WEBVTT 00:01:07.810 --> 00:01:08.820 Good morning, and thank you 00:01:08.820 --> 00:01:10.680 for attending this webinar. 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:12.470 You will be able to submit questions 00:01:12.470 --> 00:01:15.450 throughout the presentation, by clicking the Q&A button 00:01:15.450 --> 00:01:17.920 in the center of the bottom of your window. 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:20.280 You will see both the questions and responses 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:21.960 after they have been answered. 00:01:21.960 --> 00:01:24.390 Some questions may be held for answer until the end 00:01:24.390 --> 00:01:26.000 of the presentation. 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:29.020 Presentations and webinar recordings are all available 00:01:29.020 --> 00:01:32.610 by navigating to RRC regulatory webinars 00:01:32.610 --> 00:01:35.340 from the Oil & Gas Workshops and Seminars page 00:01:35.340 --> 00:01:38.250 on the Railroad Commission of Texas website. 00:01:38.250 --> 00:01:40.340 All right, let's go ahead and get started. 00:01:40.340 --> 00:01:42.330 Our presenter this morning is Rob Castillo 00:01:42.330 --> 00:01:44.490 from the Injection-Storage Permits department 00:01:44.490 --> 00:01:46.090 in the technical permitting section 00:01:46.090 --> 00:01:47.660 of the oil and gas division. 00:01:47.660 --> 00:01:49.010 Rob, whenever you're ready. 00:01:50.049 --> 00:01:51.850 Thanks Molly. 00:01:51.850 --> 00:01:52.710 How's it going everyone? 00:01:52.710 --> 00:01:54.830 My name is Rob Castillo. 00:01:54.830 --> 00:01:57.680 I am one of the technical parameters 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:01.751 here at the Railroad Commission, specifically the UIC group. 00:02:01.751 --> 00:02:05.720 First I just wanna thank everyone for being here today. 00:02:05.720 --> 00:02:08.360 The fact that this is a crazy time in our world 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:10.721 and the fact that you're here, means that you care about 00:02:10.721 --> 00:02:13.460 doing these applications correctly. 00:02:13.460 --> 00:02:17.330 Hopefully by the time I finished this presentation, 00:02:17.330 --> 00:02:19.470 you'll feel a little bit more comfortable 00:02:19.470 --> 00:02:22.860 about doing these permit applications by yourself. 00:02:22.860 --> 00:02:24.513 All right, well, let's go and get started. 00:02:28.050 --> 00:02:29.230 This is kind of just an overview 00:02:29.230 --> 00:02:30.680 of what we're gonna go over today. 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:34.724 I'm gonna briefly talk about the UIC Online Manual. 00:02:34.724 --> 00:02:37.270 I'm gonna go into a little bit about the origins 00:02:37.270 --> 00:02:40.120 of our program but then we're gonna get into the meat of it. 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:42.430 We're gonna talk about the permit application details. 00:02:42.430 --> 00:02:43.532 All right. 00:02:43.532 --> 00:02:45.630 I'm gonna talk about the forms, attachments, 00:02:45.630 --> 00:02:48.420 the administrative technical and seismic review 00:02:48.420 --> 00:02:50.290 that goes into this. All right. 00:02:50.290 --> 00:02:52.430 Then I'm going to wrap things up 00:02:52.430 --> 00:02:55.833 with the post permitting protests and hearing. 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:04.540 UIC Online Manual, this is an amazing tool to use 00:03:04.540 --> 00:03:06.853 when you are doing your applications. 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:10.420 Everything that I'm gonna tell to you today, 00:03:10.420 --> 00:03:13.030 you can find it online. Where can you find it? 00:03:13.030 --> 00:03:14.230 That's a great question. 00:03:15.540 --> 00:03:19.030 You can go to our website, rrc.texas.gov. 00:03:19.030 --> 00:03:20.710 If you hover over oil and gas, 00:03:20.710 --> 00:03:23.310 it brings you down to a little drop box 00:03:23.310 --> 00:03:25.600 and you can go down and click on publication 00:03:25.600 --> 00:03:27.860 and notices you click on that 00:03:27.860 --> 00:03:30.123 and that's gonna bring you to this page right here. 00:03:31.030 --> 00:03:33.340 Under manuals, the first little tab right there, 00:03:33.340 --> 00:03:35.140 I've got it circled, click on that link. 00:03:35.140 --> 00:03:38.350 It's an injection/disposal well permitting. 00:03:38.350 --> 00:03:40.040 All right, click on that. 00:03:40.040 --> 00:03:41.350 We're almost there. I promise. 00:03:41.350 --> 00:03:44.570 These two pages right here, they're just great. 00:03:44.570 --> 00:03:48.030 Specifically the summary of standards and procedures, 00:03:48.030 --> 00:03:49.667 when you all call and say, 00:03:49.667 --> 00:03:52.700 "Hey, Rob, what do I do with this? 00:03:52.700 --> 00:03:55.210 What can I do about my administrative review, 00:03:55.210 --> 00:03:57.240 the packer setting or anything?" 00:03:57.240 --> 00:03:59.790 We all have these links open. 00:03:59.790 --> 00:04:01.769 It's just so useful. 00:04:01.769 --> 00:04:04.100 The summary of standards and procedures, 00:04:04.100 --> 00:04:06.770 it has templates for a lot 00:04:06.770 --> 00:04:09.240 of the administrative review attachments 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:10.840 that you're gonna need. 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:12.960 It goes into detail about the technical review 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:15.173 that we do on your application. 00:04:16.210 --> 00:04:18.691 It just has a lot of great information 00:04:18.691 --> 00:04:22.130 that you're gonna need to finish these applications. 00:04:22.130 --> 00:04:26.710 I highly recommend using these UIC Online Manual. 00:04:26.710 --> 00:04:28.300 Because it really is gonna help you out, 00:04:28.300 --> 00:04:29.750 and it's a great tool to use. 00:04:32.220 --> 00:04:35.073 All right, just a brief history of our program 00:04:35.073 --> 00:04:37.720 why did this all get started? 00:04:37.720 --> 00:04:41.930 Well, it was the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974. 00:04:43.690 --> 00:04:48.010 The main focus of this was to protect human health 00:04:48.010 --> 00:04:51.000 and the fresh water drinking sources that we use. 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:54.400 From that the, UIC, I'm gonna be using a lot of acronyms. 00:04:54.400 --> 00:04:58.580 The UIC or Underground Injection Control program 00:04:58.580 --> 00:04:59.560 was created. 00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:03.070 In our program, what we do is we prohibit 00:05:03.070 --> 00:05:05.670 the contamination of these USDW's, 00:05:05.670 --> 00:05:09.180 which in another acronym, what is the USDW? 00:05:09.180 --> 00:05:11.380 I'm gonna define this a little bit more later, 00:05:11.380 --> 00:05:15.443 but the USDW is an Underground Sources of Drinking Water. 00:05:16.678 --> 00:05:21.520 We're focusing on protecting the contamination of this USDW. 00:05:23.090 --> 00:05:27.430 In 1982, Texas being the great state that we are, 00:05:27.430 --> 00:05:28.950 we got privacy. 00:05:28.950 --> 00:05:31.220 We took the steering wheel on it. 00:05:31.220 --> 00:05:34.490 Ever since we've been really getting at it. 00:05:34.490 --> 00:05:39.490 Currently we've got about 33,000 active wells in our state. 00:05:39.580 --> 00:05:40.413 What does that mean? 00:05:40.413 --> 00:05:43.460 Well, that means that we are the largest UIC program 00:05:43.460 --> 00:05:44.543 in the nation. 00:05:47.640 --> 00:05:49.621 Remember I told you about the USDW 00:05:49.621 --> 00:05:50.650 and what really defines it. 00:05:50.650 --> 00:05:55.650 The USWD, we define it as anything as less than 10,000 00:05:56.250 --> 00:05:58.923 parts per million total dissolved solids, or TDS, 00:06:01.237 --> 00:06:02.120 as you probably know. 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:05.280 This is what the Safe Drinking Water protects 00:06:05.280 --> 00:06:08.400 in both Statewide Rule 9 and 46. 00:06:08.400 --> 00:06:11.710 It's this fresh water that's less than 10,000 parts 00:06:11.710 --> 00:06:13.070 per million. 00:06:13.070 --> 00:06:16.980 You also have probably heard us talk about the BUQW 00:06:16.980 --> 00:06:19.170 or the Base of the Usable-Quality Water. 00:06:19.170 --> 00:06:22.140 That's anything less than 3,000 parts 00:06:22.140 --> 00:06:24.770 per million total dissolved solids. 00:06:24.770 --> 00:06:26.770 Then sometimes on your determination letters 00:06:26.770 --> 00:06:28.490 you get from the groundwater unit, 00:06:28.490 --> 00:06:30.870 you'll see something called Superior Water. 00:06:30.870 --> 00:06:34.633 That's anything less than a 1,000 parts per million TDS. 00:06:35.820 --> 00:06:38.150 Here's a great little chart that shows 00:06:38.150 --> 00:06:41.230 the different types of classes that are monitored. 00:06:41.230 --> 00:06:44.320 The Commission, we only do class two and three. 00:06:44.320 --> 00:06:48.120 Today we're mostly just only gonna focus on class two. 00:06:48.120 --> 00:06:51.040 Class one, five and six, I believe the TCEQ 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:53.830 still monitors those class four, 00:06:53.830 --> 00:06:56.640 the BPA still looks over those. 00:06:56.640 --> 00:07:01.537 As you can see, 75% of the applications in wells we have 00:07:01.537 --> 00:07:04.360 are secondary or enhanced recovery. 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:09.110 24% are the disposal wells, and 1% is brine mining 00:07:09.110 --> 00:07:10.763 or hydrocarbon storage. 00:07:11.780 --> 00:07:14.083 Most of our wells are secondary and EOR wells. 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:18.720 All right, so you decided that you wanna do 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:20.430 an injection disposal well. 00:07:20.430 --> 00:07:23.710 What form are you going to use? 00:07:23.710 --> 00:07:26.463 That's a great question and it's a great starting point. 00:07:29.180 --> 00:07:32.490 If you are saying, you plan to dispose 00:07:32.490 --> 00:07:35.440 into a nonproductive formation, 00:07:35.440 --> 00:07:39.663 then you're going to need to use a Form W-14. 00:07:40.710 --> 00:07:42.050 If you plan to inject 00:07:42.050 --> 00:07:44.730 or to dispose into a productive formation, 00:07:44.730 --> 00:07:47.203 you're gonna need to use a Form H-1 and H-1A. 00:07:48.580 --> 00:07:52.650 W-14 there's a Statewide Rule 9. H-1 and H-1As, 00:07:52.650 --> 00:07:54.770 those are Statewide Rule 46. 00:07:54.770 --> 00:07:59.040 If you plan to inject into multiple zones, 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:01.520 do a H-1 and H1A because... 00:08:01.520 --> 00:08:04.300 What happens is whenever I get a W-14, 00:08:04.300 --> 00:08:07.680 what I do is I do a two mile radius search 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:11.440 around your well or propose well, and if... 00:08:11.440 --> 00:08:14.110 What I look for is I look for current 00:08:14.110 --> 00:08:16.290 or historical production. 