Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 165 - Corporation Commission › Chapter 10 - Oil And Gas Conservation › Subchapter 7 - Pollution Abatement › Part 3 - STORAGE AND DISPOSAL OF FLUIDS › Section 165:10-7-24 - Waste management practices reference chart

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
(a)
Scope.
This Section provides
				  reference guidelines for the disposal of wastes under the jurisdiction of the
				  Commission which are generated by oil and gas operators and pipeline companies.
				  Hazardous waste as defined at
				  40 CFR
				  261.3 is regulated by the Oklahoma Department
				  of Environmental Quality.
(b)
Waste materials and disposal options.
Consistent with EPA's policy
				  on source reduction, recycling, treatment and proper disposal, operators shall
				  use waste management practices as listed in (c) of this Section which describes
				  the various management practices for the following waste materials. For any of
				  the following waste materials where option (16) of subsection (c) is listed,
				  option (16) shall be considered before any other option.
(1) Produced water: Options 1, 7 &
				  9
(2) Weighted water: Options 1
				  & 7
(3) Used treatment fluids,
				  frac sand, and other flowback wastes: Options 1, 2, 5 & 7 and, for frac
				  sand only, options 3 & 20
(4)
				  Water based mud: Options 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 19
(5) Water based mud cuttings: Options 1, 2,
				  3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 & 19
(6)
				  Oil based mud: Options 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 12 & 22
(7) Oil based mud cuttings: Options 1, 2, 3,
				  4, 5, 7, 8, 12 & 14
(8) Crude
				  oil: Options 1, 4, 12, 13 & 14
(9) Used motor, gear, lube, compressor and
				  hydraulic oils: Options 1, 15 & 16
(10) Used solvents: Options 1, 15 &
				  16
(11) Oily debris: Options 1, 3,
				  13 & 20
(12) Filter media and
				  backwash: Options 1, 3, 7, 15, 16 & 20
(13) Glycol, amine, and caustic wash: Options
				  1 & 7
(14) Iron sponge: Options
				  3 & 20
(15) Molecular sieve:
				  Options 3 & 20
(16) Produced
				  sand/sediment: Options 3, 7, 8, 17 & 20
(17) Tight emulsions: Options 1, 4, 8, 12, 14
				  & 17
(18) Unused treatment
				  chemicals: Options 1, 15 & 16
(19) Tank bottoms from E&P: Options 1, 3,
				  4, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14 & 17
(20)
				  Paraffin: Options 1, 3, 4, 12, 14, 15, 16 & 20
(21) Asbestos insulation: Options 3 &
				  15
(22) Non-asbestos insulation:
				  Options 3, 15 & 20
(23) Used
				  batteries: Options 1, 3, 15 & 16
(24) Oils containing PCBs: Option
				  11
(25) Oils not containing PCBs:
				  Options 1, 15 & 16
(26) Empty
				  oil and chemical drums: Options 1, 3 & 15
(27) Salt contaminated soils: Options 3, 6, 8
				  & 17
(28) Crude oil
				  contaminated soils: Options 1, 3, 4, 8, 10, 12, 14, 17 & 22
(29) Pit sludges from wellsites, disposal
				  well pits and gathering systems: Options 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 12, 17 &
				  20
(30) Gathering line pigging
				  wastes: Options 1, 3, 7 & 20
(31) Gas plant sweetening wastes: Options 1,
				  3, 7 & 20
(32) Gas plant
				  dehydration wastes: Options 1, 3 & 7
(33) Cooling tower blowdown from gas plants:
				  Options 7 & 15
(34) Wastes from
				  subsurface natural gas storage: Options 1, 3, 7 & 20
(35) Wastes other than refined product
				  removed from produced water and other well fluids prior to injection or
				  disposal: Options 1, 7, 8, 17 & 20
(36) Gases removed from the production
				  stream: Options 1, 7, 13 & 18
(37) Waste crude oil and light hydrocarbons
				  (gas condensate) in reserve pits, other impoundments or tankage at wellsites:
				  Options 1, 7, 8, 13 & 17
(38)
				  Contaminated ground water (except refined products): Options 1, 7, 21 &
				  22
(39) Pipeline sludge and other
				  deposits removed from pipe or equipment on E&P gathering systems: Options
				  1, 3, 7, 8, 10, 17 & 20
(40)
				  Residues and truckwash from inside the tank of trucks used to transport
				  saltwater, drilling mud or spent completion fluids: Options 1, 3, 7 &
				  20
(41) Sewage and wastes from
				  portable toilets: Option 15
(42)
				  Crude pipeline pigging wastes, contaminated soil and residue from transmission
				  and trunk lines: Options 1, 3, 4, 8, 12, 15, 16, 17 & 22
(43) Water or soil contaminated by refined
				  product from E&P operations: Options 1, 16, 21 & 22
(44) Rigwash and supply water: Options 1, 5,
				  7 & 8
(45) Storm water and
				  hydrostatic test water from E&P operations: Options 1, 7, 9 &
				  22
(46) Spent filters: Options 1
				  & 3
(47) Trash and debris:
				  Options 15 & 20
(48) Refined
				  petroleum product releases: Options 1, 3, 8, 13, 16, 17 & 22
(49) Refined petroleum product pigging
				  wastes: Options 1, 3, 8, 15, 16, 17 & 22
(50) Water or soil contaminated by refined
				  products from pipelines: Options 1, 16, 21 & 22
(51) Hydrostatic test water from pipelines:
				  Options 1, 9, 16 & 22
(52) Tank
				  bottoms from crude pipeline facilities: Options 1, 3, 4, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17
				  & 22
(53) Tank bottoms from
				  refined product pipeline facilities: Options 1, 3, 14, 15, 16, 17 &
				  22
(54) Water based mud and
				  cuttings associated with pipeline construction: Options 6 and 8 (165:10-7-19
				  only)