Chapter 43-02-03 - Oil and Gas Conservation

Section 43-02-03-01 - [Effective until 4/1/2024] Definitions
Section 43-02-03-01 - [Effective 4/1/2024] Definitions
Section 43-02-03-02 - Scope of chapter
Section 43-02-03-03 - Promulgation of rules, regulations, or orders [Repealed]
Section 43-02-03-04 - Emergency rule, regulation, or order [Repealed]
Section 43-02-03-05 - Enforcement of laws, rules, and regulations dealing with conservation of oil and gas
Section 43-02-03-06 - Waste prohibited
Section 43-02-03-07 - United States government leases
Section 43-02-03-08 - Classifying and defining pools [Repealed]
Section 43-02-03-09 - Forms
Section 43-02-03-10 - Authority to cooperate with other agencies
Section 43-02-03-11 - Organization reports
Section 43-02-03-12 - Reservoir surveys
Section 43-02-03-13 - Record of wells
Section 43-02-03-14 - [Effective until 4/1/2024] Access to sites and records
Section 43-02-03-14 - [Effective 4/1/2024] Access to sites and records
Section 43-02-03-14.1 - Verification of certified welders [Repealed]
Section 43-02-03-14.2 - [Effective until 4/1/2024] Oil and gas metering systems
Section 43-02-03-14.2 - [Effective 4/1/2024] Oil and gas metering systems
Section 43-02-03-15 - [Effective until 4/1/2024] Bond and transfer of wells
Section 43-02-03-15 - [Effective 4/1/2024] Bond and transfer of wells
Section 43-02-03-16 - [Effective until 4/1/2024] Application for permit to drill and recomplete
Section 43-02-03-16 - [Effective 4/1/2024] Application for permit to drill and recomplete
Section 43-02-03-16.1 - Designation and responsibilities of operator
Section 43-02-03-16.2 - Revocation and limitation of drilling permits
Section 43-02-03-16.3 - [Effective until 4/1/2024] Recovery of a risk penalty
Section 43-02-03-16.3 - [Effective 4/1/2024] Recovery of a risk penalty
Section 43-02-03-17 - [Effective until 4/1/2024] Sign on well and facility
Section 43-02-03-17 - [Effective 4/1/2024] Sign on well and facility
Section 43-02-03-18 - Drilling units - Well locations
Section 43-02-03-18.1 - Exception location
Section 43-02-03-19 - Site construction
Section 43-02-03-19.1 - Fencing, screening, and netting of drilling and reserve pits
Section 43-02-03-19.2 - Disposal of waste material
Section 43-02-03-19.3 - [Effective until 4/1/2024] Earthen pits and receptacles
Section 43-02-03-19.3 - [Effective 4/1/2024] Earthen pits and receptacles
Section 43-02-03-19.4 - Drilling pits
Section 43-02-03-19.5 - Reserve pit for drilling mud and drill cuttings from shallow wells
Section 43-02-03-20 - [Effective until 4/1/2024] Sealing off strata
Section 43-02-03-20 - [Effective 4/1/2024] Sealing off strata
Section 43-02-03-21 - [Effective until 4/1/2024] Casing, tubing, and cementing requirements
Section 43-02-03-21 - [Effective 4/1/2024] Casing, tubing, and cementing requirements
Section 43-02-03-22 - Defective casing or cementing
Section 43-02-03-23 - Blowout prevention
Section 43-02-03-24 - [Effective until 4/1/2024] Pulling string of casing
Section 43-02-03-24 - [Effective 4/1/2024] Pulling string of casing
Section 43-02-03-25 - Deviation tests and directional surveys
Section 43-02-03-26 - Multiple zone completions
Section 43-02-03-27 - Perforating, fracturing, and chemically treating wells
Section 43-02-03-27.1 - [Effective until 4/1/2024] Hydraulic fracture stimulation
Section 43-02-03-27.1 - [Effective 4/1/2024] Hydraulic fracture stimulation
Section 43-02-03-28 - [Effective until 4/1/2024] Safety regulation
Section 43-02-03-28 - [Effective 4/1/2024] Safety regulation
Section 43-02-03-29 - [Effective until 4/1/2024] Well and lease equipment and gas gathering pipelines
Section 43-02-03-29 - [Effective 4/1/2024] Well and lease equipment and gas gathering pipelines
