Drilling/Completion Operations | Form: (02 ) 400546895 4/13/2014 | Closed-top tanks will utilize backpressure systems that exert a minimum of four (4) ounces of backpressure and a maximum that does not exceed the pressure rating of the tank to facilitate gathering and combustion of tank 800-5 C
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Drilling/Completion Operations | Form: (02 ) 400546895 4/13/2014 | Upon initial rig-up and at least once every thirty (30) days during drilling operations thereafter, pressure testing of the casing string and each component of the blowout prevention equipment including flange connections will be performed to seventy percent (70%) of working pressure or seventy percent (70%) of the internal yield of casing, whichever is less. Pressure testing shall be conducted and the documented results will be retained by the operator for inspection by the Director for a period of one (1) year. Activation of the pipe rams for function testing shall be conducted on a daily basis when practicable.
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Drilling/Completion Operations | Form: (02 ) 400546895 4/13/2014 | Adequate blowout prevention equipment will be used on all well servicing operations.
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Drilling/Completion Operations | Form: (02 ) 400546895 4/13/2014 | Backup stabbing valves shall be required on well servicing operations during reverse circulation. Valves shall be pressure tested before each well servicing operation using both low-pressure air and high-pressure fluid.
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Drilling/Completion Operations | Form: (02 ) 400546895 4/13/2014 | Prior to drilling operations, Operator will perform an anti-collision scan of existing offset wells that have the potential of being within close proximity of the proposed well. This anti-collision scan will include definitive MWD or gyro surveys of the offset wells with included error of uncertainty per survey instrument, and compared against the proposed wellpath with its respective error of uncertainty. If current surveys do not exist for the offset wells, Operator may have gyro surveys conducted to verify bottomhole location. The proposed well will only be drilled if the anti-collision scan results indicate that there is not a risk for collision, or harm to people or the environment. For the proposed well, upon conclusion of drilling operations, an as-constructed gyro survey will be submitted to COGCC with the Form 5.
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Drilling/Completion Operations | Form: (02 ) 400546895 4/13/2014 | Encana will comply with the “COGCC Policy for Bradenhead Monitoring During Hydraulic Fracturing Treatments in the Greater Wattenberg Area”, dated May 29, 2012.
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Planning | Form: (02 ) 400997329 6/11/2016 | Maximize equipment and wellhead setbacks from occupied buildings and residences to the extent feasible and practicable, as determined by Encana |
Planning | Form: (02 ) 400997329 6/11/2016 | Distance to Erie Building Units. For the Pad, the minimum distance between a well or surface equipment, and the nearest exterior wall of an existing Erie Building Unit (as of the Effective Date) shall not be less than the following 1,010 feet. Compliance with this requirement shall be determined from the actual asbuilt locations of the well or surface equipment. Nothing herein shall be construed to grant Encana any surface rights on property owned by the Town or another person. No Pad Site will be located on Town property without authorization by the Town Board of
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Planning | Form: (02 ) 400997329 6/11/2016 | Encana shall conduct all operations in accordance with the plans discussed during the Conceptual Review Process as updated from time to time. |
Community Outreach and Notification | Form: (02 ) 400997329 6/11/2016 | Prior to commencement of any new drilling or completion operations, provide to an Erie designated staff member the following for the well-site for informational purposes only, which Encana may revise from time to time during operations:
a) A summary of planned operations, including identified access points and operational timeline, for posting to a local community information web-page
b) A site plan for site preparation, mobilization and demobilization
c) A plan for interim reclamation and vegetation of the site and final reclamation of the site
d) A plan for noise, light and dust mitigation, to the extent feasible
e) A traffic management plan
f) Updates of this information if any change during operations |
Community Outreach and Notification | Form: (02 ) 400997329 6/11/2016 | Prior to commencement of any new drilling or completion operations, provide notification to landowners within one-half (1/2) mile of the well-site. |
Community Outreach and Notification | Form: (02 ) 400997329 6/11/2016 | Encana shall include its contact information on both the mailed notice required by Article III, Section 8 and the posted notice required by Article III, Section 9. This information shall include both a telephone number for Encana and the address and hours of Encana’s Erie community office. Members of the public with concerns or complaints regarding the oil and gas development covered by this Agreement may use this information to speak with Encana. |
Traffic control | Form: (02 ) 400997329 6/11/2016 | Encana will implement the Traffic Management Plan required by Article III, Section 3, Subpart 10. |
Traffic control | Form: (02 ) 400997329 6/11/2016 | To reduce truck traffic, Erie and Encana will encourage the use of nearby water resources for the drilling and hydraulic fracturing of wells at the pad sites, including the use of Erie municipal water when determined technically feasible and economically practicable by Encana. |
General Housekeeping | Form: (02 ) 400997329 6/11/2016 | Encana will install down cast lighting or some other form of lighting that mitigates light pollution and spill-over onto adjacent properties; provided, however, that Encana may still use lighting that is necessary for public and occupational safety. |
General Housekeeping | Form: (02 ) 400997329 6/11/2016 | Access roads to well and production facilities that connect to a street within Erie shall be improved from the point of connection to a street within Erie a minimum distance of two hundred (200) feet on the access road as specified by the then current requirements of the Code. |
General Housekeeping | Form: (02 ) 400997329 6/11/2016 | Upon the request of either party, the Parties may revise one or more of these BMPs if they mutually agree such revision would better avoid or mitigate impacts the BMP(s) is intended to address.
