Alabama Administrative Code › Title 400 - STATE OIL AND GAS BOARD OF ALABAMA › GOVERNING SUBMERGED OFFSHORE LANDS OPERATIONS › Chapter 400-2-4 - DRILLING › Section 400-2-4-.03 - Well Record

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
(1)
				During drilling, completing, and workover operations on every permitted well,
				the owner, operator, contractor, driller, or other person responsible for the
				conduct of drilling operations, shall notify the Supervisor prior to performing
				the following activities: setting surface casing, running intermediate or
				production casing, perforating, drillstem testing (see Rule
				400-2-5-.01), wireline logging
				or surveying, and coring. Such persons shall keep a detailed and accurate
				record of the well, reduced to writing from day to day, which shall be
				accessible to the Board and its agents at all times. Pertinent information from
				such records shall be furnished to the Board within thirty (30) days after
				completion, or at such time as prescribed by the Supervisor. Said information
				shall include but not be limited to: drilling contractor; spud date; ground
				level, derrick floor, and kelly bushing elevations surveyed by a licensed land
				surveyor; total depth; kick-off point depths and directions of any sidetracks;
				bottom-hole location; casing and liner record; cement record; squeeze cement
				record; perforation record; tubing record; the depth and type of any plugs or
				packers set; well stimulation and treatment record; drillstem test record; and
				a record of all wireline logging, sampling, and coring operations for said
				well. This information shall be submitted on the appropriate Form OGB-6, OGB-7,
				and OGB-8.
(2) One (1) copy of all
				electrical, mechanical, radioactive, and dipmeter logs or such other surveys
				performed as a part of drilling, completing, or workover operations shall be
				submitted to the Board within thirty (30) days after completion. In addition to
				filing either blue or black line log copies, all available digital log data in
				a Log ASCII Standard (LAS) format shall be filed with the Board. One (1) copy
				of all drillstem test results shall be submitted along with Form OGB-7 within
				thirty (30) days after completion. A complete set of washed (mud-logger)
				cuttings, if available, correctly labeled and identified as to depth, shall be
				filed with the Board within thirty (30) days from the time of completion of any
				well unless otherwise approved by the Supervisor. If cores are taken, a
				complete set of cores, either whole or at least quarter slabs, correctly
				labeled and identified as to depth, shall be filed with the Board within three
				(3) months from the time of completion of any well unless otherwise approved by
				the Supervisor; provided, however, that an operator may obtain an exception to
				this requirement upon submission of an affidavit certifying that the operator:
(a) will store and maintain core from the
				well at a specified location or facility and provide the name, address and
				telephone number of the facility where the cores are stored;
(b) will provide the Board access to the core
				upon request and provide the name, address and telephone number of the person
				to handle such request;
(c) will
				provide the core to the Board if the operator should cease maintaining and
				storing said core; and
(d) will
				submit the core to the Board within one (1) year from the time of completion of
				the well. Additionally, the Supervisor may allow the filing of materials
				representative of the cored interval in lieu of filing whole or slab core if
				the Supervisor determines there is adequate core coverage in an area or for
				some other reason. Cores taken from wells drilled in submerged offshore lands
				shall be exempt from being filed with the Board; however, if the operator
				should cease maintaining and storing the core, then said core shall be
				submitted to the Board.