Directive 065: Resources Applications for Oil and Gas Reservoirs ...

Requirements
• an evaluation of the potential of
fracture propagation from the
hydrocarbon zone into the water
zone,
(iii) why commingling of the sour gas
will not cause problems, including
contamination of sweet pool, with
supporting technical evaluation,
(iv) why commingling will not
adversely impact recovery from the
oil pool, with supporting technical
evaluation,
(v) why the differences in pressure
between the pools will not be a
safety issue if commingling is
permitted, with supporting
technical evaluation; provide an
explanation of why the higher
pressured zone/s cannot be
produced first so that the pressure
depletion will allow the addition of
lower pressured zones at a later
date,
(vi) why the commingling will not
adversely impact the operation of
the enhanced recovery scheme,
with supporting technical
evaluation, or
(vii) why the commingling will not
have any adverse impacts, with
supporting technical evaluation.
3) A description of your notice program,
including
a) lists of the parties notified,
Comments
The parties that must be notified are set out
in the Table 3.1 in Section 3.1.3.5.
You must provide a tabulation of Freehold
owners and well licensees notified. The
tabulation should include the legal land
description by DSU for the area of
notification and the names of the mineral
owner(s), except as noted below, and well
licensees contacted for each DSU.
The tabulation must not include the names of
individual Freehold mineral owners, as this
might raise privacy issues. For these persons,
the tabulation should specify “Freehold –
Individual.”
You must compile a list of the names, legal
description of the land involved, and mailing
ERCB Directive 065: Resources Applications / Commingled Production (October 2011) • 3-23