43 CFR Part 3170
PART 3170—ONSHORE OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION
- PART 3170—ONSHORE OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION
- Subtitle B—Regulations Relating to Public Lands › Chapter II—Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior › Subchapter C—Minerals Management (3000)
- Subpart 3170—Onshore Oil and Gas Production: General
- § 3170.1 Authority.
- § 3170.2 Scope.
- § 3170.3 Definitions and acronyms.
- § 3170.4 Prohibitions against by-pass and tampering.
- § 3170.5 [Reserved]
- § 3170.6 Variances.
- § 3170.7 Required recordkeeping, records retention, and records submission.
- § 3170.8 Appeal procedures.
- § 3170.9 Enforcement.
- Subpart 3171—Approval of Operations
- § 3171.1 Authority.
- § 3171.2 Purpose.
- § 3171.3 Scope.
- § 3171.4 Definitions.
- § 3171.5 Application for Permit to Drill (APD).
- § 3171.6 Components of a complete APD package.
- § 3171.7 Drilling plan.
- § 3171.8 Surface Use Plan of Operations.
- § 3171.9 Bonding.
- § 3171.10 Operator certification.
- § 3171.11 Onsite inspection.
- § 3171.12 APD posting and processing.
- § 3171.13 Approval of APDs.
- § 3171.14 Valid Period of Approved APD.
- § 3171.15 Master Development Plans.
- § 3171.16 Waiver from electronic submission requirements.
- § 3171.17 General operating requirements—operator responsibilities.
- § 3171.18 Rights-of-Way and Special Use Authorizations.
- § 3171.19 Operating on lands with non-Federal surface and Federal oil and gas.
- § 3171.20 Leases for Indian oil and gas.
- § 3171.21 Subsequent operations and Sundry Notices.
- § 3171.22 Well conversions.
- § 3171.23 Variances.
- § 3171.24 Waivers, exceptions, or modifications.
- § 3171.25 Abandonment.
- § 3171.26 Appeal procedures.
- Appendix A to Subpart 3171—Sample Format for Notice of Staking
- Subpart 3172—Drilling Operations on Federal and Indian Oil and Gas Leases
- § 3172.1 Authority.
- § 3172.2 Purpose.
- § 3172.3 Scope.
- § 3172.4 General.
- § 3172.5 Definitions.
- § 3172.6 Well control.
- § 3172.7 Casing and cementing.
- § 3172.8 Mud program.
- § 3172.9 Drill stem testing.
- § 3172.10 Special drilling operations.
- § 3172.11 Surface use.
- § 3172.12 Drilling abandonment.
- § 3172.13 Variances from minimum standards.
- Appendix A to Subpart 3172—Diagrams of Choke Manifold Equipment
- Subpart 3173—Requirements for Site Security and Production Handling
- § 3173.1 Definitions and acronyms.
- § 3173.2 Storage and sales facilities—seals.
- § 3173.3 Oil measurement system components—seals.
- § 3173.4 Federal seals.
- § 3173.5 Removing production from tanks for sale and transportation by truck.
- § 3173.6 Water-draining operations.
- § 3173.7 Hot oiling, clean-up, and completion operations.
- § 3173.8 Report of theft or mishandling of production.
- § 3173.9 Required recordkeeping for inventory and seal records.
- § 3173.10 Form 3160-5, Sundry Notices and Reports on Wells.
- § 3173.11 Site facility diagram.
- § 3173.12 Applying for a facility measurement point.
- § 3173.13 Requirements for approved facility measurement points.
- § 3173.14 Conditions for commingling and allocation approval (surface and downhole).
- § 3173.15 Applying for a commingling and allocation approval.
- § 3173.16 Existing commingling and allocation approvals.
- § 3173.17 Relationship of a commingling and allocation approval to royalty-free use of production.
- § 3173.18 Modification of a commingling and allocation approval.
- § 3173.19 Effective date of a commingling and allocation approval.
- § 3173.20 Terminating a commingling and allocation approval.
- § 3173.21 Combining production downhole in certain circumstances.
- § 3173.22 Requirements for off-lease measurement.
