North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 43 - Industrial Commission › Article 43-02 - Mineral Exploration and Development › Chapter 43-02-03 - Oil and Gas Conservation › Section 43-02-03-31 - Well log, completion, and workover reports

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
After the plugging of a well, a plugging record (form 7) must
				  be filed with the director. After the completion of a well, recompletion of a
				  well in a different pool, or drilling horizontally in an existing pool, a
				  completion report (form 6 or form provided by the director) must be filed with
				  the director. In no case shall oil or gas be transported from the lease prior
				  to the filing of a completion report unless approved by the director. The
				  operator shall cause to be run an open hole electrical, radioactivity, or other
				  similar log, or combination of open hole logs, of the operator's choice, from
				  which formation tops and porosity zones can be determined. The operator shall
				  cause to be run a gamma ray log from total depth to ground level elevation of
				  the well bore. Within six months of reaching total depth and prior to
				  completing the well, the operator shall cause to be run a cement evaluation log
				  from which the presence and quality of bonding of cement can be determined in
				  every well in which production or intermediate casing has been set. The initial
				  cement evaluation log must be run without the addition of pressure at surface,
				  except at depths where the cement evaluation tool may need appropriate pressure
				  applied to function properly. The obligation to log may be waived or postponed
				  by the director if the necessity therefor can be demonstrated to the director's
				  satisfaction. Waiver will be contingent upon such terms and conditions as the
				  director deems appropriate. All logs run must be available to the director at
				  the well site prior to proceeding with plugging or completion operations. All
				  logs run shall be submitted to the director free of charge. Logs must be
				  submitted as one digital TIFF (tagged image file format) copy and one digital
				  LAS (log ASCII) formatted copy, or a format approved by the director. In
				  addition, operators shall file one copy of drill stem test reports and charts,
				  formation water analyses, core analyses, geologic reports, and noninterpretive
				  lithologic logs or sample descriptions if compiled by the operator.
All information furnished to the director on permits, except
				  the operator name, well name, location, permit date, confidentiality period,
				  spacing or drilling unit description, spud date, rig contractor, central tank
				  battery number, any production runs, or volumes injected into an injection
				  well, must be kept confidential from the date a request by the operator is
				  received in writing until the six-month confidentiality period has ended. The
				  six-month period commences on the date the well is completed or the date the
				  written request is received, whichever is earlier. If the written request
				  accompanies the application for permit to drill or is filed after permitting
				  but prior to spudding, the six-month period commences on the date the well is
				  spudded. The director may release such confidential completion and production
				  data to health care professionals, emergency responders, and state, federal, or
				  tribal environmental and public health regulators if the director deems it
				  necessary to protect the public's health, safety, and welfare.
All information furnished to the director on recompletions,
				  restimulation wells, or reentries, except the operator name, well name,
				  location, permit date, confidentiality period, spacing or drilling unit
				  description, spud date, rig contractor, any production runs, or volumes
				  injected into an injection well, must be kept confidential for not more than
				  six months if requested by the operator in writing. The six-month period shall
				  commence on the date the well is completed, recompleted, or restimulated or the
				  date a request by the operator is received in writing, whichever is earlier.
				  Any information furnished to the director prior to approval of the
				  recompletion, restimulation, or reentry must remain public.
Approval must be obtained on a well sundry form from the
				  director prior to perforating or recompleting a well in a pool other than the
				  pool in which the well is currently permitted.
After the completion of any remedial work, or attempted
				  remedial work such as plugging back or drilling deeper, acidizing, shooting,
				  formation fracturing, squeezing operations, setting liner, perforating,
				  reperforating, or other similar operations not specifically covered herein, a
				  report on the operation shall be filed on a sundry notice (form 4) with the
				  director. The report must present a detailed account of all work done and the
				  date of such work; the daily production of oil, gas, and water both prior to
				  and after the operation; the shots per foot, size, and depth of perforations;
				  the quantity of sand, crude, chemical, or other materials employed in the
				  operation; and any other pertinent information or operations which affect the
				  original status of the well and are not specifically covered herein.
Upon the installation of pumping equipment on a flowing well,
				  or change in type of pumping equipment designed to increase productivity in a
				  well, the operator shall submit a sundry notice (form 4) of such installation.
				  The notice must include all pertinent information on the pump and the operation
				  thereof including the date of such installation, and the daily production of
				  the well prior to and after the pump has been installed.
All forms, reports, logs, and other information required by
				  this section must be submitted within thirty days after the completion of such
				  work, although a completion report must be filed immediately after the
				  completion or recompletion of a well in a pool or reservoir not then covered by
				  an order of the commission.
General Authority:
NDCC 38-08-04
Law Implemented:
NDCC
					 38-08-04