[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 30, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 30CFR203.89]

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                       TITLE 30--MINERAL RESOURCES
 
                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 203--RELIEF OR REDUCTION IN ROYALTY RATES--Table of Contents
 
               Subpart B--OCS Oil, Gas, and Sulfur General
 
Sec. 203.89  What is in a deep water cost report?

    This report lists all actual and projected costs for your field, 
must explain and document the source of each cost estimate, and must 
identify the following elements.
    (a) Sunk costs. Report sunk costs in dollars not adjusted for 
inflation and only if you have documentation.
    (b) Appraisal, delineation and development costs. Base them on 
actual spending, current authorization for expenditure, engineering 
estimates, or analogous projects. These costs cover:
    (1) Platform well drilling and average depth;
    (2) Platform well completion;
    (3) Subsea well drilling and average depth;

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    (4) Subsea well completion;
    (5) Production system (platform); and
    (6) Flowline fabrication and installation.
    (c) Production costs based on historical costs, engineering 
estimates, or analogous projects. These costs cover:
    (1) Operation;
    (2) Equipment; and
    (3) Existing royalty overrides (we will not use the royalty 
overrides in evaluations).
    (d) Transportation costs, based on historical costs, engineering 
estimates, or analogous projects. These costs cover:
    (1) Oil or gas tariffs from pipeline or tankerage;
    (2) Trunkline and tieback lines; and
    (3) Gas plant processing for natural gas liquids.
    (e) Abandonment costs, based on historical costs, engineering 
estimates, or analogous projects. You should provide the costs to plug 
and abandon only wells and to remove only production systems for which 
you have not incurred costs as of the time of application submission. 
You should also include a point estimate or distribution of prospective 
salvage value for all potentially reusable facilities and materials, 
along with the source and an explanation of the figures provided.
    (f) A set of cost estimates consistent with each one of up to three 
field-development scenarios and production profiles (conservative, most 
likely, optimistic). You should express costs in constant real dollar 
terms for the base year. You may also express the uncertainty of each 
cost estimate with a minimum and maximum percentage of the base value.
    (g) A spending schedule. You should provide costs for each year (in 
real dollars) for each category in paragraphs (a) through (f) of this 
section.
    (h) A summary of other costs which are ineligible for evaluating 
your need for relief. These costs cover:
    (1) Expenses before first discovery on the field;
    (2) Cash bonuses;
    (3) Fees for royalty relief applications;
    (4) Lease rentals, royalties, and payments of net profit share and 
net revenue share;
    (5) Legal expenses;
    (6) Damages and losses;
    (7) Taxes;
    (8) Interest or finance charges, including those embedded in 
equipment leases;
    (9) Fines or penalties; and
    (10) Money spent on previously existing obligations (e.g., royalty 
overrides or other forms of payment for acquiring a financial position 
in a lease, expenditures for plugging wells and removing and abandoning 
facilities that existed on the application submission date).

[63 FR 2618, Jan. 16, 1998, as amended at 67 FR 1880, Jan. 15, 2002]