Unorthodox Well Location

Unorthodox Well Location

Definition(s)

Unorthodox Well Location

“Unorthodox well location” means a location that does not conform to the spacing requirements division rules establish. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations
Flow Calculation Procedure

Flow Calculation Procedure

Definition(s)

Flow Calculation Procedure

“Flow calculation procedure” means the procedure to be used to convert raw meter output to a measured quantity of oil, gas or water (méthode de calcul du débit). 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  

Flow Calculation Procedure

“Flow calculation procedure” means the procedure to be used to convert raw meter output to a measured quantity of petroleum or water; méthode de calcul du débit. Source: Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Drilling and Production Regulations, SOR/2009-317, Canada, current to May 31, 2012. Regulations
Unit Of Proration For Oil

Unit Of Proration For Oil

Definition(s)

Unit Of Proration For Oil

“Unit of proration for oil” consists of one 40-acre tract or such multiples of 40-acre tracts as may be prescribed by division-issued special pool orders. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations
Unit Of Proration For Gas

Unit Of Proration For Gas

Definition(s)

Unit Of Proration For Gas

“Unit of proration for gas” consists of such multiples of 40 acres as may be prescribed by division-issued special pool orders. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations
Underproduction

Underproduction

Definition(s)

Underproduction

“Underproduction” means the amount of oil or the amount of gas during a proration period by which a given proration unit failed to produce an amount equal to that the division authorizes in the proration schedule. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations
Flow Allocation Procedure

Flow Allocation Procedure

Definition(s)

Flow Allocation Procedure

“Flow allocation procedure” means the procedure to
  1.  allocate total measured quantities of oil, gas and water produced from or injected into a pool or zone back to individual wells in a pool or zone where individual well production or injection is not measured separately; and
  2.  allocate production to fields that are using a common storage or processing facility (méthode de répartition du débit).
Source: Canada Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Regulations, SOR/2009-315, February 2013. Regulations Source: Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Drilling and Production Regulations, SOR/2009-317, Canada, current to May 31, 2012. Regulations
Environmental Protection Plan

Environmental Protection Plan

Definition(s)

Environmental Protection plan

“Environmental protection plan” means the environmental protection plan submitted to the Board under section 6 (plan de protection de l’environnement). 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. Regulations
Tubingless Multiple Completion

Tubingless Multiple Completion

Definition(s)

Tubingless Multiple Completion

“Tubingless multiple completion” means completion in which two or more common sources of supply are produced through an equal number of casing strings cemented in a common wellbore, each such string of casing having an outside diameter of 2.875 inches or less, with the production from each common source of supply completely segregated by cement. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations  
Drilling Program

Drilling Program

Definition(s)

Drilling Program

  “Drilling program” means the program for the drilling of one or more wells within a specified area and time using one or more drilling installations and includes any work or activity related to the program (programme de forage). 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. Regulations
Tribal Minerals

Tribal Minerals

Definition(s)

Tribal Minerals

“Tribal minerals” means those minerals for which the United States government has a trust responsibility to a native American tribe or a member of a native American tribe. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations  
Tribal Leases

Tribal Leases

Definition(s)

Tribal Leases

“Tribal leases” means those leases of minerals or interests in or rights to minerals for which the United States government has a trust responsibility to a native American tribe or a member of a native American tribe. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations  
Tribal Lands

Tribal Lands

Definition(s)

Tribal Lands

“Tribal lands” means those lands for which the United States government has a trust responsibility to a native American tribe or a member of a native American tribe.  This includes reservations, pueblo land grants, tribal trust lands and individual trust allotments. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations  
TPH

TPH

Definition(s)

TPH

“TPH” means total petroleum hydrocarbons. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations  
Top Proration Unit Allowable For Oil

Top Proration Unit Allowable For Oil

Definition(s)

