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Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.23 - WELL COMPLETION AND RECOMPLETION

Current through June 25, 2024
(a) Within thirty
				(30) days after the completion or recompletion of a well drilled for oil or
				gas, a completion report on Form No. 3 shall be filed with the Board.
				Immediately thereafter the Board shall, if such well is a producer, designate
				the well as an oil or a gas well.
(b) The detail of formations penetrated
				information on the reverse side of Form 3 shall be completed prior to
				submission of the Form 3 provided, however, that required core analysis data,
				of the type normally furnished by commercial laboratories, and drill stem test
				data may be submitted under separate cover and requested to be held
				confidential, provided, however, such core analysis data and drill stem test
				data obtained on stratigraphic tests shall be filed with the Board within six
				(6) months of well completion. Such request shall be noted on the reverse of
				the Form 3. Such data will be kept confidential for a period of six (6) months
				from the date the Form 3 is filed, or should have been filed. If subsequently
				requested by the person filing said data, the Supervisor shall extend the
				period of confidentiality an additional six (6) months or for stratigraphic
				tests, from the date the data is filed. The Board may, after notice and
				hearing, grant an additional extension of the confidentiality period.
(c) No well permitted as a stratigraphic test
				or core hole drilled below freshwater level shall be completed as a producing
				well until an application is filed and a permit is granted in the same manner
				and form as provided by applicable rules and regulations for applications and
				permits for drilling for oil and gas with proper indication being made on said
				application and permit that the well in question has been drilled as a
				stratigraphic test or core hole below freshwater level. The well shall be
				subject to all rules and regulations applicable to wells drilled in search of
				oil and gas.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.25 - REWORK AND RECOMPLETION

Current through June 25, 2024
After a well has once been completed, it shall not be deepened or plugged back, except for ordinary maintenance operations, without first giving five (5) days written notice to the Supervisor of the character of the work proposed and the time when it will begin, except in an emergency as set out in these rules. The application shall be given on Form No. 2 prepared by the Board. The Supervisor shall notify the applicant in writing whether the contemplated work is approved or disapproved. In the case of an emergency, the application may be made orally or by telegraph, and the Supervisor may orally or by telegraph authorize the work; however, written application must be filed within five (5) days after emergency authorization is given, even though the work has already been commenced or completed, and a written permit shall be issued which shall contain the emergency authorization.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.26 - Requirements for Hydraulic Fracture Stimulation - Report of Shooting or Treating

Current through June 25, 2024
1. Definitions
For the purposes of this Rule, the following definitions
				  shall apply:
a. "Board" means the
				Mississippi State Oil and Gas Board.
b. "Additive" means any substance or
				combination of substances, including proppants, having a specified purpose
				which is intentionally combined with the Base Fluid as hereinafter
				defined.
c. "Base Fluid" means the
				continuous phase fluid, such as water, which is used in a particular Hydraulic
				Fracturing Treatment.
d. "Chemical
				Abstract Service" or "CAS" means the chemical registry which is the
				authoritative collection of disclosed chemical substance information.
e. "Chemical Constituent" means a discrete
				chemical with its own specific name or identity (such as, but not necessarily,
				a CAS number) which is contained in an Additive.
f. "Chemical Family" means a group of
				elements in the Periodic Table or, more commonly, compounds which share certain
				physical and chemical characteristics and which have a common name.
g. "Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid" means the
				Base Fluid and Additives utilized in a particular Hydraulic Fracturing
				Treatment.
h. "Hydraulic Fracturing
				Treatment" means stimulating a well by the application of Hydraulic Fracturing
				Fluids with force in order to create artificial fractures in the formation for
				the purpose of improving the capacity of the well to produce
				hydrocarbons.
i. "Supervisor" means
				the State Oil and Gas Supervisor of the Mississippi State Oil and Gas
				Board.
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.27 - APPLICATION TO PLUG

