N.M. Admin. Code § 19.15.18.17 - SEDIMENT OIL, TANK CLEANING AND TRANSPORTATION OF MISCELLANEOUS HYDROCARBONS
A. No
person shall clean a tank of sediment oil or remove sediment oil from a lease
without the appropriate division district office's prior approval. The lease
operator or the company contracted or otherwise authorized to perform the tank
cleaning may receive authorization for tank cleaning by obtaining division
approval on form C-117-A. No operator, contractor or other party shall clean a
tank of sediment oil or remove sediment oil from a lease without an approved
copy of form C-117-A at the site.
B.
No person shall destroy sediment oil without the appropriate division district
office's approval of an application to destroy the sediment oil on form
C-117-A. Unless a person receiving an authorization to destroy sediment oil
utilizes the authorization to destroy sediment oil within 10 days after
division approval of the form C-117-A the authorization is automatically
revoked. However, the district supervisor may approve one 10 day extension for
good cause shown.
C. A person, other
than a treating plant operator, who cleans a tank of sediment oil and removes
sediment oil from a lease shall file form C-117-B with the division setting out
all information the form requires.
D. A person taking possession of or disposing
of sediment oil shall test a representative sample of sediment oil in a manner
designed to accurately estimate the percentage of good oil expected to be
recovered from the sediment oil. The person shall perform the test prior to
transport and prior to commingling with sediment oil from other leases or
sources and record the results on form C-117-A. The division recommends the
standard centrifugal tests prescribed by API publication Sediment and Water,
Sect: 4: Determination of Sediment and Water in Crude Oil by the Centrifuge
Method (Field Procedure), MPMS 10.4. The person may use other test procedures
if the procedures reliably predict the percentage of good oil to be recovered
from sediment oil.
E. A person
taking possession of or disposing of sediment oil shall report sediment oil
removed from storage on form C-115 together with the form C-117-A permit
number.
F. Except in an emergency,
no person shall deliver miscellaneous hydrocarbons to a treating plant or other
facility until that person has obtained division approval on form
C-117-A.
G. Whenever an emergency
exists that requires delivery of miscellaneous hydrocarbons to a treating plant
or other facilities prior to approval of form C-117-A, the transporter of the
hydrocarbons shall notify the supervisor of the appropriate division district
office of the emergency's nature and extent on the first working day following
the emergency and shall file form C-117-A within two working days following the
emergency. For prolonged emergencies, the district supervisor may authorize the
extended movement of miscellaneous hydrocarbons to a treating plant or other
facilities during the emergency period and shall approve a form C-117-A filed
subsequent to the emergency's conclusion covering the entire volume of
miscellaneous hydrocarbons transported.
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