Restricted Surface Occupancy Area

Restricted Surface Occupancy Area

Definition(s)

Restricted Surface Occupancy Area

RESTRICTED SURFACE OCCUPANCY AREA shall mean the following:
  1. rocky mountain bighorn sheep production areas;
  2. desert bighorn sheep production areas;
  3. areas within 0.6 miles of any greater sage-grouse, Gunnison sage-grouse, and lesser prairie chicken leks (strutting and booming grounds);
  4. areas within 0.4 miles of any Columbian sharp-tailed grouse or plains sharp-tailed grouse leks (strutting grounds);
  5. areas within 1/4 mile of active Bald Eagle nest sites, Golden Eagle nest sites, or Osprey nest sites;
  6. areas within 1/2 mile of active Ferruginous Hawk nest sites, Northern Goshawk nest sites, Peregrine Falcon nest sites, or Prairie Falcon nest sites;
  7. areas located within 300 feet of the ordinary high-water mark of any stream segment located within designated Cutthroat Trout habitat; and
  8. areas within 300 feet of the ordinary high-water mark of a stream or lake designated by the Colorado Division of Wildlife as “Gold Medal.”
Maps showing and spatial data identifying the individual and combined extents of the above habitat areas shall be maintained by the Commission and made available on the Commission website, and copies of the maps shall be attached as Appendix VII. The extent of restricted surface occupancy areas is subject to update on a periodic but no more frequent than annual basis and may be modified only through the Commission’s rulemaking process, as provided in Rule 529. Any changes to restricted surface occupancy areas shall not affect Form 2As or Comprehensive Drilling Plans approved prior to the effective date of such changes. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations    
Responsible

Responsible

Definition(s)

Responsible

RESPONSIBLE PARTY shall mean an owner or operator who conducts an oil and gas operation in a manner which is in contravention of any then-applicable provision of the Act, or of any rule, regulation, or order of the Commission, or of any permit, that threatens to cause, or actually causes, a significant adverse environmental impact to any air, water, soil, or biological resource. RESPONSIBLE PARTY includes any person who disposes of any other waste by mixing it with exploration and production waste so as to threaten to cause, or actually cause, a significant adverse environmental impact to any air, water, soil, or biological resource. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations  
Release

Release

Definition(s)

Release

RELEASE shall mean any unauthorized discharge of E&P waste to the environment over time. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations  

Release

“Recomplete” means the subsequent completion of a well in a different pool from the pool in which it was originally completed. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations  
Reference

Reference

Definition(s)

Reference

REFERENCE AREA shall mean an area either (1) on a portion of the site that will not be disturbed by oil and gas operations, if that is the desired final reclamation; or (2) another location that is undisturbed by oil and gas operations and proximate and similar to a proposed oil and gas location in terms of vegetative potential and management, owned by a person who agrees to allow periodic access to it by the Director and the operator for the purpose of providing baseline information for reclamation standards, and intended to reflect the desired final reclamation. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations  
Reclamation

Reclamation

Definition(s)

Reclamation

RECLAMATION shall mean the process of returning or restoring the surface of disturbed land as nearly as practicable to its condition prior to the commencement of oil and gas operations or to landowner specifications with an approved variance under Rule 502.b. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations  

Reclamation

Means of repair involving, for example, the removal or addition of material to reclaim component parts which have sustained damage, in order to restore such parts to a serviceable condition in accordance with the relevant standard. Source: IEC 60079-19:2015, Explosive atmospheres – Part 19: Equipment repair, overhaul and reclamation, Edition 3.1, March 2015. Global Standards
Protestant

Protestant

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Protestant

PROTESTANT shall mean a person who has timely filed a protest in a relevant proceeding and has demonstrated to the Commission's satisfaction that the person filing the protest would be directly and adversely affected or aggrieved by the Commission's ruling in the proceeding, and that any injury or threat of injury sustained would be entitled to legal protection under the act. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations  
Proppant

Proppant

Definition(s)

Proppant

PROPPANT shall mean sand or any natural or man-made material that is used in a hydraulic fracturing treatment to prop open the artificially created or enhanced fractures once the treatment is completed. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations  

Proppant

Sand or any natural or man-made material that is used in a hydraulic fracturing treatment to prop open the artificially created or enhanced fractures once the treatment is completed. Source: Oil and Gas Division, Texas Administrative Code, Title 16, Chapter 3, February 2013. Regulations  
Produced and Marketed

Produced and Marketed

Definition(s)

