound, pit, trench or other device used to mark a boundary or the location of a well as set out in a plan of survey approved pursuant to section 11; ( borne ) offshore means with respect to a drill site, a location within a water-covered area of Canada lands; ( au large des côtes ) oil means (a) crude petroleum and other hydrocarbons regardless of gravity that are produced at a well head in liquid form by ordinary production methods, (b) any hydrocarbons except coal and gas, that may be extracted or recovered from surface or subsurface deposits of oil sand, bitumen, bituminous sand, oil shale or other deposits, and (c) any other hydrocarbons except coal and gas; ( pétrole ) oil and gas lease means an oil and gas lease granted pursuant to section 54 or 57; ( concession de pétrole et de gaz ) Oil Conservation Engineer means an officer of the Department or other person designated by the Minister; ( ingénieur en conservation du pétrole ) permit means an exploratory permit issued pursuant to section 30 or 32 or renewed pursuant to section 40, as those sections read before August 3, 1977; ( permis ) permittee means a person holding a permit; ( titulaire de permis or détenteur de permis ) Petro-Canada Limited means the corporation established by section 4 of the Petro-Canada Limited Act ; ( Petro-Canada Limitée ) significant discovery means a discovery of oil or gas that justifies the drilling of any well or wells in addition to the well or wells in which the discovery was made; ( découverte importante ) special renewal permit means a special renewal permit granted pursuant to section 116 or 117; ( permis avec clause spéciale de renouvellement ) Surveyor General means the person designated as Surveyor General under the Canada Lands Surveys Act ; ( arpenteur général ) target area [Repealed, SOR/80-590, s. 1] well means any opening in the ground that is not a seismic shot hole and that is made, or is in the process of being made, by drilling, boring or any other method, (a) through which oil or gas could be obtained, (b) for the purpose of searching for or obtaining oil or gas, (c) for the purpose of obtaining water to inject into an underground formation, (d) for the purpose of injecting gas, air, water or other substance into an underground formation, or (e) for any purpose through sedimentary rocks to a depth of at least 500 feet. ( puits ) (2) For the purpose of these Regulations, a well is deemed (a) to be abandoned on the day that all cement plugs, as required by the Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations , are set to the satisfaction of the Oil Conservation Engineer; (b) to be completed on the day that the well is first placed on steady or intermittent production of oil or gas or both, and appears, in the opinion of the Oil Conservation Engineer, capable of maintaining steady or intermittent production; and (c) to be suspended on the day that drilling or production operations are suspended in a manner approved by the Oil Conservation Engineer but the well is not abandoned or completed. (3) Commercial exploitation shall be deemed to begin, with respect to a well or extraction plant, on the day on which the Minister, having considered the economic conditions, decides that a market exists commensurate to the productive capacity of the well or extraction plant. SOR/80-590, s. 1; SOR/82-663, s. 1; 1991, c. 10, s. 19;