Directive 065 - Energy Resources Conservation Board
Directive 065 - Energy Resources Conservation Board
Directive 065 - Energy Resources Conservation Board
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The resources applications for which this directive applies are divided into units as follows:<br />
1) Equity: rateable take, common purchaser, common carrier, common processor, and<br />
compulsory pooling<br />
2) <strong>Conservation</strong>: enhanced recovery scheme (gas cycling, waterflood, immiscible gas<br />
flood, miscible flood), concurrent production, and pool delineation and ultimate reserves<br />
3) Production Control: commingled production, good production practice (primary<br />
depletion pools), gas-oil ratio penalty relief, special maximum rate limitation, and gas<br />
allowable<br />
4) Disposal/Storage: disposal (water and waste), acid gas disposal, and underground gas<br />
storage<br />
5) Corporate Changes: change in name of the holder of an ERCB approval and change in<br />
holder of an ERCB approval<br />
6) Gas and Ethane Removal: short and long-term natural gas removal, short-term ethane<br />
removal.<br />
7) Special Well Spacing: holdings or units, special drilling spacing units, rescind a special<br />
drilling spacing unit, rescind a holding or unit, and modify spacing.<br />
The appendices include<br />
• list of references<br />
• notification templates<br />
• Application for Gas-Oil Ratio Penalty Relief (Form O-33)<br />
• Transfer of Approval form<br />
• list of ERCB contacts<br />
• Enhanced Recovery Scheme application form<br />
• gas and ethane removal application forms<br />
• Gas Reserves Data Sheet<br />
• EAS well spacing application forms and explanatory notes<br />
• special well spacing notification templates<br />
• special well spacing attachment examples<br />
• standard target areas and buffer zones<br />
• target area descriptions for special well spacing before October 6, 2011<br />
You are strongly encouraged to become familiar with the references listed in Appendix A<br />
before completing your applications.<br />
What’s New in <strong>Directive</strong> <strong>065</strong><br />
This March 2012 edition of <strong>Directive</strong> <strong>065</strong> contains the following key changes.<br />
• Unit 3.1: Commingled Production has been amended.<br />
− The notification requirements for development entity (DE) and self-declared (SD)<br />
commingling processes have been eliminated.<br />
− The decision tree criterion below has been deleted in the DE and SD decision trees:<br />
Are there any water wells within a 600 m radius with a total depth less than 25 m<br />
rom the top of the perforations of the well proposed for commingling?<br />
6 • ERCB <strong>Directive</strong> <strong>065</strong>: <strong>Resources</strong> Applications / How to Use This <strong>Directive</strong> (March 2012)
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