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Home My WebLink AboutCO 343Conservation Order Cover Page XHVZE This page is required for administrative purposes in managing the scanning process. It marks the extent of scanning and identifies certain actions that have been taken. Please insure that it retains it's current location in this file. ~_~~_ Conservation Order Category Identifier Organizing RESCAN [] Color items: [] Grayscale items: [] Poor Quality Originals: [] Other: NOTES: DIGITAL DATA [] Diskettes, No. [] Other, No/Type OVERSIZED (Scannable with large plotter/scanner) [] Maps: [] Other items OVERSIZED (Not suitable for plotter/scanner, may work with 'log' scanner) [] Logs of various kinds [] Other ' BY: ~ARIA Scanning Preparation TOTAL PAGES Production Scanning Stage 1 PAGE COUNT FROM SCANNED DOCUMENT: ~ PAGE COUNT MATCHES NUMBER IN SCANNING PREPARATION: ,~ YES NO Stage 2 IF NO IN STAGE 1, PAGE(S) DISCREPANCIES WERE FOUND: ~ YES NO (SCANNING IS COMPLETE AT THIS POINT UNLESS SPECIAL ATTENTION IS REQUIRED ON AN INDIVIDUAL PAGE BASIS DUE TO QUALITY, GRAYSCALE OR COLOR IMAGES) General Notes or Comments about this Document: 5/21/03 ConservOrdCvrPg.wpd • • INDEX CONSERVATION ORDER NO. 343 1.) September 9, 1994 BP Exploration Alaska, Inc. Request for Spacing Exception 2.) September 28, 1994 Notice of Public Hearing, Affidavit of Publication Conservation Order No. 343 STATE OF ALASKA ALASKA OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION 3001 Porcupine Drive Anchorage Alaska 99501-3192 Re: THE APPLICATION OF BP Exploration ) (Alaska) Inc. for an order exempting ) the Niakuk oil pool from the requirements ) of 20 AAC 25.280 ) Conservation Order No. 343 Niakuk Field Niakuk Oil Pool November 2, 1994 IT APPEARING THAT: BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., operator of the Niakuk Field, submitted an application on September 9, 1994 requesting exemption from the requirements of 20 AAC 25.280(a) and (b) for all wells in the Niakuk oil pool. 2. Notice of public hearing was published in the Anchorage Daily News on September 28, 1994. 3. No protests to the application were filed with the commission. FINDINGS: o Operators must file an Application for Sundry Approvals (Form 10-403) and receive commission approval prior to performing well workovers (i.e., perforating or reperforating casing, well stimulation, pulling tubing, altering casing, and repairing wells). 20 AAC 25.280(a). 2. Current well activity on the North Slope is dominated by the types of workover operations set forth in 20 AAC 25.280(a). 3. Wells in adjacent pools are drilled and completed similar to those in the Niakuk oil pool. 4. BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., as a principle North Slope operator, routinely conducts well workover operations in wells within and adjacent to the Niakuk oil pool. 5. BPX's procedures for well workovers have become standard and routine for wells within and adjacent to the Niakuk oil pool (e.g. Prudhoe Bay Field). o Information regarding the well condition, well workover program, bottom-hole pressure and well control program must be submitted with an Application for Sundry Approval. 20 AAC 25.280(b). Conservation Order 34j Page 2 November 2, 1994 . The operator must submit a Well Completion or Recompletion Report and Log (Form 10-407) within 30 days after completing a well. 20 AAC 25.070. Most of the information (name, location, condition, downhole equipment, etc.) required with the Application for Sundry Approvals for workovers also appears on Form 10-407. . The operator must maintain records and reports of well workovers for at least five years. 20 AAC 25.280(c) and 20 AAC 25.070. The operator must submit a complete well record, with copy of daily reports and tests, after completing well workovers on a Report of Sundry Well Operations (Form 10-404). 20 AAC 25. 280(d). 9. Conservation Order 329, Rule 8, requires periodic bottom hole pressure surveys in the Niakuk oil pool. 10. Well workovers under 20 AAC 25.280 on development wells do not prompt additional requirements beyond the criteria imposed by regulation. 11. The commission has primacy for all Class II injection wells in the state. 12. Well workover operations on injection wells sometime prompt additional requirements such as mechanical integrity tests. 