Idaho Administrative Code › Title IDAPA 20 - Lands, Department of › Rule 20.07.02 - RULES GOVERNING CONSERVATION OF OIL AND NATURAL GAS IN THE STATE OF IDAHO › Subchapter A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 20.07.02.010 - DEFINITIONS

Current through August 31, 2023
01.
Act
. The Idaho Oil and Gas Conservation Act, Title 47, Chapter 3, Idaho Code. (3-18-22)
02.
Active Well
. A permitted well used for production, disposal, or injection that is not idled for more than twenty-four (24) continuous months. (3-18-22)
03.
Barrel
. Forty-two (42) U. S. gallons at sixty (60) Degrees F at atmospheric pressure. (3-18-22)
04.
Blowout
. An unplanned sudden or violent escape of fluids from a well. (3-18-22)
05.
Blowout Preventer
. A casinghead control equipped with special gates or rams that can be closed and sealed around the drill pipe, or that otherwise completely closes the top of the casing. (3-18-22)
06.
Bonus Payment
. Monetary consideration that is paid by the lessee to the lessor for the execution of an oil and gas lease. (3-18-22)
07.
Casing Pressure
. The pressure within the casing or between the casing, tubing, or drill pipe. (3-18-22)
08.
Casinghead
. A metal flange attached to the top of the conductor pipe that is the primary interface for the diverter system during drilling out for surface casing. (3-18-22)
09.
Casinghead Gas
. Any gas or vapor, or both, indigenous to an oil stratum and produced from such stratum with oil. (3-18-22)
10.
Common Source of Supply
. The geographical area or horizon definitely separated from any other such area or horizon and which contains, or from competent evidence appears to contain, a common accumulation of oil or gas or both. Any oil or gas field or part thereof which comprises and includes any area which is underlaid, or which from geological or other scientific data or experiments or from drilling operations or other evidence appears to be underlaid by a common pool or accumulation of oil or gas or both oil and gas. (3-18-22)
11.
Completion
. An oil well is considered completed when the first new oil is produced through wellhead equipment into lease tanks from the ultimate producing interval after the production casing has been run. A gas well is considered completed when the well is capable of producing gas through wellhead equipment from the ultimate producing zone after the production casing has been run. (3-18-22)
12.
Conductor Pipe
. The first and largest diameter string of casing to be installed in a well. This casing extends from land surface to a depth great enough to keep surface waters from entering and loose earth from falling in the hole and to provide anchorage for the diverter system prior to setting surface casing. (3-18-22)
13.
Cubic Foot of Gas
. The volume of gas contained in one (1) cubic foot of space at a standard pressure base and a standard temperature base. The standard pressure base shall be fourteen and seventy-three hundredths (14.73) pounds per square inch absolute and the standard temperature base shall be sixty (60) Degrees F (3-18-22)
14.
Day
. A period of twenty-four (24) consecutive hours from 8 a.m. one day to 8 a.m. the following day. (3-18-22)
15.
Development
. Any work that actively promotes bringing in production. (3-18-22)
16.
Director
. The head of the Idaho Department of Lands and secretary to the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, or his designee. (3-18-22)
17.
Drilling Logs
. The recorded description of the lithologic sequence encountered in drilling a well, and any electric, gamma ray, geophysical, or other logging done in the hole. (3-18-22)
18.
Fresh Water
. All surface waters and those ground waters that are used, or may be used in the future, for drinking water, agriculture, aquaculture, or industrial purposes other than oil and gas development. The possibility of future use is based on hydrogeologic conditions, water quality, future land use activities, and social/ economic considerations. (3-18-22)
19.
Gas-Oil Ratio
. The volume of gas produced in standard cubic feet to each barrel of oil or condensate produced concurrently during any stated period. (3-18-22)
20.
Gas Processing Facility
. A facility that conditions liquids or gas by compression, dehydration, refrigeration, or by other means. (3-18-22)
21.
Gas Well
. (3-18-22)
a. A well that produces primarily natural gas; (3-18-22)
b. Any well capable of producing gas in commercial quantities and also producing oil from the same common source of supply but not in commercial quantities; or (3-18-22)
c. Any well classed as a gas well by the Commission for any reason. (3-18-22)