00:08:16.290 --> 00:08:19.880 Let's say you plan to dispose into the X formation. 00:08:19.880 --> 00:08:21.681 I'm just making up a formation here. 00:08:21.681 --> 00:08:23.508 I'm going to go around and look. 00:08:23.508 --> 00:08:27.230 If I find any production, current or historical 00:08:27.230 --> 00:08:29.090 in this X formation, 00:08:29.090 --> 00:08:31.740 I'm gonna have to make you switch to an H-1 and H-1A. 00:08:32.650 --> 00:08:35.010 It's really unfortunate when we have to ask you 00:08:36.600 --> 00:08:37.947 20 days into this, 00:08:37.947 --> 00:08:39.540 "Hey, you need to switch forms. 00:08:39.540 --> 00:08:42.130 You're gonna have to renotify and republish." 00:08:42.130 --> 00:08:46.180 It's always important that you know what form to use. 00:08:46.180 --> 00:08:49.400 If you ever have any questions, feel free to give us a call. 00:08:49.400 --> 00:08:52.150 We'll try and help you out as best as we can with this. 00:08:53.630 --> 00:08:54.880 Obviously down here at the bottom, 00:08:54.880 --> 00:08:57.570 it says you need a mail the form and attachments 00:08:57.570 --> 00:09:00.900 to the UIC here in Austin, and you gotta send a copy 00:09:00.900 --> 00:09:01.790 to the district. 00:09:01.790 --> 00:09:04.160 If you just sent it to the district but not us, 00:09:04.160 --> 00:09:06.030 we're not gonna see it. 00:09:06.030 --> 00:09:08.370 Be sure you send us the form and then a copy 00:09:08.370 --> 00:09:09.533 to the district office. 00:09:11.488 --> 00:09:13.664 All right, what's the real difference from these forms 00:09:13.664 --> 00:09:16.370 other than being productive and non-productive? 00:09:16.370 --> 00:09:18.110 Well, it was about 250 bucks. 00:09:18.110 --> 00:09:21.480 The form W-14 was $250 for the fee. 00:09:23.596 --> 00:09:26.840 The H-1 and H-1A fee is $500. 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:28.933 Currently until the end of the year, 00:09:28.933 --> 00:09:31.323 we are waiving these fees. 00:09:33.950 --> 00:09:37.600 Exception requests, here's a good one, these are $375. 00:09:40.740 --> 00:09:43.890 These are example, let's say packer exceptions. 00:09:43.890 --> 00:09:46.280 Suppose you're an H-1, you wanna set your packer 00:09:46.280 --> 00:09:47.593 higher than a 100 feet. 00:09:48.922 --> 00:09:50.730 You can potentially do a packer exception. 00:09:50.730 --> 00:09:55.730 You got to pay this $375, tubing casing exceptions, 00:09:55.910 --> 00:09:58.893 that's another 375, if you wanna roll that way. 00:09:59.760 --> 00:10:01.780 These are actually still being charged. 00:10:01.780 --> 00:10:03.870 The fees for the forums 00:10:03.870 --> 00:10:06.090 are being waived until the end of the year. 00:10:06.090 --> 00:10:09.160 Obviously there's fees that include a surcharge, 00:10:09.160 --> 00:10:11.440 and these are nonrefundable. 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:13.240 If you call us up to make a payment, 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:14.370 we can't take your payment. 00:10:14.370 --> 00:10:16.657 You gotta call down to central records. 00:10:16.657 --> 00:10:18.080 They're gonna give you... 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:19.450 They're gonna take the payment, 00:10:19.450 --> 00:10:21.472 and they will give you a receipt. 00:10:21.472 --> 00:10:24.520 Darlene Cottle, she's the one who handles 00:10:24.520 --> 00:10:26.919 all of our transactions up here. 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:29.200 If you wanna give her the receipt, 00:10:29.200 --> 00:10:32.620 or put it on your application, the receipt number, 00:10:32.620 --> 00:10:34.713 that just speeds things up. 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:39.710 The last point, applications will not begin being processed 00:10:39.710 --> 00:10:42.807 until they are paid, and that's important. 00:10:45.307 --> 00:10:46.934 We're gonna talk about... 00:10:46.934 --> 00:10:48.490 We're mostly gonna look at the H-1 form. 00:10:48.490 --> 00:10:50.863 The H-1's got... It's actually two pages. 00:10:52.530 --> 00:10:55.340 The first page, this H-1, the top of it 00:10:55.340 --> 00:10:57.790 is the P-5 information. 00:10:57.790 --> 00:10:59.220 What are we gonna look for there? 00:10:59.220 --> 00:11:02.530 Well, you have to have an active P-5 obviously. 00:11:02.530 --> 00:11:05.050 This is where you're gonna list your operator name, 00:11:05.050 --> 00:11:07.370 your number, put your address. 00:11:07.370 --> 00:11:11.050 Right below that, it's gonna be more the P-4 information. 00:11:11.050 --> 00:11:15.310 Got to have the active P-4 just so you list your lease name, 00:11:15.310 --> 00:11:18.540 number, field name, all that good stuff. 00:11:18.540 --> 00:11:20.740 Be sure you fill all this out appropriately. 00:11:22.070 --> 00:11:24.100 Going down, well, actually, you know what? 00:11:24.100 --> 00:11:26.420 We're gonna talk about field names real quick. 00:11:26.420 --> 00:11:28.730 Determining the field names, most of you already know 00:11:28.730 --> 00:11:33.230 the field names you're going to use for these wells. 00:11:33.230 --> 00:11:37.760 For H-1 and H-1A, the field name, it should be correlative 00:11:37.760 --> 00:11:39.836 to the injection/disposure formation. 00:11:39.836 --> 00:11:40.863 It should be. 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:44.210 If you're using multiple formations, 00:11:44.210 --> 00:11:47.033 you're gonna use the deepest correlative formation. 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:50.480 That's what you're gonna use, or you keep 00:11:51.362 --> 00:11:53.060 the current field name if the well's already 00:11:53.060 --> 00:11:55.080 on a proration schedule. 00:11:55.080 --> 00:11:58.769 That's for H-1A. For W-14, it should be correlative 00:11:58.769 --> 00:12:01.130 to the formation more than two miles away, 00:12:01.130 --> 00:12:04.198 or to the formation that is the source 00:12:04.198 --> 00:12:06.800 of your disposal fluids. 00:12:06.800 --> 00:12:08.690 Most of you already know what field you're gonna use, 00:12:08.690 --> 00:12:10.350 but like I said, it can get a little tricky. 00:12:10.350 --> 00:12:12.930 If you have a question, hit us up, 00:12:12.930 --> 00:12:15.173 we'll help you out for sure on this one. 00:12:18.610 --> 00:12:20.670 Going down further on that H-1, 00:12:20.670 --> 00:12:24.339 this is where you're gonna list the reservoir data. 00:12:24.339 --> 00:12:26.340 This is the geology part of it. 00:12:26.340 --> 00:12:28.250 All you geology buffs out there. 00:12:28.250 --> 00:12:31.846 We give you four lines to spew your heart out. 00:12:31.846 --> 00:12:34.530 This is where we really want you to talk about 00:12:34.530 --> 00:12:38.290 the lithology, what you know about the permeability, 00:12:38.290 --> 00:12:40.607 the porosity, bottom hole pressure. 00:12:40.607 --> 00:12:43.200 We need this filled out because when it comes 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:45.800 to sometimes if you go through a seismic review, 00:12:45.800 --> 00:12:47.963 this stuff really comes in handy to know. 00:12:48.860 --> 00:12:52.030 Be sure that you fill the reservoir data part 00:12:52.030 --> 00:12:53.783 out as best as you know. 00:12:56.016 --> 00:12:59.200 Going down the H-1 again, 00:12:59.200 --> 00:13:01.130 this is the injection project data. 00:13:01.130 --> 00:13:02.900 This is the meat of that. 00:13:02.900 --> 00:13:05.130 This is pretty much where you're gonna tell us 00:13:05.130 --> 00:13:06.480 what you're planning to do. 00:13:07.670 --> 00:13:09.980 21, this is... What is this? 00:13:09.980 --> 00:13:11.550 We wanna know what is this gonna be. 00:13:11.550 --> 00:13:15.430 Is this a water flood, pressure maintenance, disposal well? 00:13:15.430 --> 00:13:17.630 This is where you let us know. 00:13:17.630 --> 00:13:18.620 Something about these, 00:13:18.620 --> 00:13:23.170 currently we are working to better our forms. 00:13:23.170 --> 00:13:24.710 It can be a little confusing on this. 00:13:24.710 --> 00:13:26.510 If you look at item 21, 00:13:26.510 --> 00:13:29.738 the boxes correlate to what's to the left of them. 00:13:29.738 --> 00:13:32.880 Right there, water flood has a box to the right of it. 00:13:32.880 --> 00:13:34.290 What we see a lot of the times 00:13:34.290 --> 00:13:36.860 is when people mean disposal well, 00:13:36.860 --> 00:13:38.850 they'll check thermal recovery. 00:13:38.850 --> 00:13:41.000 It can be a little confusing 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:43.603 because other does not have a checkbox. 00:13:44.443 --> 00:13:45.750 That's where it confuses somebody. 00:13:45.750 --> 00:13:48.710 Like I said, we're working to better our forms. 00:13:48.710 --> 00:13:50.580 We're trying to make it a little bit more user friendly, 00:13:50.580 --> 00:13:52.793 but it's something we see all the time. 00:13:52.793 --> 00:13:55.220 People wanna select disposal, 00:13:55.220 --> 00:13:57.640 but they'll actually select thermal recovery. 00:13:57.640 --> 00:13:59.600 It's just something to look out for 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:01.773 when you're checking these boxes. 00:14:03.070 --> 00:14:05.670 Item 23, if you plan to do... 00:14:05.670 --> 00:14:07.370 Be a commercial disposal well, 00:14:07.370 --> 00:14:09.490 this is where you're gonna let us know. 00:14:09.490 --> 00:14:13.040 Then item 25, this is where you're gonna let us know 00:14:13.040 --> 00:14:15.270 what's going to be injected. 00:14:15.270 --> 00:14:16.910 We gotta know what you're planning to inject, 00:14:16.910 --> 00:14:20.373 salt water, CO2, RCRA listed here. 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:26.273 All right, now we're on the H-1A. 00:14:26.273 --> 00:14:27.783 This is page two. 00:14:29.210 --> 00:14:31.270 At first it's a little bit redundant, right? 00:14:31.270 --> 00:14:33.750 It's the P-5 information all over again. 00:14:33.750 --> 00:14:36.083 Then going down to your P-4 stuff again, 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:39.450 P-4 you get a little bit more detail. 00:14:39.450 --> 00:14:42.000 It's gonna talk about the latitude, longitude. 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:44.473 We need directions to the nearest town. 00:14:45.726 --> 00:14:46.740 As you can see further down, 00:14:46.740 --> 00:14:48.760 it talks about well construction. 00:14:48.760 --> 00:14:51.030 This is where you are gonna tell us 00:14:51.030 --> 00:14:53.060 about your proposed well construction, 00:14:53.060 --> 00:14:56.093 or if it's already drilled what's there. 00:14:57.064 --> 00:14:59.230 If it's already drilled, it should match 00:14:59.230 --> 00:15:00.965 what's in our records right now. 00:15:00.965 --> 00:15:04.196 If it doesn't, we're gonna have to send what's called rad, 00:15:04.196 --> 00:15:07.940 which is a request for additional information 00:15:07.940 --> 00:15:10.370 to clarify what's going on. 00:15:10.370 --> 00:15:13.207 Maybe you did some work, but you never let us know about it. 00:15:13.207 --> 00:15:15.450 We need to take care of all that 00:15:15.450 --> 00:15:17.500 before we can get this permit out to you. 00:15:21.630 --> 00:15:23.730 Further down the H-1A, this is pretty much 00:15:23.730 --> 00:15:26.660 where you tell us the injection interval you plan to go. 00:15:26.660 --> 00:15:29.370 Your packer depth, max daily injection 00:15:29.370 --> 00:15:31.340 volume you're requesting 00:15:31.340 --> 00:15:33.370 and your max surface injection pressure. 