Glossary
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Mine String
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Mine String
“Mine string” means a string of casing set and cemented to isolate a mine void, rubble zone, or a mined seam. Source: Division of Mineral Resources Management - Oil and Gas, Ohio Administrative Code, Chapter 1501:9, January 2012. RegulationsMap
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Map
“Map” means a graphic representation of the location and size of the existing or proposed objects it is made to represent, accurately drawn to a scale no smaller than four hundred feet to the inch. Source: Division of Mineral Resources Management - Oil and Gas, Ohio Administrative Code, Chapter 1501:9, January 2012. RegulationsManager
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Manager
“Manager” means the operator, whether the owner or not, of a well or wells. Source: Division of Mineral Resources Management - Oil and Gas, Ohio Administrative Code, Chapter 1501:9, January 2012. RegulationsManager
Manager means the person appointed for the purposes referred to in regulation 7(1)(a). Source: Health and Safety in Employment (Mining Administration) Regulations 1996, SR 1996/220, New Zealand, as of January 2011. RegulationsManager
Equipment, systems, and methods which, following initiation, can be used to control, mitigate, and extinguish fires. Source: IOGP Report No. 510, Operating Management System Framework for controlling risk and delivering high performance in the oil and gas industry, International Association of Oil & Gas Producers, June 2014. Global StandardsManager
“Manager” includes, where no manager is appointed pursuant to section 4 of the Act, any person made responsible by the owner for safety, health and welfare on board an offshore installation. Source: The Offshore Installations (Logbooks and Registration of Death) Regulations 1972, UK S.I. 1972/1542, 1972. RegulationsManager
“Manager” includes, where no manager is appointed pursuant to section 4 of the Act, any person made responsible by the owner for safety, health and welfare on board an offshore installation. Source: The Offshore Installations (Inspectors and Casualties) Regulations 1973, UK S.I. 1973/1842, 1973. RegulationsLead Cement
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Lead Cement
“Lead cement” means the first, typically less-dense slurry pumped during primary cementing operations to seal intervals above those sealed by the tail cement and to reduce the hydrostatic pressure of the cement slurry column at the casing seat while the slurry sets. Source: Division of Mineral Resources Management - Oil and Gas, Ohio Administrative Code, Chapter 1501:9, January 2012. RegulationsInhabited Structure
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Inhabited Structure
“Inhabited structure” means any inhabited private dwelling house and any public building which may be used as a place of resort, assembly, education, entertainment, lodging, trade, manufacture, repair, storage, traffic, or occupancy by the public. Source: Division of Mineral Resources Management - Oil and Gas, Ohio Administrative Code, Chapter 1501:9, January 2012. RegulationsDirect Notification
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Direct Notification
“Direct notification” means, person to person or phone contact between a well owner, owner holding a permit or their authorized representative and a division inspector and/or division field office staff. Voice mail messages are not considered direct notification. Source: Division of Mineral Resources Management - Oil and Gas, Ohio Administrative Code, Chapter 1501:9, January 2012. RegulationsCasing Shoe Test
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Casing Shoe Test
“Casing shoe test” means a pressure test conducted after drilling into the confining strata below a cemented casing string seat to evaluate pressure containment integrity and to determine the maximum fluid density that the strata can contain without breaking down. Source: Division of Mineral Resources Management - Oil and Gas, Ohio Administrative Code, Chapter 1501:9, January 2012. RegulationsCage
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Cage
“Cage” means a wire, wood, metal or similar material surrounding a wellhead. Source: Division of Mineral Resources Management - Oil and Gas, Ohio Administrative Code, Chapter 1501:9, January 2012. RegulationsBest Management Practices (BMPs) For Pre-Drilling Water Sampling Manual
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Best Management Practices (BMPs) For Pre-Drilling Water Sampling Manual
“Best Management Practices (BMPs) For Pre-drilling Water Sampling Manual” means methods for ground water sampling from private or public supplies using practices, processes and procedures outlined in the manual, dated April 30, 2005, which can be located at http://www.ohiodnr.com/Portals/11/oil/pdf/BMP_PRE-DRILLING_WATER_SAMPLING.pdf or by contacting the division of oil and gas resources management. Sources: Division of Mineral Resources Management - Oil and Gas, Ohio Administrative Code, Chapter 1501:9, January 2012. RegulationsBest Management Practices (BMPs) For Oil And Gas Well Site Construction Manual
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Best Management Practices (BMPs) For Oil And Gas Well Site Construction Manual
