Glossary
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Surface Waste Management Facility
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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. RegulationsSubsurface Water
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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. RegulationsSubsurface 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 StandardsSoil
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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. RegulationsSignificant Modification Of An Abatement Plan
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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. RegulationsShallow Pool
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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. RegulationsSediment Oil
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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. RegulationsSecondary Recovery
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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. RegulationsSAR
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SAR
“SAR” means the sodium adsorption ratio. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsSAR
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 StandardsRun-On
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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. RegulationsRoyalty Interest Owner
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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. RegulationsResponsible Person
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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 GuidanceResponsible 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. RegulationsResponsible 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 StandardsResponsible 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. RegulationsResponsible 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. RegulationsResponsible 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. RegulationsRemediation Plan
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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. RegulationsCompleted
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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. RegulationsRegulated NORM
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Regulated NORM
“Regulated NORM” means NORM contained in oil-field soils, equipment, sludges or other materials related to oil-field operations or processes exceeding the radiation levels specified in 20.3.14.1403 NMAC. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsCommingled Production
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Commingled Production
“Commingled production” means production of oil and gas from more than one pool or zone through a common well-bore or flow line without separate measurement of the production from each pool or zone (production mélangée). 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. RegulationsProspective Unit
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Prospective Unit
“Prospective spacing unit” means a hypothetical spacing unit that does not yet have a producing well. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsProration Unit
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Proration Unit
“Proration unit” means the area in a pool that can be effectively and efficiently drained by one well as determined by the division or commission (see NMSA 1978, Section 70-2-17(B)) as well as the area assigned to an individual well for the purposes of allocating allowable production pursuant to a prorationing order for the pool. A proration unit shall be the same size and shape as a spacing unit. All proration units are spacing units but not all spacing units are proration units. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsCasing Liner
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Casing Liner
Casing string with its uppermost point inside a previous casing string and not in the wellhead.Source: ISO 16530-1:2017, Petroleum and natural gas industries - Well integrity – Part 1: Life cycle governance, First Edition, March 2017. Global Standards
Casing Liner
“Casing liner” means a casing that is suspended from a string of casing previously installed in a well and does not extend to the wellhead (tubage partiel). 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. RegulationsProration Period
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Proration Period
"Proration period" means:- The proration period for any well, other than an unallocated gas well, shall be one calendar month which shall begin at 7 a.m. on the first day of such month and end at 7 a.m. on the first day of the next succeeding month unless otherwise specified by order of the Commission.
- The proration period for any unallocated gas well shall be one calendar year which shall begin at 7:00 a.m. the first day of such year and end at 7:00 a.m. on the first day of the next succeeding year unless otherwise specified by order of the Commission.