Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XVII - Office of Conservation-Injection and Mining › Subpart 5 - Statewide Order No. 29-M-3 › Chapter 33 - Class III (Solution-Mining) Injection Wells › Section XVII-3325 - Pre-Operating Requirements-Completion Report

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. The operator shall submit a report
				  describing, in detail, the work performed resulting from the approved permitted
				  activity. The report shall be submitted in paper and electronic form and shall
				  include all information relating to the work and information that documents
				  compliance with these rules and the approved permitted activity. The report
				  shall be prepared and submitted for any approved work relating to the
				  construction, installation and completion of the surface portion of the
				  facility and information on the construction, conversion, or workover of the
				  solution-mining well or cavern. Injection into a solution-mining well shall not
				  begin until all required information has been submitted to the Office of
				  Conservation and the operator has received written authorization from the
				  Office of Conservation stating operations may begin. Preauthorization pursuant
				  to this Subsection is not required for workovers.
B. Where applicable to the approved permitted
				  activity, information in a completion report shall include:
1. all required state reporting forms
				  containing original signatures;
2.
				  revisions to any operation or construction plans since approval of the permit
				  application;
3. as-built schematics
				  of the layout of the surface portion of the facility;
4. as-built piping and instrumentation
				  diagram(s);
5. copies of applicable
				  records associated with drilling, completing, working over, or converting the
				  solution-mining well and/or cavern including a daily chronology of such
				  activities;
6. a certified,
				  as-drilled location plat of the solution mining well, accompanied by proof of
				  filing of the plat in the parish conveyance and mortgage records;
7. as-built subsurface diagram of the
				  solution-mining well and cavern labeled with appropriate construction,
				  completion, or conversion information, i.e., depth datum, depth and diameter of
				  all tubulars, depths of top of cap rock and salt, and top and bottom of the
				  cavern;
8. as-built diagram of the
				  surface wellhead labeled with appropriate construction, completion, or
				  conversion information, i.e., valves, gauges, and flowlines;
9. results of any core sampling and
				  testing;
10. results of well or
				  cavern tests such as casing and casing seat tests, well/cavern mechanical
				  integrity pressure and leak tests;
11. paper and electronic copies of any
				  wireline logging such as open hole and/or cased hole logs, the most recent
				  cavern sonar survey, and mechanical integrity test;
12. the status of corrective action on
				  defective wells in the area of review;
13. the proposed operating data;
14. the proposed injection procedures;
				  and
15. any additional data
				  documenting the work performed for the permitted activity, information
				  requested by the Office of Conservation, or any additional reporting
				  requirements imposed by the approved permit.