Current through June 25, 2024
Any drilling well completed as a dry hole, from which the rig is to be moved away, shall be mudded and cemented, provided, however, that authorization to the contrary has not been given by the Board.
Before any work is commenced to abandon any well drilled for the discovery of oil or gas, the owner or operator thereof shall give written notice to the Board of his intent to abandon such well on Form No. 6, along with a proposed procedure for plugging said well, prior to beginning operations of plugging said well. Upon receipt of such notice, the Board may issue plugging permit and may send a duly authorized representative to the location specified to be present at the time indicated in such notice, to witness the plugging of such well. In the case of an emergency, the application may be made orally or by telegraph, and the Supervisor may orally or by telegraph authorize the work; however, written application must be filed within five (5) days after emergency authorization is given even though the work has already been commenced or completed and a written permit shall be issued which shall contain the emergency authorization.
Plugging operations shall begin within 120 days of approval of the Form 6 and shall proceed with due diligence until completed, however, an extension of time may be granted by the Board for good cause shown upon public notice and hearing.
No surface or production casing shall be pulled from any abandoned well without first filing Form No. 6 and upon completion of said work, report on Form No. 7 the manner in which the well was plugged and the amount of pipe pulled.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.29 - PLUGGING SEISMIC SHOT HOLES, CORE DRILLED HOLES, AND STRATIGRAPHIC TESTS

Current through June 25, 2024
Before any hole is abandoned which was drilled for seismic, core, and other exploratory purposes, and which penetrated below all freshwater strata, it shall be the duty of the owner or driller of any such hole to plug it in such manner as to protect properly all freshwater-bearing strata and to file with the Board within sixty (60) days after the plugging well, on Form No. 7, a record of the manner in which the well was plugged to protect the freshwater-bearing strata.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.30 - PLUGGING TO PERMIT USE OF FRESHWATER

Current through June 25, 2024
When any well to be plugged may safely be used as a freshwater well and such utilization is desired by the landowner, the well need not be filled above the required sealing plug set below freshwater; provided that written authority for such use is secured from the landowner and filed with the Board.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.31 - PERMITS-CASING PULLERS AND BONDS, TANK CLEANERS

Current through June 25, 2024
(a) Before any
				person shall hereafter engage in the business of pulling casing from any oil or
				gas well in this state for compensation, or shall hereafter engage in the
				business of purchasing abandoned wells, with intention of salvaging casing
				therefrom, such person shall apply for and obtain from the Board a permit to
				engage in such business. Before the Board shall issue any such permit, such
				person shall be required to file with the Board a bond executed by such person,
				as principal, and some surety company satisfactory to the Board as surety in
				the principal sum of $10,000.00 conditioned that such sum shall be paid the
				State of Mississippi for the use and benefit of the Board, in the event the
				principal shall fail to plug an oil or gas well from which the principal pulls
				casing in the state without complying with the rules of the Board.
The Board shall issue said permits for a term not less than
				  one (1) year, nor more than three (3) years, and the bond shall be for a term
				  co-extensive with the term of the permit. No permit shall be
				  transferable.
The Board shall revoke the permit of any person if, after
				  notice and hearing, it is ascertained by the Board that such person has failed
				  to comply with the statutes of the state, or the rules and regulations of the
				  Board.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.32 - REGULATION OF PRODUCTION

Current through June 25, 2024
As soon as practicable, the production of oil and gas in all common sources of supply will be controlled or regulated as the facts may warrant, as provided for in Chapter 256 of Laws of 1948. The Board on its own motion may, or at the request of any interested party shall, call hearings to determine the maximum efficient rate at which the several pools in the state can produce oil and gas without waste.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.33 - ALLOWABLE HEARINGS

Current through June 25, 2024
Except in those fields where special rules provide otherwise, hearings to establish or change the allowable production of oil in any field shall be held whenever called by order of this Board and also whenever any interested party may petition the Board for such a hearing; provided, however, that no such hearing for such purpose shall be held until at least thirty (30) days' notice.
Hearings to establish allowable production of gas shall be held semi-annually.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.35 - ADJUSTED OIL WELL ALLOWABLE

