Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 055 - Oil and Gas Conservation Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - General Agency, Board or Commission Rules › Chapter 3 - OPERATIONAL RULES, DRILLING RULES › Section 3-8 - Application for Permit to Drill or Deepen a Well (Form 1)

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) Before any
				owner or operator shall spud in anticipation of drilling any well on fee,
				patented, state, or federal lands, or deepen/re-enter any such well(s) by
				drilling to a lower formation, such owner or operator shall file an Application
				for Permit to Drill or Deepen (Form 1) with the Commission and pay a fee of
				five hundred dollars ($500.00) for a permit. No well pad construction activity
				shall commence until such application is approved and a permit to drill is
				issued by the Commission. For good cause, the Supervisor may approve pad
				construction after an application for permit to drill has been
				received.
(b) For wells drilled on
				fee, patented and state land, prior to construction of the drilling location,
				approval of Form 14B (Application to Construct a Reserve Pit) must be obtained.
				The Application for Permit to Drill will not be processed until this
				requirement is met.
(c) The
				Application for Permit to Drill or Deepen (Form 1) shall be accompanied by an
				accurate plat showing the location of the proposed well with reference to the
				nearest lines of an established public survey. Information to be included in
				such application and its addendums shall include:
(i) Proposed depth to which the well will be
				drilled;
(ii) Type of drilling
				tools to be used;
(iii)
				Identification of all water sources located within one-half mile of the surface
				location for proposed oil well, gas well (including coalbed methane wells),
				dedicated injection well or Commission approved monitoring well, and the
				depth(s) from which water is being appropriated;
(iv) Formation depth, geological and
				hydrological detail from public records, published or otherwise known
				information of useable groundwater underlying the drilling and spacing unit or
				the Commission approved drilling unit. Consistent with Wyoming Department of
				Environmental Quality Chapter 8, as revised April 26, 2005, "Quality Standards
				for Wyoming Groundwaters," and for purposes of these rules, groundwater will be
				protected, except for Class VI Groundwater of the State that is unusable or
				unsuitable for use:
(A) Due to excessive
				concentrations of total dissolved solids or specific constituents;
				or,
(B) Is so contaminated that it
				would be economically or technologically impractical to make water useable;
				or,
(C) Is located in such a way,
				including depth below the surface, so as to make use economically and
				technologically impractical.
(v) Estimated depth to the top of important
				geologic markers, including the estimated depth to the top of objective
				horizons;
(vi) Proposed casing
				program, including size, anticipated setting depths, API grade, weight per
				foot, burst pressure, tensile strength for both body and joint, yield pressure,
				if new or used casing is planned for the well, and other information required
				by the Supervisor. Note that prior approval of the Supervisor is required for
				use of non-API tubular.
(vii)
				Description, type and setting depths of isolation techniques if used in
				openhole and uncemented liner stimulations in high angle and horizontal
				wells,
(viii) Description of the
				cementing program, including API class of cement, additives to be used, slurry
				density to be mixed, estimated volumes to be used, including percent of excess
				volume. For openhole completions, similar information is required for the
				cement program above the completed interval. The Supervisor must be notified of
				the intent and give prior approval for the use of non-API class cement and
				additives.
(ix) Description of the
				anticipated completion and stimulation program, including the base stimulation
				fluid and its source, the chemical additives and proposed concentrations to be
				mixed, identified by additive type as identified in Chapter 3, Section 45 of
				these rules. If this required data is not available at the time of submission
				of Form 1, then it must be submitted on a Sundry Notice (Form 4) and no
				stimulation of the well can occur without approval of the Supervisor.
(x) The Owner or Operator shall provide to
				the Supervisor, as an addendum to Application for Permit to Drill (Form 1), or
				as part of a comprehensive drilling/completion/recompletion plan, or on a
				Sundry Notice (Form 4), additional representative well drilling detail from
				adjacent or offset drilled wells that would inform and possibly influence
				drilling and cementing practices on the proposed well. Known information shall
				be provided regarding hole integrity, such as lost circulation zones by depth
				and barrels of fluid lost, zones of over or under pressure conditions, hole
				drift, key seats or tight hole if encountered, stuck pipe and depths
				experienced, water flows or kicks requiring an increase in mud weight beyond a
				predetermined amount to control, and depths experienced and as reported on Well
				Completion Report (Form 3). If any of this information or detail has already
				been presented to the Supervisor, identifying the wells is sufficient on
				subsequent wells for compliance with this subsection.
(xi) Where multiple Applications for Permit
				to Drill (Form 1) will be sought for several wells proposed to be drilled to
				the same zone within an area of geologic similarity, approval may be sought
				from the Supervisor to file a comprehensive drilling plan containing the
				information required above which will then be referenced on each Application
				for Permit To Drill (Form 1). No Application for Permit to Drill (Form 1) shall
				contain the exact well name as another permitted well in the same quarter
				quarter, section, township and range.