Section 43-02-03-29.1 - [Effective until 4/1/2024] Crude oil and produced water underground gathering pipelines
Section 43-02-03-29.1 - [Effective 4/1/2024] Crude oil and produced water underground gathering pipelines
Section 43-02-03-30 - Notification of fires, leaks, spills, or blowouts
Section 43-02-03-30.1 - Leak and spill cleanup
Section 43-02-03-31 - [Effective until 4/1/2024] Well log, completion, and workover reports
Section 43-02-03-31 - [Effective 4/1/2024] Well log, completion, and workover reports
Section 43-02-03-32 - Stratigraphic test and core holes
Section 43-02-03-33 - Notice of intention to plug well
Section 43-02-03-34 - Method of plugging
Section 43-02-03-34.1 - [Effective until 4/1/2024] Reclamation of surface
Section 43-02-03-34.1 - [Effective 4/1/2024] Reclamation of surface
Section 43-02-03-35 - [Effective until 4/1/2024] Conversion of mineral wells to freshwater wells
Section 43-02-03-35 - [Effective 4/1/2024] Conversion of mineral wells to freshwater wells
Section 43-02-03-36 - Liability
Section 43-02-03-37 - Slush pits [Repealed]
Section 43-02-03-38 - Preservation of cores and samples [Repealed]
Section 43-02-03-38.1 - Preservation of cores and samples
Section 43-02-03-39 - Limiting gas-oil ratio
Section 43-02-03-39.1 - Oil production limitation
Section 43-02-03-40 - Gas-oil ratio test
Section 43-02-03-41 - [Effective until 4/1/2024] Subsurface pressure tests
Section 43-02-03-41 - [Effective 4/1/2024] Subsurface pressure tests
Section 43-02-03-42 - Commingling of oil from pools
Section 43-02-03-43 - Control of multiply completed wells [Repealed]
Section 43-02-03-44 - [Effective until 4/1/2024] Metered casinghead gas
Section 43-02-03-44 - [Effective 4/1/2024] Metered casinghead gas
Section 43-02-03-45 - Vented casinghead gas
Section 43-02-03-46 - Use of vacuum pumps [Repealed]
Section 43-02-03-47 - Produced water
Section 43-02-03-48 - Measurement of oil
Section 43-02-03-48.1 - [Effective until 4/1/2024] Central production facility - Commingling of production
Section 43-02-03-48.1 - [Effective 4/1/2024] Central production facility - Commingling of production
Section 43-02-03-49 - Oil production equipment, dikes, and seals
Section 43-02-03-50 - Tank cleaning permit
Section 43-02-03-51 - Treating plant
Section 43-02-03-51.1 - [Effective until 4/1/2024] Treating plant permit requirements
Section 43-02-03-51.1 - [Effective 4/1/2024] Treating plant permit requirements
Section 43-02-03-51.2 - Treating plant siting
Section 43-02-03-51.3 - [Effective until 4/1/2024] Treating plant construction and operation requirements
Section 43-02-03-51.3 - [Effective 4/1/2024] Treating plant construction and operation requirements
Section 43-02-03-51.4 - Treating plant abandonment and reclamation requirements
Section 43-02-03-52 - Report of oil production
Section 43-02-03-52.1 - Report of gas produced in association with oil
Section 43-02-03-53 - Saltwater handling facilities
Section 43-02-03-53.1 - [Effective until 4/1/2024] Saltwater handling facility permit requirements
Section 43-02-03-53.1 - [Effective 4/1/2024] Saltwater handling facility permit requirements
Section 43-02-03-53.2 - Saltwater handling facility siting
Section 43-02-03-53.3 - Saltwater handling facility construction and operation requirements
Section 43-02-03-53.4 - Saltwater handling facility abandonment and reclamation requirements
Section 43-02-03-54 - Investigative powers
Section 43-02-03-55 - [Effective until 4/1/2024] Abandonment of wells, treating plants, underground gathering pipelines, or saltwater handling facilities - Suspension of drilling
Section 43-02-03-55 - [Effective 4/1/2024] Abandonment of wells, treating plants, underground gathering pipelines, or saltwater handling facilities - Suspension of drilling