Current through June 25, 2024
(a) If a newly
				completed oil well comes into production during any allowable period, or if any
				oil well is placed back into production after having been removed from the
				allowable schedule, such well may produce, during the remainder of such
				allowable period, only an allowable equivalent to that assigned, for the
				remainder of such allowable period, to any regular allowable unit in the field;
				provided, however, if such well is located on a unit smaller than the regular
				drilling unit prescribed by the Board for the field, such well shall be
				permitted to produce during the remainder of such allowable period, only that
				proportion of the allowable assigned, for the remainder of such allowable
				period, to such a regular allowable unit as the acreage in the smaller unit
				bears to the acreage in a regular allowable unit. The Board reserves the right
				to adjust such allowable, and, if such allowable is reduced, to charge the
				overproduction against the future production of such well.
(b) Pending the fixing of the maximum
				efficient rate of production for an oil well completed in a non-allocated pool,
				unless the Board, after notice and hearing, either heretofore or hereafter,
				expressly finds that allowables shall not be imposed on a particular pool, the
				allowable shall be based upon the depth of the completion zone and shall be as
				follows:
Depth
Maximum Allowable
0 - 7,000
feet 150 BOPD
7,000 - 8,000
feet 200 BOPD
8,000 - 9,000
feet 250 BOPD
9,000 - 10,000
feet 300 BOPD
10,000 - 12,000
feet 350 BOPD
12,000 - 14,000
feet 400 BOPD
Below - 14,000
feet 500 BOPD
However, in order to prevent waste and protect co-equal and
				  correlative rights of all parties, the depth of the zone in which the discovery
				  well of a pool is completed shall be used in determining the depth allowable of
				  additional wells in that pool until an MER is established by the Board after
				  notice and hearing.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.36 - CANCELLATION OF OIL ALLOWABLE

Current through June 25, 2024
When any oil well shall go off production for any reason and as a result thereof becomes incapable of producing its allowable for any monthly period, or when any oil well becomes incapable of producing its full daily allowable on a monthly basis, same shall be reported to the Board within ten (10) days and a letter of cancellation or adjustment of allowable for that well shall be issued to the operator, a copy thereof to be mailed to the transporter.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.37 - CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE

Current through June 25, 2024
(a) Each producer
				or operator of any well shall execute under oath, in triplicate, and file with
				the Board a "Producer's Certificate of Compliance and Authorization to
				Transport," Form No. 8, for each well.
(b) Whenever there shall occur a change in
				operating ownership of any drilling unit within the state, or whenever there
				shall occur a change of transporter from any drilling unit within the state, or
				there shall occur a change in the producing pool, a new Form No. 8 shall be
				executed and filed in accordance with the instruction appearing on such form,
				except that in the case of temporary change in transporter involving less than
				the production of one (1) month, the producer may, in lieu of filing a new
				certificate, notify the Board and the transporter then authorized by
				certificate on file with the Board, by letter, of the estimated amount to be
				moved by the temporary transporter and the name of such temporary transporter,
				and a copy of such notice shall also be furnished such temporary
				transporter.
(c) In no instance
				shall the temporary transporter move any greater quantity than the estimated
				amount shown in said notice.
(d)
				The certificate, when properly executed and approved by the Board, shall
				constitute authorization to the pipeline or other transporter to transport from
				the drilling unit named therein; provided this section shall not prevent the
				production or transportation in order to prevent waste, pending execution and
				approval of said certificate. Permission for the transportation of such
				production shall be granted in writing to the producer and transporter at the
				discretion of the Board.
(e) The
				certificate shall remain in force and effect until:
1. The operating ownership of the drilling
				unit changes, or
2. The transporter
				is changed, or
3. The producing
				pool is changed, or
4. The permit
				is cancelled by the Board.
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.38 - BOTTOM HOLE PRESSURE TESTS

Current through June 25, 2024
The Board may require bottom hole pressure surveys of the pools within the state at such times as it may designate, and such surveys shall be reported to the Board.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.39 - REPORT OF WELL STATUS

Current through June 25, 2024
Each producer or operator of an oil or gas well shall furnish for each month a "Monthly Individual Well Status Report," setting forth complete information and data indicated thereon. Such report for each month shall be prepared and filed, according to the instructions on Form No. OGB 9-12-15-Z, on or before the first day of the second month following the month during which the production was made.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.40 - GAS-OIL RATIOS

Current through June 25, 2024
Any oil well producing with a gas-oil ratio in excess of two thousand (2000) cubic feet of gas per barrel of oil produced shall be allowed to produce daily only that volume of gas obtained by multiplying the normal unpenalized daily oil allowable by two thousand (2000) cubic feet. The gas volume thus obtained shall be known as the daily gas limit of such well. The daily oil allowable of such well shall then be determined by dividing its daily gas limit, obtained as herein provided, by its producing gas-oil ratio in cubic feet per barrel of oil produced.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.41 - DELIVERABILITY AND ROUTINE PRODUCTION TESTS

