West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 38 - Mining And Reclamation › Title 38 - LEGISLATIVE RULE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION MINING AND RECLAMATION › Series 38-18 - Oil And Gas Wells And Other Wells › Section 38-18-12 - Well Records

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
12.1 Well
				Records Made During Permitted Work - The well operator or his contractor
				(drilling contractor or other contractor, as appropriate) shall keep at the
				well location a copy of the application as permitted, including the associated
				plat and Construction and Reclamation Plan required by Section 5.2. The well
				operator or his contractor (drilling contractor or other contractor, as
				appropriate) shall also make and preserve at the well location accurate records
				of all well work performed pursuant to the permit including documentation by
				the contractor or person performing the cementing services of the time of
				completion of cementing and the volume of cement used for the cementing of the
				fresh water casing. The records shall be complete enough to support, as
				applicable, the entries of well work done and related data on Form WR-35, "Well
				Operator's Report of Drilling, Stimulating or Physical change", Form WR-36,
				"Well Operator's Report of Initial Gas-Oil Ratio Test," Form WR-37,
				"Pre-Operation Certificate for Liquid Injection or Waste Disposal Well", and
				Form WR-38, "Affidavit of Plugging and Filling Well", but such forms WR-35
				through WR-38 shall reflect data discovered or changes made after the permitted
				well work has been finished and before the forms filed. The records made and
				preserved at the well location and the recordings made on Form WR-35 shall
				include, but not be limited to, indications of caverns, open mines, or other
				voids, whether the fresh water casing cement did circulate to the surface, and
				the efforts made to 11 the annular space and the results. Unless such records
				of well work performed are prepared by the well operator or owner, a copy of
				all such records shall be delivered to the well owner or operator.
12.2 Filing of Well Record and Related Forms
				-
12.2.1. Within ninety (90) days after the
				completion of permitted well work, two (2) copies of Form WR-35, "Well
				Operator's Report of Drilling, Fracturing and/or Stimulating or Physical
				Change", containing in proper form the geological information required by W.Va.
				Code § 22B-1-22, Form WR-36, "Well Operator's Report of Initial Gas-Oil
				Ratio Test", (except that, where the well has not been connected within such
				ninety (90) day period to pipelines or production tanks, Form WR-36 shall be
				filed no more than fifteen (15) days after such connection), Form WR-37,
				"Pre-Operation Certificate for liquid Injection or Waste Disposal Well", and
				Form WR-38, "Affidavit of Plugging and Filling Well", shall be filed by the
				well owner or operator with the Chief. Such forms need not repeat well record
				information for any work (whether permitted or not) performed prior to and not
				part of the permitted work which said forms apply. Such forms shall correct or
				add to the well log and other records made and preserved at the well location
				by specifying the casing, treatment, or physical changes performed after
				completion of the permitted work, and the additional information or corrected
				information discovered, by electric logs or other means, after completion of
				the permitted work.
12.2.2. Deep
				Well Confidential Information; Filing of Well Logs -
12.2.2.1. Within ninety (90) days after the
				completion of drilling or recompletion of a deep well, the well operator shall
				file a copy of the well log and the electrical, radioactive or other similar
				conventional log if such logs have been performed. In addition, as soon as
				practicable, the well operator shall file a copy of drill stem test charts,
				formation water analysis, porosity, permeability or fluid saturation
				measurements, core analysis, and lithologic log or sample description as
				compiled; Provided, that no such additional information shall be required
				unless the well operator has compiled such information in the ordinary course
				of business. No interpretation of the data is required to be filed,
12.2.2.2. All information furnished with
				respect to a deep well marked "confidential" shall be kept confidential for one
				(1) year following the date the information is required to be filed hereunder
				unless the well operator gives the Chief written permission to release such
				information at an earlier date.
12.2.2.3. For good cause shown by the
				operator the West Virginia "Oil and Gas Conservation Commission may extend the
				period of confidentiality for one (1) year. The total period of confidentiality
				shall not exceed three (3) years.