Section 20.07.02.010 - DEFINITIONS01.Act. The Idaho Oil and Gas Conservation Act, Title 47, Chapter 3, Idaho Code.02.Active Well. A permitted well used for production, disposal, or injection that is not idled for more than twenty-four (24) continuous months.03.Barrel. Forty-two (42) U. S. gallons at sixty (60) Degrees F at atmospheric pressure.04.Blowout. An unplanned sudden or violent escape of fluids from a well.05.Blowout Preventer. A casinghead control equipped with special gates or rams that can be closed and sealed around the drill pipe, or that otherwise completely closes the top of the casing.06.Bonus Payment. Monetary consideration that is paid by the lessee to the lessor for the execution of an oil and gas lease.07.Casing Pressure. The pressure within the casing or between the casing, tubing, or drill pipe.08.Casinghead. A metal flange attached to the top of the conductor pipe that is the primary interface for the diverter system during drilling out for surface casing.09.Casinghead Gas. Any gas or vapor, or both, indigenous to an oil stratum and produced from such stratum with oil.10.Common Source of Supply. The geographical area or horizon definitely separated from any other such area or horizon and which contains, or from competent evidence appears to contain, a common accumulation of oil or gas or both. Any oil or gas field or part thereof which comprises and includes any area which is underlaid, or which from geological or other scientific data or experiments or from drilling operations or other evidence appears to be underlaid by a common pool or accumulation of oil or gas or both oil and gas.11.Completion. An oil well is considered completed when the first new oil is produced through wellhead equipment into lease tanks from the ultimate producing interval after the production casing has been run. A gas well is considered completed when the well is capable of producing gas through wellhead equipment from the ultimate producing zone after the production casing has been run.12.Conductor Pipe. The first and largest diameter string of casing to be installed in a well. This casing extends from land surface to a depth great enough to keep surface waters from entering and loose earth from falling in the hole and to provide anchorage for the diverter system prior to setting surface casing.13.Cubic Foot of Gas. The volume of gas contained in one (1) cubic foot of space at a standard pressure base and a standard temperature base. The standard pressure base shall be fourteen and seventy-three hundredths (14.73) pounds per square inch absolute and the standard temperature base shall be sixty (60) Degrees F14.Day. A period of twenty-four (24) consecutive hours from 8 a.m. one day to 8 a.m. the following day.15.Development. Any work that actively promotes bringing in production.16.Director. The head of the Idaho Department of Lands and secretary to the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, or his designee.17.Drilling Logs. The recorded description of the lithologic sequence encountered in drilling a well, and any electric, gamma ray, geophysical, or other logging done in the hole.18.Fresh Water. All surface waters and those ground waters that are used, or may be used in the future, for drinking water, agriculture, aquaculture, or industrial purposes other than oil and gas development. The possibility of future use is based on hydrogeologic conditions, water quality, future land use activities, and social/economic considerations.19.Gas-Oil Ratio. The volume of gas produced in standard cubic feet to each barrel of oil or condensate produced concurrently during any stated period.20.Gas Processing Facility. A facility that conditions liquids or gas by compression, dehydration, refrigeration, or by other means.21.Gas Well.a. A well that produces primarily natural gas;b. Any well capable of producing gas in commercial quantities and also producing oil from the same common source of supply but not in commercial quantities; orc. Any well classed as a gas well by the Commission for any reason.22.Geophysical or Seismic Operations. Any geophysical method performed on the surface of the land utilizing certain instruments operating under the laws of physics respecting vibration or sound to determine conditions below the surface of the earth that may contain oil or gas and is inclusive of, but not limited to, the preliminary line survey, the acquisition of necessary permits, the selection and marking of shot-hole locations, necessary clearing of vegetation, shot-hole drilling, implantation of charge, placement of geophones, detonation and backfill of shot-holes, and vibroseis.23.Hydraulic Fracturing, or Fracing. A method of stimulating or increasing the recovery of hydrocarbons by perforating the production casing and injecting fluids or gels into the potential target reservoir at