Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 30 - Professions and Occupations › Part 1101 - Geologists, Board of › Chapter 11 - Use of the Terms Geologist, Registered Professional Geologist, and Certified Professional Geologist › Rule 30-1101-11.3 - Activities Not Requiring Registration

Current through June 25, 2024
A. Geological work
				performed by an employee or a subordinate of a registered professional
				geologist, provided that the work nor the work related products do not state,
				portray or infer by any manner or suggestion whatsoever that the employee or
				subordinate is in responsible charge of the geology or geologic work. Any such
				geological work and/or work products must be conspicuously signed and sealed by
				the supervising registered professional geologist of that employee or
				subordinate.
B. Geological work
				performed exclusively in the exploration for and development (proving out) of
				petroleum resources (See Definitions), including the giving of testimony, or
				preparation and presentation of exhibits or documents regarding petroleum
				resources for the sole purpose of consideration by, or being placed into
				evidence before, any administrative agency, judicial tribunal or public
				hearing, if the testimony, exhibits or documents do not imply that the person
				is registered under this chapter;
C. The practice of engineering, including the
				acquisition of engineering data and the utilization of these data in analysis,
				design, and construction by professional engineers appropriately registered in
				this state;
D. Work customarily
				performed by physical or natural scientists such as chemists, archaeologists,
				geographers, oceanographers, pedologists and soil scientists, if that work does
				not include the planning and execution of geologic investigations, being in
				responsible charge of geologic work or the drawing of geologic conclusions and
				making recommendations involving the practice of geology; and
E. Geologic work which does not affect the
				public welfare as specified under §
									73-63-7(3)(d)(Mississippi
				Code, 1972, as Annotated).
Definitions:
Exploration geology of petroleum resources pursuant to these
				  Rules and Regulations and §
										73-63-1
et
				  seq.
(Mississippi Code, Annotated 1972) shall mean that phase of
				  petroleum operations that utilizes various geoscience activities including but
				  not limited to geophysics, structural geology, stratigraphy, geochemistry and
				  other related geoscience activities that may be used to define potential
				  hydrocarbon accumulations leading to the drilling of an exploratory well
				  (adapted from Schlumberger Glossary of Oilfield Terms, from citation acquired
				  in May, 2011 from Schlumberger's web site at
www.schlumberger.com
).
Development geology (proving-out) of petroleum resources
				  pursuant to these Rules and Regulations and §
										73-63-1
et
				  seq.
(Mississippi Code, Annotated 1972) shall mean that phase of
				  petroleum operations that occurs after exploration has proven successful.
				  During this phase, development geologists perform geoscience activities that
				  may entail subsurface mapping methods as well as other associated geoscientific
				  methods to further delineate the areal extent of hydrocarbon accumulation.
				  These geoscience activities may lead to the drilling of development wells to
				  efficiently extract the petroleum resources contained in the hydrocarbon
				  accumulation (adapted from Schlumberger Glossary of Oilfield Terms, citation
				  acquired in May, 2011 from Schlumberger's web site at
www.schlumberger.com
).
Miss. Code Ann. §
										73-63-17(a);
				  §
										73-63-7