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Miscellaneous Hydrocarbons
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Miscellaneous Hydrocarbons
“Miscellaneous hydrocarbons” means tank bottoms occurring at pipeline stations; oil storage terminals or refineries; pipeline break oil; catchings collected in traps, drips or scrubbers by gasoline plant operators in the plants or in the gathering lines serving the plants; the catchings collected in private, community or commercial salt water disposal systems; or other liquid hydrocarbon that is not lease crude or condensate. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsMinimum Allowable
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Minimum Allowable
“Minimum allowable” means the minimum amount of production from an oil or gas well that may be advisable from time to time to the end that production will repay reasonable lifting cost and thus prevent premature abandonment and resulting waste. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsMineral Interest Owners
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Mineral Interest Owners
“Mineral interest owners” means owners of an interest in the executive rights, which are the rights to explore and develop, including oil and gas lessees (i.e., “working interest owners”) and mineral interest owners who have not signed an oil and gas lease. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsAbandoned
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Abandoned
“Abandoned”, in relation to a well, means a well or part of a well that has been permanently plugged (abandonné). 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 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 GuidanceMg/Kg
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Mg/Kg
“Mg/kg” means milligrams per kilogram. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsMCFGPD
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MCFD
“MCFD” means a thousand cubic feet per day. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsMCFD
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MCFD
“MCFD” means a thousand cubic feet per day. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsMCF
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MCF
“MCF” means a thousand cubic feet. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsMarket Demand Percentage Factor
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Market Demand Percentage Factor
“Market demand percentage factor” means that percentage factor of 100 percent or less as the division determines at an oil allowable hearing, which, when multiplied by the depth bracket allowable applicable to each pool, determines that pool’s top proration unit allowable. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsMarginal Unit
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Marginal Unit
“Marginal unit” means a proration unit that is incapable of producing top proration unit allowable for the pool in which it is located. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsMarginal Unit
“Marginal unit” means a proration unit that is incapable of producing the top proration unit allowable for the pool in which it is located as evidenced by well tests, production history or other report or form the operator files with the division. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsLoad Oil
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Load Oil
“Load oil” means oil or liquid hydrocarbon that has been used in remedial operation in an oil or gas well. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsLLDPE
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LLDPE
“LLDPE” means linear low-density polyethylenel. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsKnowingly And Willfully
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Knowingly And Willfully
“Knowingly and willfully”, for the purpose of assessing civil penalties, means the voluntary or conscious performance of an act that is prohibited or the voluntary or conscious failure to perform an act or duty that is required. It does not include performances or failures to perform that are honest mistakes or merely inadvertent. It includes, but does not require, performances or failures to perform that result from a criminal or evil intent or from a specific intent to violate the law. The conduct’s knowing and willful nature may be established by plain indifference to or reckless disregard of the requirements of statutes, rules, orders or permits. A consistent pattern or performance or failure to perform also may be sufficient to establish the conduct’s knowing and willful nature, where such consistent pattern is neither the result of honest mistakes nor mere inadvertency. Conduct that is otherwise regarded as being knowing and willful is rendered neither accidental nor mitigated in character by the belief that the conduct is reasonable or legal. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsInjection Well
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Injection Well
“Injection well” means a well used for the injection of air, gas, water or other fluids into an underground stratum. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsMedic
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Medic
“Medic” means a qualified person who- has experience with helicopter or fixed-wing aircraft evacuation for medical purposes,
- is the holder of an advanced cardiac life support certificate or basic cardiac life support instructor’s certificate recognized by the Canadian Heart Foundation, and
- is the holder of
1. a registered nurse’s certificate recognized under the laws of a province and has clinical experience in intensive care or emergency practice,
2. a paramedic certificate issued by a college in a province and has clinical experience, or
3. an Occupational Qualification VIB Medical Assistant Canadian military certificate (technicien médical).
Source: Canada Oil and Gas Occupational Safety and Health Regulations, SOR/87-612, February 2013. Regulations
Medic
“Medic” means a qualified person who- has experience with medical evacuation of personnel by helicopter, fixed wing aircraft or other support craft,
- is the holder of an advanced cardiac life support certificate or basic cardiac life support instructor's certificate recognized by the Canadian Heart Foundation, and
- is the holder of
1. a licence to practice medicine in Canada and has at least two years' clinical experience in intensive care or emergency practice,
2. a registered nursing certificate recognized under the laws of a province and has at least two years clinical experience in intensive care or emergency practice,
3. a paramedic certificate issued by a college in a province and has at least three years' clinical experience, or
4. an Occupational Qualification VIB Medical Assistant Canadian military certificate.
