Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 3 - Statewide Order No. 25 › Chapter 9 - Reporting › Section XIX-907 - Form R-4

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. The Producer's
				  Certificate of Compliance and Authorization to Transport Oil from Lease, Form
				  R-4 Revised or most current revision thereof, is hereby adopted and made a part
				  of this Order by reference.
B. Each
				  producer of oil in the state of Louisiana, and each producer of condensate from
				  a gas well, where produced in liquid form at the wellhead by ordinary
				  production methods in the state of Louisiana, shall execute under oath, in
				  quadruplicate, and file with the Office of Conservation, Baton Rouge,
				  Louisiana, on or before the fifteenth day of September, 1941, a Producer's
				  Certificate of Compliance and Authorization to Transport Oil from Lease, Form
				  R-4 Revised or most current revision thereof, setting forth fully therein the
				  data and information indicated by such form covering each lease in the state of
				  Louisiana from which oil or condensate are produced.
C. After the effective date hereof, whenever
				  there shall occur a change in operating ownership of any lease, well name or
				  lease name, transporter from any lease, a new Producer's Certificate of
				  Compliance and Authorization to Transport Oil From Lease, Form R-4 Revised or
				  most current revision thereof, shall be executed and filed in accordance with
				  the instructions appearing on such form; except that in the case of temporary
				  change in transporter involving less than the allowable for one month, the
				  producer may, in lieu of filing a new certificate, notify by letter the Office
				  of Conservation, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and the transporter then authorized by
				  certificate on file with the Office of Conservation of the estimated amount of
				  oil to be moved by the temporary transporter and the name of such temporary
				  transporter. A copy of such notice shall also be furnished such temporary
				  transporter. In no instance shall the temporary transporter involve any greater
				  quantity of oil or condensate than the estimated amount shown in said
				  notice.
D. The Producer's
				  Certificate of Compliance and Authorization to Transport Oil from Lease, Form
				  R-4 Revised or most current revision thereof, when properly executed by the
				  operator and approved by the Office of Conservation, shall constitute
				  authorization to the approved transporter to transport oil or condensate from
				  the lease named therein and shall remain in force and effect until a change
				  occurs, as previously outlined, or is suspended or canceled by the Office of
				  Conservation.
E. For each drilling
				  permit that shall be altered, amended or changed after its initial issuance,
				  Form MD-10-R-A shall be executed and filed with the Office of Conservation,
				  said Form MD-10-R-A being hereby declared the permanent record of the Office of
				  Conservation for the purpose of identifying the operator of all oil or gas
				  wells in the state of Louisiana; and it is hereby expressly provided that said
				  Form MD-10-R-A shall be subject to the fee for alteration, change or amendment
				  as established by Part XIX, Subpart 2 or successor regulation.
F. Where a transporter disconnects from a
				  particular lease or ceases to remove oil therefrom and another transporter
				  connects to such lease or begins to take oil therefrom, during a month, the
				  transporter who ceases to take oil shall furnish to the connecting transporter
				  a certified statement under oath, showing: the legal quantity of oil on hand 7
				  a.m. the first day of such month; the scheduled allowable to the date
				  disconnected; and the quantity of oil moved from that particular lease during
				  the current month. In such case the producer shall furnish to the connecting
				  transporter a certified statement under oath showing the lease stock on hand 7
				  a.m. the date of new connection. No connecting transporter shall move oil from
				  any such lease until after it shall have received such statements, except with
				  the written permission of the Commissioner of Conservation or his authorized
				  agent.
G. Each producer is
				  prohibited from delivering illegal oil to any transporter, and each transporter
				  is prohibited from removing any illegal oil from producer's lease tanks. Each
				  transporter shall maintain necessary records of lease allowables and quantities
				  of oil removed from the leases to which he is connected, whereby he can
				  determine the calculated quantity of legal oil on hand at the close of each
				  calendar month with respect to such leases. The calculated quantity of legal
				  oil on hand with respect to any lease shall be determined for each succeeding
				  month by adding to the quantity of legally produced oil on hand at the first of
				  the month, the scheduled allowable quantity of oil for the respective lease for
				  the current month, as established by the Commissioner of Conservation, less the
				  quantity of oil removed from the respective lease tanks during the current
				  month. If the calculated balance so determined is less than the actual gauged
				  quantity on hand as reported by the producer on Monthly Producer's Crude Oil
				  and/or Condensate Report, Form R-1 Revised or most current revision thereof,
				  the transporter shall not remove during the following month any part of the oil
				  on hand on the first day of the month in excess of the calculated legal balance
				  so established. If the actual quantity of oil on hand with respect to a
				  particular lease equals or is less than the quantity of legal oil established
				  by the above method, the transporter may remove any part or all of such
				  quantity of oil during the current month. Where the actual quantity of oil on
				  hand with respect to a particular lease is less than the calculated quantity of
				  legal oil established by the above method, the transporter, in determining the
				  quantity of legal oil for the next succeeding month, shall substitute the
				  actual quantity on hand for the calculated quantity on hand. Where there is
				  more than one transporter moving oil from the same lease, the producer and
				  transporters are required to furnish to each other information as to the
				  quantity of oil on hand, the quantity transported from lease tanks and any
				  additional information necessary to establish to the satisfaction of each
				  person involved the legal status of the oil produced.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with Act 157 of the Legislative Session of
					 1940.