- § 3173.23 Applying for off-lease measurement.
- § 3173.24 Effective date of an off-lease measurement approval.
- § 3173.25 Existing approved off-lease measurement.
- § 3173.26 Relationship of off-lease measurement approval to royalty-free use of production.
- § 3173.27 Termination of off-lease measurement approval.
- § 3173.28 Instances not constituting off-lease measurement, for which no approval is required.
- § 3173.29 Immediate assessments for certain violations.
- Appendix A to Subpart 3173 of Part 3170—Examples of Site Facility Diagrams
- Subpart 3174—Measurement of Oil
- § 3174.1 Definitions and acronyms.
- § 3174.2 General requirements.
- § 3174.3 Incorporation by reference (IBR).
- § 3174.4 Specific measurement performance requirements.
- § 3174.5 Oil measurement by tank gauging—general requirements.
- § 3174.6 Oil measurement by tank gauging—procedures.
- § 3174.7 LACT system—general requirements.
- § 3174.8 LACT system—components and operating requirements.
- § 3174.9 Coriolis measurement systems (CMS)—general requirements and components.
- § 3174.10 Coriolis meter for LACT and CMS measurement applications—operating requirements.
- § 3174.11 Meter-proving requirements.
- § 3174.12 Measurement tickets.
- § 3174.13 Oil measurement by other methods.
- § 3174.14 Determination of oil volumes by methods other than measurement.
- § 3174.15 Immediate assessments.
- Subpart 3175—Measurement of Gas
- § 3175.10 Definitions and acronyms.
- § 3175.20 General requirements.
- § 3175.30 Incorporation by reference.
- § 3175.31 Specific performance requirements.
- § 3175.40 Measurement equipment approved by standard or make and model.
- § 3175.41 Flange-tapped orifice plates.
- § 3175.42 Chart recorders.
- § 3175.43 Transducers.
- § 3175.44 Flow-computer software.
- § 3175.45 Gas chromatographs.
- § 3175.46 Isolating flow conditioners.
- § 3175.47 Differential primary devices other than flange-tapped orifice plates.
- § 3175.48 Linear measurement devices.
- § 3175.49 Accounting systems.
- § 3175.60 Timeframes for compliance.
- § 3175.61 Grandfathering.
- § 3175.70 Measurement location.
- § 3175.80 Flange-tapped orifice plates (primary devices).
- § 3175.90 Mechanical recorder (secondary device).
- § 3175.91 Installation and operation of mechanical recorders.
- § 3175.92 Verification and calibration of mechanical recorders.
- § 3175.93 Integration statements.
- § 3175.94 Volume determination.
- § 3175.100 Electronic gas measurement (secondary and tertiary device).
- § 3175.101 Installation and operation of electronic gas measurement systems.
- § 3175.102 Verification and calibration of electronic gas measurement systems.
- § 3175.103 Flow rate, volume, and average value calculation.
- § 3175.104 Logs and records.
- § 3175.110 Gas sampling and analysis.
- § 3175.111 General sampling requirements.
- § 3175.112 Sampling probe and tubing.
- § 3175.113 Spot samples—general requirements.
- § 3175.114 Spot samples—allowable methods.
- § 3175.115 Spot samples—frequency.
- § 3175.116 Composite sampling methods.
- § 3175.117 On-line gas chromatographs.
- § 3175.118 Gas chromatograph requirements.
- § 3175.119 Components to analyze.
- § 3175.120 Gas analysis report requirements.
- § 3175.121 Effective date of a spot or composite gas sample.
- § 3175.125 Calculation of heating value and volume
- § 3175.126 Reporting of heating value and volume.
- § 3175.130 Transducer testing protocol.
- § 3175.131 General requirements for transducer testing.
- § 3175.132 Testing of reference accuracy.
- § 3175.133 Testing of influence effects.
- § 3175.134 Transducer test reporting.
- § 3175.135 Uncertainty determination.
- § 3175.140 Flow-computer software testing.
- § 3175.141 General requirements for flow-computer software testing.
- § 3175.142 Required static tests.
- § 3175.143 Required dynamic tests.