“Best Management Practices (BMPs) For Oil and Gas Well Site Construction Manual” means practices, procedures and structures used to minimize accelerated erosion from oil and gas well site construction and well site restoration outlined in the manual, dated April 30, 2005, which can be located at http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Portals/11/oil/pdf/BMP_OIL_GAS_WELL_SITE_CONST.pdf or by contacting the division of oil and gas resources management. Source: Division of Mineral Resources Management - Oil and Gas, Ohio Administrative Code, Chapter 1501:9, January 2012. RegulationsAuthorized Representative Of The Owner
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Authorized Representative Of The Owner
“Authorized representative of the owner” means any contractor, sub-contactor or person directed by an owner or owner holding a permit, to complete any aspect of well site construction, drilling, production, and restoration. Source: Division of Mineral Resources Management - Oil and Gas, Ohio Administrative Code, Chapter 1501:9, January 2012. RegulationsActive Underground Mine
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Active Underground Mine
“Active underground mine” means an underground excavation of coal or industrial minerals in any phase of the mining operation which is required to be permitted by the division of mineral resources management, regularly and routinely examined by state-certified forepersons, and inspected quarterly by mine safety inspectors of the division of mineral resources management for compliance with mine safety laws, including the active workings of a mine, any and all sealed or unsealed boreholes, shafts, drifts, slopes or any other openings to the surface, and any and all in-seam contiguous, abandoned areas physically connected to but separated by permanently constructed seals from the current active workings where miners are able to work or travel. Source: Division of Mineral Resources Management - Oil and Gas, Ohio Administrative Code, Chapter 1501:9, January 2012. RegulationsAccess Road
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Access Road
“Access road” means any road used as primary ingress and egress to the wellhead, tank battery, and associated equipment used in the production of a well. Source: Division of Mineral Resources Management - Oil and Gas, Ohio Administrative Code, Chapter 1501:9, January 2012. RegulationsIndependent
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Independent
Independent means that a piping or venting system, for example, is in no way connected to another system and that there are no provisions available for the potential connection to other systems. Source: Resolution MEPC.119(52), 2004 amendments to the International Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk (IBC Code), 15 October 2004. Regulatory guidance, International Maritime OrganizationIndependent
For the purposes of paragraph (6) and regulations 19 and 20, a person shall be regarded as independent only where—- his function will not involve the consideration by him of an aspect, of a thing liable to be examined, for which he bears or has borne such responsibility as might compromise his objectivity; and
- he will be sufficiently independent of a management system, or of a part thereof, which bears or has borne any responsibility for an aspect of which he might consider, of a thing liable to be examined, to ensure that he will be objective in discharging his function
Independent
In these regulations, a person is independent in the exercise of a function if— (a) the function does not involve the examination of any thing for which the person has or has had a level of responsibility that could compromise the person’s objectivity; or (b) the function involves the examination of a thing and the person— (i) is sufficiently independent of and separate from the line management of the thing to ensure that the person will be objective in the exercise of his or her function; and (ii) is sufficiently free from any influence that could compromise the person’s independence, including influence of an operational or financial nature. Source: Health and Safety in Employment (Petroleum Exploration and Extraction) Regulations 2013, SR 2013/208, New Zealand, as of May 2013. RegulationsTCLP
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TCLP
“TCLP” means the testing protocol established by the EPA in 40 C.F.R. Part 261, entitled "Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure" or an alternative hazardous constituent analysis the division has approved. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsNESHAP
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NESHAP
“NESHAP” means the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants of the EPA, 40 C.F.R. Part 61. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsEPA Clean
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EPA Clean
“EPA clean” means the cleanliness standards established by the EPA in 40 C.F.R. section 261.7(b). Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsDischarge Plan
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Discharge Plan
“Discharge plan” means a plan the operator submits and the division approves pursuant to NMSA 1978, Section 70-2-12(B)(22) and WQCC rules. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsMinor Release
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Minor Release
