312 IAC 29-33-16 - Dry hole bottom plugs
Authority: IC 14-10-2-4; IC 14-37-3
Affected: IC 14-37
Sec. 16.
(a) This
section establishes requirements for setting a bottom plug in a dry hole or
another well in which production casing is not set and cemented.
(b) An owner or operator shall plug any well
in which production casing is not set and cemented immediately after drilling
ceases.
(c) The well shall be
filled with drill cuttings or mud extending from the bottom of the well to at
least fifty (50) feet below the deeper of:
(1)
a commercially minable coal resource identified under
312 IAC 29-17; or
(2) the base of the lowermost underground
source of drinking water.
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