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 1.1 - Offshore Well Regulations › Article 2 - Definitions › Section 1741 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
Unless this context otherwise requires, the following
						definitions shall apply to these regulations:
(a) "District" means oil and gas district as
					 provided for in Section
					 3105 of Division 3 of the Public
					 Resources Code.
(b) "Division," in
					 reference to the government of this state, means the Division of Oil, Gas, and
					 Geothermal Resources in the Department of Conservation.
(c) "Drilling fluid" means the fluid used in
					 the hole during drilling or other proposed operations.
(d) "Field" means the same general surface
					 area which is underlaid or reasonably appears to be underlaid by one or more
					 pools.
(e) "Field rules" means
					 unique requirements or procedures which may be established by the Supervisor
					 for a producing field.
(f) "Gas"
					 means any natural hydrocarbon gas coming from the earth.
(g) (Reserved)
(h) "Oil" includes petroleum, and "petroleum"
					 includes oil.
(i) "Operations"
					 means any one or all of the activities of an operator covered by Division 3 of
					 the Public Resources Code.
(j)
					 "Operator" means any person drilling, maintaining, operating, pumping, or in
					 control of any well.
(k) "Pool"
					 means an underground reservoir containing, or appearing at the time of
					 determination to contain, a common accumulation of crude petroleum oil or
					 natural gas or both. Each zone of a general structure which is separated from
					 any other zone in the structure is a separate pool.
(l) "Rework" means any operation subsequent
					 to drilling that involves deepening, redrilling, plugging, or permanently
					 altering in any manner the casing of a well or its function.
(m) "String" means a continuous length of
					 connected joints of casing, liner, drill pipe or tubing run into the well,
					 including all attached drilling, cementing, testing, producing, safety, and
					 gravel-pack equipment.
(n)
					 "Supervisor" means the State Oil and Gas Supervisor.
(o) "Well" means any oil or gas well or well
					 for the discovery of oil or gas, or any well on lands producing or reasonably
					 presumed to contain oil or gas or any well drilled for the purpose of injecting
					 fluids or gas for stimulating oil or gas recovery, repressuring or pressure
					 maintenance of oil or gas reservoirs, or disposing of oil field waste fluids or
					 any well drilled within or adjacent to an oil or gas pool for the purpose of
					 obtaining water to be used in production stimulation or repressuring
					 operations.
1.
						Amendment of subsection (a) and repealer of subsection (g) filed 2-13-81 as
						procedural and organizational; effective upon filing (Register 81, No.
						7).
2. Change without regulatory effect amending subsection (b)
						filed 9-3-96 pursuant to section
						100, title 1, California Code of
						Regulations (Register 96, No. 36).
3. Change without regulatory
						effect amending subsection (e) filed 12-26-2006 pursuant to section
						100, title 1, California Code of
						Regulations (Register 2006, No. 52).
Note: Authority cited: Section
						  3106,
						  Public Resources Code. Reference: Sections
						  3000-
						  3014,
						  Public Resources Code.