Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 055 - Oil and Gas Conservation Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - General Agency, Board or Commission Rules › Chapter 1 - AUTHORITY AND DEFINITIONS › Section 1-2 - Definitions

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) Aquifer
				shall mean a geological formation, group of formations, or part of a formation
				that is capable of yielding a significant amount of water to a well or
				spring.
(b) Abandoned Oil Field
				Equipment means equipment and the contents thereof used in drilling or
				producing oil and gas wells and left on the lease where a dry hole or well is
				located. Abandonment may be shown by lack of production, disposal, injection,
				or other permitted activity for more than two (2) years, lack of equipment or
				infrastructure necessary for the production of oil or gas, or failure to report
				production or payment of conservation taxes.
(c) Agent means the person who has been
				designated by the Owner or Operator to act on the Owner's or Operator's behalf.
				The "Agent" has authority to fulfill the obligations of the Owner as noted in
				Chapter 3, Section 4 of these rules, but is not required to have a performance
				bond in place.
(d) Authorized Agent
				shall mean a representative of the Supervisor as authorized by the
				Commission.
(e) Available Water
				Source shall mean a water source for which the water well owner, owner of a
				spring, or land owner, as applicable, has given consent for sampling and
				testing and has consented to having the analytical results and spatial
				coordinates of the water source made available to the public unless the data is
				otherwise considered confidential under Wyoming statute.
(f) Average Daily Production means the
				qualified maximum total production of domestic crude petroleum and petroleum
				condensates, including natural gas liquids produced from a property or lease
				during the preceding calendar year divided by the number of calendar days in
				that year times the number of wells which produced and wells which injected
				substances for the recovery of crude petroleum and petroleum condensates,
				including natural gas liquids from that property or lease in that year. To
				qualify as maximum total production, each well must have been maintained at the
				maximum feasible rate of production in accordance with recognized conservation
				practices and not significantly curtailed by reason of mechanical failure or
				other disruption in production.
(g)
				Barrel shall mean 42 (US) gallons of liquid at 60? Fahrenheit at atmospheric
				pressure.
(h) Casing Pressure shall
				mean the pressure within the casing or between the casing and tubing at the
				wellhead.
(i) Class II Well shall
				mean any commercial or non-commercial well used to dispose of water and/or
				fluids directly associated with the production of oil and/or gas, any well used
				to inject fluids or gas for enhanced oil recovery, or any well used for the
				storage of liquid hydrocarbons. Non-hazardous gas plant wastes may be disposed
				of in a Class II well pending Environmental Protection Agency
				co-approval.
(j) Client Company
				means the entity on whose behalf and for whose benefit the geophysical/seismic
				company does its work or the entity who hires the geophysical/seismic
				company.
(k) Closed System
				includes, but is not limited to, the use of a combination of solids control
				equipment (e.g., shale shakers, flowline cleaners, desanders, desilters, mud
				cleaners, centrifuges, agitators, and necessary pumps and piping) incorporated
				in a series on the rig's steel mud tanks, or a self-contained unit that
				eliminates the need for a reserve pit for the purpose of dumping and dilution
				of drilling fluids for the removal of entrained drilling solids. A closed
				system for the purpose of the Commission's rules does not automatically include
				the use of a small pit, even to receive cuttings.
(l) Collection Wells means reservoir access
				holes drilled from underground shafts or tunnels from which oil or gas is
				produced.
(m) Commercial Class II
				Disposal Well. A commercial class II disposal well is one that is operated
				primarily for profit and/or where fluids disposed are produced, at least in
				part, from oil and gas wells not operated by one of the owners of said disposal
				well.
(n) Commercial Water
				Retention Pit. A commercial water retention pit is one that is:
(i) Operated primarily for profit from the
				disposal of produced water and/or deleterious substances for a fee;
				or,
(ii) A pit for which none of
				its Owners is an Owner or Operator in any of the oil and gas wells which
				produce the water and/or other deleterious substances which will be disposed
				into said pit.