13. Commission inspectors routinely inspect drilling and well workover operations to ensure compliance with regulations. CONCLUSIONS: . BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. is likely to perform well workover operations in Niakuk oil field wells in much the same manner as it has in adjacent established fields. Those operations have become standard and routine. 2. BPX's record of performance shows a long history of safe and responsible well workover operations. o Eliminating the requirements of 20 AAC 25.280(a) and (b) for all development wells in the Niakuk oil pool will reduce filing and result in administrative efficiencies for both the operator and the AOGCC. 4. Eliminating the requirements of 20 AAC 25.280(a) and (b) for all development wells in the Niakuk oil pool will not promote waste nor jeopardize correlative fights. o In order to administer the Class II UIC program, Form 10-403 must still be required prior to workovers on all service wells (i.e., gas injection, water injection, waste injection). Conservation Order 34~ Page 3 November 2, 1994 6. Subsequent report of workover operations (Form 10-404) must still be filed with the commission in order to keep well files current. 7. A current schedule of upcoming workover operations is necessary for the commission to exercise its compliance responsibilities. NOW, THEREFORE IT IS ORDERED THAT' Rule 1 The requirements of 20 AAC 25.280(a) are hereby waived for all producible wells (i.e., development wells) in the Niakuk oil pool. Rule 2 The operator of Niakuk oil pool shall provide the commission with a schedule of planned workover operations including the well and intended operation on a weekly basis. DONE at Anchorage, David W. ({ohnston, Cha~rna~ - Alaska Oil ~,~s Conse~ation Commission Russell A. Douglass, Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Thckerman Babcock, Commissioner Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission AS 31.05.080 provides that within 20 days after receipt of written notice of the entry of an order, a person affected by it may file with the Commission an application for rehearing. A request for rehearing must be received by 4:30 p.m. on the 23rd day following the date of the order, or next working day if a holiday or weekend, to be timely filed. The Commission shall grant or refuse the application in whole or in part within 10 days. The Commission can refuse an application by not acting on it within the 10-day period. An affected person has 30 days from the date the Commission refuses the application or mails (or otherwise distributes) an order upon rehearing, both being the final order of the Commission, to appeal the decision to Superior Court. Where a request for rehearing is denied by nonaction of the Commission, the 30 day period for appeal to Superior Court runs from the date on which the request is deemed denied (i.e., 10th day after the application for rehearing was filed). 9608 STOF0330 02514008 $50.35 AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF ALASKA ) THLRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT ) SS. Eva M Kaufmann being first duly sworn on oath deposes and says that she is the Advertising Representative of the Anchorage Daily News, a daily newspaper. That said newspaper has been approved by the Third Judicial Court, Anchorage, Alaska, and it now and has been published in the English language continually as a daily newspaper in Anchorage, Alaska, and it is now and during all said time was printed in an office maintained at the aforesaid place of publication of said newspaper. That the annexed is a copy of an advertisement as it was published in regular issues (and not in supplemental form) of said newspaper on: September 28 ,1994 and that such newspaper was regularly distributed to its subscribers during all of said period. That the full amount of the fee charged for the foregoing publication is not in excess of the rate charged private individuals. signed~-G-~%~~'' Eva M. Kaufmann kD Classified Advertising Rep. 257-4296 Subscribed and swom to before me this ..~r~... day of the State of Alaska. Third Division Anchorage, Alaska MY COMMISSION EXPIRES: My Commission Expires: .......... 2,~t.?. r. j.4: .?Z ....... 19 ...... - Notice o! 'F;ublic Nearing STATE OF ALASKA Alaska Oil and Gas, Conservation CommissiOn :'Re: 'The application of ,BP "Exploration (Alaska). inc. for :xception to 20 AAC 25.280 for 7the. Niakuk unit/Prudhoe~' Bay ,Field, Nlak0k oll pool'.