All drilling and operation at any well performed by a permittee
under this article shall be conducted in accordance with the best
practices of the reasonably prudent operator. All casing, valves,
and blowout preventers, drilling fluid, tubing, bradenhead, Christmas
tree, and wellhead connections shall be of a type and quality consistent
with the best practices of such reasonably prudent operator. Setting
and cementing casing and running drill stem tests shall be performed
in a manner and at a time consistent with the best practices of such
reasonably prudent operation. Each permittee under this article shall
observe and follow the recommendations and/or regulations of the American
Petroleum Institute and the RRC.
(1983 Code, sec. 14-163; Ordinance 8327, sec. 2 (19A-14), adopted 5/28/1982; Ordinance 2015-O0021 adopted 3/12/2015)
No construction activities involving excavation of, alteration
to, or repair work on any access road or pad site shall occur except
between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. Truck deliveries of equipment
and materials associated with drilling and/or production, Well servicing,
site preparation and other related work conducted on the well site
shall be limited to the hours between 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. except
in cases of fires, blowouts, explosions and any other emergencies
or where the delivery of equipment is necessary to prevent the cessation
of drilling or production. Fracturing operations and flaring shall
be limited to the hours between 7:00 am and 7:00 pm.
(Ordinance 2015-O0021 adopted 3/12/2015)
All engines on any drill site or production equipment shall
have adequate mufflers and spark arrestors. No drilling rig or derrick
shall remain at the drill site for a period longer than thirty (30)
days after completion, abandonment, or reworking of the well. The
permittee shall keep a watchman or workman on premises at all times
from commencement of drilling until the well is abandoned and plugged
or completed as a producer and enclosed with a fence.
(1983 Code, sec. 14-161; Ordinance 8327, sec. 2 (19A-12), adopted 5/28/1982; Ordinance 2015-O0021 adopted 3/12/2015)
(a) Drilling
mud, cuttings, liquid hydrocarbons and all other field waste derived
or resulting from or connected with the drilling, reworking or deepening
of any well shall be discharged into aboveground tanks (closed loop
mud system) if the well bore is located within five hundred (500)
feet of an occupied residential or commercial structure, or an existing
church, public or private school, hospital, nursing home, college
or university, daycare center or public athletic field, or domestic
water well.
(b) Earthen
pits may be used in connection with drilling and reworking operations
located at a greater distance than five hundred (500) feet of an occupied
residential or commercial structure, or an existing church, public
or private school, hospital, nursing home, college or university,
daycare center or public athletic field or domestic water well. Any
earthen pits shall, as a minimum requirement, be lined with six (6)
inches of bentonite clay and a plastic liner of eight (8) mil thickness.
Such tanks or pits and contents shall be removed from the premises
and the drilling site within thirty (30) days after completion of
the well. Removal of the tanks or pits and contents shall be accomplished
in such a manner as will preclude any possible contamination of underground
and percolating water.
(1983 Code, sec. 14-162; Ordinance 8327, sec. 2 (19A-13), adopted 5/28/1982; Ordinance 2015-O0021 adopted 3/12/2015)
The premises of the drill site and the storage facility for
production from the well under this application/permit shall be kept
in a clean and sanitary condition free from rubbish of every character,
to the satisfaction of the city manager, at all times drilling operations
are being conducted, and as long thereafter as oil and/or gas is being
produced therefrom. Any litter, trash, or waste shall be cleared from
the premises immediately, and any spills shall also be cleared immediately.
All production equipment, including, but not limited to, pumping units,
storage units, storage tanks, buildings, and structures on the site,
shall be painted a neutral color and shall be maintained for appearance
at all times. The permittee shall provide a sign no larger than eighteen
(18) inches square and attached to the fence surrounding the well
site, posting the name, address, and telephone number of a party in
the city responsible for maintaining the site. It shall be unlawful
for any permittee, his agent or employee to permit within the corporate
limits of the city any mud, water, waste oil, slush or other waste
matter from any slush pit, storage tank, or oil and/or gas well located
within the corporate limits of the city, or from any premises within
the city, developed or being developed for oil and/or gas purposes,
to escape into the alleys, streets, lots, land or leases within the
corporate limits of the city.
(1983 Code, sec. 14-164; Ordinance 8327, sec. 2 (19A-15), adopted 5/28/1982; Ordinance 2015-O0021 adopted 3/12/2015)
Motive power for all operations after completion of drilling
operations shall be electricity, or properly muffled gas, gasoline
or diesel engines.
