California Code of Regulations
Title 14 - Natural Resources
Division 2 - Department of Conservation
Chapter 4 - Development, Regulation, and Conservation of Oil and Gas Resources
Subchapter 1 - Onshore Well Regulations
Article 1 - General
Section 1714 - Approval of Well Operations
Written approval of the Supervisor is required prior to commencing drilling, reworking, injection, plugging, or plugging and abandonment operations, with the exception that temporary approval to commence such operations may be granted by the Supervisor or a representative of the Supervisor when such operations are necessary to avert a threat to life, health, property, or natural resources, or when approved operations are in progress and newly discovered well conditions are such that immediate corrective or plugging and abandonment operations are desirable. Notwithstanding such temporary approval, the operator shall file immediately a written notice of intention to carry out a temporarily approved program.
In addition, written approval of the Supervisor is required prior to utilizing any well, including a plugged and abandoned well, for anything other than its currently approved purpose, such as conversion to injection or production, use as a sacrificial anode in a cathodic-protection program, or conversion to a freshwater well.
1. Amendment filed 2-17-78; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 78, No. 7).
2. New NOTE filed 12-28-84; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 84, No. 52).
3. Amendment of section heading, section and NOTE filed 8-4-95; operative 9-3-95 (Register 95, No. 31).
4. Change without regulatory effect amending section filed 9-3-96 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 96, No. 36).
5. Change without regulatory effect amending section filed 12-26-2006 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2006, No. 52).
Note: Authority cited: Section 3013, Public Resources Code. Reference: Sections 3008, 3106, 3203 and 3229, Public Resources Code.