Current through June 25, 2024
(a) A
				deliverability test of each producing gas well shall be made in conformity with
				schedules issued by the Board. Such test shall be an actual test to determine
				whether or not the well is capable of producing efficiently any allowable that
				may reasonably be expected to be assigned to it, and, if the well is not found
				to be capable, then the test shall determine the maximum rate at which the well
				may efficiently be produced. The method of testing used shall be one acceptable
				to the Board. A report of each test so required shall be furnished to the Board
				upon Form No. 4-A within fifteen (15) days after the test is completed. Any
				operator may make such additional deliverability tests at any time and report
				such tests to the Board in the same manner as required tests are reported.
				Deliverability shall be determined by the latest test information furnished to
				the Board.
(b) Each oil well and
				each oil completion of a multiply- completed well shall be tested by the
				operator once during each calendar month during each calendar year in a
				calibrated stock tank.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.42 - PRODUCER'S MONTHLY REPORT

Current through June 25, 2024
Each operator or producer of oil or gas shall furnish for each month a "Producer's Monthly Report," setting forth complete information and data indicated thereon. Such report for each month shall be prepared and filed with the Board on Form No. OGB 9-12-15-Z, according to the instructions on said form, on or before the first day of the second month following the month during which the production was made.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.43 - TAKER'S REPORT OF GAS

Current through June 25, 2024
All gas produced from gas wells within the state which is taken into a fuel system, transmission system or other system (except gas taken into a gasoline cycling or other extraction plant gathering system which is required to be represented on the "Gasoline or Other Extraction Plant Monthly Report," Form No. 11) shall be reported monthly on Form No. 12, "Monthly Gas Report," by the person taking such gas from the well. Such report shall be filed on or before the first day of the second month following the month during which the production was made. Casing head gas taken from the lease shall be reported by the taker on said Form No. 12.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.44 - PLANT PROJECTS, CYCLING PLANTS, ETC

Current through June 25, 2024
No pressure maintenance plant, cycling plant, gas-return plant, salt water disposal system, or similar plant or project shall operate until authorized by the Board after notice and hearing.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.45 - WASTE BY POLLUTION OF AIR, SURFACE WATERS AND SOILS PROHIBITED

Current through June 25, 2024
I. Scope and Policy:
Pursuant to Chapter 301, General Laws of 1970, these rules
				  and regulations are hereby promulgated to prevent waste by pollution of air,
				  fresh waters and soils. These rules shall be effective throughout the State of
				  Mississippi and are for the purpose of prevention of waste by pollution of air,
				  fresh waters and soils.
II.
				Definitions:
A. Fresh water for the purpose of
				administering of these rules and regulations shall mean surface or subsurface
				water in its natural state useful for domestic, livestock, irrigation,
				industrial, municipal, and recreational purposes.
B. Soil shall mean any substance on which
				trees, grass, crops, or other vegetation may grow, down to not less than the
				depth of the water table.
C. Fresh
				water stratum shall mean a stratum from which fresh water may be produced in
				known sufficient quantities and at a cost making its use feasible as fresh
				water.
D. Deleterious substance
				shall mean any chemical, salt water, oil field brine, waste oil, waste
				emulsified oil, basic sediment, and injurious substances produced or used in
				the drilling, development, producing, refining, and processing of oil, gas,
				sulphur, and other minerals.
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.46 - EXTRACTION PLANT REPORTS

Current through June 25, 2024
Each operator of a gasoline plant, cycling plant or any other plant at which gasoline, butane, propane, condensate, kerosene, oil or other liquid products are extracted from gas within the state shall furnish for each calendar month a "Gasoline or Other Extraction Plant Monthly Report," Form No. 11, containing the information indicated by such form respecting gas and products involved in the operation of each plant during each month.
Such reports for each month shall be prepared and filed, according to instructions on the form, on or before the first day of the second month following the month during which the production was made.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.47 - FLUID INJECTION REPORTS

