North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 43 - Industrial Commission › Article 43-02 - Mineral Exploration and Development › Chapter 43-02-03 - Oil and Gas Conservation › Section 43-02-03-29 - Well and lease equipment and gas gathering pipelines

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
Wellhead and lease equipment with a working pressure at least
				  equivalent to the calculated or known pressure to which the equipment may be
				  subjected shall be installed and maintained. Equipment on producing wells shall
				  be installed to facilitate gas-oil ratio tests, and static bottom hole or other
				  pressure tests. Valves shall be installed and maintained in good working order
				  to permit pressure readings to be obtained on both casing and tubing.
All newly constructed underground gas gathering pipelines
				  must be devoid of leaks and constructed of materials resistant to external
				  corrosion and to the effects of transported fluids. All such pipelines
				  installed in a trench must be installed in a manner that minimizes interference
				  with agriculture, road and utility construction, the introduction of secondary
				  stresses, the possibility of damage to the pipe, and tracer wire shall be
				  buried with any nonconductive pipes installed. When a trench for an underground
				  gas gathering pipeline is backfilled, it must be backfilled in a manner that
				  provides firm support under the pipe and prevents damage to the pipe and pipe
				  coating from equipment or from the backfill material.
1. The operator of any underground gas
				gathering pipeline placed into service on August 1, 2011, to June 30, 2013,
				shall file with the director, by January 1, 2015, a geographical information
				system layer utilizing North American datum 83 geographic coordinate system
				(GCS) and in an environmental systems research institute (Esri) shape file
				format showing the location of the pipeline centerline. The operator of any
				underground gas gathering pipeline placed into service after June 30, 2013,
				shall file with the director, within one hundred eighty days of placing into
				service, a geographical information system layer utilizing North American datum
				83 geographic coordinate system (GCS) and in an environmental systems research
				institute (Esri) shape file format showing the location of all compressor
				sites, buried drip tanks, and the pipeline centerline. An affidavit of
				completion shall accompany each layer containing the following information:
a. A statement that the pipeline was
				constructed and installed in compliance with section 43-02-03-29.
b. The outside diameter, minimum wall
				thickness, composition, internal yield pressure, and maximum temperature rating
				of the pipeline, or any other specifications deemed necessary by the
				director.
c. The anticipated
				operating pressure of the pipeline.
d. The type of fluid that will be transported
				in the pipeline and direction of flow.
e. Pressure to which the pipeline was tested
				prior to placing into service.
f.
				The minimum pipeline depth of burial.
g. In-service date.
h. Leak detection and monitoring methods that
				will be utilized after in-service date.
i. Pipeline name.
j. Accuracy of the geographical information
				system layer.