- § 3175.144 Flow-computer software test reporting.
- § 3175.150 Immediate assessments.
- Appendix A to Subpart 3175 of Part 3170—Table of Atmospheric Pressures
- Subpart 3176—Onshore Oil and Gas Production: Hydrogen Sulfide Operations
- § 3176.1 Authority.
- § 3176.2 Purpose.
- § 3176.3 Scope.
- § 3176.4 Definitions.
- § 3176.5 Requirements.
- § 3176.6 Applications, approvals, and reports.
- § 3176.7 Public protection.
- § 3176.8 Drilling/completion/workover requirements.
- § 3176.9 Production requirements.
- § 3176.10 Variances from requirements.
- § 3176.11 Incorporation by reference.
- Subpart 3177—Onshore Oil and Gas Production: Disposal of Produced Water
- § 3177.1 Authority.
- § 3177.2 Purpose.
- § 3177.3 Scope.
- § 3177.4 Definitions.
- § 3177.5 Requirements.
- § 3177.6 Application and approval authority.
- § 3177.7 Informational requirements for injection wells.
- § 3177.8 Informational requirements for pits.
- § 3177.9 Design requirements for pits.
- § 3177.10 Construction and maintenance requirements for pits.
- § 3177.11 Other disposal methods.
- § 3177.12 Reporting requirements for disposal facilities.
- § 3177.13 Variances from requirements or minimum standards.
- Appendix A to Subpart 3177—Examples of Acceptable Designs and Construction
- Subpart 3178—Royalty-Free Use of Lease Production
- § 3178.1 Purpose.
- § 3178.2 Scope.
- § 3178.3 Production on which royalty is not due.
- § 3178.4 Uses of oil or gas on a lease, unit, or communitized area that do not require prior written BLM approval for royalty-free treatment of volumes used.
- § 3178.5 Uses of oil or gas on a lease, unit, or communitized area that require prior written BLM approval for royalty-free treatment of volumes used.
- § 3178.6 Uses of oil or gas moved off the lease, unit, or communitized area that do not require prior written approval for royalty-free treatment of volumes used.
- § 3178.7 Uses of oil or gas moved off the lease, unit, or communitized area that require prior written approval for royalty-free treatment of volumes used.
- § 3178.8 Measurement or estimation of volumes of oil or gas that are used royalty-free.
- § 3178.9 Requesting approval of royalty-free treatment when approval is required.
- § 3178.10 Facility and equipment ownership.
- Subpart 3179—Waste Prevention and Resource Conservation
- § 3179.1 Purpose.
- § 3179.2 Scope.
- § 3179.10 Definitions and acronyms.
- § 3179.11 Severability.
- § 3179.30 Incorporation by Reference (IBR).
- § 3179.40 Reasonable precautions to prevent waste.
- § 3179.41 Determining when the loss of oil or gas is avoidable or unavoidable.
- § 3179.42 When lost production is subject to royalty.
- § 3179.43 Data submission and notification requirements.
- § 3179.50 Safety.
- § 3179.60 Gas-well gas.
- § 3179.70 Oil-well gas.
- § 3179.71 Measurement of flared oil-well gas volume.
- § 3179.72 Required reporting and recordkeeping of vented and flared gas volumes.
- § 3179.73 Prior determinations regarding royalty-free flaring.
- Flaring and Venting Gas During Drilling and Production Operations
- § 3179.80 Loss of well control while drilling.
- § 3179.81 Well completion or recompletion flaring allowance.
- § 3179.82 Subsequent well tests for an existing completion.
- § 3179.83 Emergencies.
- Gas Flared or Vented From Equipment and During Well Maintenance Operations
- § 3179.90 Oil storage tank vapors.
- § 3179.91 Downhole well maintenance and liquids unloading.
- § 3179.92 Size of production equipment.
- Leak Detection and Repair (LDAR)
- § 3179.100 Leak detection and repair program.
- § 3179.101 Repairing leaks.
- § 3179.102 Required recordkeeping for leak detection and repair.
- Immediate Assessments
- § 3179.200 Immediate assessments
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