Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia › Department 391 - RULES OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES › Chapter 391-3 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Subject 391-3-13 - OIL AND GAS AND DEEP DRILLING › Rule 391-3-13-.02 - Definitions

Current through Rules and Regulations filed
				through June 27, 2024
All definitions contained in O.C.G.A.
				  12-4-42 are incorporated herein by
				  reference.
(a) "Abandonment" means,
				for purposes of compliance with requirements herein, that a well has not been
				used for six (6) consecutive months and cannot be operated, whether because it
				was drilled as a dry hole or has ceased to produce, or that operations have not
				been conducted thereon. "Shut-in" wells, shall not be considered to be
				abandoned. "Abandonment" shall not be construed to require the plugging of a
				well that has been approved by the Division for future utilization.
(b) "Blow-out" means any uncontrolled flow of
				well fluids and/or formation fluids from the wellbore to the surface or into
				lower pressured subsurface zones.
(c) "Blow-out preventer" means equipment
				installed on the wellhead assemblies to contain wellbore fluids either in the
				annular space between the casing and the tubulars, or in an open hole during
				drilling, completion, and testing operations.
(d) "Blowout preventer control system" means
				the assembly of pumps, valves, lines, accumulators, and other items necessary
				to open and close the blowout preventer equipment.
(e) "Circulation" means the passing of fluid
				(typically drilling mud) down through the drill stem and up to the surface in
				the process of rotary drilling or down the casing and up to the surface in the
				setting of casing.
(f) "Common
				source of supply" means the reservoir strata or pool separated from any other
				reservoir strata or pool that contain, or from competent evidence appears to
				contain, a common accumulation of oil or gas or both.
(g) "Completion" means development of a well
				in an attempt to produce oil and/or gas or final placement of cement plugs in a
				nonproducing well, whichever occurs last. Completion is the last act as
				determined by the Director on a well which result in such well being capable of
				producing oil and/or gas through permanent well head equipment after production
				tubing has been run, or final placement to cement plug(s) in a nonproducing
				well.
(h) "Condensate" means the
				liquid hydrocarbons produced by the condensation of natural gas, either after
				it leaves the reservoir or while it remains in the reservoir.
(i) "Conservation" means conserving,
				preserving, guarding, or protecting the oil and gas resources of the State by
				obtaining the maximum efficiency with a maximum efficiency with a minimum waste
				in the production, transportation, processing, refining, treating, and
				marketing of the unrenewable oil and gas resources of the State.
(j) "Drill site" means the exact location of
				the well bore.
(k) "Drill site
				tract" means the land area devoted to the well, mud pits, and other ancillary
				operations.
(l) "Operator" means any
				person who is in charge of the development of a lease, the drilling of a well,
				or the operation of a producing well, and in addition, for the purpose of
				assigning responsibility, may also be the person indicated as operator by the
				most current records of the Division.
(m) "Re-enter" means to bring a rig back onto
				a boring after having moved off location in order to re-establish contact with
				the borehole. "Re-enter" shall not be construed to mean bringing a rig back
				onto a location simply to facilitate downhole geophysical logging; rather
				"re-enter" applies when "completion" or "drilling" operations are
				performed.
(n) "Shut-in" means a
				well where the wellhead valves are closed thereby shutting off production. A
				"shut-in" well is capable of producing either oil or gas.
(o) "Well Completion Report" means a form
				prescribed by the Division with accompanying illustrations and narrative
				providing descriptive as-constructed well information. The "Well Completion
				Report" generally consists of all well records including well logs, test
				locations and intervals, sampling locations and intervals, test results, casing
				installed, plugs installed, perforated intervals and other descriptive
				information.
(p) Words other than
				those defined in (a)-(o) above are given their usual customary and accepted
				meaning; all words of a technical nature or a nature peculiar to the oil and
				gas industry are given that meaning defined in the Handbook of Oil Industry
				Terms and Phrases or that which is generally accepted within the oil and gas
				industry.
O.C.G.A. §
											12-4-2, et seq., as
				  amended.