North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 43 - Industrial Commission › Article 43-02 - Mineral Exploration and Development › Chapter 43-02-03 - Oil and Gas Conservation › Section 43-02-03-01 - Definitions

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
The terms used throughout this chapter have the same meaning
				  as in North Dakota Century Code chapter 38-08 except:
1. "Adjusted allowable" means the allowable
				production a proration unit receives after all adjustments are
				applied.
2. "Allocated pool" is one
				in which the total oil or natural gas production is restricted and allocated to
				various proration units therein in accordance with proration
				schedules.
3. "Allowable
				production" means that number of barrels of oil or cubic feet of natural gas
				authorized to be produced from the respective proration units in an allocated
				pool.
4. "Barrel" means forty-two
				United States gallons [158.99 liters] measured at sixty degrees Fahrenheit
				[15.56 degrees Celsius] and fourteen and seventy-three hundredths pounds per
				square inch absolute [1034.19 grams per square centimeter].
5. "Barrel of oil" means forty-two United
				States gallons [158.99 liters] of oil after deductions for the full amount of
				basic sediment, water, and other impurities present, ascertained by centrifugal
				or other recognized and customary test.
6. "Bottom hole or subsurface pressure" means
				the pressure in pounds per square inch gauge under conditions existing at or
				near the producing horizon.
7.
				"Bradenhead gas well" means any well capable of producing gas through wellhead
				connections from a gas reservoir which has been successfully cased off from an
				underlying oil or gas reservoir.
8.
				"Casinghead gas" means any gas or vapor, or both gas and vapor, indigenous to
				and produced from a pool classified as an oil pool by the commission.
9. "Certified or registered mail" means any
				form of service by the United States postal service, federal express, Pitney
				Bowes, and any other commercial, nationwide delivery service that provides the
				mailer with a document showing the date of delivery or refusal to accept
				delivery.
10. "Commercial injection
				well" means one that only receives fluids produced from wells operated by a
				person other than the principal on the bond.
11. "Common purchaser for natural gas" means
				any person now or hereafter engaged in purchasing, from one or more producers,
				gas produced from gas wells within each common source of supply from which it
				purchases, for processing or resale.
12. "Common purchaser for oil" means every
				person now engaged or hereafter engaging in the business of purchasing oil in
				this state.
13. "Common source of
				supply" is synonymous with pool and is a common accumulation of oil or gas, or
				both, as defined by commission orders.
14. "Completion" means an oil well shall be
				considered completed when the first oil is produced through wellhead equipment
				into tanks from the ultimate producing interval after casing has been run. A
				gas well shall be considered complete when the well is capable of producing gas
				through wellhead equipment from the ultimate producing zone after casing has
				been run. A dry hole shall be considered complete when all provisions of
				plugging are complied with as set out in this chapter.
15. "Condensate" means the liquid
				hydrocarbons recovered at the surface that result from condensation due to
				reduced pressure or temperature of petroleum hydrocarbons existing in a gaseous
				phase in the reservoir.
16. "Cubic
				foot of gas" means that volume of gas contained in one cubic foot [28.32
				liters] of space and computed at a pressure of fourteen and seventy-three
				hundredths pounds per square inch absolute [1034.19 grams per square
				centimeter] at a base temperature of sixty degrees Fahrenheit [15.56 degrees
				Celsius].
17. "Director" means the
				director of oil and gas of the industrial commission, the assistant director of
				oil and gas of the industrial commission, and their designated
				representatives.
18. "Enhanced
				recovery" means the increased recovery from a pool achieved by artificial means
				or by the application of energy extrinsic to the pool, which artificial means
				or application includes pressuring, cycling, pressure maintenance, or injection
				to the pool of a substance or form of energy but does not include the injection
				in a well of a substance or form of energy for the sole purpose of:
a. Aiding in the lifting of fluids in the
				well; or
b. Stimulation of the
				reservoir at or near the well by mechanical, chemical, thermal, or explosive
				means.