Glossary
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Sustained Annular Pressure
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Sustained Annular Pressure
“Sustained annular pressure” means pressure in an annulus between casing strings that is measurable at the wellhead and rebuilds to at least the same shut-in pressure after pressure has been released. Source: Division of Mineral Resources Management - Oil and Gas, Ohio Administrative Code, Chapter 1501:9, January 2012. RegulationsSubject Tract
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Subject Tract
“Subject tract or drilling unit” means a tract upon which a person proposes to drill, reopen, deepen, plug back, or re-work a well for producing oil and natural gas. Source: Division of Mineral Resources Management - Oil and Gas, Ohio Administrative Code, Chapter 1501:9, January 2012. RegulationsSubject Tract
“Subject tract” means a tract upon which a person proposes to drill, reopen, deepen, plug back, or rework a well for the injection of fluids. Source: Division of Mineral Resources Management - Oil and Gas, Ohio Administrative Code, Chapter 1501:9, January 2012. RegulationsSubject Tract
“Subject tract” means a tract upon which a person proposes to drill, reopen, deepen, plug back, or rework a well for the injection of saltwater. Source: Division of Mineral Resources Management - Oil and Gas, Ohio Administrative Code, Chapter 1501:9, January 2012. RegulationsStorage
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Storage
The holding of hazardous waste for a temporary period (excluding storage at the site of generation during the applicable accumulation time period specified in subsection (f) of this section), at the end of which the hazardous waste is recycled, reclaimed, treated, disposed of, or stored elsewhere. Source: Oil and Gas Division, Texas Administrative Code, Title 16, Chapter 3, February 2013. RegulationsSpudding
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Spudding
“Spudding” means to begin drilling, to start the hole. Source: Division of Mineral Resources Management - Oil and Gas, Ohio Administrative Code, Chapter 1501:9, January 2012. RegulationsSeparate
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Separate
Separate means that a cargo piping system or cargo vent system, for example, is not connected to another cargo piping or cargo vent system. 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 OrganizationSignificant Watercourse
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Significant Watercourse
“Significant watercourse” means a watercourse with a defined bed and bank either named on a USGS 7.5 minute quadrangle map or a first order tributary of such watercourse. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsStandard Project Area
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Standard Project Area
“Standard project area” means a project area that; 1. is described in Paragraph (2) of Subsection L of 19.15.16.7 NMAC; 2. consists of a single spacing unit; 3. consists of two or more spacing units within a single section that collectively comprise: (a) the entire section, a half-section or half-section equivalent, or a quarter section or quarter-section equivalent; or (b) the north, south, east or west half of a half-section or half-section equivalent or of a quarter section or quarter-section equivalent; or 4. consists of a combination of two or more otherwise standard project areas, if the resulting area is substantially in the form of a rectangle; provided that a project area consisting of three 40-acre units within a single section and excluding the fourth spacing unit is not a standard project area. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsStripper Well Incentive Tax Rates
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Stripper Well Incentive Tax Rates
“Stripper well incentive tax rates” means the tax rates set for stripper well properties by NMSA 1978, Sections 7-29-4 and 7-31-4. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsStripper Well Property
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Stripper Well Property
“Stripper well property” means an oil or gas producing property that the taxation and revenue department assigns a single production unit number (PUN) and:- if an oil producing property, produced a daily average of less than 10 barrels of oil per eligible well per day for the preceding calendar year;
- if a gas producing property, produced a daily average of less than 60,000 cubic feet of gas per eligible well per day during the preceding calendar year; or
- if a property with wells that produce both oil and gas, produced a daily average of less than 10 barrels of oil per eligible well per day for the preceding calendar year, as determined by converting the volume of gas the well produced to barrels of oil by using a ratio of 6000 cubic feet to one barrel of oil.1
Secondary Recovery Project
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Secondary Recovery Project
“Secondary recovery project” means an EOR project that:- occurs subsequent to the completion of primary recovery and is not a tertiary recovery project;
- involves the application, in accordance with sound engineering principles of carbon dioxide miscible fluid displacement, pressure maintenance, water flooding or other division accepted and approved secondary recovery method that can reasonably be expected to result in an increase, determined in light of the facts and circumstances, in the amount of oil that may ultimately be recovered; and
- encompasses a pool or portion of a pool the boundaries of which can be adequately defined and controlled.