Arkansas Administrative Code › Agency 178 - Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission › Rule 178.00.07-008 - Rule B-5: Submission of Well Records and Issuance of Certificate of Compliance

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, June, 2024
RULE B-5
SUBMISSION OF WELL RECORDS AND ISSUANCE OF
			 CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE
a.
		  During the drilling, original completion, recompletion, or workover of every
		  well, the owner, operator, contractor, driller or other person responsible for
		  the conduct of drilling, original completion, recompletion or workover
		  operations, shall keep adequate records of the well being drilled, all of which
		  shall be accessible to the Commission and its agents at all reasonable
		  times.
b. For purposes of this
		  rule, original completion shall be defined as initial zone perforation, and
		  configuration of wellhead for production, excluding pipeline connections. Any
		  further completion work, after the initial configuration of the wellhead, shall
		  be considered a recompletion or workover, and subject to the filing
		  requirements of Section (d) or (f) below.
c. For purposes of this rule, recompletion is
		  as defined in General Rule A-4.
d.
		  For purposes of this rule, workover is as defined in General Rule A-4. Upon
		  completion of workover operations, only well records specified in Section
		  (f)(1)(3) are required to be submitted.
e. Wells drilled as dry holes, where
		  production casing has not been set, shall be subject to the well record
		  submission requirements specified in Section (f) (1)(2) and (3) within 30 days
		  after the completion of drilling activities.
f. Upon original completion or recompletion
		  of the well, the operator, contractor, driller, or other person responsible for
		  the conduct of the drilling operation shall file with the Commission:
1. Properly filled out Well Completion
		  Report.
2. All electric logs or
		  other geophysical logs of the open well bore, which measure resistivity,
		  porosity, temperature, and gamma ray emission and for planned directional and
		  horizontal wells, borehole deviation and direction logs including a true
		  vertical depth logs, to be submitted in a 1 inch, 2 inch and 5 inch to 100 foot
		  scale format or other scale format acceptable to the Commission. All logs shall
		  be submitted, at a minimum, as paper copies in standard continuous logging
		  paper format. If digital copies of the logs can be provided from the logging
		  service company, the operator is also required to submit copies of the digital
		  logs in either LAS (ASCII Format) or Digital TIFF Image (200 DPI Black &
		  White) Raster Format to the Commission on an approved electronic storage
		  device. If digital copies of the logs cannot be provided by the logging service
		  company, the operator shall file an affidavit with the Commission stating
		  digital logs could not be provided by the logging service company.
3. All logging and well service company
		  tickets applicable to the completion or recompletion operation? which indicate
		  all logging and completion activities occurring in the well.
4. Properly filled out Request for
		  Certificate of Compliance.
5.
		  Application to Abandon other than for a dry hole