North Dakota Administrative Code
Title 43 - Industrial Commission
Article 43-02 - Mineral Exploration and Development
Chapter 43-02-14 - GEOLOGICAL STORAGE OF OIL OR GAS
Section 43-02-14-16 - Reporting, monitoring, and operating requirements

1. The operator of a storage facility shall meter or use an approved method to keep records and shall report monthly to the director, the volume and nature of the injected hydrocarbons, the average, minimum, and maximum injection pressures, the maximum injection rates, and such other information as the director may require. The operator of each storage facility shall, on or before the fifth day of the second month succeeding the month in which the well is capable of injection, file with the director the aforementioned information for the storage facility in a format provided by the director.

2. Immediately upon the commencement or recommencement of injection, the operator shall notify the director of the injection date verbally and in writing.

3. The operator shall place accurate gauges on the tubing and the tubing casing annulus of all injection wells utilized in the storage facility. Accurate gauges must also be placed on any other annuluses deemed necessary by the director.

4. The operator of a storage facility shall keep the wells, surface facilities, and injection system under continuing surveillance and conduct such monitoring, testing, and sampling as the director may require verifying the integrity of the surface facility, gathering system, and injection wells to protect surface and subsurface waters. Before commencing operations, the injection pipeline must be pressure tested. All existing injection pipelines where the pump and the wellhead are not located on the same site are required to be pressure tested annually.

5. The operator of a storage facility shall report any noncompliance with regulations or permit conditions to the director verbally within twenty-four hours followed by a written explanation within five days. The operator shall cease injection operations if so directed by the director.

6. Within ten days after the discontinuance of injection operations, the operator shall notify the director of the date of such discontinuance and the reason therefor.

7. Upon the completion or recompletion of an injection well or the completion of any remedial work or attempted remedial work, such as plugging back, deepening, acidizing, shooting, formation fracturing, squeezing operations, setting liner, perforating, reperforating, tubing repairs, packer repairs, casing repairs, or other similar operations not specifically covered herein, a report on the operation must be filed with the director within thirty days. The report must present a detailed account of all work done, including the reason for the work, the date of such work, the shots per foot and size and depth of perforations, the quantity of sand, crude, chemical, or other materials employed in the operation, the size and type of tubing, the type and location of packer, the result of the packer pressure test, and any other pertinent information or operations which affect the status of the well and are not specifically covered herein.

8. Annular injection of fluids is prohibited.