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 2.1 - Well Spacing Patterns-New Pools
Section 1721.3 - Petition for Well Spacing
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
Any affected person may, at any time after the discovery of a new pool, petition the Supervisor to adopt, pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 3609, a well-spacing plan other than that specified in Public Resources Code Sections 3600 to 3608.1, inclusive, or Section 1721.1 hereof. The petition shall be supported by information necessary to establish the need for an extent of such a well-spacing plan. The petition shall contain the following data pertaining to the pool for which well-spacing is sought and shall include the source (i.e., laboratory analyses, field measurements, published reports, etc.) from which such data are derived:
(a) Lease map of the area showing current lease operator and well locations.
(b) Structural contour map drawn on a geologic marker at or near the top of the pool, which includes estimated productive limits of the pool.
(c) At least two geologic cross sections, one that is parallel to and one that is perpendicular to the structural or depositional strike, and through at least one producing well in the pool.
(d) Representative electric log to a depth below the producing pool (if not already shown on the cross section) identifying all geologic units, formations, and oil or gas zones.
(e) Average net productive thickness in feet.
(f) Average effective porosity as a percent of bulk volume.
(g) Average initial oil, water, and gas saturations as a percent of pore volume.
(h) Most probable oil and gas recovery factors as percents of original oil and gas in place.
(i) Average initial stabilized oil and gas producing rates in barrels per day per well and thousand standard cubic feet per day per well.
(j) Complete reservoir pressure history, including the initial shut-in bottom hole pressure and the bubble point pressure of a crude oil system or dew point pressure of a condensate system.
(k) Reservoir temperature in degrees Fahrenheit.
(l) Solution gas/oil ratio at bubble point pressure and reservoir temperature.
(m) Initial oil formation volume factor as reservoir barrels per stock tank barrel.
(n) Average API gravity of stock tank oil and specific gravity of produced gas.
(o) Average current drilling and completion cost in dollars per well.
(p) Average current operating cost in dollars per well per year, including anticipated workover costs.
(q) Current market value of oil and gas production in dollars per stock tank barrel and dollars per thousand standard cubic feet.
(r) Amount of all royalty interests, including overriding royalties, if any, in the tracts proposed for inclusion in the well-spacing plan.
(s) Current ad valorem, severance, and excise taxes levied on the working interests, or production attributable to the working interests, proposed for inclusion in the well-spacing plan.
Failure to supply in the petition of any of these data that are available and their source shall be grounds for denial of the petition without a hearing.
1. Repealer of former Section 1721.3, and renumbering and amendment of former Section 1721.2 to Section 1721.3 filed 5-23-88; operative 6-22-88 (Register 88, No. 22). For history of former Section 1721.3, see Register 84, No. 52.
2. New subsection (a), subsection relettering, and amendment of newly designated subsections (c) and (j) filed 8-4-95; operative 9-3-95 (Register 95, No. 31).
3. Change without regulatory effect amending first paragraph filed 12-26-2006 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2006, No. 52).
Note: Authority cited: Section 3609, Public Resources Code. Reference: Section 3609, Public Resources Code.
