California Code of Regulations › Title 14 - Natural Resources › Division 2 - Department of Conservation › Chapter 4 - Development, Regulation, and Conservation of Oil and Gas Resources › Subchapter 1 - Onshore Well Regulations › Article 2.1 - Well Spacing Patterns-New Pools › Section 1721.3 - Petition for Well Spacing

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
Any affected person may, at any time after the discovery
						of a new pool, petition the Supervisor to adopt, pursuant to Public Resources
						Code Section
						3609,
						a well-spacing plan other than that specified in Public Resources Code Sections
						3600
						to
						3608.1,
						inclusive, or Section
						1721.1 hereof. The petition shall
						be supported by information necessary to establish the need for an extent of
						such a well-spacing plan. The petition shall contain the following data
						pertaining to the pool for which well-spacing is sought and shall include the
						source (i.e., laboratory analyses, field measurements, published reports, etc.)
						from which such data are derived:
(a)
					 Lease map of the area showing current lease operator and well
					 locations.
(b) Structural contour
					 map drawn on a geologic marker at or near the top of the pool, which includes
					 estimated productive limits of the pool.
(c) At least two geologic cross sections, one
					 that is parallel to and one that is perpendicular to the structural or
					 depositional strike, and through at least one producing well in the
					 pool.
(d) Representative electric
					 log to a depth below the producing pool (if not already shown on the cross
					 section) identifying all geologic units, formations, and oil or gas
					 zones.
(e) Average net productive
					 thickness in feet.
(f) Average
					 effective porosity as a percent of bulk volume.
(g) Average initial oil, water, and gas
					 saturations as a percent of pore volume.
(h) Most probable oil and gas recovery
					 factors as percents of original oil and gas in place.
(i) Average initial stabilized oil and gas
					 producing rates in barrels per day per well and thousand standard cubic feet
					 per day per well.
(j) Complete
					 reservoir pressure history, including the initial shut-in bottom hole pressure
					 and the bubble point pressure of a crude oil system or dew point pressure of a
					 condensate system.
(k) Reservoir
					 temperature in degrees Fahrenheit.
(l) Solution gas/oil ratio at bubble point
					 pressure and reservoir temperature.
(m) Initial oil formation volume factor as
					 reservoir barrels per stock tank barrel.
(n) Average API gravity of stock tank oil and
					 specific gravity of produced gas.
(o) Average current drilling and completion
					 cost in dollars per well.
(p)
					 Average current operating cost in dollars per well per year, including
					 anticipated workover costs.
(q)
					 Current market value of oil and gas production in dollars per stock tank barrel
					 and dollars per thousand standard cubic feet.
(r) Amount of all royalty interests,
					 including overriding royalties, if any, in the tracts proposed for inclusion in
					 the well-spacing plan.
(s) Current
					 ad valorem, severance, and excise taxes levied on the working interests, or
					 production attributable to the working interests, proposed for inclusion in the
					 well-spacing plan.
Failure to supply in the petition of any of these data
						that are available and their source shall be grounds for denial of the petition
						without a hearing.
1.
						Repealer of former Section
						1721.3, and renumbering and
						amendment of former Section
						1721.2 to Section
						1721.3 filed 5-23-88; operative
						6-22-88 (Register 88, No. 22). For history of former Section
						1721.3, see Register 84, No.
						52.
2. New subsection (a), subsection relettering, and amendment of
						newly designated subsections (c) and (j) filed 8-4-95; operative 9-3-95
						(Register 95, No. 31).
3. Change without regulatory effect amending
						first paragraph filed 12-26-2006 pursuant to section
						100, title 1, California Code of
						Regulations (Register 2006, No. 52).
Note: Authority cited: Section
						  3609,
						  Public Resources Code. Reference: Section
						  3609,
						  Public Resources Code.