pressures greater than the existing fracture gradient in the target reservoir.24.Inactive Well. An unplugged well that has no reported production, disposal, injection, or other permitted activity for a period of greater than twenty-four (24) continuous months, and for which no extension has been granted.25.Intermediate Casing. The casing installed within the well to seal intermediate zones above the anticipated bottom hole depth. The casing is generally set in place after the surface casing and before the production casing.26.Junk. Debris in a hole that impedes drilling or completion.27.Lease. A tract(s) of land that by virtue of an oil and gas lease, fee or mineral ownership, a drilling, pooling or other agreement, a rule, regulation or order of a governmental authority, or otherwise constitutes a single tract or leasehold estate for the purpose of the development or operation thereof for oil or gas or both.28.Mechanical Integrity Test. A test designed to determine if there is a significant leak in the casing, tubing, or packer of a well.29.Oil Well. Any well capable of primarily producing oil in paying quantities, but not a gas well.30.Pit. Any excavated or constructed depression or reservoir used to contain reserve, drilling, well treatment, produced water, or other fluids at the drill site. This does not include enclosed, mobile, or portable tanks used to contain fluids.31.Pollution. Constituents of oil, gas, salt water, or other materials used in oil and gas extraction, occurring in fresh water supplies at levels that exceed the standards in IDAPA 58.01.02, "Water Quality Standards," and IDAPA 58.01.11, "Ground Water Quality Rules," as the result of the drilling, casing, treating, operation or plugging of wells.32.Pressure Maintenance. The injection of gas, water, or other fluids into oil or gas reservoirs to maintain pressure or retard pressure decline in the reservoir for the purpose of increasing the recovery of oil or other hydrocarbons therefrom.33.Produced Water. Water that is produced along with oil or gas.34.Production Casing. The casing set across the reservoir interval and within which the primary completion components are installed.35.Proppant. Sand or other materials used in hydraulic fracturing to prop open fractures.36.Release. Any unauthorized spilling, leaking, emitting, discharging, escaping, leaching, or disposing into soil, ground water, or surface water.37.Spud. To start the drilling process by removing rock, dirt, and other sedimentary material with the drill bit.38.Surface Casing. The first casing that is run after the conductor pipe to anchor blow out prevention equipment and seals out fresh water zones.39.Surface Water. Rivers, streams, lakes, and springs when flowing in their natural channels.40.Systems Approach. The disclosure of chemical information by chemical abstract service name only, without disclosing component percentages or chemical relationships.41.Tank. A concrete, metal, or plastic stationary vessel used to contain fluids.42.Tank Battery. One (1) or more tanks that are connected to receive crude oil, condensate, or produced waters from a well(s) and that serves as the point of collection and disbursement of oil or gas from a well(s).43.Tank Dike. An impermeable man-made structure constructed around a tank to contain leakage from the tank.44.Tubing. Pipe used inside the production casing to convey oil or gas from the producing interval to the surface.45.Volatile Organic Compound. Organic chemical compounds whose composition makes it possible for them to evaporate under normal indoor atmospheric conditions of sixty-eight (68) degrees F and an absolute pressure of fourteen point seven (14.7) psi atmospheric.46.Waterflooding. The injection into a reservoir through one (1) or more wells with volumes of water for the purpose of increasing the recovery of oil therefrom.47.Well Report. The written record progressively describing the strata, water, oil, or gas encountered in drilling a well with such additional information as to give volumes, pressures, rate of fill-up, water depths, caving strata, casing record, etc., as is usually recorded in normal procedure of drilling; also, it includes electrical radioactivity, or other similar logs run, lithologic description of all cores, and all drill-stem tests, including depth-tested, cushion-used, time tool open, flowing and shut-in pressures and recoveries.48.Well Site. The areas that are directly disturbed during the drilling and subsequent operation of, or affected by production facilities directly associated with, any oil well, gas well, or injection well, and its associated well pad.49.Well Treatment. Actions performed on a well to acidize, fracture, or stimulate the target reservoir.50.Wildcat Well. An exploratory well drilled in an area of unknown subsurface conditions.Idaho Admin. Code r. 20.07.02.010