Current through June 25, 2024
Every person injecting gas or fluid into the earth shall make a monthly report to the Board on Form No. 14, provided by the Board, showing the quantities of all oil, gas and water injected during the month covered by the report, the injection pressure and injection rate for each injection well, and identifying the underground reservoir or reservoirs into which the injection is made.
In addition, those injection wells operating pursuant to Subsection 63(7)(B) shall also report the tubing-casing annulus pressure.
Such reports for each month shall be prepared and filed according to instructions on the form on or before the first day of the second month following the month for which the report is being filed.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.48 - RATABLE TAKE

Current through June 25, 2024
Each person now or hereafter engaged in the business of purchasing oil or gas from owners, operators, or producers shall purchase without discrimination in favor of one owner, operator, or producer against another in the same common source of supply.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.50 - TRANSPORTER'S & STORER'S REPORT

Current through June 25, 2024
Each transporter of oil within the state shall furnish for each calendar month a "Transporter's and Storer's Monthly Report," Form No. 10, containing complete information and data indicated by such form respecting stocks of oil on hand and all movements of oil by pipe line, within the state, and all movements of oil by watercraft or by trucks or other conveyances except railroads, from leases to storers or refiners; between transporters within the state; between storers within the state; between refiners within the state; and between storers and refiners within the state. Each storer of oil within the state shall furnish for each calendar month a "Transporter's and Storer's Monthly Report," Form No. 10, containing complete information and data indicated by such form, respecting the storage of oil within the state. The Transporter's and Storer's Reports shall be filed on or before the first day of the second month following the month for which the report is being filed.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.51 - REFINER'S REPORT

Current through June 25, 2024
. Each refiner of oil within the state shall furnish for each calendar month a "Refiner's Monthly Report," Form No. 13, containing the information and data indicated by such form respecting oil and products involved in such refiner's operations. Such report shall be filed on or before the first day of the second month following the month for which the report is being filed.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.52 - NOTICE TO TRANSPORTER OF VIOLATIONS

Current through June 25, 2024
The Board shall notify in writing any transporter of oil, gas or condensate of the failure of any producer or operator to comply with any Statewide or Special Field Rule and such transporter so notified shall refrain thereafter from transporting oil, gas or condensate from the property in question until notified in writing by the Board of such producer's or operator's compliance.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.53 - SERVICE COMPANY REPORT

Current through June 25, 2024
When a service company, other than the drilling contractor, cements, perforates, or acidizes, either before or after completion of a well, the service company shall furnish the Board with legible exact copies of reports furnished the owner of the well. The Board may require that it be furnished with copies of reports of other services performed.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.54 - ORGANIZATION REPORT

Current through June 25, 2024
Every person acting as principal or as agent for another or who is independently engaged in the production, storage, transportation (except by railroads), refining, reclaiming, treating, marketing, processing of, or scientific exploration for crude oil or natural gas shall immediately file on Form No. 1 under oath with the Board a statement giving the following information: The name under which such business is being operated or conducted; the name and post office address of such person and the business or businesses in which he is engaged; the plan or organization and, in case of a corporation, the law under which it is chartered; and the names, titles and post office addresses of the principal officers thereof, including the manager or agent, and the names and the post office addresses of all directors thereof; of a partnership, the names, titles and post office addresses of the partners.
Immediately after any change occurs as to facts stated in the report filed, a supplementary report, under oath, shall be filed with the Board with respect to such change. In any event, from and after the effective date of this rule, every person identified above shall file a Form 1 with current and accurate information on an annual basis and no less than one year from the date of the last Form 1 filed by such person. After the initial Form 1 is filed with the Board, annual filings thereafter may be made by indicating that the information on the previously filed form has not changed or by indicating only such information as has changed since the last form was filed. All such persons identified above who have previously filed a Form 1 shall file a new Form 1 within one year of the effective date of this rule and shall make annual filings thereafter in accordance with the provisions set forth above.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.55 - IDENTIFICATION OF FACILITIES

Current through June 25, 2024
Every person owning, operating or controlling any refinery, tank farm, cycling plant, re-pressuring or pressure maintenance facilities, extraction plant or pipeline pumping station shall, at all times, during the operation thereof, maintain on the premises near each such facility a sign, in reasonably large and clear lettering, showing the name of the person owning and operating such facility.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.56 - RECORDS

