Kansas Administrative Regulations
Agency 82 - KANSAS CORPORATION COMMISSION
Article 3 - PRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION OF OIL AND GAS
Section 82-3-406 - Injection well tubing and packer requirements
Universal Citation: KS Admin Regs 82-3-406
Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 12, March 20, 2024
(a) Each well permitted after December 8, 1982 shall meet one of the following requirements:
(1) The well shall be equipped to inject
through tubing below a packer.
(2)
A packer run on the tubing shall be set in casing opposite a cemented interval
at a point immediately above the uppermost perforation or open-hole interval.
The annulus between the tubing and the casing shall be filled with a
corrosion-inhibiting fluid or hydrocarbon liquid.
(3) With the prior approval of the
conservation division, packerless or tubingless completions may be authorized
under the provisions of subsection (b) or (c) of this regulation.
(b) Injection through tubing without a packer may be authorized by the conservation division if the following requirements are met:
(1) Surface
wellhead injection pressure shall not exceed zero psig.
(2) The tubing shall be run to a depth equal
to or below the uppermost perforation or open hole of the injection interval.
(3) The annular space between the
tubing and the casing shall be filled with a corrosion-inhibiting fluid or
hydrocarbon liquid that has a specific gravity less than 1.00 and that is
displaced and maintained at a point within 50 feet of the bottom of the tubing.
(4) Each wellhead shall be
equipped with a pressure observation valve on the tubing and the tubing-casing
annulus.
(5) A positive annulus
pressure shall be maintained and monitored.
(6) Annulus pressure and injection surface
pressure shall be monitored and recorded monthly and kept by the operator for
five years.
(7) All pressure
readings recorded shall be taken during actual injection operations and under
static conditions.
(c) Injection without tubing may be authorized by the conservation division if all five of the following requirements are continuously met during the life of the well:
(1) The casing shall be cemented
continuously from setting depth to surface.
(2) Surface wellhead injection pressure shall
be recorded monthly and kept by the operator for five years.
(3) All pressure readings recorded shall be
taken during actual injection operations.
(4) Mechanical integrity tests shall be
performed at least every five years by running a retrievable plug to a depth of
no more than 50 feet above the uppermost perforation or open hole of the
injection zone or by another method approved by the conservation division.
(5) It shall be the sole
responsibility of the operator of the tubingless completion to maintain the
well so that the mechanical integrity tests can be performed as specified, or
the well shall be immediately plugged and abandoned by displacing cement from
the bottom of the well to the surface.
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