Florida Administrative Code › 62 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 62C - Division of Resource Management › Chapter 62C-26 - CONSERVATION OF OIL AND GAS: PERMITTING › Section 62C-26.003 - Drilling Applications

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
The permittee shall notify all carried working interests in
				  accordance with Section
				   377.2411, F.S., and shall
				  designate and distribute earnings owed unknown or unlocated owners in
				  accordance with Section
				   377.247, F.S.
(1) Except as noted in subsection
				 62C-26.003(4),
				F.A.C., no person shall begin any work other than making environmental
				assessments or surveying at the site of a proposed drilling operation of any
				well without first obtaining a permit to drill as specified in Rule
				 62C-25.006, F.A.C. A separate
				permit is required for any viable bottom hole location not in compliance with
				subsection  62C-26.004(10),
				F.A.C.
(2) Each permit is valid for
				one year from the date of approval. If permitted activities are not begun
				within that time, the Department shall, upon written request of the permittee,
				extend the permit for an additional year. An additional fee of $1, 000 is
				required for this extension. Subsequent requests for extensions shall be
				treated as new applications.
(3)
				All Applications For Permit to Drill (Oil & Gas Form 3) shall include an
				Organization Report (Oil & Gas Form 1; Rule
				 62C-25.008, F.A.C.), performance
				security (Rules  62C-25.008,
				 62C-26.002, F.A.C.), location
				plat (subsection  62C-26.003(7),
				F.A.C.), site construction plans (subsection
				 62C-26.003(9),
				F.A.C.), casing and cementing program (subsection
				 62C-26.003(5),
				F.A.C.), contingency plan if appropriate (subsection
				 62C-27.001(7),
				F.A.C.), and application fee (subsection
				 62C-26.003(8),
				F.A.C.). In addition to these items, an application to drill a nonroutine well
				shall include a lease map or document and a letter of justification, both as
				described in paragraph
				 62C-26.004(6)(d),
				F.A.C. Any of these items already on file with the Department may be included
				by reference.
(4) The application
				to drill shall be considered incomplete until the applicant requests a
				preliminary site inspection be made by the Department. Should the Department
				determine that the proposed site and access road are located on developed or
				highly impacted uplands, the prior-work prohibition in subsection
				 62C-26.003(1),
				F.A.C., shall not apply. However, the operator shall not spud the well until
				the permit has been granted.
(5) A
				proposed casing and cementing program must be included with the application to
				drill. This program shall at a minimum include setting depths, casing size,
				weight per foot, wall thickness, specified minimum yield strength, grade of
				pipe, class of cement to be used, cement additives, cement quantity, intended
				interval to be cemented, hole size, displacement method, special tools to be
				used, and calculated percent excess cement to be used.
(6) Hyphenated well numbers shall be assigned
				to wells so as to indicate the section, quarter section and, for wells based on
				40 acre spacing, the quarter-quarter section within the drilling unit. The
				first number shall indicate the section, the second the quarter section
				(1-2-3-4 counter-clockwise from the northeast quarter), and the third number
				shall designate the quarter-quarter section. Wells based on other sized
				drilling units will be numbered by the permittee so as to avoid confusion with
				routinely numbered wells.
(7) Each
				application shall be accompanied by a location plat surveyed and prepared by a
				registered land surveyor licensed under Chapter 472, F.S. All such plats shall
				meet the minimum technical standards for land surveys as specified in Chapter
				61G17-6, F.A.C., and must:
(a) Be drawn to a
				scale sufficient to show the required detail, preferably 1 inch = 1, 000
				feet.
(b) Show and provide a legal
				description of all mineral acreage within the drilling unit which is not under
				lease to the applicant.
(c) Show
				the exact well location (both surface and bottom if different) and unit acreage
				within the drilling unit and indicate distances to adjacent wells, drilling
				unit boundaries, quarter-section corners, rivers and other prominent features.
				With prior notice and explanation to the Department, other established lines,
				reference points, or methods may be used when section corners are unavailable
				and an inordinate amount of preliminary surveying would have to be done to
				establish section corners or other standard reference points. In any case, a
				standard survey or equivalent with plat shall be made prior to obtaining an
				operating permit.
(d) Show ground
				elevation, with tolerances, at the drill site.
(e) State whether the proposed drilling unit
				is routine or nonroutine and specify the applicable subsection of Rule
				 62C-26.004, F.A.C., under which
				the well is located.