00:15:33.370 --> 00:15:36.130 All right, what I really wanna stress on this 00:15:36.130 --> 00:15:38.240 is if you are planning to do this 00:15:38.240 --> 00:15:42.980 to a directional horizontal well, it is crucial 00:15:42.980 --> 00:15:44.830 that for really anything depth related 00:15:44.830 --> 00:15:49.830 that you list both TVD and Measured Depth. 00:15:50.100 --> 00:15:53.390 Total Vertical Depth and Measure Depth. 00:15:53.390 --> 00:15:54.920 For sure on the injection interval, 00:15:54.920 --> 00:15:59.085 we need that packer depth, tubing depth, TD plug backs, 00:15:59.085 --> 00:16:00.880 really anything with depths. 00:16:00.880 --> 00:16:02.970 We need both MD and TVD, 00:16:02.970 --> 00:16:05.733 if this is a directional horizontal well. 00:16:07.400 --> 00:16:09.510 You're also gonna have to list that on the article, 00:16:09.510 --> 00:16:12.370 which I'll get into that in a little bit. 00:16:12.370 --> 00:16:16.040 Be sure if it's a directional well, you put TVD on there 00:16:16.040 --> 00:16:16.873 for your depths. 00:16:19.880 --> 00:16:23.793 Finally, down at the bottom, H-1, it's the signature. 00:16:24.930 --> 00:16:27.140 There's not a spot, and once again, 00:16:27.140 --> 00:16:29.440 I stress, we're working on our forms. 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:31.210 There's not a spot for your email. 00:16:31.210 --> 00:16:32.970 We like when you put your email right there 00:16:32.970 --> 00:16:34.145 above your signature. 00:16:34.145 --> 00:16:38.013 It really helps speed up correspondence between us. 00:16:38.930 --> 00:16:40.960 It really helps because if not, 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:43.240 we're gonna have to send it in the old snail mail. 00:16:43.240 --> 00:16:44.870 That could be everything from a rad 00:16:44.870 --> 00:16:46.650 to actually issuing your permits. 00:16:46.650 --> 00:16:50.050 Obviously you would wanna get your permit quicker. 00:16:50.050 --> 00:16:51.610 We like when you put your email right there 00:16:51.610 --> 00:16:52.673 above your signature. 00:16:56.081 --> 00:16:58.380 The administrative review, so like I said, 00:16:58.380 --> 00:16:59.890 there's many parts of this review. 00:16:59.890 --> 00:17:02.450 There's the administrative, technical, seismic 00:17:02.450 --> 00:17:04.020 and then there's final. 00:17:04.020 --> 00:17:06.170 Let's talk about the administrative review. 00:17:08.810 --> 00:17:10.790 What are the permit specialists gonna do 00:17:10.790 --> 00:17:12.320 in part of this review? 00:17:12.320 --> 00:17:14.620 Well, they're gonna make sure that your fees are paid, 00:17:14.620 --> 00:17:15.920 like I said. 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:19.470 They're gonna make sure that the form is full and complete. 00:17:19.470 --> 00:17:21.870 They make sure all the attachments are there 00:17:21.870 --> 00:17:24.470 and they're gonna actually build the folder 00:17:24.470 --> 00:17:28.443 and enter your application into our tracking system. 00:17:32.230 --> 00:17:34.470 Another thing they're gonna do is they're gonna make sure, 00:17:34.470 --> 00:17:36.830 like I said earlier, they're gonna make sure you've got 00:17:37.859 --> 00:17:38.790 a current P-5 on file. 00:17:38.790 --> 00:17:42.430 Make sure your corporation and franchise taxes are paid. 00:17:42.430 --> 00:17:44.260 They're gonna make sure the P-4 is okay. 00:17:44.260 --> 00:17:47.390 Verify that you are the operator of the lease. 00:17:47.390 --> 00:17:49.670 For a new lease, you file form P-4 00:17:49.670 --> 00:17:51.020 with the completion report. 00:17:52.420 --> 00:17:54.820 They're gonna make sure that this application 00:17:54.820 --> 00:17:56.820 isn't already an existing UIC well. 00:17:56.820 --> 00:17:57.653 It happens. 00:17:57.653 --> 00:17:59.500 Sometimes you take over a well 00:17:59.500 --> 00:18:01.940 and you didn't know that it already had a UIC permit on it. 00:18:01.940 --> 00:18:05.393 We've seen it before, so they're gonna do all that. 00:18:08.970 --> 00:18:10.460 There's gonna be a good bit of documents 00:18:10.460 --> 00:18:12.519 that you're gonna have to submit 00:18:12.519 --> 00:18:14.447 for the administrative review. 00:18:14.447 --> 00:18:15.987 The Notice of Application. 00:18:15.987 --> 00:18:19.307 What we want you to do is we want you to notify 00:18:19.307 --> 00:18:21.400 a good bit of people about this. 00:18:21.400 --> 00:18:24.360 We want you to mail or deliver a copy 00:18:24.360 --> 00:18:27.770 of either the W-14 or the H-1. 00:18:27.770 --> 00:18:30.110 Here's an important part, front and back 00:18:30.110 --> 00:18:33.010 to the surface owner. 00:18:33.010 --> 00:18:35.230 Hopefully they know what's going on. 00:18:35.230 --> 00:18:38.091 If this is the commercial disposal application, 00:18:38.091 --> 00:18:40.641 you're gonna need to notify adjacent service owners 00:18:41.910 --> 00:18:44.660 operators of active wells within a half mile 00:18:44.660 --> 00:18:48.490 of your proposed well, the county clerk, 00:18:48.490 --> 00:18:51.400 and if your well is located within the city limits, 00:18:51.400 --> 00:18:53.480 you need to notify the city clerk. 00:18:53.480 --> 00:18:55.423 If not, you don't need to worry about it. 00:18:56.340 --> 00:18:58.380 I said, front and back, and that's important 00:18:58.380 --> 00:19:00.430 because on the back of these applications 00:19:01.313 --> 00:19:04.330 is instructions for the people to be able to protest. 00:19:04.330 --> 00:19:06.880 That's why we wanna know that they have the ability 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:08.910 to do that if they want. 00:19:08.910 --> 00:19:11.930 It's important you send both front and back 00:19:11.930 --> 00:19:13.980 of the applications to all these parties. 00:19:17.104 --> 00:19:19.460 Some more documents, like I said, 00:19:19.460 --> 00:19:22.176 is you're gonna have to submit a labeled map 00:19:22.176 --> 00:19:25.800 showing the location of the wells within a half mile 00:19:25.800 --> 00:19:27.850 of your proposed injection disposal well. 00:19:28.863 --> 00:19:31.700 If this were a commercial disposal well, 00:19:31.700 --> 00:19:33.610 you're gonna need to provide a plan 00:19:33.610 --> 00:19:35.160 showing the surface track boundaries 00:19:35.160 --> 00:19:38.080 of all the adjacent track boundaries. 00:19:38.080 --> 00:19:41.460 I've got a good example of that here on the next page. 00:19:41.460 --> 00:19:43.010 We also, finally, we're gonna need you 00:19:43.010 --> 00:19:45.590 to list all the names of all those affected parties 00:19:45.590 --> 00:19:48.310 and then pretty much just have a signed statement 00:19:48.310 --> 00:19:52.384 indicating that you sent that form to all those people. 00:19:52.384 --> 00:19:53.900 We need a signed statement 00:19:53.900 --> 00:19:56.000 pretty much just saying that you did this. 00:19:57.620 --> 00:19:59.704 That track boundary I was talking about, 00:19:59.704 --> 00:20:02.830 this is a good example of what it should look like. 00:20:02.830 --> 00:20:05.090 There, you can see a well pad right there 00:20:05.090 --> 00:20:06.780 on the Gary Stearns. 00:20:06.780 --> 00:20:08.040 Obviously you had submitted 00:20:08.040 --> 00:20:11.860 to the M A Snell Investments Trust, the Dorothy Garrett, 00:20:11.860 --> 00:20:14.450 but what about this Dorothy Garrett family, 00:20:14.450 --> 00:20:16.669 is right directly across the road, this little road. 00:20:16.669 --> 00:20:20.980 What many people don't know is you would want to send it 00:20:20.980 --> 00:20:22.430 to the Dorothy Garrett family, 00:20:22.430 --> 00:20:25.470 just because it touches that infant dismally, small point, 00:20:25.470 --> 00:20:27.570 that corner in that little roads there 00:20:27.570 --> 00:20:29.370 doesn't mean we don't need to notify them. 00:20:29.370 --> 00:20:30.703 You need to notify them, 00:20:31.730 --> 00:20:34.070 because it touches just that little corner. 00:20:34.070 --> 00:20:36.123 That means they got to get notified. 00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:38.410 Like I said, if you have any questions 00:20:38.410 --> 00:20:40.800 on who you need to notify, call us up, 00:20:40.800 --> 00:20:42.853 our permit specialists are great at this. 00:20:43.857 --> 00:20:47.837 They know how to look at these and they will help you out 00:20:47.837 --> 00:20:50.443 and let you know who you should notify. 00:20:53.580 --> 00:20:56.110 Further going on to you hearing me talk about 00:20:56.110 --> 00:20:58.960 the commercial disposal wells. 00:20:58.960 --> 00:21:01.230 Let me break that down for you. 00:21:01.230 --> 00:21:04.350 There are three things that make you... 00:21:05.290 --> 00:21:08.670 Requirements, not things that make you 00:21:08.670 --> 00:21:12.710 a commercial disposal well, and it has to be all three. 00:21:12.710 --> 00:21:14.350 If you're just one of them, you're not 00:21:14.350 --> 00:21:17.575 a commercial disposal well. What are they? 00:21:17.575 --> 00:21:22.575 They are, if your waste is partially or wholly tripped in, 00:21:25.650 --> 00:21:26.880 that's one. 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:30.610 If there's a disposal fee or a compensation being charged, 00:21:30.610 --> 00:21:31.970 that's the second one, 00:21:31.970 --> 00:21:34.370 and this is your primary purpose of business. 00:21:34.370 --> 00:21:36.770 If you meet all three of those, yes. 00:21:36.770 --> 00:21:39.390 What you are is going to be a commercial disposal well. 00:21:39.390 --> 00:21:42.350 If you're just one of them, you're not. 00:21:42.350 --> 00:21:43.430 This happens a lot. 00:21:43.430 --> 00:21:46.574 I get this a lot. People call up say, hey, Rob. 00:21:46.574 --> 00:21:48.680 It's being parked trucked over there, 00:21:48.680 --> 00:21:50.100 but it's not the other two. 00:21:50.100 --> 00:21:52.220 Then, no, you're not a commercial disposal well. 00:21:52.220 --> 00:21:55.140 If you meet all three of these, then yes, 00:21:55.140 --> 00:21:57.123 this is a commercial disposal well. 00:21:58.010 --> 00:21:59.990 This last part is just, there's a little bit more 00:21:59.990 --> 00:22:01.640 that goes into the facilities 00:22:01.640 --> 00:22:03.200 for these commercial disposal well. 00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:05.480 It's just saying that all the spill prevention 00:22:05.480 --> 00:22:07.690 and all containment, it's gotta be done 00:22:07.690 --> 00:22:09.290 before you even start disposing. 00:22:11.320 --> 00:22:12.203 That's obvious. 00:22:13.850 --> 00:22:18.040 Going back, so more on the administrative review 00:22:18.040 --> 00:22:20.090 like I said, we want you to notify a lot of people. 