Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 053 - Workforce Services, Department of › Sub-Agency 0012 - OSHA - Oil & Gas Well Special Servicing › Chapter 1 - GENERAL › Section 1-2 - Definitions

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) Acidize - to treat a well by injecting
				acid under pressure into an underground formation.
(b) Act - the Wyoming Occupational Health and
				Safety Act.
(c) Administrator - the
				Workers' Safety and Compensation Administrator.
(d) ANSI - the American National Standards
				Institute.
(e) Approved -
				sanctioned, endorsed, certified, accredited or accepted by a duly constituted
				and recognized authority or agency.
(f) ASTM - American Society for Testing
				Materials.
(g) ASME - American
				Society of Mechanical Engineers.
(h) Authorized person - a person approved or
				assigned by the employer to perform a specific type of duty or duties or to be
				at a specific location or locations at the job site.
(i) Back off - to unscrew one threaded piece,
				as a section of pipe, from another which is stuck. Primacord or other
				explosives may be used to assist back off.
(j) Bleed valve - a manual valve used to
				release pressure.
(k) Blender -
				equipment used in fracturing operations which blends fluids with a solid
				material.
(l) Booster - as used in
				the perforating industry, is a Class C non-electric detonator used to assure
				detonate on where a primacord splice or connection is made.
(m) Breakout - to unscrew one section of pipe
				from another, neither section of which is stuck. (See "back off")
(n) Bureau of Explosives - a division of the
				American Association of Railroads which is utilized by the U. S. Department of
				Transportation for classification of explosives.
(o) Cathead - spool-shaped attachment on a
				winch around which rope is wound for hoisting and pulling.
(p) Cementing - the application of a liquid
				slurry of cement and water to various points inside or outside the casing. (See
				"squeeze cementing")
(q) Charged
				lines - conveying lines under pressure using air, gas, liquids or
				semi-liquids.
(r) Charged well
				casing jet perforating gun - (perforating guns, strip guns) - steel tubes or
				metallic strips into which are inserted shaped charges which may be detonated
				by primacord.
(s) Chemical cutter -
				a device which uses propellant explosives in such a manner as to cause a
				jetting action of an oxidizer which effectively cuts tubing or pipe used in
				well application.
(t) Combustible
				liquid - any liquid having a flashpoint at or above 100°F.
(u) Commission - the Wyoming Occupational
				Health and Safety Commission.
(v)
				Competent person - one who is capable of identifying existing and predictable
				hazards in the surroundings or working conditions which are hazardous or
				dangerous to employees and who has authorization to take prompt corrective
				measures to eliminate them or who can recommend directly to persons in
				authority that such corrective measures be taken.
(w) Condensate - a light hydrocarbon liquid
				obtained by condensation of hydrocarbon vapors; used in well services such as
				fracturing.
(x) Conductor wireline
				- a hoisting line containing one or more electrical conductors.
(y) Container - as used with flammable or
				combustible materials is a drum or other container with a capacity not
				exceeding 60 gallons.
(z)
				Contractor - any person and/or employer who contracts to do all or any part of
				a special services operation.
(aa)
				Dead line anchor - a fixture to which the non-moving end of the hoisting line
				is attached.
(bb) Defect - any
				characteristic or condition which tends to weaken or reduce the strength of a
				tool, object or structure of which it is a part beyond the recognized.
				operating limitations of the tool, object or structure.
(cc) Department - the Department of
				Employment.
(dd) Detonating fuse -
				cord made up with high explosives; may be overspun with tapes, yarns and
				plastics or waterproofing compounds. (Commonly referred to as
				"primacord")
(ee) Detonator -
				(blasting caps) - a device which is used to initiate an explosion.
(ff) Discharge line - an output line from a
				pump to the well head.
(gg) Drill
				stem test: (DST) - a method of gathering data on the potential productivity of
				a formation by permitting the flow of petroleum products back through the drill
				pipe.
(hh) Employee - a person
				permitted to work by an employer in employment for wages, salary or
				commission.
(ii) Employer - any
				individual or organization which has in its employment one or more individuals
				performing services for it in employment.
(jj) Employment - all services for pay under
				a contract for hire.
(kk)
				Established federal standard - any operative standard established by Public Law
				91-596, the Williams- Steiger Act, which applies to all businesses, including
				the special services industry, in effect on or before the date of promulgation
				of these rules and regulations.
(ll) Equipment operator - one who is
				authorized to operate a specific piece of equipment by the employer.
(mm) Flammable liquid - any liquid having a
				flashpoint below 100°F, except any mixture having components with
				flashpoints of 100°F or higher, the total of which make up 99 percent or
				more of the total volume of the liquid.
(nn) Flashpoint - the minimum temperature at
				which a liquid gives off vapor within a test vessel in sufficient concentration
				to form an ignitible mixture with air near the surface of the liquid.
(oo) Fracturing (Fracing) - a method of
				stimulating well production by forcing a liquid under pressure into underground
				formations.
(pp) Guarded - means
				covered, shielded, fenced, enclosed, or otherwise protected by means of
				suitable covers or casings, barrier rails safety bars, or screens to eliminate
				the possibility of accidental contact with, or dangerous approach by, persons
				or objects.
(qq) Hazard - any
				occupational condition or circumstance which is likely to cause death, injury
				or illness.
