La. Admin. Code tit. 43 § XIX-907

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section XIX-907 - Form R-4

A. The Producer's Certificate of Compliance and Authorization to Transport Oil from Lease, Form R-4 Revised or most current revision thereof, is hereby adopted and made a part of this Order by reference.

B. Each producer of oil in the state of Louisiana, and each producer of condensate from a gas well, where produced in liquid form at the wellhead by ordinary production methods in the state of Louisiana, shall execute under oath, in quadruplicate, and file with the Office of Conservation, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on or before the fifteenth day of September, 1941, a Producer's Certificate of Compliance and Authorization to Transport Oil from Lease, Form R-4 Revised or most current revision thereof, setting forth fully therein the data and information indicated by such form covering each lease in the state of Louisiana from which oil or condensate are produced.

C. After the effective date hereof, whenever there shall occur a change in operating ownership of any lease, well name or lease name, transporter from any lease, a new Producer's Certificate of Compliance and Authorization to Transport Oil From Lease, Form R-4 Revised or most current revision thereof, shall be executed and filed in accordance with the instructions appearing on such form; except that in the case of temporary change in transporter involving less than the allowable for one month, the producer may, in lieu of filing a new certificate, notify by letter the Office of Conservation, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and the transporter then authorized by certificate on file with the Office of Conservation of the estimated amount of oil to be moved by the temporary transporter and the name of such temporary transporter. A copy of such notice shall also be furnished such temporary transporter. In no instance shall the temporary transporter involve any greater quantity of oil or condensate than the estimated amount shown in said notice.

D. The Producer's Certificate of Compliance and Authorization to Transport Oil from Lease, Form R-4 Revised or most current revision thereof, when properly executed by the operator and approved by the Office of Conservation, shall constitute authorization to the approved transporter to transport oil or condensate from the lease named therein and shall remain in force and effect until a change occurs, as previously outlined, or is suspended or canceled by the Office of Conservation.

E. For each drilling permit that shall be altered, amended or changed after its initial issuance, Form MD-10-R-A shall be executed and filed with the Office of Conservation, said Form MD-10-R-A being hereby declared the permanent record of the Office of Conservation for the purpose of identifying the operator of all oil or gas wells in the state of Louisiana; and it is hereby expressly provided that said Form MD-10-R-A shall be subject to the fee for alteration, change or amendment as established by Part XIX, Subpart 2 or successor regulation.

F. Where a transporter disconnects from a particular lease or ceases to remove oil therefrom and another transporter connects to such lease or begins to take oil therefrom, during a month, the transporter who ceases to take oil shall furnish to the connecting transporter a certified statement under oath, showing: the legal quantity of oil on hand 7 a.m. the first day of such month; the scheduled allowable to the date disconnected; and the quantity of oil moved from that particular lease during the current month. In such case the producer shall furnish to the connecting transporter a certified statement under oath showing the lease stock on hand 7 a.m. the date of new connection. No connecting transporter shall move oil from any such lease until after it shall have received such statements, except with the written permission of the Commissioner of Conservation or his authorized agent.

G. Each producer is prohibited from delivering illegal oil to any transporter, and each transporter is prohibited from removing any illegal oil from producer's lease tanks. Each transporter shall maintain necessary records of lease allowables and quantities of oil removed from the leases to which he is connected, whereby he can determine the calculated quantity of legal oil on hand at the close of each calendar month with respect to such leases. The calculated quantity of legal oil on hand with respect to any lease shall be determined for each succeeding month by adding to the quantity of legally produced oil on hand at the first of the month, the scheduled allowable quantity of oil for the respective lease for the current month, as established by the Commissioner of Conservation, less the quantity of oil removed from the respective lease tanks during the current month. If the calculated balance so determined is less than the actual gauged quantity on hand as reported by the producer on Monthly Producer's Crude Oil and/or Condensate Report, Form R-1 Revised or most current revision thereof, the transporter shall not remove during the following month any part of the oil on hand on the first day of the month in excess of the calculated legal balance so established. If the actual quantity of oil on hand with respect to a particular lease equals or is less than the quantity of legal oil established by the above method, the transporter may remove any part or all of such quantity of oil during the current month. Where the actual quantity of oil on hand with respect to a particular lease is less than the calculated quantity of legal oil established by the above method, the transporter, in determining the quantity of legal oil for the next succeeding month, shall substitute the actual quantity on hand for the calculated quantity on hand. Where there is more than one transporter moving oil from the same lease, the producer and transporters are required to furnish to each other information as to the quantity of oil on hand, the quantity transported from lease tanks and any additional information necessary to establish to the satisfaction of each person involved the legal status of the oil produced.

La. Admin. Code tit. 43, § XIX-907

Adopted by the Department of Conservation January 1, 1941, amended September 1, 1941, March 1, 1961, April 17, 1968, amended and promulgated by the Department of Natural Resources, Office of Conservation, LR 19:771 (June 1993).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with Act 157 of the Legislative Session of 1940.