[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 43, Volume 2]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 43CFR3162.3-2]



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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR

 

    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

 

PART 3160_ONSHORE OIL AND GAS OPERATIONS--Table of Contents

 

   Subpart 3162_Requirements for Operating Rights Owners and Operators

 

Sec.  3162.3-2  Subsequent well operations.



    (a) A proposal for further well operations shall be submitted by the 

operator on Form 3160-5 for approval by the authorized officer prior to 

commencing operations to redrill, deepen, perform casing repairs, plug-

back, alter casing, perform nonroutine fracturing jobs, recomplete in a 

different interval, perform water shut off, commingling production 

between intervals and/or conversion to injection. If there is additional 

surface distubance, the proposal shall include a surface use plan of 

operations. A subsequent report on these operations also will be filed 

on Form 3160-5. The authorized officer may prescribe that each proposal 

contain all or a portion of the information set forth in Sec.  3162.3-1 

of this title.

    (b) Unless additional surface disturbance is involved and if the 

operations conform to the standard of prudent operating practice, prior 

approval is not required for routine fracturing or acidizing jobs, or 

recompletion in the same interval; however, a subsequent report on these 

operations must be filed on Form 3160-5.

    (c) No prior approval or a subsequent report is required for well 

cleanout work, routine well maintenance, or bottom hole pressure 

surveys.



[47 FR 47765, Oct. 27, 1982. Redesignated and amended at 48 FR 36583-

36586, Aug. 12, 1983, further amended at 52 FR 5391, Feb. 20, 1987; 53 

FR 17363, May 16, 1988; 53 FR 22847, June 17, 1988]