Source: Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Occupational Health & Safety Requirements, Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board, Canada, December 2000. Regulations Source: Oil and Gas Occupational Safety and Health Regulations, SOR/87-612, Canada, current to April 29, 2013. RegulationsHazardous Waste
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Hazardous Waste
“Hazardous waste” means a controlled product that is intended solely for disposal or is sold for recycling or recovery. Source: Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Occupational Health & Safety Requirements, Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board, Canada, December 2000. Regulations Source: Oil and Gas Occupational Safety and Health Regulations, SOR/87-612, Canada, current to April 29, 2013. RegulationsHazardous Waste
“Hazardous waste” means non-exempt waste that exceeds the minimum standards for waste hazardous by characteristics established in RCRA regulations, 40 CFR 261.21-261.24, or listed hazardous waste as defined in 40 CFR, part 261, subpart D, as amended. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsHazardous Waste
A hazardous waste, as defined in 40 CFR, §261.3, including a hazardous oil and gas waste. Source: Oil and Gas Division, Texas Administrative Code, Title 16, Chapter 3, February 2013. RegulationsHazard To Public Health
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Hazard To Public Health
“Hazard to public health” exists when water that is used or is reasonably expected to be used in the future as a human drinking water supply exceeds at the time and place of the use, one or more of the numerical standards of Subsection A of 20.6.2.3103 NMAC, or the naturally occurring concentrations, whichever is higher, or if a toxic pollutant as defined at Subsection WW of 20.6.2.7 NMAC affecting human health is present in the water. In determining whether a release would cause a hazard to public health to exist, the director investigates and considers the purification and dilution reasonably expected to occur from the time and place of release to the time and place of withdrawal for use as human drinking water. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsHardship Gas Well
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Hardship Gas Well
“Hardship gas well” means a gas well where underground waste occurs if the well is shut-in or curtailed below its minimum sustainable flow rate. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsGround Water Sensitive Area
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Ground Water Sensitive Area
“Ground water sensitive area” means an area the division specifically designates after evaluation of technical evidence where ground water exists that would likely exceed WQCC standards if contaminants were introduced into the environment. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsGround Water
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Ground Water
“Ground water” means interstitial water that occurs in saturated earth material and is capable of entering a well in sufficient amounts to be used as a water supply. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsGRO
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GRO
“GRO” means gasoline range organics. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsGeotextile
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Geotextile
“Geotextile” means a sheet material that is less impervious to liquid than a geomembrane but more resistant to penetration damage, and is used as part of an engineered structure or system to serve as a filter to prevent the movement of soil fines into a drainage system, to provide planar flow for drainage, to serve as a cushion to protect geomembranes or to provide structural support. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsGeomembrane
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Geomembrane
Geomembrane” means an impermeable polymeric sheet material that is impervious to liquid and gas as long as it maintains its integrity, and is used as an integral part of an engineered structure designed to limit the movement of liquid or gas in a system. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsFresh Water
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Fresh Water
“Fresh water” to be protected includes the water in lakes and playas (regardless of quality, unless the water exceeds 10,000 mg/l TDS and it can be shown that degradation of the particular water body will not adversely affect hydrologically connected fresh ground water), the surface waters of streams regardless of the water quality within a given reach, and underground waters containing 10,000 mg/l or less of TDS except for which, after notice and hearing, it is found there is no present or reasonably foreseeable beneficial use that contamination of such waters would impair. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsFresh Water
Water having bacteriological, physical, and chemical properties that make it suitable and feasible for beneficial use for any lawful purpose. Source: Oil and Gas Division, Texas Administrative Code, Title 16, Chapter 3, February 2013. RegulationsFresh Water
Water having bacteriological, physical, and chemical properties that make it suitable and feasible for beneficial use for any lawful purpose. For purposes of this section, brine associated with the creation, operation, and maintenance of an underground hydrocarbon storage facility is not considered fresh water. Source: Oil and Gas Division, Texas Administrative Code, Title 16, Chapter 3, February 2013. RegulationsFresh Water
Water having bacteriological, physical, and chemical properties that make it suitable and feasible for beneficial use for any lawful purpose. Source: Oil and Gas Division, Texas Administrative Code, Title 16, Chapter 3, February 2013. RegulationsFresh Water
Water having bacteriological, physical, and chemical properties that make it suitable and feasible for beneficial use for any lawful purpose. For purposes of this section, brine associated with the creation, operation, and maintenance of an underground gas storage facility is not considered fresh water. Source: Oil and Gas Division, Texas Administrative Code, Title 16, Chapter 3, February 2013. RegulationsExisting Space Unit
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Existing Space Unit
“Existing spacing unit” means a spacing unit containing a producing well. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsExempt Waste
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Exempt Waste
“Exempt waste” means oil field waste exempted from regulation as hazardous waste pursuant to Subtitle C of RCRA and applicable regulations. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. RegulationsExempted Aquifer
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Exempted Aquifer
"Exempted aquifer" means an aquifer or its portion that meets the criteria in the definition of "underground source of drinking water" or in the definition of "treatable water", but which has been exempted according to the procedures in 165:5-7-28 and 165:10-5-14. Source: Corporation Commission, Oil and Gas Conservation, Oklahoma Administrative Code 165:10, February 2013. RegulationsExempted Aquifer
“Exempted aquifer” means an aquifer that does not currently serve as a source of drinking water, and that cannot now and will not in the foreseeable future serve as a source of drinking water because:- it is hydrocarbon producing;
- it is situated at a depth or location that makes the recovery of water for drinking water purposes economically or technologically impractical; or
- it is so contaminated that it would be economically or technologically impractical to render that water fit for human consumption.