Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 805 - ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT CABINET › Chapter 1 - Division of Oil and Gas › Section 805 KAR 1:001 - Definitions for 805 KAR Chapter 1

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 1, July 1, 2024
RELATES TO: KRS 353.500 - 353.730
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: KRS 353.500 authorizes the
				department to promulgate administrative regulations to regulate the all aspects
				of oil and gas wells in the Commonwealth. This administrative regulation
				establishes definitions for terms used in 805 KAR Chapter 1.
Section 1. Definitions.
(1) "Abandoned" is defined by KRS 353.510(12).
(2) "Abnormal
			 pressure" means a reservoir pressure that exceeds the hydrostatic pressure of
			 fresh water extending from the reservoir to the surface.
(3) "Annulus" means the space between two (2)
			 strings of casing or between a string of casing and the bore hole
			 wall.
(4) "Best management
			 practices" or "BMPs" is defined by KRS 353.510(28).
(5) "Blow-out preventer" or "BOP" means a
			 device installed on the first and largest diameter casing cemented in a well or
			 installed on the intermediate casing. The device is used to prevent the
			 uncontrolled flow of a well at the surface during drilling or workover
			 operations.
(6) "Casing or casing
			 string" means steel tubes or pipes installed in a well.
(7) "Cement" is defined by KRS 353.010(4).
(8) "Commission" is
			 defined by KRS 353.510(4).
(9)
			 "Correlative rights" is defined by KRS 353.510(6).
(10) "Deep well" is defined by KRS 353.510(16).
(11) "Deepening" means
			 the drilling deeper of any existing well where new drilling is to proceed past
			 the depth at which the initial drilling of the well ceased.
(12) "Directional survey" is defined by KRS 353.010(8).
(13) "Director" is
			 defined by KRS 353.510(3).
(14)
			 "Division" means the Division of Oil and Gas.
(15) "Drilling unit" is defined by KRS 353.510(19).
(16) "Eligible well"
			 is defined by KRS 353.510(47).
(17)"Environmentally sensitive feature" means
			 a stream, spring, sinkhole, wetland, state or national park, wilderness area,
			 or wildlife refuge.
(18) "Existing
			 gathering line" means any gathering line installed and not abandoned or taken
			 out of service prior to March 18, 2004.
(19) "Field" is defined by KRS 353.510(10).
(20) "Final
			 reclamation" means the date on which the operator has completed drilling
			 operations at the well site, has plugged the well, and has performed all
			 obligations as established in the operations and reclamation plan.
(21) "GPS" means the collection method of
			 acquiring location data using the Global Positioning System that is:
(a)
1.
			 Reported as latitude and longitude in degrees and decimal degrees;
2. Captured in three (3) meter accuracy for
			 stationary location data, such as line markers; and
3. Submitted as waypoints and track logs for
			 the gathering line location;
(b) Recorded in the datum of WGS84;
			 and
(c) Submitted as ArcView shape
			 file or as an ASCII file is submitted electronically.
(22) "Gas" is defined by KRS 353.510(8).
(23) "Gas production
			 flow line" means:
(a) The segment of a
			 gathering line running from a well to the point of interconnection with another
			 gathering line or production compressor; or
(b) If a well produces both oil and gas, the
			 line from a well.
(24)
			 "Gas storage operator" means any corporation, partnership, or individual who is
			 engaged in the work of preparing to inject, or who injects gas into, or who
			 stores gas in, or removes gas from, a gas storage reservoir, and who owns the
			 right to do so (including, for example, those engaged in transporting and
			 delivering gas in public service).
(25) "Gas storage reservoirs" means special
			 geologic and geometric elements of underground strata that are or can be so
			 arranged and situated as to be recognized as useful for the retention,
			 injection, storage and recovery of gas therefrom on a commercial service
			 level.
(26) "Gathering line" means
			 any pipeline that is installed or used for the purpose of transporting produced
			 water, crude oil, or natural gas from a well or production facility; or
			 produced water to a well or production facility to the point of interconnection
			 with another gathering line, an existing storage facility, or a transmission or
			 main line, including all lines between interconnections, except those lines or
			 portions thereof subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S. Department
			 of Transportation under  49 C.F.R. Parts 191, 192, 194, and 195.
(27) "Horizontal well" is defined by KRS 353.510(25).
(28) "Intermediate
			 casing" means one (1) or more strings of pipes installed in a well in addition
			 to the surface casing in which each string is smaller in diameter than the
			 previous.
(29) "Intersection
			 length" means the horizontal distance between the point at which the well
			 penetrates the top of the intended formation and the end point within that
			 formation.
(30) "KYEM" means the
			 state Kentucky Emergency Management office under authority of the Department of
			 Military Affairs in Frankfort, Kentucky, with regional offices throughout the
			 Commonwealth.