(1983 Code, sec. 14-165; Ordinance 8327, sec. 2 (19A-16), adopted 5/28/1982; Ordinance 2015-O0021 adopted 3/12/2015)
(a) It
shall be unlawful and an offense for any person to use, construct
or operate, in connection with any producing well within the city
limits, any crude oil storage tanks or produced water tanks, except
to the extent of two (2) low-type steel tanks for oil storage, not
exceeding five hundred (500) barrels’ capacity each and so constructed
and maintained as to be vaportight with appropriate safety or pressure
release devices and level control devices. A permittee may use, construct
and operate a steel conventional separator, and such other steel tanks
and appurtenances as are necessary for treating oil with each of such
facilities to be so constructed and maintained as to be vaportight.
Each oil, gas separator shall be equipped with both a regulation pressure
relief safety valve and a bursting head. All such tanks shall be placed
upon a suitable earth or concrete pad and shall be equipped with lightning
arrestor systems.
(b) The
tank or tanks shall be enclosed with a conventional type fire wall
constructed of compacted earth; sufficient water shall be used during
the fire wall construction to assure adequate compaction.
(c) The
fire wall enclosing the tanks shall have a minimum capacity equal
to two (2) times the volume of the tanks enclosed. Drip pots shall
be provided at the pump out connection to contain the liquids from
the storage tanks.
(d) The
top or crown of the fire wall shall have a minimum height of three
(3) feet above normal ground elevation.
(e) The
tanks shall be recessed within the fire wall enclosure to such depth
that will assure them being practically “sight clear”
when viewed from without the fenced enclosure.
(f) The
separators shall be installed for operation in a horizontal or vertical
position, height not to exceed ten (10) feet above tank level.
(g) Any
oil or gas produced may be transported outside of the city limits
by underground pipelines.
(h) Each
storage tank and/or separator shall be enclosed by a substantial cyclone
fence a minimum of eight (8) feet in height and properly built so
as to ordinarily keep persons and animals out of the enclosure, with
all the gates thereto to be kept locked when the permittee or his
employees are not within the enclosure.
(i) Any
site that produces more than one barrel of condensate per day shall
install a vapor recovery unit on the site.
(1983 Code, sec. 14-166; Ordinance 8327, sec. 2 (19A-17), adopted 5/28/1982; Ordinance 2015-O0021 adopted 3/12/2015)
Any person who completes any well as a producer shall have the
obligation to enclose such well, together with its surface facilities,
by a substantial cyclone fence sufficiently high and properly built
so as to ordinarily keep persons and animals out of the enclosure,
with all gates to be kept locked when the permittee or his employees
are not within the enclosure.
(1983 Code, sec. 14-167; Ordinance 8327, sec. 2 (19A-18), adopted 5/28/1982; Ordinance 2015-O0021 adopted 3/12/2015)
All oil operations, drilling and production operations shall
be conducted in such a manner as to eliminate, as far as practicable,
dust, noise, vibration or noxious odors and shall be in accordance
with the best accepted practices incident to exploration for, drilling
for and production of oil, gas and other hydrocarbon substances. Proven
technological improvements in exploration, drilling and production
methods shall be adopted as they become, from time to time, available,
if capable of reducing factors of nuisance and annoyance.
(1983 Code, sec. 14-168; Ordinance 8327, sec. 2 (19A-19), adopted 5/28/1982; Ordinance 2015-O0021 adopted 3/12/2015)
(a) No
permittee engaged in the drilling or operation of an oil and/or gas
well within the corporate limits of the city shall permit gas to escape
into the air, or flare or burn gas from a torch or any similar means
within the corporate limits of the city; provided, gas may be burned
for a limited time when necessary to complete an oil and/or gas well
upon the original completion or upon the recompletion of workover
jobs upon oil and/or gas wells, so long as the same does not constitute
a fire hazard to the property of others within the vicinity of such
oil and/or gas well. Such vent or open flame shall be screened with
a flare bonnet or other similar device in such a way as to minimize
detrimental effects to adjacent property owners. Operator shall provide
notice to the fire marshal prior to any open flaring. No gas may be
flared between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., except in case
of an emergency.
(b) All
material safety data sheets (MSDS) for all hazardous materials that
will be located, stored, transported, and/or temporarily used on the
operations site shall be kept on site. All hazardous materials shall
be safely stored according to any applicable federal, state, or local
laws, rules, and regulations. Adequate firefighting apparatus and
supplies, approved by the fire department of the city shall be maintained
on the drilling site at all times during drilling and production operations
at the operator’s cost. The operator shall be responsible for
the maintenance and upkeep of such equipment. Each well shall be equipped
with an automated valve that closes the well in the event of an abnormal
change in operating pressure. All well heads shall contain an emergency
shut-off valve to the well distribution line. Emergency personnel
must have access to the site. All machinery, equipment, and installations
on all drilling sites within the city limits shall conform with such
requirements as may from time to time be issued by the fire department
of the city.