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General Housekeeping | Form: (02 ) 400997329 6/11/2016 | Encana will recycle and reuse water at the pad sites and otherwise minimize waste water production to the extent that it determines such recycling, reuse, and waste water minimization is technically and economically feasible. |
General Housekeeping | Form: (02 ) 400997329 6/11/2016 | Oil and gas well facilities (above ground) within the Erie Town Limits shall be fenced as specified by the then current requirements of the Code. |
General Housekeeping | Form: (02 ) 400997329 6/11/2016 | Road repairs.
(a) Erie and Encana recognize that truck traffic accessing the Identified Well Pads may cause damage to Erie roads and that road repairs may be needed to mitigate such damage. To this end, Encana will arrange for a qualified outside consultant to perform a road impact study for all Erie roads that are used to access an Identified Well Pad
during the Term of this Agreement. The consultant will conduct the first part of the study prior to Encana’s operations at such Well Pad and the second part of the study after Encana completes all drilling and hydraulic fracturing at such Well Pad. Encana and Erie will use these studies to determine the extent of any damage accruing to the road during the study period. Encana will then promptly pay Erie to repair such damage or else arrange and pay the cost of such repairs itself whichever Erie prefers. (b) Encana shall maintain Financial Assurance to secure its road repair obligations
under this Agreement. The amount of such Financial Assurance shall equal Erie’s annual road maintenance budget as of the Effective Date multiplied by the percentage yielded by dividing the total number of Erie road miles as of the Effective Date into the number of such road miles that Encana will use to access the Identified Well Pads. Encana shall select the form of such Financial Assurance and shall maintain such Assurance until Encana fulfills its obligation to repair road damage under Subsection (a). |
Material Handling and Spill Prevention | Form: (02 ) 400997329 6/11/2016 | Utilize steel-rim berms around tanks and separators instead of sand or soil berms. |
Material Handling and Spill Prevention | Form: (02 ) 400997329 6/11/2016 | Encana shall use steel rim berms or some other state of the art technology that will contain fluids and other material instead of sand or soil berms. |
Noise mitigation | Form: (02 ) 400997329 6/11/2016 | Encana will comply with the following noise mitigation requirements at all pad sites:
(a) For db(A) scale noise, Encana will insure that the noise level from operations subject to the light industrial zone noise standard under COGCC Regulations 802.b and 604.c.(2)(A) does not exceed sixty (60) db(A) and that the noise level from operations subject to the industrial zone noise standard under COGCC Regulations 802.b and 604.c.(2)(A) is reduced at least five (5) db(A) below the maximum level permitted by those Regulations. For this purpose, the noise level shall be measured as set forth in COGCC Regulations 802.b & c, except no measurements shall be taken
when traffic is passing the sound level meter, Encana shall be present during all measurements, and building units shall be limited to those units existing as of the Effective Date. As set forth in COGCC Regulation 802.b, the noise levels shall be subject to increase for a period not to exceed fifteen (15) minutes in any one (1) hour period and reduction for periodic, impulsive or shrill noises.
(b) For db(C) scale noise, Encana shall comply with the requirements of COGCC Regulation 802, as such requirements may be amended during the term of this Agreement. |
Emissions mitigation | Form: (02 ) 400997329 6/11/2016 | Well leak detection and repair
(a) To identify leaks, Encana will perform audio, visual and olfactory inspections on a monthly basis at all of its new and existing wells and related facilities and equipment within Erie’s Town Limits, provided that such related facilities and equipment are located on the pads for such wells, are part of adjacent tanks used for such pad sites, or are part of storage tanks for such pad sites authorized under Article IV, Section 4 of the Operator Agreement. Encana will also inspect each such well with an infra-red camera on a monthly basis. The initial baseline inspections will occur within sixty (60) calendar days after the Effective Date. After a well has produced for twelve (12) months, the frequency of such inspections shall decrease from monthly to quarterly. If Encana determines that any repairs are required based on these inspections, Encana will promptly initiate these repairs.
(b) Encana will report to Erie on the inspection results and any associated repairs the month after the inspection or repair occurs. This information will be collectively reported on a monthly basis in the same format that Encana uses for reporting to the Air Pollution Control Division under Regulation 7, but that is specific to wells located within the Erie Town Limits. Erie will make this information publicly available.
(c) This BMP will terminate five (5) years after the Effective Date, after which Encana will continue to comply with the leak detection, repair, and reporting requirements of Regulation 7, as such requirements may be amended.
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Emissions mitigation | Form: (02 ) 400997329 6/11/2016 | In an effort to reduce air emissions, Encana intends to construct a central gathering and storage facility at a location in 1N-68W-Section 21 (the “Hub”) to receive liquids from the wells which are the subject of this Agreement. As a result, Encana will not install hydrocarbon storage tanks at these pad sites, which will eliminate potential sources of hydrocarbons from the sites. However, Encana will still install at the pad sites all other equipment and facilities necessary for the production of hydrocarbons, including wellhead equipment, separation equipment, electrical equipment, and temporary flowback equipment (including temporary storage tanks). In addition, this BMP is subject to Article IV, Sections 3 and 4 of the Agreement.
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