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 - Onshore Well Regulations › Article 2.1 - Well Spacing Patterns-New Pools › Section 1721.2 - Well Spacing Initiated by Supervisor

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Whenever a new pool is discovered, the
					 Supervisor may issue a notice of intent to establish a well-spacing plan for
					 the pool the notice shall specify the well-spacing plan proposed by the
					 Supervisor. The notice shall be delivered or mailed to all operators in the
					 pool and any other affected persons whose identity is known to or can readily
					 be ascertained by the Division, and shall be published in a newspaper of
					 general circulation in the county in which the pool is located.
(b) The notice shall provide that the well
					 spacing plan proposed by the Supervisor shall take effect as an order of the
					 Supervisor on the 31st day after the date of the notice unless within 30 days
					 after the date of the notice the Supervisor receives a written objection to the
					 proposed well spacing plan from any affected person, submitting a written
					 objection is a prerequisite to any challenge to the implementation of a well
					 spacing plan initiated by the Supervisor. If a written objection is timely
					 received, the Supervisor shall set a hearing on the well spacing proposal and
					 shall give notice of that hearing in the manner provided above, within 10 days
					 of receipt of the written objection. The hearing shall be held at a time not
					 less than 15 days nor more than 60 days from the date of the notice and at a
					 place within the oil and gas district where the new pool is located. The
					 hearing may be continued for a period not to exceed 60 days with the consent of
					 all those affected persons having informed the Division of their intent to
					 participate in the hearing.
(c)
					 Within 45 days following the hearing, the Supervisor shall issue an order in
					 the form of a written decision either providing no well spacing plan or
					 specifying a well spacing plan for the pool. If a well spacing plan is adopted,
					 the plan shall describe the pool to which it applies and set forth the surface
					 and subsurface well spacing pattern for all wells to be drilled or redrilled
					 into the pool.
(d) The Supervisor
					 shall mail or deliver the written decision to all operators in the pool and all
					 other previously identified affected persons.
(e) The Supervisor may request at any time
					 from any operator in the pool any or all of the data listed in Section
					 1721.3 for use in making the well
					 spacing determination. If such data are neither supplied nor otherwise
					 available to the Supervisor, the Supervisor nevertheless may make a well
					 spacing determination using methods found in petroleum industry literature or
					 by analogy to similar pools.
1.
						Renumbering and amendment of former Section
						1721.2 to
						1721.3, and new Section
						1721.2 filed 5-23-88, ; operative
						6-22-88 (Register 88, No. 22). For history of former Section
						1721.2 see Register 84, No.
						52.
2. Editorial correction of subsection (c) (Register 95, No.
						19).
3. Change without regulatory effect amending section filed
						12-26-2006 pursuant to section
						100, title 1, California Code of
						Regulations (Register 2006, No. 52).
Note: Authority cited: Section
						  3609,
						  Public Resources Code. Reference: Sections
						  3609,
						  Public Resources Code.