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

7.4.1 Quick Application Path
Well spacing applications that meet all of the baseline criteria outlined below and clearly
meet all Directive 065 requirements qualify to be processed in an expedited manner using a
quick application path. The review emphasis for quick path applications shifts from the
reservoir’s behaviour in the application area to behaviour in the adjacent previously approved
and developed DSU.
Minimum Baseline Criteria for the Quick Application Processing Path
1) Each applied-for holding within the application area must be adjacent to an existing
approval. See Figure 7.5.
2) Each DSU in the area of application must be adjacent to a DSU that has approved spacing
and proven production information from a well in the applied-for formation(s).
3) The applied-for well density must be less than or equal to the approved well density.
4) Proposed well densities must be no more than two wells per pool per quarter section for
oil and four wells per pool per section for gas.
Figure 7.5. Quick application path
5) Standard buffer zones must be proposed.
Applications that are filed in the quick application pathway but that do not meet all the
baseline criteria for the quick application path will be closed.
7.4.2 Standard Application Path
If the application does not meet the quick application path criteria, it must meet all of the
following minimum baseline criteria to be processed on the standard application path:
Minimum Baseline Criteria for the Standard Application Processing Path
1) Any part of a holding must be within three standard DSUs of an existing approval. See
Figure 7.6.
2) There must be proven production information from the applied-for formation(s)/pool(s)
in each proposed holding/unit.
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