(31) "Long casing
			 string" means the last casing installed in a well to be used for production or
			 injection purposes.
(32) "Mcf"
			 means 1,000 cubic feet of natural gas.
(33) "Measured depth" means the total length
			 of the vertical and horizontal leg of the actual wellbore.
(34) "NFPA" means the National Fire
			 Protection Association.
(35) "Net
			 gas sales" means the amount of metered or prorated gas sold into the line of
			 first purchase and could be different from produced gas, due to line loss and
			 compressor usage.
(36) "Oil" is
			 defined by KRS 353.510(7).
(37)
			 "Oil production flow line" means:
(a) A
			 gathering line running from a well or wells to a tank battery for production
			 treatment and storage; or
(b) If an
			 injection well, the line from the tank battery to an injection system and then
			 to a wellhead.
(38)
			 "Operating a well" means to reenter, reopen, deepen, drill, inject into,
			 produce, attempt to produce, or work over, any well.
(39) "Operator" is defined by KRS 353.510(17).
(40) "Overriding
			 royalty interest owner" means a person other than a royalty owner, with a right
			 to a percentage share of production or the value derived from production that
			 is:
(a) Free of all costs of drilling and
			 production; and
(b) Created by the
			 lessee or working interest owner and paid by the lessee or working interest
			 owner.
(41) "Person" is
			 defined by KRS 353.510(5).
(42)
			 "Pit" means an earthen excavation or steel tank used:
(a) For the temporary storage of fluids, muds
			 and cuttings associated with the drilling operations of an oil or gas
			 well;
(b) To temporarily store well
			 completion fluids associated with acidizing, hydraulic fracturing, workover, or
			 plugging of oil and gas and other related wells under the authority of KRS
			 Chapter 353; or
(c) For temporary
			 storage of fluids and solids generated from drilling and completion operations
			 addressed in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subsection.
(43) "Pool" is defined by KRS 353.510(9).
(44) "Prevailing
			 royalty" is defined by KRS 353.510(27).
(45) "Produced gas" means the amount of
			 produced gas metered or prorated at the well head on a monthly basis.
(46) "Production compressor" means a
			 compressor installed on a gathering line and used to regulate gas pressure to
			 enhance delivery.
(47) "Purchaser
			 number" means the number assigned by the purchasing company to the lease or
			 well for accounting and payment purposes.
(48) "Royalty owner" is defined by KRS 353.510(18).
(49) "Shallow well" is
			 defined by KRS 353.510(15).
(50)
			 "Surface casing" means the first and largest diameter casing installed in a
			 well, and its primary uses are to stabilize the borehole and to protect the
			 fresh water zones.
(51) "TENORM" is
			 defined by KRS 211.862(13), and is subject to the exemption established in KRS 211.863(5).
(52) "Tank battery"
			 means any aboveground storage tank or interconnected grouping of tanks
			 maintained in conjunction with the production and storage of crude oil or
			 produced water.
(53) "Topographic
			 spot" means the act of locating a well on a United States Geological Survey
			 1:24,000 Topographic Map and scaling that well location on the map to determine
			 its Carter Coordinate location.
(54) "Transmission line" means a pipeline
			 that is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States Department
			 of Transportation under  49 C.F.R. Parts 191, 192, 194, and 195.
(55) "True vertical depth" means the depth of
			 the well from any point in the well being measured to the surface of the ground
			 above the point being measured.
(56) "Underground gas storage" means the
			 utilization of subsurface strata and associated facilities for storing and
			 withdrawing gas held in place for the primary purposes of conservation, fuller
			 utilization of pipeline facilities, and more effective and beneficial service
			 of gas to the public.
(57) "Unit"
			 is defined by KRS 353.010(18).
(58)
			 "Vertical well" is defined by KRS 353.510(26).
(59) "Well" is defined by KRS 353.510(14).
(60) "Well operator"
			 means any person who proposes to or does locate, drill, operate, or abandon any
			 well.
(61) "Wellsite boundary"
			 means the area of disturbance by an operator, excluding access roads, to drill
			 an oil or gas well.
(62) "Wildcat
			 well" means any deep vertical or horizontal well that is drilled:
(a) With the intent of discovering or
			 producing hydrocarbons from a formation or formations not previously productive
			 of oil or gas well within 10,000 feet of its location; or
(b) Under proven geological conditions that,
			 even though located within 10,000 feet from the nearest deep well previously
			 productive of oil or gas, will not, if completed successfully, produce from a
			 previously productive pool.
(63) "Working interest owner" means an
			 operator with the obligation to bear all or a proportionate share of the costs
			 and expenses of unit operation.
(64) "Zone" means a layer of strata capable
			 of producing or receiving fluids.