Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 391-3-13-.02 - Definitions
All definitions contained in O.C.G.A. 12-4-42 are incorporated herein by reference.
(a) "Abandonment" means,
for purposes of compliance with requirements herein, that a well has not been
used for six (6) consecutive months and cannot be operated, whether because it
was drilled as a dry hole or has ceased to produce, or that operations have not
been conducted thereon. "Shut-in" wells, shall not be considered to be
abandoned. "Abandonment" shall not be construed to require the plugging of a
well that has been approved by the Division for future utilization.
(b) "Blow-out" means any uncontrolled flow of
well fluids and/or formation fluids from the wellbore to the surface or into
lower pressured subsurface zones.
(c) "Blow-out preventer" means equipment
installed on the wellhead assemblies to contain wellbore fluids either in the
annular space between the casing and the tubulars, or in an open hole during
drilling, completion, and testing operations.
(d) "Blowout preventer control system" means
the assembly of pumps, valves, lines, accumulators, and other items necessary
to open and close the blowout preventer equipment.
(e) "Circulation" means the passing of fluid
(typically drilling mud) down through the drill stem and up to the surface in
the process of rotary drilling or down the casing and up to the surface in the
setting of casing.
(f) "Common
source of supply" means the reservoir strata or pool separated from any other
reservoir strata or pool that contain, or from competent evidence appears to
contain, a common accumulation of oil or gas or both.
(g) "Completion" means development of a well
in an attempt to produce oil and/or gas or final placement of cement plugs in a
nonproducing well, whichever occurs last. Completion is the last act as
determined by the Director on a well which result in such well being capable of
producing oil and/or gas through permanent well head equipment after production
tubing has been run, or final placement to cement plug(s) in a nonproducing
well.
(h) "Condensate" means the
liquid hydrocarbons produced by the condensation of natural gas, either after
it leaves the reservoir or while it remains in the reservoir.
(i) "Conservation" means conserving,
preserving, guarding, or protecting the oil and gas resources of the State by
obtaining the maximum efficiency with a maximum efficiency with a minimum waste
in the production, transportation, processing, refining, treating, and
marketing of the unrenewable oil and gas resources of the State.
(j) "Drill site" means the exact location of
the well bore.
(k) "Drill site
tract" means the land area devoted to the well, mud pits, and other ancillary
operations.
(l) "Operator" means any
person who is in charge of the development of a lease, the drilling of a well,
or the operation of a producing well, and in addition, for the purpose of
assigning responsibility, may also be the person indicated as operator by the
most current records of the Division.
(m) "Re-enter" means to bring a rig back onto
a boring after having moved off location in order to re-establish contact with
the borehole. "Re-enter" shall not be construed to mean bringing a rig back
onto a location simply to facilitate downhole geophysical logging; rather
"re-enter" applies when "completion" or "drilling" operations are
performed.
(n) "Shut-in" means a
well where the wellhead valves are closed thereby shutting off production. A
"shut-in" well is capable of producing either oil or gas.
(o) "Well Completion Report" means a form
prescribed by the Division with accompanying illustrations and narrative
providing descriptive as-constructed well information. The "Well Completion
Report" generally consists of all well records including well logs, test
locations and intervals, sampling locations and intervals, test results, casing
installed, plugs installed, perforated intervals and other descriptive
information.
(p) Words other than
those defined in (a)-(o) above are given their usual customary and accepted
meaning; all words of a technical nature or a nature peculiar to the oil and
gas industry are given that meaning defined in the Handbook of Oil Industry
Terms and Phrases or that which is generally accepted within the oil and gas
industry.
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