(c) The
fire marshal shall receive written notice from the applicant a minimum
of one (1) week prior to commencing active drilling, and notified
again upon termination of drilling activities. The applicant shall
provide a copy of such notice to the city manager a minimum of one
(1) week prior to commencing active drilling, and upon termination
of drilling activities.
(d) If
required by the RRC, equipment for the monitoring of hydrogen sulfide
(“H2S”) gas shall be used during
drilling.
(e) Within
sixty (60) days after completion, and annually thereafter, operator
shall submit to the city manager results of testing to determine the
concentration of H2S produced from the well.
If the results of the H2S testing proves to
be 100 PPM H2S or greater, the operator is
responsible for determining the 100 PPM H2S
radius of exposure for each well and production facility. Wells and
facilities where the concentration of H2S is
equal to or greater than 100 PPM will be considered “sour.”
Safety systems described herein must be approved by the fire marshal.
(1) The following safety alarms and equipment are required at the well
site of all wells that are capable of producing at an average rate
sustained over a three-month period of at least 125 barrels of oil
per day and/or 300 MCF of gas per day and for “sour” wells
whose 100 PPM H2S radius of exposure is greater
than fifty (50) feet:
(A) H2S monitors located along the fencing;
(B) Automated audible alarms to provide warnings for a substantial drop
in pressure or for the presence of H2S in concentrations
greater than 100 PPM; and
(C) Automated valve to shut-in production from the well if a substantial
drop in pressure or if the presence of H2S
in concentrations greater than 100 PPM is detected.
(2) The following safety alarms and equipment are required at sour tank
battery facilities that are capable of producing at an average rate
sustained over a three-month period of at least 125 barrels of oil
per day and/or 300 MCF of gas per day and for sour wells whose 100
PPM H2S radius of exposure is greater than
fifty (50) feet:
(A) H2S monitors located along the fencing;
(B) Automated audible alarm to provide warnings for the presence of H2S in concentrations greater 100 PPM; and
(C) An electrical device capable of shutting down power to all “sour”
wells producing into the battery in the event H2S in concentrations great than 100 PPM is detected.
(1983 Code, sec. 14-169; Ordinance 8327, sec. 2 (19A-20), adopted 5/28/1982; Ordinance 2015-O0021 adopted 3/12/2015)
(a) Unless
otherwise permitted by law, salt water disposal wells shall not be
allowed or permitted within the corporate limits of the city.
(b) Permittee
shall make adequate provisions for the disposal of all salt water
or other impurities which he may bring to the surface. Such disposal
shall be made in such manner as to not contaminate the fresh water
supply, present or prospective, or to injure surface vegetation. The
permittee shall promptly restore or make restitution for any damage
caused by the permittee, intentional or accidental, of the water supply
or surface vegetation at and adjacent to the drill site or oil/gas
storage site.
(1983 Code, sec. 14-170; Ordinance 8327, sec. 2 (19A-22), adopted 5/28/1982; Ordinance 2015-O0021 adopted 3/12/2015)
(a) At
the written request of a surface owner to the permittee, a third party
contractor shall collect and analyze a pre-drilling, a post-drilling,
and a post-fracturing water analysis from any existing fresh water
wells within three hundred (300) feet of an oil and gas well. The
cost of such analysis fees and charges assessed by the third party
contractor shall be borne by the permittee.
(b) Well
samples shall be collected and analyzed prior to any drilling activity
to document baseline water quality data of the well. A post-drilling
sample shall be collected and analyzed after the conclusion of drilling
of each well. A post fracturing sample shall be collected and analyzed
after the conclusion of each fracturing operation.
(Ordinance 2015-O0021 adopted 3/12/2015)
Whenever any well is abandoned, it shall be the obligation of
the permittee and the operator of the well to set a three hundred
eighty-five (385) foot cement plug in the bottom of the surface casing
with the bottom of the plug one hundred (100) feet below the surface
casing section, and the top of the plug one hundred (100) feet above
the surface casing section; and to set a fifty-foot cement plug in
the top of the surface casing. No surface or conductor string of casing
may be pulled or removed from a well. During initial abandonment operations
it shall be the obligation of the permittee and the operator of the
well to flood the well with mud-laden fluid weighing not less than
ten (10) pounds per gallon, and the well shall be kept filled to the
top with such mud-laden fluid at all times. Mud-laden fluid of the
above specifications shall be left in the well bore below and between
cement plugs. Any additional provisions or precautionary measures
prescribed by the state, in connection with the abandonment and plugging
of a well, shall be complied with by the permittee. The well site
shall be restored to the original condition of the land, including
any displaced landscaping and topsoil.
(1983 Code, sec. 14-171; Ordinance 8327, sec. 2 (19A-21), adopted 5/28/1982; Ordinance 2015-O0021 adopted 3/12/2015)