Virginia Administrative Code › Title 4 - CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES › Agency 25 - DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY › Chapter 160 - VIRGINIA GAS AND OIL BOARD REGULATIONS › Section 4VAC25-160-10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms when used in this chapter shall
				  have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"Act" means the Virginia Gas and Oil Act of 1990, Chapter 16
				  (§ 45.2-1600 et seq.) of Title 45.2 of the Code of Virginia.
"Applicant" means a person or business who files an
				  application, petition, appeal or other request with the Division of Gas and
				  Oil.
"Board" means the Virginia Gas and Oil Board.
"Complete application" means all the materials required to be
				  filed by the applicant under this chapter.
"Department" means the Department of Energy.
"Director" means the Director of the Department of Energy or
				  his authorized agent.
"Directional survey" means a well survey that measures the
				  degree of deviation of a hole, or distance, from the vertical and the direction
				  of departure.
"Division" means the Division of Gas and Oil of the
				  Department of Energy.
"Division director" means the Director of the Division of Gas
				  and Oil.
"Election" means the performance of an act within the time
				  established or required by statute, order or regulation. An election required
				  to be made by board order or regulation must be in writing and (i) be
				  personally delivered to the person or agent of the person described in the
				  order or regulation by the date established or required, or (ii) be mailed to
				  the person or agent of the person described in the order or regulation at the
				  address stated therein and be postmarked by the United States Postal Service
				  before midnight on the date established or required.
"Field" means the general area underlain by one or more
				  pools.
"Gas/oil ratio" means the product of the number of Mcf of
				  natural gas produced from a well divided by the number of barrels of oil
				  produced from the well as determined by a gas/oil ratio test.
"Gas well" means any well which produces or appears capable
				  of producing a ratio of 6,000 cubic feet (6 Mcf) of gas or more to each barrel
				  of oil, on the basis of a gas-oil ratio test.
"Inclination survey" means a well survey to determine the
				  deviation, using the surface location of the well as the apex, of a well bore
				  from the true vertical beneath the apex on the same horizontal subsurface
				  plane.
"Mcf" means, when used with reference to natural gas, 1,000
				  cubic feet of gas at a pressure base of 14.73 pounds per square inch gauge and
				  a temperature base of 60°F.
"Mine development plan" means a permit or license application
				  filed with the Division of Mines or Mined Land Repurposing for legal permission
				  to engage in extraction of coal resources.
"Oil well" means any well which produces or appears capable
				  of producing a ratio of less than 6,000 cubic feet (6 Mcf) of gas to each
				  barrel of oil, on the basis of a gas-oil ratio test.
"Petitioner" means any person or business who files a
				  petition, appeal, or other request for action with the Division of Gas and Oil
				  or the Virginia Gas and Oil Board.
"Pooling" means the combining of all interests or estates in
				  a gas, oil or coalbed methane drilling unit for the development and operations
				  thereof. Pooling may be accomplished either through voluntary agreement or
				  through a compulsory order of the board.
"Respondent" means a person named in an application,
				  petition, appeal or other request for board action and against whom relief is
				  sought by the applicant, or a person who under the terms of a board order, is
				  required to make an election.
"Unit operator" means the gas or oil owner designated by the
				  board to operate in or on a pooled unit.
Statutory Authority: § 45.2-103 of the Code of
					 Virginia.