Current through June 25, 2024
All producers, transporters, storers, refiners, gasoline or other extraction plant operators and initial takers of gas within the state shall make and keep appropriate books and records covering their operations in the state from which they may be able to make and substantiate the reports required by the Board. Such books, records and copies of said reports and notices required by the Board shall be kept on file and available for inspection by the Board for a period of at least two (2) years.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.57 - ADOPTION OF FORMS

Current through June 25, 2024
The forms hereinafter listed and attached to these rules as exhibits 1 to 19 and Form Z, inclusive, are hereby adopted and made a part of these rules for all purposes and the same shall be used and the information required thereby shall be furnished as directed by the Board's rules in the giving of notice and in making of reports and requests to the Board, said amended forms being numbered and entitled as follows:
Form No. Title
1 Organization Report
2 Application for Permit to Drill, Workover or Change Operator
3 Well Completion or Recompletion Report and Well Log
4-A Gas Well Deliverability Test
6 Notice of Intention to Plug and Abandon
6-a Application for Multiple Completion
6-b Packer Setting Report
6-c Packer Leakage Test
7 Plugging Record
8 Operator's Certificate of Compliance and Authorization to Transport Oil or Gas from Drilling Unit
9-12-15-Z Producer's Monthly Report for Oil & Gas Wells
10 Transporter's and Storer's Monthly Report
11 Gasoline Plant or Pressure Maintenance Plant Monthly Report
12 Gas Purchaser's Monthly Report
13 Refiner's Monthly Report
14 Monthly Report on Fluids Injected
16 Permit to Clean Tank
17 Well Test Report
18 Application for Earthen Pit
19 Certificate of Compliance for Hydrogen Sulfide Operations
Copies of printed forms will be supplied upon request.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.58 - SPECIAL FIELD RULES NOT REVOKED

Current through June 25, 2024
The adoption of these rules shall not revoke any special field rules now in force and which are applicable to particular fields or pools.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.59 - REVOCATION OF PRIOR RULES

Current through June 25, 2024
Upon the effective date of these rules, all statewide rules now in force shall be revoked and these rules shall govern; provided, however, such revocation of rules heretofore in force shall not validate any prior violation.
The Board may, after notice and hearing, repeal, amend or supplement these statewide rules.
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.60 - EFFECTIVE DATE

Current through June 25, 2024
These rules and regulations shall be in full force and effect on and after January 1, 1952.
ORDERED this the 19th day of November, 1951.
STATE OIL AND GAS BOARD /s/ James McClure, Chairman
MCA Section
				   53-1-17(3)
				  (1972)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.61 - FIREWALLS

Current through June 25, 2024
(a) Each permanent oil and/or saltwater tank
				or battery of oil and/or saltwater tanks now or hereafter located in the State
				of Mississippi shall be surrounded by a dike (or firewall) or retaining wall of
				sufficient height and size so that the volume enclosed shall be equal to one
				hundred fifty percent (150%) of the capacity of the largest tank in said
				battery OR the total volume of fluids produced into the said battery during any
				twenty-four (24) hour period, whichever is the greater. The dike (or firewall)
				or retaining wall shall be constructed of impermeable material approved in
				advance by the Field Inspector or Energy Resource Director. If there is more
				than 150% of the volume of the largest vessel in the tank battery produced into
				the battery in a twenty-four (24) hour period, the Operator may, in lieu of
				extending the size of the firewall to accommodate the excess of the 150% of the
				volume of the largest vessel in the tank battery, install a high level shutdown
				device or system inside the firewall that would, in the event of a spill, shut
				down all production coming to the tank battery at a level that would not allow
				the fluid level to reach within six (6) inches of the top of the firewall.
(1) Each permanent oil tank or battery of oil
				tanks, or any vessel or tank which is protected by a dike (or firewall) or
				retaining wall and which has installed a drain line for the purpose of
				discharging rainwater, must have in the drain line a valve on the outside of
				the firewall and a bull plug installed downstream of the valve.
(2) Firewall drain valves may be open and
				bull plugs removed only when the operator or his representative is present to
				observe the discharge. Discharges may consist of rainwater only.
(3) Firewall drain valves being open or bull
				plugs being removed from firewall drain lines when no operator personnel are on
				the location shall be deemed a violation of Statewide Rule 61.
(4) The discharge of any fluids or other
				materials other than rainwater through a firewall drain may constitute a
				violation of Statewide Rule 16, Statewide Rule 17, Statewide Rule 45 or
				Statewide Rule 61.
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.63 - UNDERGROUND INJECTION CONTROL