00:22:20.090 --> 00:22:21.620 That means you got to put it... 00:22:21.620 --> 00:22:25.970 We want you to publish it for one day in a newspaper 00:22:25.970 --> 00:22:28.470 that's in general circulation in the county. 00:22:28.470 --> 00:22:31.251 If you're down South San Antonio, don't put it in Dallas. 00:22:31.251 --> 00:22:33.983 We want it in general circulation in the county. 00:22:35.580 --> 00:22:39.090 We want you to actually submit the newspaper clipping 00:22:39.090 --> 00:22:42.285 with a notarized affidavit of publication. 00:22:42.285 --> 00:22:43.640 We have a template. 00:22:43.640 --> 00:22:45.203 Remember that UIC Online Manual 00:22:45.203 --> 00:22:47.360 I was talking about in the beginning, 00:22:47.360 --> 00:22:49.580 there's a template of this affidavit 00:22:49.580 --> 00:22:51.640 on the administrative review, 00:22:51.640 --> 00:22:53.763 and it just lines it out for you. 00:22:55.513 --> 00:22:57.470 Then here at the bottom, 00:22:57.470 --> 00:23:00.020 it says obviously a 15-day waiting period 00:23:00.020 --> 00:23:01.770 after the notice and period, 00:23:01.770 --> 00:23:03.240 after the notice and publication, 00:23:03.240 --> 00:23:05.750 that's when we start that protest window 00:23:05.750 --> 00:23:07.183 after this notice period. 00:23:09.138 --> 00:23:12.310 What do you put on this published notice text? 00:23:12.310 --> 00:23:14.770 Well, it should match the application 00:23:14.770 --> 00:23:16.353 pretty straightforward. 00:23:17.578 --> 00:23:20.340 It's gonna have direction and miles to the nearest town. 00:23:20.340 --> 00:23:23.930 We want you to list your interval, if you're doing H-1A, 00:23:23.930 --> 00:23:25.390 and you got a bunch of wells on there, 00:23:25.390 --> 00:23:27.410 just do the shallowest and the deepest. 00:23:27.410 --> 00:23:30.053 That way you cover the whole thing. 00:23:30.940 --> 00:23:33.150 If this is gonna be a commercial well, 00:23:33.150 --> 00:23:36.330 so you plan to inject certain things like H2S 00:23:36.330 --> 00:23:40.420 or NORM, NORM is Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material. 00:23:40.420 --> 00:23:42.700 You need to put that on there. 00:23:42.700 --> 00:23:45.430 Of course you gotta put instructions 00:23:45.430 --> 00:23:48.110 for people to be able to protest the application 00:23:48.110 --> 00:23:50.560 on the publish notice tax. 00:23:50.560 --> 00:23:52.740 Once again, there's an example of all this 00:23:52.740 --> 00:23:54.760 on that UIC Online Manual. 00:23:54.760 --> 00:23:57.573 You can see why it's just a great tool to use. 00:24:01.438 --> 00:24:04.290 That wrapped up the administrative review. 00:24:04.290 --> 00:24:06.650 The technical review, hopefully I know a little bit more 00:24:06.650 --> 00:24:09.203 about this, because this is what I do. 00:24:11.490 --> 00:24:13.070 One of the first things we look for 00:24:13.070 --> 00:24:16.000 in the technical reviews, is we look at the GAU Letters 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:17.453 and Geologic Isolation. 00:24:18.770 --> 00:24:22.240 The Groundwater Advisor Unit, or the GAU, 00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:25.930 issues, these GW-2s. 00:24:25.930 --> 00:24:27.801 GW-2s are these 00:24:27.801 --> 00:24:30.110 Groundwater Protection Determination Letters. 00:24:30.110 --> 00:24:34.201 It is important that when you're filing for your GW-2, 00:24:34.201 --> 00:24:37.320 that when it comes to the little part that says, 00:24:37.320 --> 00:24:39.340 what is the purpose of this filing 00:24:39.340 --> 00:24:41.720 that you fill this out correctly? 00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:44.730 If you're doing this for an H-1, purpose of filing 00:24:44.730 --> 00:24:46.820 must be H-1. 00:24:46.820 --> 00:24:48.990 If you're doing this for W-14, purposes of filing 00:24:48.990 --> 00:24:52.380 must be W-14. Why do we say that? 00:24:52.380 --> 00:24:53.630 Because sometimes if you do something 00:24:53.630 --> 00:24:57.167 like a new drill purpose, they won't put the USDW on it. 00:24:57.167 --> 00:24:59.753 We wanna know where the USDW is on it. 00:25:00.667 --> 00:25:02.890 It has to be valid too. 00:25:02.890 --> 00:25:06.160 If you've done one within five years, 00:25:06.160 --> 00:25:08.690 it should be okay. It's gonna be okay. 00:25:08.690 --> 00:25:10.220 Anything older than five years, 00:25:10.220 --> 00:25:12.080 we'd have to get you to do a new one. 00:25:12.080 --> 00:25:14.090 It's just really important that you get the purpose 00:25:14.090 --> 00:25:15.313 for filing correct. 00:25:16.410 --> 00:25:17.870 Because with the W-14s, 00:25:17.870 --> 00:25:20.260 they're gonna also send a second letter 00:25:20.260 --> 00:25:22.520 that's called a no harm letter saying 00:25:22.520 --> 00:25:24.523 that there's adequate isolation there. 00:25:26.690 --> 00:25:29.323 You hear about me talking about all this isolation. 00:25:30.380 --> 00:25:32.870 What are we really looking for when it comes to isolation? 00:25:32.870 --> 00:25:37.170 Well, Statewide Rule 46 says we're looking for 250 feet 00:25:38.599 --> 00:25:42.730 of isolating strata between the top 00:25:42.730 --> 00:25:46.443 of your interval and the Base of the Usable-Quality Water. 00:25:47.850 --> 00:25:49.613 Now, that's cumulative. 00:25:51.100 --> 00:25:56.020 Cumulative 250 feet of isolation, low permeability strata, 00:25:56.020 --> 00:26:01.010 shales, clays and hydrides, that's what we're looking for. 00:26:01.010 --> 00:26:03.240 When it comes to isolation from USDW, 00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:07.383 we're looking for at least 50 feet of continuous isolation. 00:26:09.110 --> 00:26:10.700 A pre-primacy wells, 00:26:10.700 --> 00:26:14.183 or these are wells without adequate separation. 00:26:15.780 --> 00:26:20.380 If you're in this category of pre-primacy or aquifer exempt, 00:26:20.380 --> 00:26:24.210 that means you are allowed to inject closer 00:26:24.210 --> 00:26:26.920 to these BUQ and UCW. 00:26:26.920 --> 00:26:30.023 However, we're gonna add a condition on your permit saying, 00:26:30.023 --> 00:26:33.980 it's called FSL or Fluid Source Limit. 00:26:33.980 --> 00:26:37.110 What that says is you can only inject 00:26:37.110 --> 00:26:40.930 or dispose fluids that were pulled directly 00:26:40.930 --> 00:26:43.660 from the same lease in same formation. 00:26:43.660 --> 00:26:45.040 We're just saying, you're just putting back 00:26:45.040 --> 00:26:47.270 what's already come from there. 00:26:47.270 --> 00:26:49.410 That's part of the whole aquifer exemption, 00:26:49.410 --> 00:26:51.200 not everyone's aquifer exemption. 00:26:51.200 --> 00:26:53.470 I'm gonna tell you that right now, 00:26:53.470 --> 00:26:55.380 but if you have questions, like I said, 00:26:55.380 --> 00:26:57.299 give us a call and we'll look it up for you. 00:26:57.299 --> 00:26:58.460 We've got a program and we can run it, 00:26:58.460 --> 00:27:00.660 run it through and check real quick for you. 00:27:03.610 --> 00:27:05.430 E-log, your electric log. 00:27:05.430 --> 00:27:06.840 All right. 00:27:06.840 --> 00:27:09.830 We want you to submit a complete electric log 00:27:09.830 --> 00:27:13.160 with header that shows the proposed zone 00:27:13.160 --> 00:27:15.130 in overlying strata. 00:27:15.130 --> 00:27:18.890 Let's say your interval is from 1,000 to 2,000 feet. 00:27:18.890 --> 00:27:22.250 Your log should go at least to 2,000 feet. 00:27:22.250 --> 00:27:25.550 Sometimes we get people who will only send us a log 00:27:25.550 --> 00:27:26.697 that cuts off at 900. 00:27:26.697 --> 00:27:28.270 No, we need to see the whole interval. 00:27:28.270 --> 00:27:30.800 We wanna see everything that's going on down 00:27:30.800 --> 00:27:32.000 to your bottom interval. 00:27:33.060 --> 00:27:35.970 If you're doing an H-1A, you got multiple wells on there. 00:27:35.970 --> 00:27:38.000 You're just gonna do one log. 00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:40.791 We don't need the application to be books, 00:27:40.791 --> 00:27:44.810 a huge application. 00:27:44.810 --> 00:27:47.910 Another thing that's gonna help us out 00:27:47.910 --> 00:27:52.083 is you can submit these logs online. 00:27:52.083 --> 00:27:55.680 Use the digital well logs submission online. 00:27:55.680 --> 00:27:57.600 I can literally just go in there 00:27:57.600 --> 00:28:00.610 and tie your application to your submission. 00:28:00.610 --> 00:28:02.900 If you wanna give us a submission number, 00:28:02.900 --> 00:28:04.340 say you did do it online, 00:28:04.340 --> 00:28:06.510 all you gotta do is do a little screenshot 00:28:06.510 --> 00:28:08.950 of whenever you submitted your well log. 00:28:08.950 --> 00:28:11.210 Just do a screenshot of that and attach it to your form, 00:28:11.210 --> 00:28:13.620 your application, and I can literally just go in there 00:28:13.620 --> 00:28:15.060 and tie it to your application. 00:28:15.060 --> 00:28:16.363 It's so easy. 00:28:19.840 --> 00:28:22.570 All right, if you annotate your log, 00:28:22.570 --> 00:28:24.140 you get brownie points from us. 00:28:24.140 --> 00:28:29.140 It really does help us out to confirm isolation 00:28:31.277 --> 00:28:33.615 and the protection of all this fresh water. 00:28:33.615 --> 00:28:38.615 If you label all the impermeable strata, that's amazing. 00:28:39.023 --> 00:28:41.210 We'd love to see that in all these. 00:28:41.210 --> 00:28:43.140 Obviously it doesn't happen all the time, 00:28:43.140 --> 00:28:45.040 but if you do kudos to you. 00:28:45.040 --> 00:28:46.053 I mean, it's great. 00:28:47.000 --> 00:28:50.140 Annotations help in those close call scenarios. 00:28:50.140 --> 00:28:53.411 Whenever we're trying to say is there enough data? 00:28:53.411 --> 00:28:56.323 Should this be okay 00:28:56.323 --> 00:28:58.166 when it comes to a close call on a size of review? 00:28:58.166 --> 00:28:59.295 Will say, you know what? 00:28:59.295 --> 00:29:00.128 They already annotated the log. 00:29:00.128 --> 00:29:01.550 Boom, here we go. Let's just move forward. 00:29:01.550 --> 00:29:04.310 It just speeds things up whenever we get 00:29:04.310 --> 00:29:06.653 to these tough cases, tough scenarios. 00:29:10.740 --> 00:29:14.670 All right, the AOR, you heard me talk about a half-mile map 00:29:14.670 --> 00:29:16.640 back with administrator review. 00:29:16.640 --> 00:29:17.910 Well, for the technical review, 00:29:17.910 --> 00:29:21.410 we need a quarter-mile AOR done. 00:29:21.410 --> 00:29:24.670 We also need you to submit a table 00:29:24.670 --> 00:29:27.520 of all the wells within that AOR. 00:29:27.520 --> 00:29:29.693 They should have at least name, the number, 00:29:30.790 --> 00:29:33.631 API, all the good stuff, plug status, all that. 00:29:33.631 --> 00:29:36.790 Also, you're going to need to confirm 00:29:36.790 --> 00:29:38.940 that the wells are on a proration schedule 00:29:38.940 --> 00:29:40.543 and have been properly plugged. 00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:43.430 I'm actually gonna walk you through 00:29:43.430 --> 00:29:48.430 on how you can make an AOR map, using our GIS Viewer. 