Glossary
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Completion/Fracture/Workover Pit
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Completion/Fracture/Workover Pit
"Completion/fracture/workover pit" means a pit used for temporary storage of spent completion fluids, frac fluids, workover fluids, drilling fluids, silt, debris, water, brine, oil scum, paraffin, or other deleterious substances which have been cleaned out of the wellbore of a well being completed, fractured, recompleted, or worked over. Source: Corporation Commission, Oil and Gas Conservation, Oklahoma Administrative Code 165:10, February 2013. RegulationsCommercial Soil Farming
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Commercial Soil Farming
"Commercial soil farming" means the practice of soil farming or land applying drilling fluids and/or other deleterious substances produced, obtained, or used in connection with the drilling of a well or wells at an off-site location. Multiple applications to the same land are likely. Source: Corporation Commission, Oil and Gas Conservation, Oklahoma Administrative Code 165:10, February 2013. RegulationsCommercial Recycling Facility
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Commercial Recycling Facility
"Commercial recycling facility" means a facility that is authorized by Commission order to recycle materials defined as deleterious substances in OAC 165:10-1-2. Such substances must undergo at least one treatment process and must be recycled into a marketable product for resale and/or have some beneficial use. This definition does not include the reuse of drilling mud that was previously utilized in drilling or plugging operations. Source: Corporation Commission, Oil and Gas Conservation, Oklahoma Administrative Code 165:10, February 2013. RegulationsCommercial Pit
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Commercial Pit
"Commercial pit" is a disposal facility which is authorized by Commission order and used for the disposal, storage, and handling substances or soils contaminated by deleterious substances produced, obtained, or used in connection with drilling and/or production operations. This does not include a disposal well pit. Source: Corporation Commission, Oil and Gas Conservation, Oklahoma Administrative Code 165:10, February 2013. RegulationsCommercial Disposal Well
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Commercial Disposal Well
"Commercial disposal well" means a well where the owner receives and disposes of produced water or any deleterious substance from multiple well owners/operators and receives compensation for these services and where the owner's primary business objective is to provide these services. Source: Corporation Commission, Oil and Gas Conservation, Oklahoma Administrative Code 165:10, February 2013. RegulationsClosure
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Closure
"Closure" means the practice of dewatering, trenching, filling, leveling, terracing, and/or vegetating a pit site after its useful life is reached in order to restore or reclaim the site to near its original condition. Source: Corporation Commission, Oil and Gas Conservation, Oklahoma Administrative Code 165:10, February 2013. RegulationsTaker
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Taker
"Carrier", or "transporter", or "taker" means any person moving or transporting oil or gas away from a lease or from any common source of supply. Source: Corporation Commission, Oil and Gas Conservation, Oklahoma Administrative Code 165:10, February 2013. RegulationsCarrier
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Carrier
"Carrier", or "transporter", or "taker" means any person moving or transporting oil or gas away from a lease or from any common source of supply. Source: Corporation Commission, Oil and Gas Conservation, Oklahoma Administrative Code 165:10, February 2013. RegulationsCarrier
Person who transports oil and gas wastes generated by a generator. A carrier of another person's oil and gas wastes may be a generator of his own oil and gas wastes. Source: Oil and Gas Division, Texas Administrative Code, Title 16, Chapter 3, February 2013. RegulationsBasic Sediment Pit
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Basic Sediment Pit
"Basic sediment pit" means a pit used in conjunction with a tank battery for storage of basic sediment removed from a production vessel or from the bottom of an oil storage tank. Source: Corporation Commission, Oil and Gas Conservation, Oklahoma Administrative Code 165:10, February 2013. RegulationsBasic Sediment Pit
Pit used in conjunction with a tank battery for storage of basic sediment removed from a production vessel or from the bottom of an oil storage tank. Basic sediment pits were formerly referred to as burn pits. Source: Oil and Gas Division, Texas Administrative Code, Title 16, Chapter 3, February 2013. RegulationsAssociated Gas
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Associated Gas
"Associated gas" means any gas produced from a Commission ordered combination oil and gas reservoir in which allowed rates of production are based upon volumetric withdrawals. Source: Corporation Commission, Oil and Gas Conservation, Oklahoma Administrative Code 165:10, February 2013. RegulationsMineable Coal Seam
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Mineable Coal Seam
“Mineable coal seam” means any underground coal seam, of sufficient thickness, that may be economically mined by current mining methods. Source: Division of Mineral Resources Management - Oil and Gas, Ohio Administrative Code, Chapter 1501:9, January 2012. RegulationsSqueeze
