N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 6 § 559.3

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 50, December 11, 2024

Section 559.3 - Reporting requirements: initial testing and records maintenance

(a) After completion of and after cleanup or stimulation, but before placing the well on production, the operator of a "Bass Island" well must measure initial bottom hole pressure. The operator must do this by shutting-in the well for a minimum of 72 hours and then obtaining a bottom hole pressure, using best efforts to obtain that pressure by running a pressure bomb as close to the midpoint of the production zone as prudent practices indicate, making gradient stops 1,000 feet and 500 feet above that point of sufficient duration to record the pressures at each of those levels. In instances where wellbore conditions and/or equipment would make the use of a pressure bomb imprudent, the operator must determine a bottom hole pressure by calculations based upon a dead-weighted surface pressure and measurement of any liquid level in the wellbore.

(b)

(1) The operator of a "Bass Island" well must calculate the gas-oil ratio based on actual production for the first seven days the well is on production and report the results of those calculations to the department on a form the department prescribes within 30 days of the end of the seven-day production period.

(2) The operator of a "Bass Island" well must measure by means of a chart recording device all gas separated, and must certify to the department the accuracy of those results and the gas-oil ratio determined under paragraph (1) of this subdivision. If gas is not measured in the final stage of separation, the gas volume in the gas-oil ratio calculation must include an estimate of the gas left in solution after the last stage where measurement occurred.

(3) The operator must have available for department inspection the charts used in the gas-oil ratio calculation for no less than three years after the charts were made.

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 6 § 559.3