North Dakota Administrative Code
Title 43 - Industrial Commission
Article 43-02 - Mineral Exploration and Development
Chapter 43-02-09 - Workover Projects
Section 43-02-09-01 - Definitions

The terms used throughout this chapter have the same meaning as in chapter 43-02-03 and North Dakota Century Code chapters 38-08 and 57-51.1, except:

1. "Continuous employment" means the specific period of time a workover rig has been obtained to perform a workover project on a qualifying well.

2. "Continuous production" means production in the latest six consecutive calendar months prior to filing the notice of intention to perform a workover project during which the well produced an average of at least fifteen days per month.

3. "Recompletion" means the subsequent completion of a well in a different pool from the pool in which it is completed at the time of the notice given pursuant to section 43-02-09-03.

4. "Reentry" means the entering of a well that has been plugged.

5. "Workover" means the employment of a workover rig and other services for the purpose of restoring or improving producing capability of a well from the pool in which it is presently completed.

6. "Workover project" means the continuous employment of a workover rig for workovers, recompletions, or reentries.

7. "Workover rig" means any rig used to perform work on a workover project.

Upon approval by the commission, an applicant may obtain an exception to the definition of "continuous production" set forth in subsection 2 if it is shown that the well was produced an average of less than fifteen days per month because such method of operation was the most efficient and allowed for approximately the same amount of production as would have resulted had the well produced an average of fifteen or more days per month.

General Authority: NDCC 57-51.1-03

Law Implemented: NDCC 57-51.1-03