Section 43-02-03-56 - Underground disposal of water [Repealed]
Section 43-02-03-57 - Determination of gas well potential
Section 43-02-03-58 - Method and time of shut-in pressure tests [Repealed]
Section 43-02-03-59 - Production from gas wells to be measured and reported
Section 43-02-03-60 - Natural gas utilization [Repealed]
Section 43-02-03-60.1 - Valuation of flared gas
Section 43-02-03-60.2 - Flaring exemption
Section 43-02-03-60.3 - Application to certify well for temporary gas tax exemption
Section 43-02-03-61 - Storage gas
Section 43-02-03-62 - Carbon dioxide, coal bed methane, helium, and nitrogen
Section 43-02-03-63 - Regulation of pools
Section 43-02-03-64 - Rate of producing wells
Section 43-02-03-65 - Authorization for production, purchase, and transportation
Section 43-02-03-66 - Application for allowable on new oil wells
Section 43-02-03-67 - Oil proration
Section 43-02-03-68 - Gas-oil ratio limitation
Section 43-02-03-69 - Allocation of gas production
Section 43-02-03-70 - Gas proration period
Section 43-02-03-71 - Adjustment of gas allowables
Section 43-02-03-72 - Gas proration units
Section 43-02-03-73 - Permit for injection of gas, air, or water [Repealed]
Section 43-02-03-74 - Casing and cementing of injection wells [Repealed]
Section 43-02-03-75 - Notice of commencement and discontinuance of injection operations [Repealed]
Section 43-02-03-76 - Records [Repealed]
Section 43-02-03-77 - Application for unitized management under commission order
Section 43-02-03-78 - Illegal sale prohibited [Repealed]
Section 43-02-03-79 - Purchase of liquids from gas wells
Section 43-02-03-80 - Reports of purchasers and transporters of crude oil
Section 43-02-03-81 - Authorization to transport oil from a well, treating plant, central production facility, or saltwater handling facility
Section 43-02-03-81.1 - Reports of purchases for resale and transporting of dry gas
Section 43-02-03-82 - Refinery reports
Section 43-02-03-83 - Gas processing plant reports
Section 43-02-03-84 - Additional information may be required
Section 43-02-03-85 - Books and records to be kept to substantiate reports
Section 43-02-03-86 - Public hearing required [Repealed]
Section 43-02-03-87 - Institute proceedings [Repealed]
Section 43-02-03-88 - Application for hearing
Section 43-02-03-88.1 - Special procedures for increased density wells, pooling, flaring exemption, underground injection, commingling, converting mineral wells to freshwater wells, and central tank battery or central production facilities applications
Section 43-02-03-88.2 - Hearing participants by telephone
Section 43-02-03-89 - Upon application hearing is set [Repealed]
Section 43-02-03-90 - Hearings - Complaint proceedings - Emergency proceedings - Other proceedings
Section 43-02-03-90.1 - Investigatory hearings
Section 43-02-03-90.2 - Official record
Section 43-02-03-90.3 - Petitions for review of recommended order and oral arguments prohibited
Section 43-02-03-90.4 - Notice of order by mail
Section 43-02-03-90.5 - Service and filing
Section 43-02-03-91 - Rehearing [Repealed]
Section 43-02-03-92 - Burden of proof [Repealed]
Section 43-02-03-93 - Designation of examiners
Section 43-02-03-94 - Matters to be heard by examiner [Repealed]
Section 43-02-03-95 - Powers and duties of examiner
Section 43-02-03-96 - Matters heard by commission [Repealed]
Section 43-02-03-97 - Examiner disinterested umpire [Repealed]
Section 43-02-03-98 - Report of examiner
Section 43-02-03-99 - Commission order from examiner hearing
Section 43-02-03-100 - Hearing de novo before commission [Repealed]
Section 43-02-03-101 - Prehearing motion practice