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Squeeze
“Squeeze” means the pumping of a cement slurry under pressure through perforations to seal the back side of casing. Source: Division of Mineral Resources Management - Oil and Gas, Ohio Administrative Code, Chapter 1501:9, January 2012. RegulationsNatural Invironment
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Natural Invironment
“Natural environment” means the physical and biological environment (milieu naturel). Source: Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations, SOR/2009-315, February 2013. Regulations Source: Drilling and Production Guidelines, The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board and Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board, Canada, March 31, 2011. Regulatory Guidance Source: Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Drilling and Production Regulations, SOR/2009-317, Canada, current to May 31, 2012. RegulationsNatural Invironment
The physical and biological environment. Note: Excerpted from section 1.(1) of the Regulations. Source: Environmental Protection Plan Guidelines, The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board, Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board, and National Energy Board, Canada, March 31, 2011. Regulatory Guidance Source: Offshore Waste Treatment Guidelines, The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board, Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board, and National Energy Board, Canada, December 15, 2010. Regulatory GuidanceBig Lime
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Big Lime
“Big lime” means all rock units above the Silurian Rochester Shale and below the Devonian Olentangy Shale. Source: Division of Mineral Resources Management - Oil and Gas, Ohio Administrative Code, Chapter 1501:9, January 2012. RegulationsIdentification Tag
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Identification Tag
“Identification tag” means brass or steel plate with the initials ODNR, and the permit number legibly braised, burned or stamped in the surface, and affixed on top of the casing. Source: Division of Mineral Resources Management - Oil and Gas, Ohio Administrative Code, Chapter 1501:9, January 2012. RegulationsMulti-pool Well
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Multi-pool Well
“Multi-pool well” means a well that is completed in more than one pool (puits à gisements multiples). Source: Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations, SOR/2009-315, February 2013. Regulations Source: Drilling and Production Guidelines, The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board and Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board, Canada, March 31, 2011. Regulatory Guidance Source: Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Drilling and Production Regulations, SOR/2009-317, Canada, current to May 31, 2012. RegulationsBrush And Stone Bridge
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Brush And Stone Bridge
“Brush and stone bridge” means an obstruction, made of timber and stone, and placed in a well bore to form an effective base for plugging material. Source: Division of Mineral Resources Management - Oil and Gas, Ohio Administrative Code, Chapter 1501:9, January 2012. RegulationsMechanical Bridge
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Mechanical Bridge
“Mechanical” bridge means a manufactured device designed to seal the well bore or inside diameter of various sizes of casing that may be used as a base for approved plugging material. Source: Division of Mineral Resources Management - Oil and Gas, Ohio Administrative Code, Chapter 1501:9, January 2012. RegulationsMinor Injury
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Minor Injury
“Minor injury” means an employment injury for which medical treatment or first aid is provided and excludes a lost or restricted workday injury (blessure sans gravité). Source: Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations, SOR/2009-315, February 2013. Regulations Source: Drilling and Production Guidelines, The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board and Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board, Canada, March 31, 2011. Regulatory Guidance Source: Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Drilling and Production Regulations, SOR/2009-317, Canada, current to May 31, 2012. RegulationsMinor Injury
“Minor injury” means an employment injury or an occupational disease for which first aid or medical treatment is provided and excludes a disabling injury. Source: Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Occupational Health & Safety Requirements, Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board, Canada, December 2000. Regulations Source: Oil and Gas Occupational Safety and Health Regulations, SOR/87-612, Canada, current to April 29, 2013. RegulationsPrecast Concrete Plug
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Precast Concrete Plug
“Precast concrete plug” means a tapered plug, constructed of concrete and precast in various sizes, expressly for creating a bridge on a casing seat or ripped casing. Source: Division of Mineral Resources Management - Oil and Gas, Ohio Administrative Code, Chapter 1501:9, January 2012. RegulationsMouse Hole
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Mouse Hole
Opening in the rig floor near the rotary table, in which joints of drill pipe are temporarily placed for later connection to the drill string.- Note: 1 to entry: The mouse hole is usually fitted underneath with a length of casing, usually with a bottom.