-- ?.BP'Exploraton (Alaska) i ' Inc. has requested an excep- tl0n to the provisions .of 20i ;AAC 25.280' (a) and (b). The l exception .would eliminate the[ . ~rne.q,.,ulrementi.'f0r filing a form .1',,-.~403 '(APPlication for Sundry Approvals). prior.tO Initiating , ;~iffaltt WOrKoyer operations on Wells In the. NlakUk oll..poo"of the Nlakuk"Unlt/Prudboe Bay .Fleld~. '~ i' ":~ .... . '.'A 'person'who ma~ be 'harm- ;.ed if .the 'requested.:~.order is 'isSued :may.file' a'. wrlffen pro. ..test. prlor'.:'to 4~00..'PNt"O:ctober '. 13';; ]994 'w th: th~'. Alaska. O .'and'~ :.Gas. i;C;on'serv'atiOn ~¢om- ',,m:lsslon~ 3~1 'P~rc'jpl-.e Drive .'Afichor~ge. Alaska 9~$fl e"" ..r~queSt' a 'ear qp, or '.~o i tar.. If .the. '.pro~est'. m. t me~y ' f$1ed, arid .: ra'iseg a '~Ub'Stantia ]'.'"a~d ...mite'riga .~lss~e,'~': cr~u~la!,','t'd I 'tti~ 'c0'mmls$10n's"d~mrmma. : tlon, a hearing on the matter ,will be held at the above ad- '1 dress at 9:00 am on November · 2, ~994 in conformance with 20 AAC 25.540. If a hearing is to be held, interested parties may I confirm this by calling the Commission's office (907) I 2794433 after 'O<~tobe~ ~13, ~994 · If 'no protest' Is filed, the Com- mission will consider 'the Issu- ance of the order without a hearing. /s/Russell A. Douglass, Commissloner, Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation · Commission I ~ Pub: September 28, 1994 Notice of Public Hearing STATE OF ALASKA Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Re: The application of B P Exploration (Alaska) Inc. for exception to 20 AAC 25.280 for the Niakuk Unit/Prudhoe Bay Field, Niakuk oil pool. B P Exploration (Alaska) Inc. has requested an exception, to the provisions of 20 AAC 25.280 (a) and (b). The exception would eliminate the requirement for filing a form 10-403 (Application for Sundry Approvals) prior to initiating certain workover operations on wells in the Niakuk oil pool of the Niakuk Unit/Prudhoe Bay Field. A person who may be harmed if the requested order is issued may file a written, protest prior to 4:00 pm October 13, 1994 with the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, 3001 Porcupine Drive, Anchorage, Alaska 99501., and request a hearing on the matter. If the protest is timely filed and raises a substantial and material issue crucial to the Commission's determination, a hearing on the matter will. be hel. d at the above address at 9:00 am on November 2, 1994 in conformance with. 20 AAC 25.540. If a hearing is to be held, interested parties may confirm this by calling the commission's office, (907) 279-1.433 after October 1.3, 1994. If no protest is filed, the Commission will consider the issuance of the order without a hearing. Russell A. Douglass ~' Commissioner Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Published September 28, 1994 BP EXPLORATION ARCO Alaska, Inc. David W. Johnston, Chairman Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission 3001 Porcupine Drive Anchorage, Alaska 99501-3192 Re: Application for Exception to 20 AAC 25.280(a) and (b) Dear Mr. Johnston, BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., operator of the Niakuk Unit, request an exemption of 20 AAC 25.280(a) and (b) for all wells in the Niakuk Pool lying within the Prudhoe Bay Field/Niakuk Oil Pool. 20 AAC 25.280(a) requires the operators to file an Application for Sundry Approvals (Form 10-403) and receive Commission approval prior to performing well workovers. 20 AAC 25.280(b) stipulates what information must be submitted on or with Form 10-403. The workover operations covered by this regulation include: 1) perforating or reperforating casing; 2) stimulations; 3) pulling tubing; 4) altering casing; and 5) repairing the well. These workover operations have been performed many times and have become routine and standardized. The information required for the Application for the Sundry Approval has become repetitive. It is the intent of BP Exploration to continue reporting the results of well workover operations by filing a Report of Sundry Well Operations (Form 10-404) as required by 20 AAC 25.280(d). It is also our intent to keep all records and reports of well workover and repair operations in conformance with 20 AAC 25.280(c). Sincerely, Steve Horton Prudhoe Bay Drilling Manager BP Exploration (Alaska)Inc. Post Office Box 196612 Anchorage, Alaska 99519-6612 Telephone (907) 561-5111 Co-Operators, Prudhoe Bay Unit Gas Cons. Commissi0~ Anchorage ARCO Alaska, Inc. Post Office Box 100360 Anchorage, Alaska 99510-0360 Telephone (907) 276-1215