00:29:49.830 --> 00:29:51.200 If you, once again, 00:29:51.200 --> 00:29:55.140 go to our Commission website, rrc.texas.gov, 00:29:55.140 --> 00:29:57.040 down here in the bottom link you can see 00:29:57.040 --> 00:29:58.010 it says useful links. 00:29:58.010 --> 00:30:00.880 You can click on map Public GIS Viewer, 00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:04.040 or you can just click on the map right there. 00:30:04.040 --> 00:30:08.201 That'll bring you to our amazing GIS Viewer. 00:30:08.201 --> 00:30:10.590 Here's what it looks like. 00:30:10.590 --> 00:30:12.435 Let me see if I can zoom in a little bit more. 00:30:12.435 --> 00:30:14.690 You see that little... The bull's eye 00:30:14.690 --> 00:30:16.570 that's got a green dot in the middle. 00:30:16.570 --> 00:30:18.030 What that is going to allow you to do 00:30:18.030 --> 00:30:21.300 it's gonna allow you to select a radius. 00:30:21.300 --> 00:30:23.972 What it's gonna do is any well that's in that radius 00:30:23.972 --> 00:30:26.500 that's gonna pretty much pull all the information 00:30:26.500 --> 00:30:29.970 on those wells, and it's gonna create an Excel file for you. 00:30:29.970 --> 00:30:33.250 You enter in your API or your coordinates, 00:30:33.250 --> 00:30:36.180 select your radius, click on the well, and boom. 00:30:36.180 --> 00:30:38.519 You see how it highlights all the wells right there 00:30:38.519 --> 00:30:39.413 in your AOR. 00:30:40.540 --> 00:30:43.170 Then you click export to CSV that creates 00:30:43.170 --> 00:30:45.060 this Excel spreadsheet. 00:30:45.060 --> 00:30:46.870 Then it's just what it looks like right here. 00:30:46.870 --> 00:30:51.870 I mean, it gives you everything, API, status, lat launch, 00:30:52.260 --> 00:30:54.310 and this is just a shorted version of it. 00:30:55.310 --> 00:30:57.750 It tells you everything, and this is pretty much 00:30:57.750 --> 00:31:00.380 your quarter-mile table that we're asking for. 00:31:00.380 --> 00:31:04.517 This is such a great tool to use on top of the manual 00:31:04.517 --> 00:31:06.993 to use, when you're doing these applications. 00:31:09.260 --> 00:31:11.640 Here's an example of an amazing... 00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:13.000 We would love to see this all the time. 00:31:13.000 --> 00:31:15.300 It doesn't happen, but we would love to see it like this. 00:31:15.300 --> 00:31:16.970 It's numbered, color-coded, 00:31:16.970 --> 00:31:18.323 I mean, this is amazing. 00:31:20.430 --> 00:31:23.590 You can see here that the numbers correspond 00:31:23.590 --> 00:31:25.690 to the table on the next page. 00:31:25.690 --> 00:31:27.860 When we're going through and saying this one here 00:31:27.860 --> 00:31:29.830 is a plug one, here's her dry well. 00:31:29.830 --> 00:31:31.380 Here, this is where it goes. 00:31:31.380 --> 00:31:33.270 This is what we would love to see. 00:31:33.270 --> 00:31:35.230 If you can do this, that's amazing. 00:31:35.230 --> 00:31:36.233 This is great. 00:31:39.010 --> 00:31:43.740 What happens, let's say you have some wells 00:31:43.740 --> 00:31:46.410 in your quarter mile that have a status 00:31:46.410 --> 00:31:50.623 of unknown dry hole or plug. 00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:55.360 What we're gonna need, even though we may have the records 00:31:55.360 --> 00:31:56.840 in our system. 00:31:56.840 --> 00:32:01.840 We need you to submit a plugging records for those wells. 00:32:01.980 --> 00:32:06.539 Either W-3s or the good old form four. 00:32:06.539 --> 00:32:09.860 We need to see them for any wells that are listed 00:32:09.860 --> 00:32:13.710 as plugged, dry hole or are known 00:32:13.710 --> 00:32:15.210 that are in your quarter mile. 00:32:16.390 --> 00:32:20.660 If you cannot find any of these records, 00:32:20.660 --> 00:32:22.930 sometimes you call the district up, 00:32:22.930 --> 00:32:25.030 because sometimes if you can't find it on your own, 00:32:25.030 --> 00:32:26.130 call your district office up, 00:32:26.130 --> 00:32:28.551 maybe they can help you out a little bit on that. 00:32:28.551 --> 00:32:30.190 There's some other things you can do. 00:32:30.190 --> 00:32:34.580 Say, hey, Rob, I can't find these plugging records, 00:32:34.580 --> 00:32:36.860 then there's another route to go. 00:32:36.860 --> 00:32:38.290 Well, there's two routes. 00:32:38.290 --> 00:32:41.250 You can either plug those wells yourself. 00:32:41.250 --> 00:32:43.610 Nobody really wants to do that it seems, 00:32:43.610 --> 00:32:47.043 or you can submit these pressure front calculations. 00:32:48.360 --> 00:32:51.170 The whole purpose of this quarter mile review 00:32:51.170 --> 00:32:55.570 is to ensure that if there are any improperly plugged wells 00:32:56.522 --> 00:32:59.410 within a quarter mile of your proposed well, 00:32:59.410 --> 00:33:02.790 that, if you were to start injecting disposing 00:33:02.790 --> 00:33:05.440 in your proposed well, that a fluid migrated 00:33:05.440 --> 00:33:09.180 to this problem well, that it would not migrate up 00:33:09.180 --> 00:33:11.083 and contaminate the USDW. 00:33:12.720 --> 00:33:13.960 Like I said, the other route you could do 00:33:13.960 --> 00:33:16.460 is these Pressure Front Calculations. 00:33:16.460 --> 00:33:19.230 These calculations are going to show that 00:33:19.230 --> 00:33:22.660 this either that will happen, that fluid will migrate 00:33:22.660 --> 00:33:24.930 to this nearest problem well, and that it says, 00:33:24.930 --> 00:33:25.763 you know what? 00:33:25.763 --> 00:33:29.110 It won't reach the USDW or that it will. 00:33:29.110 --> 00:33:31.530 Now, these have to be prepared 00:33:31.530 --> 00:33:35.090 by a Texas registered professional engineer. 00:33:35.090 --> 00:33:37.593 In my first seminar I did, a lady asked me, 00:33:37.593 --> 00:33:39.890 does it have to be a Texas PE? 00:33:39.890 --> 00:33:41.160 The answer is, yes, 00:33:41.160 --> 00:33:44.260 it has to be a Texas registered professional engineer. 00:33:44.260 --> 00:33:45.730 Those are some routes that you need to go. 00:33:45.730 --> 00:33:49.040 Just to wrap that up, if you have a well, 00:33:49.040 --> 00:33:53.330 wells that are listed as plugged, dry hole or unknown 00:33:53.330 --> 00:33:56.290 within a quarter mile, one first thing, 00:33:56.290 --> 00:33:58.240 the easiest thing submit plugging records, 00:33:58.240 --> 00:34:00.090 that'd be threes or form fours. 00:34:00.090 --> 00:34:02.699 If you can't do that, you press your front calculation, 00:34:02.699 --> 00:34:06.410 you need a PE to do it, to show that the USDW 00:34:06.410 --> 00:34:09.980 would not be contaminated, or if you can't do that, 00:34:09.980 --> 00:34:12.680 then lastly, you just gotta plug those wells yourself. 00:34:15.630 --> 00:34:17.640 All right, when you set Surface Casing, 00:34:17.640 --> 00:34:19.940 so what are the requirements we look for that? 00:34:21.310 --> 00:34:24.840 If you're a new drill, if this is gonna be a new drill well, 00:34:24.840 --> 00:34:28.680 or if it's for a commercial disposal well, 00:34:28.680 --> 00:34:33.680 you have to set surface casing through the BUQW. 00:34:34.000 --> 00:34:35.340 Remember what the BUQ is that Base 00:34:35.340 --> 00:34:36.740 of the Usable-Quality Water. 00:34:38.240 --> 00:34:40.693 If you're converting an old production well, 00:34:42.390 --> 00:34:44.940 then, and let's say, you didn't know... 00:34:44.940 --> 00:34:47.770 They didn't know where the BUQ was back then. 00:34:47.770 --> 00:34:50.810 They say casing short, surface casing short 00:34:50.810 --> 00:34:52.530 of where we know it is now, 00:34:52.530 --> 00:34:55.320 then what we're gonna do is we're gonna issue 00:34:55.320 --> 00:34:58.130 what's called PTT cam. It's just what it is. 00:34:58.130 --> 00:34:59.000 It's annual. 00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:03.263 It's an annual H-5 with weekly tubing and casing monitoring. 00:35:04.558 --> 00:35:07.160 Remember if it's for a new drill 00:35:07.160 --> 00:35:09.040 or a commercial disposal well, 00:35:09.040 --> 00:35:11.863 you gotta set that surface casing through the BUQ. 00:35:14.980 --> 00:35:16.533 All right, long string casing. 00:35:17.470 --> 00:35:18.970 What are we looking for on here? 00:35:18.970 --> 00:35:20.567 Well, we're looking for your top of cement 00:35:20.567 --> 00:35:22.215 and it has to be adequate. 00:35:22.215 --> 00:35:24.960 If you are calculating your top of cement, 00:35:24.960 --> 00:35:27.120 if it's based off calculation, 00:35:27.120 --> 00:35:30.350 we need to see at least 600 feet of cement 00:35:30.350 --> 00:35:32.950 above the top injection interval. 00:35:32.950 --> 00:35:34.327 All right, what if you say, 00:35:34.327 --> 00:35:37.348 "Hey, Rob it's already been done. 00:35:37.348 --> 00:35:40.040 I'm gonna run a temperature survey 00:35:40.040 --> 00:35:42.170 to show where my top of cement is." 00:35:42.170 --> 00:35:43.003 I say, great. 00:35:43.003 --> 00:35:46.770 Well, I need to see 250 feet with the temperature survey 00:35:46.770 --> 00:35:48.728 of cement above your top interval. 00:35:48.728 --> 00:35:52.200 Let's just say, hey, you say, hey, Rob, I wanna run a CBL 00:35:52.200 --> 00:35:54.280 or a Cement Bond Log. 00:35:54.280 --> 00:35:57.590 Then we only need to see a 100 feet of cement 00:35:57.590 --> 00:35:59.143 above the top interval. 00:36:00.570 --> 00:36:02.740 It's gotta be at least 80% bonded. 00:36:02.740 --> 00:36:05.843 That's key. We can't see any occasion of channeling. 00:36:06.710 --> 00:36:10.010 Once again, if you're doing your top of cement 00:36:10.010 --> 00:36:13.570 of calculation, it's gotta be 600 feet above your interval, 00:36:13.570 --> 00:36:15.490 250 feet for your temperature survey, 00:36:15.490 --> 00:36:17.840 if you wanna go that way or 100 feet for a CBL. 00:36:21.490 --> 00:36:23.790 All right, packer setting, this is a good one. 00:36:25.270 --> 00:36:28.890 If for W-14 Statewide Rule 9, there is no wiggle room. 00:36:28.890 --> 00:36:32.420 You have to set your packer within a 100 feet 00:36:32.420 --> 00:36:34.493 of your top permitted zone. 00:36:35.350 --> 00:36:36.400 That is it. 00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:38.640 There's no wiggle room on that one. 00:36:38.640 --> 00:36:41.830 For a H-1 and H-1A, there's a little wiggle room. 00:36:41.830 --> 00:36:44.140 Remember that packer exception fee I was talking about, 00:36:44.140 --> 00:36:47.310 it was 375. Suppose you wanna set your packer 00:36:47.310 --> 00:36:49.640 a little bit higher than 900 feet, 00:36:49.640 --> 00:36:51.700 this is the route you can go. 00:36:51.700 --> 00:36:53.690 You can say, hey, I wanna do an exception 00:36:53.690 --> 00:36:55.890 or I wanna apply for an exception. 00:36:55.890 --> 00:36:56.840 You gotta pay the fee. 00:36:56.840 --> 00:36:58.940 That's one thing you gotta do. 00:36:58.940 --> 00:37:01.853 You gotta submit an annotated log. 00:37:02.930 --> 00:37:05.420 We got to see, and you gotta label it and say, 00:37:05.420 --> 00:37:07.670 hey, Rob, I'm gonna set this packer up here. 00:37:07.670 --> 00:37:11.810 I'm gonna show you that there are no permeable formations 00:37:11.810 --> 00:37:15.180 between where this packer's going in that top interval. 