43 CFR Part 3170 — Onshore Oil and Gas Production
Subpart 3170 — Onshore Oil and Gas Production: General
Subpart 3171 — Approval of Operations
- § 3171.1— Authority.
- § 3171.2— Purpose.
- § 3171.3— Scope.
- § 3171.4— Definitions.
- § 3171.5— Application for Permit to Drill (APD).
- § 3171.6— Components of a complete APD package.
- § 3171.7— Drilling plan.
- § 3171.8— Surface Use Plan of Operations.
- § 3171.9— Bonding.
- § 3171.10— Operator certification.
- § 3171.11— Onsite inspection.
- § 3171.12— APD posting and processing.
- § 3171.13— Approval of APDs.
- § 3171.14— Valid Period of Approved APD.
- § 3171.15— Master Development Plans.
- § 3171.16— Waiver from electronic submission requirements.
- § 3171.17— General operating requirements—operator responsibilities.
- § 3171.18— Rights-of-Way and Special Use Authorizations.
- § 3171.19— Operating on lands with non-Federal surface and Federal oil and gas.
- § 3171.20— Leases for Indian oil and gas.
- § 3171.21— Subsequent operations and Sundry Notices.
- § 3171.22— Well conversions.
- § 3171.23— Variances.
- § 3171.24— Waivers, exceptions, or modifications.
- § 3171.25— Abandonment.
- § 3171.26— Appeal procedures.
Subpart 3172 — Drilling Operations on Federal and Indian Oil and Gas Leases
- § 3172.1— Authority.
- § 3172.2— Purpose.
- § 3172.3— Scope.
- § 3172.4— General.
- § 3172.5— Definitions.
- § 3172.6— Well control.
- § 3172.7— Casing and cementing.
- § 3172.8— Mud program.
- § 3172.9— Drill stem testing.
- § 3172.10— Special drilling operations.
- § 3172.11— Surface use.
- § 3172.12— Drilling abandonment.
- § 3172.13— Variances from minimum standards.
Subpart 3173 — Requirements for Site Security and Production Handling
- § 3173.1— Definitions and acronyms.
- § 3173.2— Storage and sales facilities—seals.
- § 3173.3— Oil measurement system components—seals.
- § 3173.4— Federal seals.
- § 3173.5— Removing production from tanks for sale and transportation by truck.
- § 3173.6— Water-draining operations.
- § 3173.7— Hot oiling, clean-up, and completion operations.
- § 3173.8— Report of theft or mishandling of production.
- § 3173.9— Required recordkeeping for inventory and seal records.
- § 3173.10— Form 3160-5, Sundry Notices and Reports on Wells.
- § 3173.11— Site facility diagram.
- § 3173.12— Applying for a facility measurement point.
- § 3173.13— Requirements for approved facility measurement points.
- § 3173.14— Conditions for commingling and allocation approval (surface and downhole).
- § 3173.15— Applying for a commingling and allocation approval.
- § 3173.16— Existing commingling and allocation approvals.
- § 3173.17— Relationship of a commingling and allocation approval to royalty-free use of production.
- § 3173.18— Modification of a commingling and allocation approval.
- § 3173.19— Effective date of a commingling and allocation approval.
- § 3173.20— Terminating a commingling and allocation approval.
- § 3173.21— Combining production downhole in certain circumstances.
- § 3173.22— Requirements for off-lease measurement.
- § 3173.23— Applying for off-lease measurement.
- § 3173.24— Effective date of an off-lease measurement approval.
- § 3173.25— Existing approved off-lease measurement.
- § 3173.26— Relationship of off-lease measurement approval to royalty-free use of production.
- § 3173.27— Termination of off-lease measurement approval.
- § 3173.28— Instances not constituting off-lease measurement, for which no approval is required.
- § 3173.29— Immediate assessments for certain violations.
Subpart 3174 — Measurement of Oil
- § 3174.1— Definitions and acronyms.
- § 3174.2— General requirements.
- § 3174.3— Incorporation by reference (IBR).
- § 3174.4— Specific measurement performance requirements.
- § 3174.5— Oil measurement by tank gauging—general requirements.
- § 3174.6— Oil measurement by tank gauging—procedures.
- § 3174.7— LACT system—general requirements.
- § 3174.8— LACT system—components and operating requirements.
- § 3174.9— Coriolis measurement systems (CMS)—general requirements and components.
- § 3174.10— Coriolis meter for LACT and CMS measurement applications—operating requirements.
- § 3174.11— Meter-proving requirements.
- § 3174.12— Measurement tickets.
- § 3174.13— Oil measurement by other methods.
- § 3174.14— Determination of oil volumes by methods other than measurement.
- § 3174.15— Immediate assessments.
Subpart 3175 — Measurement of Gas
- § 3175.10— Definitions and acronyms.
- § 3175.20— General requirements.
- § 3175.30— Incorporation by reference.
- § 3175.31— Specific performance requirements.
- § 3175.40— Measurement equipment approved by standard or make and model.
- § 3175.41— Flange-tapped orifice plates.
- § 3175.42— Chart recorders.
- § 3175.43— Transducers.
- § 3175.44— Flow-computer software.
- § 3175.45— Gas chromatographs.
- § 3175.46— Isolating flow conditioners.
- § 3175.47— Differential primary devices other than flange-tapped orifice plates.
- § 3175.48— Linear measurement devices.
- § 3175.49— Accounting systems.
- § 3175.60— Timeframes for compliance.
- § 3175.61— Grandfathering.