Current through June 25, 2024
Definitions
Unless the context otherwise requires, the words hereinafter defined shall have the following meaning when found in this rule, to wit:
(a) "Area of review" means the
				area surrounding an injection well described according to the criteria set
				forth in EPA Underground Injection Control program regulations, 40 C.F.R.
				Section 146.06(1984) or
				in the case of an area permit, the project area plus a circumscribing area the
				width of which is either 1/4 of a mile or a number calculated according to the
				criteria set forth in EPA Underground Injection Control program regulations, 40
				C.F.R. Section 146.06(1984).
(b) "Confining zone" means a geological
				formation, group of formations, or part of a formation that is capable of
				limiting fluid movement above an injection zone.
(c) "Exempted aquifer" means an aquifer or
				its portion that meets the criteria in the definition of "underground source of
				drinking water" but which has been exempted according to the procedures set
				forth in EPA Underground Injection Control program regulations,
				40 C.F.R. Section
				144.7(b) (1983).
(d) "Fluid" means material or substance which
				flows or moves whether in a semisolid, liquid sludge, gas, or any other form or
				state.
1.
Prohibition of
				Unauthorized Injection
A. Any
				underground injection, except as authorized by permit or rule issued under this
				Class II Program is prohibited. The construction or conversion of any well
				required to have a permit is prohibited until the permit is issued. Injection
				fluids authorized for injection under this Class II Program include those:
1 which are brought to the surface in
				connection with conventional oil and natural gas drilling and production and
				may be commingled with waste waters from gas processing plants which are an
				integral part of production operations, unless those fluids are classified as
				hazardous waste at the time of injection;
2 for enhanced recovery of oil and natural
				gas; and
3 for storage of
				hydrocarbons which are liquid at standard temperature and pressure.
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.65 - TRANSPORTATION OF CRUDE OIL OR ANY SUBSTANCE CONTAINING ANY QUANTITY OF CRUDE OIL

Current through June 25, 2024
Any corporation, association, partnership or person in possession of crude petroleum oil or any substance containing any quantity of crude oil or any sediment, water or brine produced in association with the exploration and/or production of oil or gas, or both, being transported or for transporting from or to any storage, disposal, processing or refining facility shall possess specific documentation which substantiates the right to be in possession of such substance. Such documentation shall include the following:
(a) The identity of the
				operator and the location of the lease from which originated the crude
				petroleum oil or any sub- stance, including any sediment, water or brine
				produced in association with the exploration or production of oil or gas, or
				both, if it is purportedly being or to be transported from a lease;
(b) The identity of the operator and the
				location of the storage facility from which or to which the crude petroleum oil
				or any substance, including any sediment, water or brine produced in
				association with the exploration or production of oil or gas, or both, is being
				or is to be transported.
(c) The
				identity of the operator and the location of the disposal processing or
				refining facility to which the crude petroleum oil or any substance, including
				any sediment, water or brine produced in association with the exploration and
				production of oil or gas, or both, is being or is to be transported.
(d) The estimated percentage of crude
				petroleum oil in the substance, sediment, water or brine produced in
				association with the exploration or production of oil or gas, or both, which is
				being or is to be transported.
(e)
				The volume of crude petroleum oil being or to be transported; and
(f) Any additional information the Supervisor
				of the State Oil and Gas Board finds necessary or appropriate.
Any law enforcement officer or the Supervisor of the State
				  Oil and Gas Board or his designated employees may at any time inspect and for
				  probable cause impound oil or any substance containing any quantity of crude
				  oil or any sediment, water or brine produced in association with the
				  exploration and/or production of oil or gas, or both, and the vehicle
				  transporting it, pending being furnished with the documentation as required
				  above or other proof of ownership or right to possession, whenever
(a) he has reasonable cause to examine the
				documentation,
(b) the transporter
				lacks such documentation or the documentation is substantially at variance with
				the face, or
(c) the lawful
				severance and maintenance taxes have not been paid on any part of such product.
Any transporter who does not possess the proper
				  documentation, on proof thereof, shall be assessed a penalty as provided by
				  law.
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.66 - OPERATIONS INVOLVING HYDROGEN SULFIDE