Top Proration Unit Allowable For Oil

“Top proration unit allowable for oil” means the maximum number of barrels for oil daily for each calendar month the division allocates on a proration unit basis in a pool to non-marginal units.  The division shall determine the top proration unit allowable for a pool by multiplying the applicable depth bracket allowable by the market demand percentage factor in effect. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations  
Top Proration Unit Allowable For Gas

Top Proration Unit Allowable For Gas

Definition(s)

Top Proration Unit Allowable For Gas

“Top proration unit allowable for gas” means the maximum number of cubic feet of gas, for the proration period, the division allocates to a gas producing unit in an allocated gas pool. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations  
Temporary Abandonment

Temporary Abandonment

Definition(s)

Temporary Abandonment

“Temporary abandonment” means the status of a well that is inactive. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations  
TDS

TDS

Definition(s)

TDS

“TDS” means total dissolved solids. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations  
Surface Waste Management Facility

Surface Waste Management Facility

Definition(s)

Surface Waste Management Facility

“Surface waste management facility” means a facility that receives oil field waste for collection, disposal, evaporation, remediation, reclamation, treatment or storage except: (a) a facility that utilizes underground injection wells subject to division regulation pursuant to the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, and does not manage oil field wastes on the ground in pits, ponds, below-grade tanks or land application units; (b) a facility permitted pursuant to the New Mexico environmental improvement board rules or WQCC rules; (c) a temporary pit as defined in 19.15.17 NMAC; (d) a below-grade tank or pit that receives oil field waste from a single well, permitted pursuant to 19.15.37 NMAC, regardless of the capacity or volume of oil field waste received; (e) a facility located at an oil and gas production facility and used for temporary storage of oil field waste generated on-site from normal operations, if the facility does not pose a threat to fresh water, public health, safety or the environment; (f) a remediation conducted in accordance with a division-approved abatement plan pursuant to 19.15.30 NMAC, a corrective action pursuant to 19.15.29 NMAC or a corrective action of a non-reportable release; (g) a facility operating pursuant to a division emergency order; (h) a site or facility where the operator is conducting emergency response operations to abate an immediate threat to fresh water, public health, safety or the environment or as the division has specifically directed or approved; or (i) a facility that receives only exempt oil field waste, receives less than 50 barrels of liquid water per day (averaged over a 30-day period), has a capacity to hold 500 barrels of liquids or less and is permitted pursuant to 19.15.17 NMAC. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations  
Subsurface Water

Subsurface Water

Definition(s)

Subsurface Water

“Subsurface water” means ground water and water in the vadose zone that may become ground water or surface water in the reasonably foreseeable future or that vegetation may use. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations  

Subsurface Water

Water that flows over or is stored on the ground surface. (GEMI, 2012) . Source: Identifying and assessing water sources: Guidance document for the onshore oil and gas industry, International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association (IPIECA), 2014. Global Standards
Soil

Soil

Definition(s)

Soil

“Soil” means earth, sediments or other unconsolidated accumulations of solid particles produced by the physical and chemical disintegration of rocks, and that may or may not contain organic matter. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations  
Significant Modification Of An Abatement Plan

Significant Modification Of An Abatement Plan

Definition(s)

Significant Modification Of An Abatement Plan

“Significant modification of an abatement plan” means a change in the abatement technology used excluding design and operational parameters, or relocation of 25 percent or more of the compliance sampling stations, for a single medium, as designated pursuant to Subparagraph (d) of Paragraph (2) of Subsection D of 19.15.30.13 NMAC. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations  
Shallow Pool

Shallow Pool

Definition(s)

Shallow Pool

“Shallow pool” means a pool that has a depth range from zero to 5000 feet. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations  
Sediment Oil

Sediment Oil

Definition(s)

Sediment Oil

“Sediment oil” means tank bottoms and other accumulations of liquid hydrocarbons on an oil and gas lease, which hydrocarbons are not merchantable through normal channels. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations  
Secondary Recovery

Secondary Recovery

Definition(s)