Produced and Marketed

PRODUCED AND MARKETED. These words, as used in the Act, shall mean, when oil shall have left the lease tank battery or when natural gas shall have passed the metering point and entered into the stream of commerce as its first step toward the ultimate consumer. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations
Common Source of Supply

Common Source of Supply

Definition(s)

Common Source of Supply

The words POOL, PERSON, OWNER, PRODUCER, OIL, GAS, WASTE, CORRELATIVE RIGHTS and COMMON SOURCE OF SUPPLY are defined by the Act, and said definitions are hereby adopted in these Rules and Regulations. From C.R.S. 34-60-103 (2012): "Common source of supply" is synonymous with "pool" as defined in this section. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations  

Common Source of Supply

"Common source of supply" is synonymous with pool and is a common accumulation of oil or gas, or both, as defined by commission orders. Source: Oil and gas Conservation, North Dakota Administrative Code, Chapter 43-02-03, April 2012. Regulations  

Common Source of Supply

“Common source of supply”.  See pool. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations  

Common Source of Supply

"Common source of supply" or "pool" means "that area which is underlaid or which, from geological or other scientific data, or from drilling operations, or other evidence, appears to be underlaid by a common accumulation of oil and/or gas; provided that, if any such area is underlaid, or appears from geological or other scientific data or from drilling operations, or other evidence, to be underlaid by more than one common accumulation of oil or gas or both, separated from each other by strata of earth and not connected with each other, then such area shall, as to each said common accumulation of oil or gas or both, shall be deemed a separate common source of supply." [52. O.S.A. §86.1(c)]. Source: Corporation Commission, Oil and Gas Conservation, Oklahoma Administrative Code 165:10, February 2013. Regulations  
Point of Compliance

Point of Compliance

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Point of Compliance

POINT OF COMPLIANCE means one or more points or locations at which compliance with applicable groundwater standards established under Water Quality Control Commission Basic Standards for Groundwater, Section 3.11.4, must be achieved. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations  
Plugging and Abandonment

Plugging and Abandonment

Definition(s)

Plugging and Abandonment

PLUGGING AND ABANDONMENT shall mean the cementing of a well, the removal of its associated production facilities, the removal or abandonment in-place of its flowline, and the remediation and reclamation of the wellsite. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations  
Orphaned Site

Orphaned Site

Definition(s)

Orphaned Site

ORPHANED SITE shall mean a site, where a significant adverse environmental impact may be or has been caused by oil and gas operations for which no responsible party can be found, or where such responsible party is unwilling or unable to mitigate such impact. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations    
Orphan Well

Orphan Well

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Orphan Well

ORPHAN WELL shall mean a well for which no owner or operator can be found, or where such owner or operator is unwilling or unable to plug and abandon such well. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations      
Ordinary High-water Line

Ordinary High-water Line

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Ordinary High-water Line

ORDINARY HIGH-WATER LINE shall mean the line that water impresses on the land by covering it for sufficient periods to cause physical characteristics that distinguish the area below the line from the area above it. Characteristics of the area below the line include, when appropriate, but are not limited to, deprivation of the soil of substantially all terrestrial vegetation and destruction of its agricultural vegetative value. A flood plain adjacent to surface waters is not considered to lie within the surface waters' ordinary high-water line. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations  
Oil and Gas Operations

Oil and Gas Operations

Definition(s)

Oil and Gas Operations

OIL AND GAS OPERATIONS means exploration for oil and gas, including the conduct of seismic operations and the drilling of test bores; the siting, drilling, deepening, recompletion, reworking, or abandonment of an oil and gas well, underground injection well, or gas storage well; production operations related to any such well including the installation of flowlines and gathering systems; the generation, transportation, storage, treatment, or disposal of exploration and production wastes; and any construction, site preparation, or reclamation activities associated with such operations. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations  
Oil and Gas Location

Oil and Gas Location

Definition(s)

Oil and Gas Location

OIL AND GAS LOCATION shall mean a definable area where an operator has disturbed or intends to disturb the land surface in order to locate an oil and gas facility. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations  
Oil and Gas Facility

Oil and Gas Facility

Definition(s)

Oil and Gas Facility

OIL AND GAS FACILITY shall mean equipment or improvements used or installed at an oil and gas location for the exploration, production, withdrawal, gathering, treatment, or processing of oil or natural gas. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations  
Non-crop Land

Non-crop Land

Definition(s)

