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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 BY: 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. 342 1.) September 9, 1994 ARCO Alaska, Inc. Request for Spacing Exception 2.) September 28, 1994 Notice of Public Hearing, Affidavit of Publication Conservation Order No. 342 STATE OF ALASKA ALASKA OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION 3001 Porcupine Drive Anchorage Alaska 99501-3192 Re: THE APPLICATION OF ARCO ALASKA, ) INC. for an order exempting the Greater ) Point Mclntyre Area/Pmdhoe Bay Field, ) Pt. Mclntyre Stump Island and Lisburne oil ) pools from the requirements of 20 AAC 25.280. ) IT APPEARING THAT: Conservation Order No. 342 Prudhoe Bay Field Greater Point Mclntyre Area November 2, 1994 ARCO Alaska, Inc., operator of the Greater Point Mclntyre Area/Prudhoe Bay 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 Pt Mclntyre, Stump Island and Lisburne oil pools. 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: 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 Greater Point McIntyre Area. 4. ARCO Alaska, Inc., as a principle North Slope operator, routinely conducts well workover operations in wells within and adjacent to the Greater Point Mclntyre Area. 5. ARCO's procedures for well workovers have become standard and routine for wells within and adjacent to the Greater Point Mclntyre Area (e.g., Prudhoe Bay Field). , 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 342 ' 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 well 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). o Conservation Order 317, Rule 12, requires periodic bottom hole pressure surveys in the Stump Island and Pt. Mclntyre pools. Conservation Order 207, Rule 10, requires periodic pressure surveys in the Lisburne 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: ARCO Alaska, Inc. is likely to perform well workover operations in Greater Point Mclntyre Area wells in much the same manner as it has in adjacent established fields. Those operations have become standard and routine. 2. ARCO'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 Greater Point Mclntyre Area 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 Greater Point Mclntyre Area/Prudhoe Bay Field, Pt Mclntyre, Stump Island and Lisburne oil pools will not promote waste nor jeopardize correlative rights. 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 342 {' {' 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, THE~FORE 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 Greater Point Mclntyre/Prudhoe Bay Field, Pt Mclntyre, Stump Island and Lisburne oil pools. Rule 2 The operator of Greater Point Mclntyre/Prudhoe Bay Field, Pt Mclntyre, Stump Island and Lisburne oil pools shall provide the commission with a schedule of planned workover operations including the well and intended operation on a weekly basis. DONE at Anchorage, Alaska and d emb -.. David W. {ohnst'~, Ch~rman Alaska Oil ~as Cons~'vation Commission Russell A. Douglass, Commi;~oner Alaska Oil and Gas Conserva~'tion Commission Tuckerman 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 PM on the 23rd day following the date of the order, or next working day ifa 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). 12517 STOF0330 02514007 853.20 AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF ALASKA ) THIRD 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 Eva M. Kaufm~--~ Classified Advertising Rep. 257-4296 Subscribed and sworn to before me this ~.. day of No~.~~-~, 1994 the State of Alaska. Third Division Anchorage, Alaska MY COMMISSION EXPIRES: My Commission Expires: October 14, 1997 19 ......*.eeeeeee.eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee* .eeeee L '"'~0tice of Public Hearing ,STATE ,OF AMASKA AlasKa Oil~ incl, Gas ~ Ceaservatlea.!.Com m issioa ire: The'apPlication of' 'ARCO. Alaska~. In~: ' for. exception'lo 20 AAC 25,280 "fOr the. Greeter Point Mcli~tyre .Area/Prudhoe 8ay. 'Field,. Pt, Mctntyte; StumP: 'Island and Llsburne 'oil. x)olS~:, , , ' , ,:" ARCO, Alaska,' I,c....has re- quested an exception' 'to the '.pr0vislo6s of. 201AAC 251280 (a) end (b).'The exception, would .eliminate the'.' requirement for :filing .a .form'~ '10:~03 ..~(;~Pplica- .;tion. for Sundry ApPrOvals). pri- 0r"to Initiating certain .workov- er.. operatlo"s on Wells in the . Pt.' MClntyre~' stump.."iSland .end ~:LiSbu'r,e~oil'.. ppolS' of.' the Greeter .Point MC,lrit~re Area/ .Prudh0e; Bayi: F'ieid'..' "!'.i":',',?' '.... .. A .person' who.may.' be harm. i ed 'if~ the .requested..~ 'order'. Is ,isSued' may f[le:.a.lWr!flen .pro~ test pr. ior(}b..'.4i.00. PM October, :.13,* 199~'..'With'..: :tile' 'AI.&sKa, .Oil and. oat':..,:COfi~erVati0n, com" 'mission,~ 2001'.'P. ~rc0Pine"Drlve; An'chor~ge~ Aia-~ka.,.99501',' and [ request:.,a, heating., on. the 'mat~ · .tar. I.f 'fhe"."protest' is timely filed end raises a substantial end material IsSue crucial to the Commission's determina- tion, a hearing on the matter will be held at the above ad- dress at ¢:00 am on November 3, 1994 in conformance with 20 AAC 2&..~10. If a hearing Is to be held, Interested parties may confirm this by calling the ICommisslon's. office (907) 279-1~3 after October 1:1, 1~4. If no protest is filed, the Com- mission will consider' the issu- ance of the order without a I hearing. · /s/Russell A. Douglass, Commissioner, Alaska O11 I and Gas Conservation . CommlSsion' '...,..,. t ~Ub:: seote'mber 28,. 1994 _2' Notice of Public Hearing STATE OF ALASKA Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Re~ The application of ARCO Alaska, Inc. for exception to 20 AAC 25.280 for the Greater Point Mclntyre Area/Prudhoe Bay Field, Pt. Mclntyre, Stump Island and Lisburne oil pools. ARCO 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 Pt. Mclntyre, Stump Island and Lisbume oil. pools of the Greater Point Mclntyre Area/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 fi. led and raises a substantial and material, issue crucial to the Commission's determination, a hearing on the matter will be held at the above address at 9:00 am on November 3, 1994 in conformance with 20 AAC 25.540. If a hearing is to be hel. d, interested parties may confirm this by calling the commission's office, (907) 279-1433 after October 13, 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, 1.994 BP EXPLORATION ARC° 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, Arco Alaska, Inc., operator of the Greater Point Mclntyre Area, request an exemption of 20 AAC 25.280(a) and (b) for all wells lying within the Greater Point Mclntyre Area including the Lisburne 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 Arco Alaska, Inc. 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 ARCO Alaska, Inc. Post Office Box 100360 Anchorage, Alaska 99510-0360 Telephone (907) 276-1215