Secondary Recovery

“Secondary recovery” means a method of recovering quantities of oil or gas from a reservoir which quantities would not be recoverable by ordinary primary depletion methods. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations  
SAR

SAR

Definition(s)

SAR

“SAR” means the sodium adsorption ratio. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations  

SAR

Search and Rescue. Source: NOGEPA Industrial Guideline No. 20, Alerting Procedure SAR Helicopter for Drifting Vessel (NUC) Offshore, Netherlands, Version 0, January 2009. Global Standards Source: NOGEPA Guideline 14, Helideck Operations and Procedures Manual, Netherlands, Version 2, December 2011. Global Standards  
Run-On

Run-On

Definition(s)

Run-On

“Run-on” means rainwater, leachate or other liquid that drains from other land onto any part of a division-approved facility. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations  
Royalty Interest Owner

Royalty Interest Owner

Definition(s)

Royalty Interest Owner

“Royalty interest owner” means the owner of an interest in the non-executive rights including lessors, royalty interest owners and overriding royalty interest owners.  Royalty interests are non-cost bearing. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations
Responsible Person

Responsible Person

Definition(s)

Responsible Person

Responsible person means a person authorized to permit entry into an enclosed space and having sufficient knowledge of the procedures to be established and complied with on board, in order to ensure that the space is safe for entry. Source: IMO resolution A.1050(27), Revised recommendations for entering enclosed spaces aboard ships, 21 December 2011, International Maritime Organization. Regulatory Guidance   

Responsible Person

“Responsible person” means the owner or operator who shall complete a division-approved corrective action for pollution from releases. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations  

Responsible Person

someone appointed who can reliably communicate information about the position of the load and can be settled by banksman, rigger or signaler Source: Rules for Classification and Construction, IV Industrial Services, 6 Offshore Technology, 9 Guideline for Personnel Transfers by Means of Lifting Appliances, Edition 2011, Germanischer Lloyd SE, Global Standards  

Responsible Person

In regulation 1(2) (definitions) of the Offshore Installations (Operational Safety, Health and Welfare) Regulations 1976 (Note: S.I. 1976/1019; amended by S.I. 1984/419, 1989/1672 and 1992/2932.) there shall be substituted, for the definition of “responsible person”, the following definition: ““responsible person” means a competent person authorised by or on behalf of the owner”. Source: The Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (Management and Administration) Regulations 1995, UK S.I. 1995/738, 1995. Regulations  

Responsible Person

In regulation 1(2) (definitions) of the Offshore Installations (Well Control) Regulations 1980 (Note: S.I. 1980/1759; amended by S.I. 1991/308.) there shall be substituted for the definition of “responsible person” the following definition: ““responsible person” means a competent person authorised by or on behalf of the owner”. Source: The Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (Management and Administration) Regulations 1995, UK S.I. 1995/738, 1995. Regulations  

Responsible Person

For S.I. 1995/3163, for sub-paragraph (a)(vi) of the definition of “responsible person”, substitute “(vi) a dangerous occurrence at a well, the person appointed by a licensee to execute the function of organising and supervising the drilling of, and all operations to be carried out by means of, that well or, where no such person has been appointed, the licensee (and, for this purpose, “licensee” means any person to whom a licence to search and bore for and get petroleum in respect of any area within relevant waters is granted pursuant to section 3 of the Petroleum Act 1998)”. Source: The Offshore Installations (Safety Case) Regulations 2005, UK S.I. 2005/3117, 2005. Regulations  
Remediation Plan

Remediation Plan

Definition(s)

Remediation Plan

“Remediation plan” means a written description of a program to address unauthorized releases.  The plan may include appropriate information, including assessment data, health risk demonstrations and corrective action or actions.  The plan may also include an alternative proposing no action beyond the spill report’s submittal. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations  
Completed

Completed

Definition(s)

Completed

“Completed”, in relation to a well, means a well that is prepared for production or injection operations (complété). 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. Regulations