00:37:15.180 --> 00:37:16.060 That's number two. 00:37:16.060 --> 00:37:18.096 We're gonna look to make sure 00:37:18.096 --> 00:37:20.540 there's no permeable formations in between your packer 00:37:20.540 --> 00:37:22.180 or the top interval. 00:37:22.180 --> 00:37:25.470 We're also gonna make sure that there's at least 200 feet 00:37:25.470 --> 00:37:26.990 of cement above that packer. 00:37:26.990 --> 00:37:31.230 That's three, and that you're at least 150 feet 00:37:31.230 --> 00:37:32.130 away from the BUQ. 00:37:33.180 --> 00:37:35.120 There's four things that make it. 00:37:35.120 --> 00:37:38.370 You got to pay that fee, you gotta submit the annotated log, 00:37:38.370 --> 00:37:40.700 200 feet of cement above your packer, 00:37:40.700 --> 00:37:45.173 and it's gotta be at least 150 feet away from the BUQ. 00:37:46.260 --> 00:37:49.400 W-14s, no wiggle room, gotta be within a 100 feet 00:37:49.400 --> 00:37:50.800 at the top of your interval. 00:37:52.911 --> 00:37:55.020 Injection pressures. 00:37:55.020 --> 00:37:55.930 How do we do this? 00:37:55.930 --> 00:37:58.460 Well, we do it as typical maximum 00:37:58.460 --> 00:38:02.560 is a half psi per foot of depth. 00:38:02.560 --> 00:38:03.560 What does that mean? 00:38:04.530 --> 00:38:08.700 Let's say your top interval is 1,000 feet. 00:38:08.700 --> 00:38:11.100 We do 1,000 times 0.5. 00:38:11.100 --> 00:38:14.440 That means your max service injection pressure 00:38:14.440 --> 00:38:16.133 is 500 psi. 00:38:17.170 --> 00:38:20.880 Now, for certain scenarios, this can change. 00:38:20.880 --> 00:38:22.633 For coastal wells, shallow coastal wells 00:38:22.633 --> 00:38:24.453 that are less than 2,000 feet. 00:38:25.359 --> 00:38:26.970 So you're gonna be injecting above that Barnett Shale 00:38:26.970 --> 00:38:28.883 up in Dallas area, North Texas, 00:38:29.720 --> 00:38:32.440 or if you're injecting into the Delaware formations, 00:38:32.440 --> 00:38:37.440 we may, may, limit to a quarter psi per foot. 00:38:39.320 --> 00:38:41.963 Instead of that thousand, they could be what, 250. 00:38:43.350 --> 00:38:44.500 That's just an example. 00:38:45.730 --> 00:38:49.800 If you're in these areas, you may be limited, keyword may, 00:38:49.800 --> 00:38:52.370 to this quarter psi per foot. 00:38:52.370 --> 00:38:54.230 All right, here's the last bullet. 00:38:54.230 --> 00:38:58.340 Fracture step-rate test may, and that's a big word, 00:38:58.340 --> 00:39:00.793 may justify a higher pressure. 00:39:02.260 --> 00:39:07.260 We have guidelines on our step-rate tests on our UIC Manual. 00:39:07.279 --> 00:39:10.340 While engineers have worked hard on this, 00:39:10.340 --> 00:39:12.190 and it is a great tool to use. 00:39:12.190 --> 00:39:15.070 We actually lay down as far as how these tests 00:39:16.327 --> 00:39:18.430 should be done and everything. 00:39:18.430 --> 00:39:19.668 Look on that manual and see, 00:39:19.668 --> 00:39:21.600 if you're gonna do a step-rate test to try 00:39:21.600 --> 00:39:24.437 and justify higher volumes of pressures, 00:39:24.437 --> 00:39:27.040 I would highly advise reading our manual 00:39:27.040 --> 00:39:29.583 on the guidelines for step-rate tests. 00:39:35.655 --> 00:39:38.283 All right, ejection fluids. 00:39:39.560 --> 00:39:43.080 If you plan to inject H2S, 00:39:43.080 --> 00:39:47.940 we require well specific story that Statewide Rule 36. 00:39:47.940 --> 00:39:51.571 You're gonna have to go through a public hearing, 00:39:51.571 --> 00:39:53.550 if you're planning the H2S. 00:39:53.550 --> 00:39:56.253 You're also gonna need administrative approval 00:39:56.253 --> 00:39:59.583 from your district office H2S coordinator. 00:40:01.290 --> 00:40:02.690 Really, the best part, when you... 00:40:02.690 --> 00:40:05.990 If you're gonna do H2S, call your district office up, 00:40:05.990 --> 00:40:08.090 say, hey, I need to talk to my H2S coordinator 00:40:08.090 --> 00:40:09.280 and they will help you out. 00:40:09.280 --> 00:40:11.330 There's certain forms you've got to fill out. 00:40:11.330 --> 00:40:13.887 Like I said, you gotta get this public hearing possibly. 00:40:13.887 --> 00:40:17.490 There's some duties you're gonna have to do 00:40:17.490 --> 00:40:19.277 to be able to inject H2S. 00:40:21.500 --> 00:40:23.170 Now, if you're planning to do fresh water, 00:40:23.170 --> 00:40:25.793 there's almost just as much, maybe even more. 00:40:27.310 --> 00:40:29.673 You're gonna have to submit a Form H-7. 00:40:31.110 --> 00:40:32.550 We're also gonna want you to fill out 00:40:32.550 --> 00:40:35.043 what's called a freshwater questionnaire. 00:40:36.340 --> 00:40:38.740 We're gonna need you to submit a plat 00:40:40.173 --> 00:40:41.290 of all the freshwater rights 00:40:41.290 --> 00:40:44.343 and finally a chemical analysis of the freshwater. 00:40:46.770 --> 00:40:50.648 There's a lot that goes into planning to inject H2S 00:40:50.648 --> 00:40:51.520 and freshwater. 00:40:51.520 --> 00:40:53.310 A lot of people can't find the questionnaire. 00:40:53.310 --> 00:40:55.100 Sometimes it gets hidden, but if... 00:40:55.100 --> 00:40:56.190 Here's a hint. 00:40:56.190 --> 00:40:59.280 If you go to our website and you type in questionnaire 00:40:59.280 --> 00:41:01.030 in our search box, it's literally the only thing 00:41:01.030 --> 00:41:02.340 that pops up. 00:41:02.340 --> 00:41:04.750 I don't know why it's so hard to find, but if you go... 00:41:04.750 --> 00:41:07.047 If you wanna just search for it, it will pop up. 00:41:07.047 --> 00:41:09.613 That's the only thing in our search engine. 00:41:12.635 --> 00:41:15.210 All right, that was a technical review. 00:41:15.210 --> 00:41:16.610 We're doing great here. 00:41:16.610 --> 00:41:17.993 Seismic review. 00:41:18.920 --> 00:41:20.720 Let's talk about the seismic review. 00:41:23.460 --> 00:41:26.683 Let's say you're an H-1 disposal or the W-14. 00:41:27.860 --> 00:41:32.860 There is a seismic events over 2.0 magnitude 00:41:33.710 --> 00:41:38.280 within a 9.08 kilometer radius around your proposed well. 00:41:38.280 --> 00:41:41.193 That triggers this seismic review. 00:41:43.800 --> 00:41:46.480 There were amendments to the rules 9 and 46. 00:41:46.480 --> 00:41:48.570 They were made in 2014. 00:41:48.570 --> 00:41:52.860 These amendments say that the Commission, RRC, 00:41:52.860 --> 00:41:56.726 may modify suspend or terminate a permit 00:41:56.726 --> 00:42:01.440 if disposal is likely to be contributing 00:42:01.440 --> 00:42:03.720 to seismic activity. 00:42:03.720 --> 00:42:05.550 This is also when we started requiring 00:42:05.550 --> 00:42:09.840 this seismic information with disposal applications. 00:42:09.840 --> 00:42:11.850 I'm gonna show you actually how to do 00:42:11.850 --> 00:42:13.483 one of this seismic screenings. 00:42:15.636 --> 00:42:18.720 The second point is just including a seismic survey 00:42:18.720 --> 00:42:21.023 from the USGS catalog. 00:42:22.140 --> 00:42:24.663 We will take into consideration, text net. 00:42:25.745 --> 00:42:28.030 There's USGS catalog and the text net catalog. 00:42:28.030 --> 00:42:29.990 I'm gonna show you both of them. 00:42:30.910 --> 00:42:32.390 Here's the link for the USGS. 00:42:32.390 --> 00:42:33.303 It's on here. 00:42:34.800 --> 00:42:36.670 Text net looks like this. 00:42:36.670 --> 00:42:39.000 Here's a link for that. 00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:40.860 Text net is a little bit more user friendly, 00:42:40.860 --> 00:42:45.070 but I'm gonna show you how to do your seismic search 00:42:45.070 --> 00:42:46.973 via the USGS. 00:42:47.830 --> 00:42:49.010 This just says, like I said, 00:42:49.010 --> 00:42:51.914 RRC staff will consider both USGS 00:42:51.914 --> 00:42:56.503 and text net catalogs in assessing seismic trigger. 00:42:58.456 --> 00:43:02.043 Be sure you not only just do USGS, you check text net. 00:43:03.711 --> 00:43:05.700 That way you're not surprised when we come back and say, 00:43:05.700 --> 00:43:08.200 hey, you're gonna do a size of review and you say, 00:43:08.200 --> 00:43:10.270 no, there's no events in USGS. 00:43:10.270 --> 00:43:11.130 I said, well, there may be. 00:43:11.130 --> 00:43:13.170 There was one in text next. 00:43:13.170 --> 00:43:15.900 Be sure you just check text net. 00:43:15.900 --> 00:43:17.400 That way you're not surprised. 00:43:22.340 --> 00:43:24.440 Actually I think this page is just talking about 00:43:24.440 --> 00:43:27.120 how to get to it, where you're gonna modify the date 00:43:27.120 --> 00:43:30.470 and time, the magnitude and update the latitude 00:43:30.470 --> 00:43:31.642 and longitude. 00:43:31.642 --> 00:43:34.940 You're gonna need to submit screenshots of all this. 00:43:34.940 --> 00:43:36.590 Let me just show you what it's gonna look like. 00:43:36.590 --> 00:43:39.840 On that link, it'll take you to the catalog. 00:43:39.840 --> 00:43:43.930 The catalog starts off with this, this magnitude date 00:43:43.930 --> 00:43:45.215 and time. 00:43:45.215 --> 00:43:49.260 On magnitude, you obviously need to customize it. 00:43:49.260 --> 00:43:50.476 Minimum should be two. 00:43:50.476 --> 00:43:53.880 We're looking for anything only above 2.0. 00:43:55.329 --> 00:43:59.317 Date and time, you need to set it at 1973, one January 1st. 00:44:00.745 --> 00:44:03.780 That's when this all, this catalog started. 00:44:03.780 --> 00:44:05.770 Obviously the end date should be whatever date 00:44:05.770 --> 00:44:06.933 you ran the tool. 00:44:09.060 --> 00:44:10.330 Screenshot of this. 00:44:13.591 --> 00:44:15.170 Bringing it to the advanced options. 00:44:15.170 --> 00:44:16.160 Right here under circle, 00:44:16.160 --> 00:44:19.375 this is where you enter your (indistinct) launch in that 83. 00:44:19.375 --> 00:44:22.000 That's the datum we want you to use. 00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:25.530 Be sure you do outer radius of 9.08. 00:44:25.530 --> 00:44:27.420 That's what we're looking for. 00:44:27.420 --> 00:44:29.850 Submit a screenshot of this, 00:44:29.850 --> 00:44:32.040 and then you click go and then what it should do, 00:44:32.040 --> 00:44:35.060 if you have events, it'll look like this. 00:44:35.060 --> 00:44:36.143 This is what it will look like. 00:44:36.143 --> 00:44:38.190 Then do a screenshot of this. 00:44:38.190 --> 00:44:40.230 If you don't have events in your radius, 00:44:40.230 --> 00:44:42.700 a little box will prompt up and say, 00:44:42.700 --> 00:44:45.280 there were no events in the radius 00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:47.460 and just do a screenshot of that and attach it. 00:44:47.460 --> 00:44:48.450 That's it. 00:44:48.450 --> 00:44:50.796 Like I said, be sure you check text net, 00:44:50.796 --> 00:44:52.099 because you don't wanna get surprised. 00:44:52.099 --> 00:44:55.990 Text net picks up an event that USGS didn't. 00:44:55.990 --> 00:44:57.793 Remember we consider both catalogs. 00:45:01.500 --> 00:45:04.523 This supplemental info for seismicity. 