- § 3175.70— Measurement location.
- § 3175.80— Flange-tapped orifice plates (primary devices).
- § 3175.90— Mechanical recorder (secondary device).
- § 3175.91— Installation and operation of mechanical recorders.
- § 3175.92— Verification and calibration of mechanical recorders.
- § 3175.93— Integration statements.
- § 3175.94— Volume determination.
- § 3175.100— Electronic gas measurement (secondary and tertiary device).
- § 3175.101— Installation and operation of electronic gas measurement systems.
- § 3175.102— Verification and calibration of electronic gas measurement systems.
- § 3175.103— Flow rate, volume, and average value calculation.
- § 3175.104— Logs and records.
- § 3175.110— Gas sampling and analysis.
- § 3175.111— General sampling requirements.
- § 3175.112— Sampling probe and tubing.
- § 3175.113— Spot samples—general requirements.
- § 3175.114— Spot samples—allowable methods.
- § 3175.115— Spot samples—frequency.
- § 3175.116— Composite sampling methods.
- § 3175.117— On-line gas chromatographs.
- § 3175.118— Gas chromatograph requirements.
- § 3175.119— Components to analyze.
- § 3175.120— Gas analysis report requirements.
- § 3175.121— Effective date of a spot or composite gas sample.
- § 3175.125— Calculation of heating value and volume
- § 3175.126— Reporting of heating value and volume.
- § 3175.130— Transducer testing protocol.
- § 3175.131— General requirements for transducer testing.
- § 3175.132— Testing of reference accuracy.
- § 3175.133— Testing of influence effects.
- § 3175.134— Transducer test reporting.
- § 3175.135— Uncertainty determination.
- § 3175.140— Flow-computer software testing.
- § 3175.141— General requirements for flow-computer software testing.
- § 3175.142— Required static tests.
- § 3175.143— Required dynamic tests.
- § 3175.144— Flow-computer software test reporting.
- § 3175.150— Immediate assessments.
Subpart 3176 — Onshore Oil and Gas Production: Hydrogen Sulfide Operations
- § 3176.1— Authority.
- § 3176.2— Purpose.
- § 3176.3— Scope.
- § 3176.4— Definitions.
- § 3176.5— Requirements.
- § 3176.6— Applications, approvals, and reports.
- § 3176.7— Public protection.
- § 3176.8— Drilling/completion/workover requirements.
- § 3176.9— Production requirements.
- § 3176.10— Variances from requirements.
- § 3176.11— Incorporation by reference.
Subpart 3177 — Onshore Oil and Gas Production: Disposal of Produced Water
- § 3177.1— Authority.
- § 3177.2— Purpose.
- § 3177.3— Scope.
- § 3177.4— Definitions.
- § 3177.5— Requirements.
- § 3177.6— Application and approval authority.
- § 3177.7— Informational requirements for injection wells.
- § 3177.8— Informational requirements for pits.
- § 3177.9— Design requirements for pits.
- § 3177.10— Construction and maintenance requirements for pits.
- § 3177.11— Other disposal methods.
- § 3177.12— Reporting requirements for disposal facilities.
- § 3177.13— Variances from requirements or minimum standards.
Subpart 3178 — Royalty-Free Use of Lease Production
- § 3178.1— Purpose.
- § 3178.2— Scope.
- § 3178.3— Production on which royalty is not due.
- § 3178.4— Uses of oil or gas on a lease, unit, or communitized area that do not require prior written BLM approval for royalty-free treatment of volumes used.
- § 3178.5— Uses of oil or gas on a lease, unit, or communitized area that require prior written BLM approval for royalty-free treatment of volumes used.
- § 3178.6— Uses of oil or gas moved off the lease, unit, or communitized area that do not require prior written approval for royalty-free treatment of volumes used.
- § 3178.7— Uses of oil or gas moved off the lease, unit, or communitized area that require prior written approval for royalty-free treatment of volumes used.
- § 3178.8— Measurement or estimation of volumes of oil or gas that are used royalty-free.
- § 3178.9— Requesting approval of royalty-free treatment when approval is required.
- § 3178.10— Facility and equipment ownership.
Subpart 3179 — Waste Prevention and Resource Conservation
- § 3179.1— Purpose.
- § 3179.2— Scope.
- § 3179.10— Definitions and acronyms.
- § 3179.11— Severability.
- § 3179.30— Incorporation by Reference (IBR).
- § 3179.40— Reasonable precautions to prevent waste.
- § 3179.41— Determining when the loss of oil or gas is avoidable or unavoidable.
- § 3179.42— When lost production is subject to royalty.
- § 3179.43— Data submission and notification requirements.
- § 3179.50— Safety.
- § 3179.60— Gas-well gas.
- § 3179.70— Oil-well gas.
- § 3179.71— Measurement of flared oil-well gas volume.
- § 3179.72— Required reporting and recordkeeping of vented and flared gas volumes.
- § 3179.73— Prior determinations regarding royalty-free flaring.
- § 3179.80— Loss of well control while drilling.
- § 3179.81— Well completion or recompletion flaring allowance.
- § 3179.82— Subsequent well tests for an existing completion.
- § 3179.83— Emergencies.
- § 3179.90— Oil storage tank vapors.
- § 3179.91— Downhole well maintenance and liquids unloading.
- § 3179.92— Size of production equipment.
- § 3179.100— Leak detection and repair program.
- § 3179.101— Repairing leaks.
- § 3179.102— Required recordkeeping for leak detection and repair.
- § 3179.200— Immediate assessments