Non-crop Land

NON-CROP LAND shall mean all lands which are not defined as crop land, including range land. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations  
Multi-well Site

Multi-well Site

Definition(s)

Multi-well Site

MULTI-WELL SITE shall mean a common well pad from which multiple wells may be drilled to various bottomhole locations. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations  
Multi-well Pits

Multi-well Pits

Definition(s)

Multi-well Pits

MULTI-WELL PITS shall mean pits used for treatment, storage, recycling, reuse, or disposal of E&P wastes generated from more than one (1) well that do not constitute a centralized E&P waste management facility and that will be in use for no more than three (3) years. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations  
Minimize Erosion

Minimize Erosion

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Minimize Erosion

MINIMIZE EROSION shall mean implementing best management practices that are selected based on site-specific conditions and maintained to reduce erosion. Representative erosion control practices include, but are not limited to, revegetation of disturbed areas, mulching, berms, diversion dikes, surface roughening, slop drains, check dams, and other comparable measures. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations  
Medical Tratment

Medical Tratment

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Medical Tratment

MEDICAL TREATMENT shall mean the management and care of a patient to combat a disease or disorder. An injury or illness is an abnormal condition or disorder. Injuries include cases such as, but not limited to, a cut, fracture, sprain, or amputation. Illnesses include both acute and chronic illnesses, such as, but not limited to, a skin disease, respiratory disorder, or poisoning. “Medical treatment”  includes situations where a physician or other licensed health care professional recommends medical treatment but the employee does not follow the recommendation. “Medical treatment”  does not include first aid treatment, as defined herein, visits to a physician or other licensed health care professional solely for observation or counseling, or the conduct of diagnostic procedures such as x-rays and blood tests, including the administration of prescription medications used solely for diagnostic purposes. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations  
Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)

Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)

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Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)

MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEET (MSDS) shall mean the most current version of written or printed material concerning a hazardous chemical. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations  
Well Log

Well Log

Definition(s)

Well Log

LOG or WELL LOG shall mean a systematic detailed record of formations encountered in the drilling of a well. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations  
Local Government Designee

Local Government Designee

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Local Government Designee

LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL DESIGNEE means the office designated to receive, on behalf of the local government, copies of all documents required to be filed with the local governmental designee pursuant to these rules. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations  
Local Government

Local Government

Definition(s)

Local Government

LOCAL GOVERNMENT means a county, home rule or statutory city, town, territorial charter city or city and county, or any special district established pursuant to the Special District Act, C.R.S.  §32-1-101 to 32-1-1505. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations  
Land Treatment

Land Treatment

Definition(s)

Land Treatment

Land Treatment―a dynamic process involving the controlled application of E and P Waste onto or into the aerobic surface soil horizon in open cells by a commercial land treatment facility, accompanied by continued monitoring and management, to alter the physical, chemical, and biological state of the E and P Waste. Site, soil, climate, and biological activity interact as a system to degrade and immobilize E and P Waste constituents thereby rendering the area suitable for the support of vegetative growth and providing for beneficial future land use or to meet the reuse criteria of §565. Source: Natural Resources, Office of Conservation – General Operations, Louisiana Administrative Code, Title 43, Part XIX, March 2013. Regulations

Land Treatment

LAND TREATMENT shall mean the treatment method by which E&P waste is applied to soils and treated to result in a reduction of hydrocarbon concentration by biodegradation and other natural attenuation processes. Land treatment may be enhanced by tilling, disking, aerating, composting and the addition of nutrients or microbes. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations    
Land Application

Land Application

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Land Application

"Land application" is the application of deleterious substances and/or soils contaminated by deleterious substances to the land for the purpose of disposal or land treatment; also known as soil farming. Source: Corporation Commission, Oil and Gas Conservation, Oklahoma Administrative Code 165:10, February 2013. Regulations

Land Application

LAND APPLICATION shall mean the disposal method by which E&P waste is spread upon or sometimes mixed into soils. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations    
LACT

LACT

Definition(s)

LACT

LACT (“Lease Automated Custody Transfer”  ) shall mean the transfer of produced crude oil or condensate, after processing or treating in the producing operations, from storage vessels or automated transfer facilities to pipelines or any other form of transportation. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations  
Jail

Jail

Definition(s)

Jail

JAIL shall mean those structures where the personal liberties of occupants are restrained, including but not limited to, mental hospitals, mental sanitariums, prisons, reformatories. Source: Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Practice and Procedure, Code of Colorado Regulations, 2 CCR 404-1, February 2013. Regulations