00:45:07.330 --> 00:45:09.903 If we see that there is an earthquake over 2.0 00:45:09.903 --> 00:45:13.470 in your radius, we're gonna at first issue a rad saying, 00:45:13.470 --> 00:45:16.460 hey, we need some geologic maps from you. 00:45:16.460 --> 00:45:20.120 These are structure maps, Isopach maps and cross sections, 00:45:20.120 --> 00:45:22.150 kind of gonna give us a little bit more information 00:45:22.150 --> 00:45:23.940 about the geology area. 00:45:23.940 --> 00:45:27.270 We want you to show your faults, formation, thickness, 00:45:27.270 --> 00:45:29.210 all that good stuff on these. 00:45:29.210 --> 00:45:31.433 We wanna have all these for our records. 00:45:32.380 --> 00:45:35.100 Suppose I grade it and it needs what's called 00:45:35.100 --> 00:45:37.670 a fault slip potential, that's something else 00:45:37.670 --> 00:45:39.490 that could be required. 00:45:39.490 --> 00:45:43.050 If you have any relevant information that can assist 00:45:43.050 --> 00:45:44.970 in the scoring, please submit it. 00:45:44.970 --> 00:45:47.357 Just give us everything you know about the geology 00:45:47.357 --> 00:45:48.610 of the area. 00:45:48.610 --> 00:45:50.530 Geology of the area. 00:45:50.530 --> 00:45:51.993 It really does help us out. 00:45:56.270 --> 00:45:57.790 The purpose of the supplemental information 00:45:57.790 --> 00:46:00.419 is to help us do a better seismic review. 00:46:00.419 --> 00:46:03.929 We grade these on an ABC scale. 00:46:03.929 --> 00:46:07.820 All right, I'm gonna get into this seismic, 00:46:07.820 --> 00:46:08.984 the grading sheet. 00:46:08.984 --> 00:46:12.570 It's broken up into three parts, faulting 00:46:12.570 --> 00:46:16.840 and seismicity, operational factors and reservoir factors. 00:46:16.840 --> 00:46:20.220 Faulting and seismicity is the biggest part 00:46:20.220 --> 00:46:22.683 of the seismic review as it should be. 00:46:23.580 --> 00:46:26.050 Operational factors that takes into consideration 00:46:26.050 --> 00:46:31.050 any nearby wells that are disposing into the same formation. 00:46:31.381 --> 00:46:33.370 What's the cumulative volume 00:46:33.370 --> 00:46:36.200 that's going into this formation within the certain radius. 00:46:36.200 --> 00:46:37.470 We're gonna look at that. 00:46:37.470 --> 00:46:40.310 In reservoir factors, just the theology of the rock, 00:46:40.310 --> 00:46:44.513 the characteristics of the area that plays more into that. 00:46:46.263 --> 00:46:48.370 Faulting and seismicity is the biggest chunk 00:46:48.370 --> 00:46:50.390 of this seismic review. 00:46:50.390 --> 00:46:52.057 Like I said, we grade on ABC. 00:46:54.710 --> 00:46:59.670 With each grade there are limits and conditions added 00:46:59.670 --> 00:47:01.040 to your permit. 00:47:01.040 --> 00:47:04.170 Let's say you get a grade A. 00:47:04.170 --> 00:47:07.220 The max daily injection volume for grade A 00:47:07.220 --> 00:47:09.900 is 30,000 barrels per day. 00:47:09.900 --> 00:47:14.900 For a grade B it's 20,000, grade C is 10,000. 00:47:16.039 --> 00:47:19.620 With all these, they're all gonna get permit conditions 00:47:19.620 --> 00:47:20.453 on your permit. 00:47:21.300 --> 00:47:23.330 We're gonna have daily H-10 records 00:47:23.330 --> 00:47:25.440 that you're gonna have to submit. 00:47:25.440 --> 00:47:28.000 Initial static bottom hole pressure test. 00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:30.160 That's another one that's gonna go on. 00:47:30.160 --> 00:47:32.240 If you're grade A and you're at 30,000, 00:47:32.240 --> 00:47:35.100 we're gonna ask you to do a step rate tests. 00:47:35.100 --> 00:47:38.180 All grades, Cs need to be reviewed, 00:47:38.180 --> 00:47:39.950 are going to be reviewed 00:47:39.950 --> 00:47:43.260 by our state seismologist for his approval. 00:47:43.260 --> 00:47:44.400 Why? 00:47:44.400 --> 00:47:46.110 We do this because, hey, you know what, 00:47:46.110 --> 00:47:48.610 sometimes we'll give him a C, 00:47:48.610 --> 00:47:50.310 show him a grade C and he'll say, 00:47:50.310 --> 00:47:53.040 you know what, Rob, bump that up to a B, or he'll say, 00:47:53.040 --> 00:47:54.710 you know what, maybe we shouldn't move forward 00:47:54.710 --> 00:47:55.880 with this application. 00:47:55.880 --> 00:47:57.480 This is just too much of a risk. 00:47:58.350 --> 00:48:01.943 He's gonna look at all grade Cs our state seismologist. 00:48:03.550 --> 00:48:08.320 Now, suppose you get a grade B or C and you say, 00:48:08.320 --> 00:48:10.803 you know what, Rob, I just want more. 00:48:13.026 --> 00:48:14.970 If you are eligible and our state seismologist, 00:48:14.970 --> 00:48:17.520 their managers will determine if you're eligible 00:48:17.520 --> 00:48:20.959 for what's called the seismic monitoring plan, 00:48:20.959 --> 00:48:25.940 you can maybe possibly get up to 10,000 barrels per day more 00:48:25.940 --> 00:48:28.220 added to your permit. 00:48:28.220 --> 00:48:31.123 If you're at grade A, you're not getting higher than that. 00:48:31.123 --> 00:48:33.610 I mean, if you wanna do a station, that's fine, 00:48:33.610 --> 00:48:36.023 but you cannot go higher than 30. 00:48:37.372 --> 00:48:40.090 If you got a B or C, and your eligible, 00:48:40.090 --> 00:48:42.873 you may be able to get an extra 10,000 barrels per day. 00:48:43.840 --> 00:48:47.180 You got to agree to implement a seismic monitoring plan 00:48:47.180 --> 00:48:50.023 that augments the open public data network. 00:48:51.062 --> 00:48:53.161 Then you're gonna have to develop 00:48:53.161 --> 00:48:56.033 and implement a seismic event response plan. 00:48:59.180 --> 00:49:00.610 This is just saying, you're gonna need to include 00:49:00.610 --> 00:49:02.410 the method of monitoring. 00:49:02.410 --> 00:49:04.530 We got to know the type of instrumentation, 00:49:04.530 --> 00:49:07.920 reporting of data analysis in which network 00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:10.090 you're gonna upload this all to. 00:49:10.090 --> 00:49:12.570 All of these monitoring plans and response plans, 00:49:12.570 --> 00:49:13.670 they're gonna be reviewed 00:49:13.670 --> 00:49:16.608 by our state seismologists and our managers. 00:49:16.608 --> 00:49:18.620 They're gonna be the ones to hopefully say, all right, 00:49:18.620 --> 00:49:20.320 let's just move forward with this. 00:49:23.340 --> 00:49:24.610 All right. 00:49:24.610 --> 00:49:25.443 We're at the very end. 00:49:25.443 --> 00:49:26.630 We're doing great here. 00:49:26.630 --> 00:49:28.090 Hopefully, I still have your attention. 00:49:28.090 --> 00:49:30.440 All right, permit amendment, application decision, 00:49:30.440 --> 00:49:31.453 protest and hearing. 00:49:34.351 --> 00:49:36.323 Let's talk real quickly about permanent amendments. 00:49:37.680 --> 00:49:38.693 They really vary. 00:49:39.710 --> 00:49:42.100 Let's just say you're doing an operator name change. 00:49:42.100 --> 00:49:42.933 Those are easy. 00:49:42.933 --> 00:49:44.886 Those are just formed fee. 00:49:44.886 --> 00:49:46.130 That's all you gotta do. 00:49:46.130 --> 00:49:49.780 Let's say you planned a manual injection interval uphold. 00:49:49.780 --> 00:49:52.473 Well, that's pretty much a brand new application. 00:49:53.920 --> 00:49:55.517 That's what it says here. 00:49:55.517 --> 00:49:57.593 Filing requirements vary with the purpose of the amendments. 00:50:00.090 --> 00:50:02.620 On our manual this table, 00:50:02.620 --> 00:50:04.870 we have links to these tables that show 00:50:04.870 --> 00:50:08.090 what you need to submit for different types of amendments. 00:50:08.090 --> 00:50:08.923 This is great. 00:50:08.923 --> 00:50:11.290 I mean, we have this all printed out on our desk 00:50:11.290 --> 00:50:13.033 because it shows what we need to look 00:50:13.033 --> 00:50:15.090 for certain amendments. 00:50:15.090 --> 00:50:17.210 I highly recommend if you're doing an amendment, 00:50:17.210 --> 00:50:20.823 use this because it just helps you out a lot. 00:50:22.930 --> 00:50:26.580 All right, what's the timeline of all of this? 00:50:26.580 --> 00:50:28.676 What's our permit timing. 00:50:28.676 --> 00:50:32.489 How quick should you expect to get your permit back? 00:50:32.489 --> 00:50:37.321 Well, according to our rule, Chapter one, rule 201, 00:50:37.321 --> 00:50:40.932 our turnaround for these injection disposal applications, 00:50:40.932 --> 00:50:43.783 it's 45 days. 00:50:44.750 --> 00:50:46.770 That's our turnaround. 00:50:46.770 --> 00:50:50.350 30 of those days should be for the initial review, 00:50:50.350 --> 00:50:53.670 in 15 days for that final review. 00:50:53.670 --> 00:50:56.170 Now, currently we're still meeting that target. 00:50:56.170 --> 00:50:58.470 We're all over the place with this pandemic, 00:50:58.470 --> 00:51:01.270 and we're still meeting that target. 00:51:01.270 --> 00:51:03.610 Obviously, if you go into seismic review 00:51:03.610 --> 00:51:05.563 or pressure of you and east Texas. 00:51:06.417 --> 00:51:09.210 There's some more time that's gonna go into those. 00:51:09.210 --> 00:51:13.297 45 days is our turnaround per Chapter one, rule 201. 00:51:14.472 --> 00:51:18.610 Now, this slide, the after permit, this says, 00:51:18.610 --> 00:51:20.420 so you're obviously gonna have to do some stuff 00:51:20.420 --> 00:51:21.750 once you get your permit. 00:51:21.750 --> 00:51:22.660 What are those things? 00:51:22.660 --> 00:51:27.320 Well, you gotta do that H-5. Usually it's every five years. 00:51:27.320 --> 00:51:31.030 Like I said for that PTT cam, you're gonna do an annual. 00:51:31.030 --> 00:51:32.513 Be sure you do your H-5. 00:51:33.360 --> 00:51:34.430 What else are you gonna do? 00:51:34.430 --> 00:51:35.993 File a completion report. 00:51:37.028 --> 00:51:37.928 Do you W-2 or G-1. 00:51:38.810 --> 00:51:40.740 You can do this online now. 00:51:40.740 --> 00:51:43.200 This just speeds things up. 00:51:43.200 --> 00:51:44.840 Lease numbers or for new leases, 00:51:44.840 --> 00:51:47.450 they're assigned after the final approval 00:51:47.450 --> 00:51:48.853 of your completion report. 00:51:49.730 --> 00:51:50.750 That's when you'll get it, 00:51:50.750 --> 00:51:52.740 is after you do this completion report. 00:51:52.740 --> 00:51:56.690 Also we will send you when your H-10 is due. 00:51:56.690 --> 00:51:59.270 Be sure you get that H-10. 00:51:59.270 --> 00:52:01.010 Submit it in, or else we can... 00:52:01.010 --> 00:52:02.230 Margo, she will come. 00:52:02.230 --> 00:52:05.389 We will let you know if you did not turn it in. 00:52:05.389 --> 00:52:08.433 Be sure you do that H-5, that H-10 and get that W-2 in. 00:52:12.686 --> 00:52:14.843 This slide is just talking about saying, 00:52:16.190 --> 00:52:18.980 hey, you propose what you're gonna do. 00:52:18.980 --> 00:52:21.940 Hopefully you do what you told us you're gonna do, 00:52:21.940 --> 00:52:23.823 but obviously things happen. 00:52:24.670 --> 00:52:28.030 This is also saying that if there's any remedial work 00:52:28.030 --> 00:52:30.310 that we told you needed to be done, let's say, 00:52:30.310 --> 00:52:33.600 we asked you to put a seaman bridge plug in, 00:52:33.600 --> 00:52:35.790 do a squeeze or something like that. 00:52:35.790 --> 00:52:37.711 This is where we're saying, 00:52:37.711 --> 00:52:40.843 hey, you need to do all that before you can start injecting. 