Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Colorado
Oil and Gas
ConservationCommission
DOWN-HOLE AQUIFER PROTECTION &
WELLBORE INTEGRITY
COGCC RULES
COGCCRULES
Rule 317: Well casing and cementing; Cement bond logs, Pressure
Controls
Rule 603: Drilling and well servicing operations and high density
area rules
CURRENTCOGCCPOLICIES:
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1.
COGCCPolicyforBradenheadMonitoringDuringHydraulicFracturingTreatmentsintheGreaterWattenberg
COGCC
Policy for Bradenhead Monitoring During Hydraulic Fracturing Treatments in the Greater Wattenberg
Area,datedMay29,2012
2.
PracticesandProcedures,UICMechanicalIntegrityTests,datedMarch17,2011
3.
NoticetoOperatorsDrillingWilliamsForkFormationWellsinGarfieldCounty,SurfaceCasingDepthand
M difi ti
ModificationofLeakoffTestRequirements,
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t revisedJune23,2006
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23 2006
4.
NoticetoOperatorsDrillingMesaverdeGrouporDeeperWellsintheMammCreekFieldAreainGarfield
County,WellCementingProcedureandReportingRequirements,revisedFebruary9,2007
5.
NoticetoOperatorsDrillingWellsintheBuzzard,MammCreek,andRulisonFields,GarfieldCountyandMesa
County,ProceduresandSubmittalRequirementsforCompliancewithCOGCCOrderNos.1107,13956,19122,
and3692,datedJuly10,2010
6.
NoticetoAllOilandGasOperatorsActiveintheDenverBasin,ColoradoOilandGasConservationCommission
ApprovedWattenbergBradenheadTestingandStaffPolicy,datedDecember16,2009
7.
DrillingCompletionReport CementDocumentationPolicy,February17,2009
8.
ClarificationonProceduresforFilingChangestoApplicationsforPermittoDrill,revisedJanuary18,2011
9.
ConductorPipeSettingPolicy,April6,2006
10 ApprovalofCasingRepairsPolicy
10.
Approval of Casing Repairs Policy
11. NorthwestColoradoNotificationPolicy,EffectiveforNoticesReceivedOnorAfterJanuary1,2010,RevisionNo.
3,May10,2012
317: GENERALDRILLINGRULES
a.Blowoutpreventionequipment(BOPE).
b.Bottomholelocation.
c.Requirementtopostpermitattherigandprovidespudnotice.
e.Surfacecasingwheresubsurfaceconditionsareunknown.
f.Surfacecasingwheresubsurfaceconditionsareknown.
g.Alternateaquiferprotectionbystagecementing.
h.Surfaceandintermediatecasingcementing.
i.Productioncasingcementing.
j.Productioncasingpressuretesting.
k.Protectionofaquifersandproductionstratumandsuspensionofdrilling
operationsbeforerunningproductioncasing.
l.Flaringofgasduringdrillingandnoticetolocalemergencydispatch.
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m.Protectionofproductivestrataduringdeepeningoperations.
n.Requirementtoevaluatedisposalzonesforhydrocarbonpotential.
o.Requirementtologwell.
p.Remedialcementingduringrecompletion.
COGCCPOLICIESTOPREVENTGAS/OIL
MIGRATION
(FORNEWWELLS)
1. ENSURESURFACECASINGINALLWELLSISSETAT
LEAST 50 FEET BELOW THE DEPTH OF THE DEEPEST
LEAST50FEETBELOWTHEDEPTHOFTHEDEEPEST
WATERWELLORAQUIFERS
2. ENSUREPRODUCTIONCASINGISCEMENTED
ABOVEALLPRODUCTIONZONES
DRILLINGPROCESS
HYDROCARBON FORMATIONS
Figure 1
GROUND SURFACE
CEMENTED CONDUCTOR
AQUIFER(S)
AQUIFER(S
QU
(S)
(S)
CEMENT
SURFACE CASING
HYDROCARBON FORMATIONS
Figure 2
Surface Casing
Hole with a
cemented steel casing
below the aquifer
CEMENT
PRODUCTION CASING
HYDROCARBON FORMATIONS
Figure 4
Production Casing:
Hole with cemented steel
the Well Completion or Recompletion Report and Log, Form 5. Open hole logs shall
be run at depths that adequately verify the setting depth of surface casing and any
aquifer coverage
coverage. These requirements shall not apply to the unlogged open hole
completion intervals, or to wells in which no open hole logs are run.
Top of Cement
Figure 5
341.BRADENHEADMONITORINGDURINGWELL
STIMULATION OPERATIONS
STIMULATIONOPERATIONS
Theplacementofallstimulationfluidsshallbeconfinedtotheobjectiveformations during
treatmenttotheextentpracticable.
Duringstimulationoperations,bradenheadannuluspressureshallbecontinuouslymonitored
andrecordedonallwellsbeingstimulated.
Ifatanytimeduringstimulationoperationsthe
If
at any time during stimulation operations the bradenheadannuluspressureincreases
bradenhead annulus pressure increases more
more
than200psigtheoperatorshallverballynotifytheDirectorassoonaspracticable,butnolaterthan
twentyfour(24)hoursfollowingtheincident.Withinfifteen(15)daysaftertheoccurrence,the
operatorshallsubmitaSundryNotice,Form4,givingalldetails,includingcorrectiveactionstaken.
Ifintermediatecasinghasbeensetonthewellbeingstimulated,thepressureintheannulusbetween
theintermediatecasingandtheproductioncasingshallalsobemonitoredandrecorded.
p
keepallwellstimulationrecordsandpressurechartsonf
p
p
fileandavailable
Theoperatorshall
forinspectionbytheCommissionforaperiodofatleastfive(5)years.UnderRule502.b.(1),an
operatormayseekavariancefromthesebradenheadmonitoring,recording,andreporting
requirementsunderappropriatecircumstances.
WELLHEAD
CEMENT
PRODUCTION CASING
PERFORATIONS
HYDROCARBON FORMATIONS
Figure 7