“Minor release” means an unauthorized release of a volume, greater than five barrels but not more than 25 barrels; or greater than 50 MCF but less than 500 MCF of gases. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsMajor Release
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Major Release
“Major release” means: 1. an unauthorized release of a volume, excluding gases, in excess of 25 barrels; 2. an unauthorized release of a volume that: a. results in a fire; b. will reach a watercourse; c. may with reasonable probability endanger public health; or d. results in substantial damage to property or the environment; 3. an unauthorized release of gases in excess of 500 MCF; or 4. a release of a volume that may with reasonable probability be detrimental to water or exceed the standards in Subsections A and B or C of 19.15.30.9 NMAC. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsWater Flood Project
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Water Flood Project
“Water flood project” means a project in which an operator injects water into a producing horizon in sufficient quantities and under sufficient pressure to stimulate oil production from other wells in the area, and is limited to those areas in which the wells have reached an advanced state of depletion and are regarded as what is commonly referred to as stripper wells. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsPressure Maintenance Project
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Pressure Maintenance Project
“Pressure maintenance project” means a project in which an operator injects fluids into the producing horizon in an effort to build up or maintain the reservoir pressure in an area that has not reached the advanced or stripper state of depletion. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsAffected Person
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Affected Person
“Affected person” means the division designated operator; in the absence of an operator, a lessee whose interest is evidence by a written conveyance document either of record or known to the applicant as of the date the applicant files the application; or in the absence of an operator or lessee, a mineral interest owner whose interest is evidenced by a written conveyance document either of record or known to the applicant as of the date the applicant filed the application for permit to inject. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsAffected Person
Person who, as a result of the activity sought to be permitted, has suffered or may suffer actual injury or economic damage other than as a member of the general public. Source: Oil and Gas Division, Texas Administrative Code, Title 16, Chapter 3, February 2013. RegulationsAffected Person
A person who has suffered or will suffer actual injury or economic damage other than as a member of the general public and includes surface owners of property on which a reclamation plant is located and surface owners of adjoining properties. Source: Oil and Gas Division, Texas Administrative Code, Title 16, Chapter 3, February 2013. RegulationsAffected Person
A person who, as a result of actions proposed in an application for a storage facility permit or for amendment or modification of an existing storage facility permit, has suffered or may suffer actual injury or economic damage other than as a member of the general public. Source: Oil and Gas Division, Texas Administrative Code, Title 16, Chapter 3, February 2013. RegulationsAffected Person
A person who, as a result of actions proposed an application for an underground gas storage project permit or an amendment or modification of an existing underground gas storage project permit, has suffered or may suffer actual injury or economic damage other than as a member of the general public. Source: Oil and Gas Division, Texas Administrative Code, Title 16, Chapter 3, February 2013. RegulationsAffected Person
The owner or occupant of real property located in the area of influence of the proposed route of a sour gas pipeline facility. If the final proposed route of the pipeline is unknown at the time of application, then an affected person is any person who owns or occupies real property located within the area of influence associated with any possible pipeline route identified by the applicant. For purposes of this definition, the owner shall be the owner of record as of the final day to protest an application. The occupant shall be the occupant as of the final day to protest an application. Source: Oil and Gas Division, Texas Administrative Code, Title 16, Chapter 3, February 2013. RegulationsRecovered Load Oil
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Recovered Load Oil
“Recovered load oil” means oil or liquid hydrocarbon that has been used in an operation in an oil or gas well, and that has been recovered as a merchantable product. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsDate Of Completion
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Date Of Completion
"Date of completion" means:- For an oil well, the date that the well first produces oil into the lease tanks through permanent wellhead equipment.
- For a gas well, the date of completion of a gas well is the date that gas is capable of being delivered to a pipeline purchaser.
- For a well, which does not produce either oil or gas, is the date on which attempts to obtain production from the well cease.