00:52:42.250 --> 00:52:43.590 Any big changes. 00:52:43.590 --> 00:52:45.420 Let's say, you go, Rob, 00:52:45.420 --> 00:52:48.210 I didn't even go down to my proposed top interval. 00:52:48.210 --> 00:52:50.396 Well, we're gonna need to do a permanent amendment 00:52:50.396 --> 00:52:52.273 because that just can't happen. 00:52:53.170 --> 00:52:54.940 Just let us know if you know things didn't go 00:52:54.940 --> 00:52:56.840 the way you planned and we'll walk you through 00:52:56.840 --> 00:52:57.890 what needs to happen. 00:53:01.880 --> 00:53:03.830 What happens if you get denied? 00:53:03.830 --> 00:53:06.850 I know nobody wants to talk about it, but it happens. 00:53:06.850 --> 00:53:09.890 If you have... So remember I talked about these requests 00:53:09.890 --> 00:53:12.410 for additional information, these rads. 00:53:12.410 --> 00:53:16.435 Technically you only really get two responses to these rads. 00:53:16.435 --> 00:53:18.978 If the application remains incomplete 00:53:18.978 --> 00:53:21.570 after two additional submittals, 00:53:21.570 --> 00:53:23.892 we can return to the application. 00:53:23.892 --> 00:53:27.760 That's one way you can get denied or sent back. 00:53:27.760 --> 00:53:31.140 If you don't really answer the rads correctly. 00:53:31.140 --> 00:53:34.060 Applications will be administratively denied 00:53:34.060 --> 00:53:39.060 if the lease is under severance or if it's sealed in. 00:53:39.190 --> 00:53:40.297 That's another way. 00:53:41.150 --> 00:53:44.760 Finally, if there's unsatisfactory well completion. 00:53:44.760 --> 00:53:46.670 Let's say you didn't do it 00:53:46.670 --> 00:53:48.040 the way you told us you were gonna do it 00:53:48.040 --> 00:53:49.950 and you just kept on going. 00:53:49.950 --> 00:53:53.100 Then, yes, we can deny your permit then and cancel it. 00:53:53.100 --> 00:53:55.890 So it's important that if any of these things happen, 00:53:55.890 --> 00:53:57.250 you just let us know. 00:53:57.250 --> 00:53:59.610 We will tell you what the best route you can do 00:53:59.610 --> 00:54:03.123 to get everything... To hopefully try and fix the situation. 00:54:06.600 --> 00:54:07.760 All right, here it is. 00:54:07.760 --> 00:54:08.593 We're almost at the end. 00:54:08.593 --> 00:54:09.940 I promise y'all. 00:54:09.940 --> 00:54:12.120 Protested applications, all right, 00:54:12.120 --> 00:54:14.380 nobody wants to get protested, but it happens. 00:54:14.380 --> 00:54:18.590 All right. We, the staff may not administratively 00:54:18.590 --> 00:54:23.050 issue a permit if it has a valid protest. All right? 00:54:23.050 --> 00:54:25.820 These protests, remember that notification 00:54:25.820 --> 00:54:27.970 I was talking about in the published notice. 00:54:27.970 --> 00:54:32.970 Protests must be filed within 15 days of the date of notice, 00:54:33.150 --> 00:54:36.700 the date of publication or the date that the application 00:54:36.700 --> 00:54:41.563 is filed with us at the UIC, whichever is later. 00:54:42.920 --> 00:54:47.070 Protests received after that window will not be considered. 00:54:47.070 --> 00:54:51.160 Just know that 15 days is the window we give you 00:54:51.160 --> 00:54:52.453 for this protest period. 00:54:55.250 --> 00:54:58.750 What happens if you get protested, you say, 00:54:58.750 --> 00:55:00.900 Rob, my protest, what can I do? 00:55:00.900 --> 00:55:03.670 There's three things you can really do 00:55:03.670 --> 00:55:05.580 to get out of your protest. 00:55:05.580 --> 00:55:08.430 One, you can withdraw your application. 00:55:08.430 --> 00:55:10.542 Nobody ever wants to do that. 00:55:10.542 --> 00:55:12.630 It's an option. 00:55:12.630 --> 00:55:15.600 Two, you can sweet talk your way out of this. 00:55:15.600 --> 00:55:17.620 Get a withdrawal letter from the protestant. 00:55:17.620 --> 00:55:19.223 Maybe you can get them to withdraw it. 00:55:19.223 --> 00:55:24.203 Come to a compromise there or three, you can go to hearing. 00:55:25.840 --> 00:55:28.410 The application must be administratively complete, 00:55:28.410 --> 00:55:30.220 when it goes to hearing. 00:55:30.220 --> 00:55:33.570 There's gonna be a pre-hearing and/or hearing 00:55:33.570 --> 00:55:37.020 will be held pretty much up there and docket, 00:55:37.020 --> 00:55:38.865 they're gonna make the decision. 00:55:38.865 --> 00:55:40.990 They're gonna send it to me. 00:55:40.990 --> 00:55:44.370 Then I will move forward with whatever they decide. 00:55:44.370 --> 00:55:46.730 Those are your three routes that if you get protested, 00:55:46.730 --> 00:55:50.020 like I said, in withdrawal, have your protestor withdrawal 00:55:50.020 --> 00:55:51.520 or you can take it to hearing. 00:55:53.250 --> 00:55:56.204 I think that's actually the end of it. 00:55:56.204 --> 00:55:57.480 Here's our team leads. 00:55:57.480 --> 00:56:00.354 Sean Avitt, he's our manager, figure this leader. 00:56:00.354 --> 00:56:02.850 Jason Lockie, if you have any questions, 00:56:02.850 --> 00:56:04.360 he's over all the permit specialists. 00:56:04.360 --> 00:56:07.123 If you have any questions, you're running protest 00:56:07.123 --> 00:56:10.050 with the administrator review, Jason Lockie, 00:56:10.050 --> 00:56:11.500 he is the man to talk to. 00:56:11.500 --> 00:56:13.440 Ric Rosso, he's my manager. 00:56:13.440 --> 00:56:14.273 He's great. 00:56:14.273 --> 00:56:16.727 If you have any questions regarding the technical, 00:56:16.727 --> 00:56:19.330 the seismic review contact, Rick. 00:56:19.330 --> 00:56:22.450 Finally Lauryn McFarland. 00:56:22.450 --> 00:56:23.283 She's great. 00:56:23.283 --> 00:56:24.116 She handles all... 00:56:24.116 --> 00:56:26.570 She's over the H-5 groups. 00:56:26.570 --> 00:56:29.210 If you got any questions regarding your H-5, 00:56:29.210 --> 00:56:32.003 be sure you contact Lauryn McFarland. 00:56:32.855 --> 00:56:35.450 I just wanna thank y'all for being here. 00:56:35.450 --> 00:56:38.060 Like I said earlier, it really means a lot that you're here 00:56:38.060 --> 00:56:39.670 because it means that you care 00:56:39.670 --> 00:56:42.470 about what's your applications and you care 00:56:42.470 --> 00:56:44.850 that you want to do this right. 00:56:44.850 --> 00:56:45.683 I'm here. 00:56:45.683 --> 00:56:46.810 I'm always available for you. 00:56:46.810 --> 00:56:48.520 If you wanna send me an email, 00:56:48.520 --> 00:56:52.933 here's my email right here, rob.castillo@rcc.texas.gov. 00:56:53.950 --> 00:56:56.820 Feel free to contact me saying, you got a question, 00:56:56.820 --> 00:56:59.170 reach out to me or give us a call at our main line. 00:56:59.170 --> 00:57:01.843 One of us perimeters or permit specialist, 00:57:03.790 --> 00:57:07.653 we are happy to help you through the application process. 00:57:08.620 --> 00:57:11.350 Molly, I think that's it from me. 00:57:11.350 --> 00:57:14.320 If there are any questions, I think we can take those. 00:57:14.320 --> 00:57:15.153 Yes. 00:57:15.153 --> 00:57:16.910 We've got about five minutes for questions 00:57:16.910 --> 00:57:19.790 and it looks like Nicole has three 00:57:21.465 --> 00:57:24.400 that haven't been answered yet. 00:57:24.400 --> 00:57:28.140 The first can applications be mailed in PDF format 00:57:28.140 --> 00:57:31.000 to the UIC email address currently? 00:57:31.000 --> 00:57:33.920 Yeah. Right now because a lot of us are not 00:57:33.920 --> 00:57:36.490 in the office, so we're actually accepting PDFs, 00:57:36.490 --> 00:57:38.473 these digital copies to be sent in. 00:57:39.637 --> 00:57:43.910 All right, next question for W-14, 00:57:43.910 --> 00:57:48.690 what if the permitted disposal interval is 5,500 to 9,000 00:57:48.690 --> 00:57:52.590 and the purse for disposal initially are 8,000 to 9,000. 00:57:52.590 --> 00:57:54.173 Where should the packer be set? 00:57:55.480 --> 00:58:00.326 As long as that packer is set above your purse 00:58:00.326 --> 00:58:02.490 it can be inside of your interval. 00:58:02.490 --> 00:58:04.950 Your packer can be set inside of your interval, 00:58:04.950 --> 00:58:07.253 but it has to be above your top purse. 00:58:09.000 --> 00:58:10.440 It cannot be below your purse, 00:58:10.440 --> 00:58:13.563 but it can be within your proposed interval. 00:58:15.300 --> 00:58:17.320 All right. One more question. 00:58:17.320 --> 00:58:20.320 What is the current policy guidelines on huff and puff 00:58:20.320 --> 00:58:22.740 involving injection and production into and 00:58:22.740 --> 00:58:24.340 from of the same well? 00:58:24.340 --> 00:58:28.073 Permit, no permit H-10, no H-10 packer, no packer? 00:58:29.340 --> 00:58:31.798 That's actually a good question. 00:58:31.798 --> 00:58:32.631 I'm gonna be honest. 00:58:32.631 --> 00:58:34.580 I don't know that much off the top of my head 00:58:34.580 --> 00:58:36.150 regarding the huff and puff. 00:58:36.150 --> 00:58:39.850 I can take that if we can get the info for that question, 00:58:39.850 --> 00:58:41.140 the info... 00:58:41.140 --> 00:58:43.350 Email for that person, and I will get back to them 00:58:43.350 --> 00:58:44.870 because I'm gonna be honest. 00:58:44.870 --> 00:58:46.970 I am not that great at the huff and puff. 00:58:46.970 --> 00:58:47.803 I don't know. 00:58:47.803 --> 00:58:50.270 I think we have a few people who work on them. 00:58:50.270 --> 00:58:54.280 If there's a way for us to get that attendees information, 00:58:54.280 --> 00:58:57.521 I will get back to them with that information. 00:58:57.521 --> 00:58:59.930 The question was submitted anonymously. 00:58:59.930 --> 00:59:01.890 I'm just going to suggest 00:59:01.890 --> 00:59:03.500 that whoever submitted that question- 00:59:03.500 --> 00:59:04.333 Reach out to me. 00:59:04.333 --> 00:59:07.440 Email's up on the screen right now. 00:59:07.440 --> 00:59:08.420 You know what, Molly, 00:59:08.420 --> 00:59:10.250 going back to that first question, 00:59:10.250 --> 00:59:15.250 I think we can still send in the paper application 00:59:15.423 --> 00:59:19.030 because we still have staff who is in the office. 00:59:19.030 --> 00:59:22.380 I'm pretty sure that we accepted digital copies right now, 00:59:22.380 --> 00:59:25.900 but we still would prefer you to send hard copy in 00:59:25.900 --> 00:59:28.500 because once again, we have staff who's in the office 00:59:28.500 --> 00:59:31.100 scanning these and sending them out. 00:59:31.100 --> 00:59:32.710 Is there any other questions, Molly? 00:59:32.710 --> 00:59:33.630 I'm sorry. 00:59:33.630 --> 00:59:35.030 Didn't mean to cut you off there. 00:59:35.030 --> 00:59:36.140 No. That's fine. 00:59:36.140 --> 00:59:38.649 Those are all the questions that we have. 00:59:38.649 --> 00:59:39.482 Great. 00:59:39.482 --> 00:59:41.050 With that, I guess we'll go ahead 00:59:41.050 --> 00:59:42.530 and conclude the webinar. 00:59:42.530 --> 00:59:44.993 Thank you everyone so much for participating. 00:59:46.000 --> 00:59:47.403 Thank you, Rob. 00:59:47.403 --> 00:59:48.408 Thank you.