Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XVII - Office of Conservation-Injection and Mining › Subpart 7 - Statewide Order No. 29-M-5 › Chapter 37 - Storage Wells in Solution-Mined Salt Dome Cavities › Section XVII-3725 - 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 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, conversion, completion, or workover of the
				  storage well or cavern. Product storage shall not commence 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
				  storage 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 well and cavern
				  including a daily chronology of such activities;
6. if not already submitted, a certified,
				  as-drilled location plat of the storage well, accompanied by proof of filing of
				  the plat in the parish conveyance and mortgage records;
7. as-built subsurface diagram of the storage
				  well and cavern labeled with the appropriate depth datum, construction,
				  completion, or conversion information, i.e., 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
				  wellhead labeled with the appropriate depth datum, 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. copies of any wireline logging such as
				  open hole logs, cased hole logs, the most recent cavern sonar survey, and
				  mechanical integrity test;
12. the
				  status of corrective action on wells in the area of review;
13. the proposed operating data, if different
				  from proposed in the application;
14. the proposed injection procedures, if
				  different from proposed in the application;
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.