(rr) Hazardous
				chemicals (hazardous substances) - a chemical or substance which, by reason of
				being explosive, flammable, poisonous, corrosive, oxidizing, irritating or
				otherwise harmful, is likely to cause occupational death, injury or
				illness.
(ss) High explosive -
				those explosives which will detonate by use of a blasting cap when
				unconfined.
(tt) Hot oil operations
				- the pumping of a hot fluid down a well to remove paraffin. (Hot
				oiling)
(uu) Igniter - a device
				intended to electrically initiate low explosive.
(vv) Jet cutter - an explosive device which
				uses a shaped charge to cut tubing or casing, normally used in well
				applications.
(ww) Logging tools -
				transducers and controlling electronics used down hole in well
				logging.
(xx) Low explosives -
				explosives which will burn rather than detonate when unconfined.
(yy) Lubricator - an assembly of tubular
				goods, wire line valve, stuffing box, or other similarly effective equipment
				designed to confine pressure or prevent release of fluids under pressure while
				permitting tools to be removed from or put into the well.
(zz) Metal severance tool - An explosive tool
				or device used to effectively separate or part tubular goods.
(aaa) Moving parts - gears, sprockets,
				evolving shafts, clutches, belts, pulleys, or other revolving or reciprocating
				parts that are attached to, or form an integral part of a machine.
(bbb) Mud logging - the recording of
				information derived from examination and analysis of formation cuttings made by
				the bit and of mud circulated out of the hole.
(ccc) National consensus standard - any
				standard which has been adopted and promulgated by any nationally recognized
				standards producing organization whereby persons interested and affected by the
				scope or provisions of the standard have reached substantial agreement on its
				adoption, which was formulated in a manner which afforded an opportunity for
				diverse views to be considered, and which has been designated as such a
				standard by the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of Labor.
(ddd) Oil well cartridges - individual
				devices with each containing not more then 350 grains of propellant powder and
				having net ignition device or element. (Used in perforating and sample
				taking)
(eee) Perforating gun - see
				"Charged well casing perforating gun".
(fff) Person - an individual, governmental
				agency, partnership, corporation, business, trust, receiver, trustee, legal
				representative or successor to any of the foregoing.
(ggg) Personal fall arrest system - a system
				used to arrest an employee in a fall from a working level. It consists of an
				anchorage, connectors, a body harness, and may include a lanyard, deceleration
				device, lifeline, or suitable combinations of these.
(hhh) Place of employment - plant, premises,
				or any other place where directed by the employer or about which an employee is
				permitted to work.
(iii) Pressure
				relief valve (safety valve; pop off valve) - a valve that opens at a preset
				pressure to relieve excessive pressure within a vessel or line.
(jjj) Qualified - one who by possession of a
				recognized degree, certificate, or professional standing, or who by extensive
				knowledge, training and experience has successfully demonstrated ability to
				solve or resolve problems relating to the subject matter, the work or the
				project.
(kkk) Reverse out - the
				pumping of fluids down the annulus and back up the tubular goods in a
				well.
(lll) Rig up line - wire rope
				used for material handling.
(mmm)
				Safety factor - the ratio of the ultimate breaking strength of a member or
				piece of material or equipment to the actual working stress.
(nnn) Secretary - the Secretary of the U. S.
				Department of Labor. May be referred to as the Assistant Secretary.
(ooo) Shaped charge - a relatively small
				metal, plastic, paper or other suitable container of high explosives containing
				no liquid explosive ingredient and with a cavity lined with a rigid material,
				which is loaded into a perforating gun.
(ppp) Slick line - a single, unstranded steel
				line without electrical conductors.
(qqq) Spade - a stiff leg used to prevent
				backward movement of a vehicle. (Back up leg)
(rrr) Special services - any services
				performed on a well, as herein defined, which involves wireline services,
				mobile pumping other than production pumping, and includes such services as
				fracturing, drill stem testing, cementing, logging, hot oiling and treating,
				acidizing, and those other services which would not be a normal drilling or
				servicing operation and which are performed by a special services operator or
				contractor.
(sss) Special services
				derrick (SSD) - a portable structure used at a well for the purpose of
				supporting apparatus with which wireline operations are performed.
(ttt) Squeeze cementing - the forcing of
				cement slurry by pressure to specific points in a well to cause seal at the
				point of squeeze.
(uuu) Standard -
				a standard which requires conditions, or the adoption or use of one or more
				practices, means, methods, operations or processes reasonably necessary or
				appropriate to provide safe or healthful employment and places of employment in
				the special services industry.
(vvv) String shot - a random length of
				primacord generally attached to a device or rod with a means of initiation and
				is used to assist back off.
(www)
				Stuffing box (Pack off; Oil saver) - a device which controls pressure or
				prevents the release of fluids under pressure around the wire-line and is
				attached to the well head or lubricator, and allows the wireline to
				move.
(xxx) Suitable - that which
				fits, and has the qualities or qualifications to meet a given purpose,
				occasion, condition, function or circumstance.
(yyy) Suitable anchor - capable of supporting
				at least 5,000 pounds per employee attached or shall be designed, installed,
				and used as follows:
(a) as part of a
				complete personal fall arrest system which maintains a safety factor of at
				least two; and
(b) under the
				supervision of a qualified person.