North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 33.1 - Department of Environmental Quality › Article 33.1-15 - Air Pollution Control › Chapter 33.1-15-20 - Control of Emissions from Oil and Gas Well Production Facilities › Section 33.1-15-20-01 - General provisions

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
1.
Applicability.
The provisions of this chapter apply to any oil or
				gas well facility which emits air contaminants to the atmosphere.
2.
Definitions.
As used in this
				chapter, all terms not defined herein shall have the meaning given them in
				section 33.1-15-01-04 or in North Dakota
				Century Code chapter 23.1-06.
a. "Actively
				producing" means a well has been producing for thirty days or more from initial
				production through the wellhead equipment.
b. "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 North Dakota state industrial commission.
c. "Completion" means an oil well must be
				considered completed when the first oil is produced through wellhead equipment
				into lease tanks from the ultimate producing interval after casing has been
				run. A gas well must 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 must be considered complete when all North
				Dakota state industrial commission provisions of plugging are complied
				with.
d. "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.
e.
				"Continuous burning pilot" means a stable auxiliary flame supported by a
				reliable fuel source which is independent of wellhead production.
f. "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 seven-tenths pounds per square inch [1,034 grams per
				square centimeter] absolute at a base temperature of sixty degrees Fahrenheit
				[15.5 degrees Celsius].
g. "Gas
				well" means a well producing gas or natural gas from a common source of gas
				supply as determined by the North Dakota state industrial commission.
h. "Natural gas or gas" means and includes
				all natural gas and all other fluid hydrocarbons not herein defined as
				oil.
i. "Oil" means and includes
				crude petroleum oil and other hydrocarbons regardless of specific gravity which
				are produced at the wellhead in liquid form and the liquid hydrocarbons known
				as distillate or condensate recovered or extracted from gas, other than gas
				produced in association with oil and commonly known as casinghead
				gas.
j. "Oil well" means any well
				capable of producing oil or oil and casinghead gas from a common source of
				supply as determined by the North Dakota state industrial commission.
k. "Operator" means any person or persons
				who, duly authorized, is in charge of the development of a lease or the
				operation of a producing property.
l. "Owner" means the person who has the right
				to drill into and produce from a pool and to appropriate the oil or gas the
				person produces.
m. "Pool" means an
				underground reservoir containing a common accumulation of oil or gas or both;
				each zone of a structure which is completely separated from any other zone in
				the same structure is a pool.
n.
				"Production facility" means all equipment, wells, flow lines, separators,
				treaters, tanks, flares, gathering lines, and auxiliary
				nontransportation-related equipment used in the exploration, development, or
				subsequent production or handling of oil and gas from an oil or gas well or
				wells which are located on one or more contiguous or adjacent surface
				properties, and are under the control of the same person (or persons under
				common control).
o. "Recomplete" or
				"recompletion" means the subsequent completion of a well in a different pool
				from the pool in which it was originally completed.
p. "Reservoir" means pool or common source of
				supply.