New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 18 - PRODUCTION OPERATING PRACTICES › Section 19.15.18.17 - SEDIMENT OIL, TANK CLEANING AND TRANSPORTATION OF MISCELLANEOUS HYDROCARBONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A. No
				person shall clean a tank of sediment oil or remove sediment oil from a lease
				without the appropriate division district office's prior approval. The lease
				operator or the company contracted or otherwise authorized to perform the tank
				cleaning may receive authorization for tank cleaning by obtaining division
				approval on form C-117-A. No operator, contractor or other party shall clean a
				tank of sediment oil or remove sediment oil from a lease without an approved
				copy of form C-117-A at the site.
B. No person shall destroy sediment oil
				without the appropriate division district office's approval of an application
				to destroy the sediment oil on form C-117-A. Unless a person receiving an
				authorization to destroy sediment oil utilizes the authorization to destroy
				sediment oil within 10 days after division approval of the form C-117-A the
				authorization is automatically revoked. However, the district supervisor may
				approve one 10 day extension for good cause shown.
C. A person, other than a treating plant
				operator, who cleans a tank of sediment oil and removes sediment oil from a
				lease shall file form C-117-B with the division setting out all information the
				form requires.
D. A person taking
				possession of or disposing of sediment oil shall test a representative sample
				of sediment oil in a manner designed to accurately estimate the percentage of
				good oil expected to be recovered from the sediment oil. The person shall
				perform the test prior to transport and prior to commingling with sediment oil
				from other leases or sources and record the results on form C-117-A. The
				division recommends the standard centrifugal tests prescribed by API
				publication Sediment and Water, Sect: 4: Determination of Sediment and Water in
				Crude Oil by the Centrifuge Method (Field Procedure), MPMS 10.4. The person may
				use other test procedures if the procedures reliably predict the percentage of
				good oil to be recovered from sediment oil.
E. A person taking possession of or disposing
				of sediment oil shall report sediment oil removed from storage on form C-115
				together with the form C-117-A permit number.
F. Except in an emergency, no person shall
				deliver miscellaneous hydrocarbons to a treating plant or other facility until
				that person has obtained division approval on form C-117-A.
G. Whenever an emergency exists that requires
				delivery of miscellaneous hydrocarbons to a treating plant or other facilities
				prior to approval of form C-117-A, the transporter of the hydrocarbons shall
				notify the supervisor of the appropriate division district office of the
				emergency's nature and extent on the first working day following the emergency
				and shall file form C-117-A within two working days following the emergency.
				For prolonged emergencies, the district supervisor may authorize the extended
				movement of miscellaneous hydrocarbons to a treating plant or other facilities
				during the emergency period and shall approve a form C-117-A filed subsequent
				to the emergency's conclusion covering the entire volume of miscellaneous
				hydrocarbons transported.