Current through June 25, 2024
Preventative measures shall be taken to control the effects of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) at all operations where H2S concentrations in the gas stream are equal to 100 ppm or more. Such operations shall include, but may not be limited to drilling, working over, testing, producing, gathering, metering, processing, storing, transporting, and injecting.
(1)
Definitions.
In addition to the definitions set forth
				in State Oil and Gas Board Order No. 201-51, Rule 2, unless the context
				otherwise requires, the following words shall have the meanings indicated when
				used within this rule.
(a) Radius of exposure:
				That radius constructed with the point of escape as its starting point and its
				length calculated as provided for in Paragraph (10)(b).
(b) Area of exposure: The area within a
				circle constructed with the point of escape as its center and the radius of
				exposure as its radius.
(c) Public
				area: Shall include but not be limited to a dwelling, place of business,
				church, school, hospital, school bus stop, government building, a public road,
				all or any portion of a park, city, town, village, or other similar area that
				can expect to be populated.
(d)
				Public road: Any federal, state, county, or municipal street or road owned or
				maintained for public access or use.
(e) Sulfide stress cracking: The cracking
				phenomenon which is the result of corrosive action of hydrogen sulfide on
				susceptible metals under stress.
(f) Facility modification: Any change in the
				operation, such as an increase in throughput, in excess of the currently
				permitted capacity; or any change that would increase the radius of
				exposure.
(g) Public infringement:
				A public area and/or a public road has been established within an area of
				exposure to the degree that such infringement would change the applicable
				requirements of this rule to those operations responsible for creating the area
				of exposure.
(h) Contingency plan:
				A written document that shall provide an organized plan of action for alerting
				and protecting the public within an area of exposure following the accidental
				release of a potentially hazardous volume of hydrogen sulfide.
(i) Civil authorities shall include but not
				be limited to the following agencies:
Governor, Assistant to Governor, local Government Emergency
				  Management/Civil Defense agency, Mississippi Adjutant General, Mississippi
				  National Guard, Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, Bureau of Pollution
				  Control, Red Cross, Mississippi State Department of Health, Department of
				  Public Safety, and such other agencies as in the discretion of the Supervisor
				  of Oil and Gas deems advisable.
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.67 - UNDERGROUND STORAGE OF NATURAL GAS AND AIR IN RESERVOIRS

Current through June 25, 2024
1. Definitions
As used herein, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
A. "Underground Storage"
				shall mean storage in an underground reservoir, stratum or formation of the
				earth;
B. "Reservoir" shall mean a
				porous stratum of the earth or porous zone of a general structure which is
				completely separated from any other porous zone and is capable of being used
				for underground storage of natural gas and
/or
air;
C. "Natural Gas" shall mean
				gas of a sufficient purity to be capable of use for residential
				purposes;
D. "Native Gas" shall
				mean gas which has not been withdrawn from the earth, or which, having been
				withdrawn, is injected into a reservoir for purposes other than underground
				storage;
E. "Air" shall mean any
				non-hydrocarbon gas;
F.
				"Underground Storage Facility" or "Facility" shall mean the underground storage
				reservoir, the well bore tubular goods and the wellhead and related equipment
				to the last positive shut-off valve before the gathering line or
				flowline;
G. "Gathering Line" or
				"Flowline" shall mean the line between the last positive shut-off valve at the
				wellhead to the pipeline or header where two or more such lines
				converge;
H. "State Oil and Gas
				Board" or "Board" shall mean the State Oil and Gas Board of
				Mississippi;
I. "Supervisor" shall
				mean the duly appointed State Oil and Gas Supervisor;
J. "Cushion Gas" shall mean the volume of gas
				required as permanent storage inventory to maintain adequate reservoir pressure
				for meeting minimum gas deliverability demands throughout the withdrawal season
				(also called "base gas");
K.
				"Storage Area" shall mean the total surface area of the storage reservoir plus
				any buffer zone approved by the board as necessary to insure reservoir
				integrity; and
L. "Working gas"
				shall mean the portion of the storage volume that can be removed from a storage
				reservoir for deliveries and still maintain pressure sufficient to meet design
				deliverability.