Ala. Admin. Code r. 400-2-4-.03

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 1, October 31, 2024

Section 400-2-4-.03 - Well Record

(1) During drilling, completing, and workover operations on every permitted well, the owner, operator, contractor, driller, or other person responsible for the conduct of drilling operations, shall notify the Supervisor prior to performing the following activities: setting surface casing, running intermediate or production casing, perforating, drillstem testing (see Rule 400-2-5-.01 ), wireline logging or surveying, and coring. Such persons shall keep a detailed and accurate record of the well, reduced to writing from day to day, which shall be accessible to the Board and its agents at all times. Pertinent information from such records shall be furnished to the Board within thirty (30) days after completion, or at such time as prescribed by the Supervisor. Said information shall include but not be limited to: drilling contractor; spud date; ground level, derrick floor, and kelly bushing elevations surveyed by a licensed land surveyor; total depth; kick-off point depths and directions of any sidetracks; bottom-hole location; casing and liner record; cement record; squeeze cement record; perforation record; tubing record; the depth and type of any plugs or packers set; well stimulation and treatment record; drillstem test record; and a record of all wireline logging, sampling, and coring operations for said well. This information shall be submitted on the appropriate Form OGB-6, OGB-7, and OGB-8.

(2) One (1) copy of all electrical, mechanical, radioactive, and dipmeter logs or such other surveys performed as a part of drilling, completing, or workover operations shall be submitted to the Board within thirty (30) days after completion. In addition to filing either blue or black line log copies, all available digital log data in a Log ASCII Standard (LAS) format shall be filed with the Board. One (1) copy of all drillstem test results shall be submitted along with Form OGB-7 within thirty (30) days after completion. A complete set of washed (mud-logger) cuttings, if available, correctly labeled and identified as to depth, shall be filed with the Board within thirty (30) days from the time of completion of any well unless otherwise approved by the Supervisor. If cores are taken, a complete set of cores, either whole or at least quarter slabs, correctly labeled and identified as to depth, shall be filed with the Board within three (3) months from the time of completion of any well unless otherwise approved by the Supervisor; provided, however, that an operator may obtain an exception to this requirement upon submission of an affidavit certifying that the operator:

(a) will store and maintain core from the well at a specified location or facility and provide the name, address and telephone number of the facility where the cores are stored;

(b) will provide the Board access to the core upon request and provide the name, address and telephone number of the person to handle such request;

(c) will provide the core to the Board if the operator should cease maintaining and storing said core; and

(d) will submit the core to the Board within one (1) year from the time of completion of the well. Additionally, the Supervisor may allow the filing of materials representative of the cored interval in lieu of filing whole or slab core if the Supervisor determines there is adequate core coverage in an area or for some other reason. Cores taken from wells drilled in submerged offshore lands shall be exempt from being filed with the Board; however, if the operator should cease maintaining and storing the core, then said core shall be submitted to the Board.

(3) If the operator so requests in writing, all logs, cuttings, cores, core analyses, cored intervals, and formation depths from a well shall be kept confidential for a period of six (6) months from the completion of such well.

Author: State Oil and Gas Board

Ala. Admin. Code r. 400-2-4-.03

New Rule: Filed April 11, 2000; effective May 16, 2000. Amended: August 5, 2005; effective September 9, 2005.

Statutory Authority:Code of Ala. 1975, §§ 9-17-1, etseq.