| Planning | Form: (02 )
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2/3/2015 | Multi-well Pads are located in a manner which allows for resource extraction while maintaining the highest distances possible from the offsetting residential areas and complies with the wishes of the surface owner.
A meeting with the surface owner will determine the fencing plan. |
| Pre-Construction | Form: (02 )
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2/3/2015 | Anti-Collision: 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 wells. The anti-collision scan may include definitive MWD or gyro surveys of the offset wells with included error of uncertainty per survey instrument, and compared against the proposed well path with its respective error of uncertainty. If current surveys do not exist for the offset wells, operators may have gyro surveys conducted to verify bottom hole location. The proposed well may only be drilled if the anti-collision review results indicate that the risk of collision is sufficiently low as defined by the anti-collision plan, with separation factors greater than 1.5, or if the risk of collision has been mitigated through other means including shutting in wells, plugging wells, increased drilling fluid in the event of lost returns or as is appropriate for the specific situation. In the event of an increased risk of collision, that risk will be mitigated to prevent harm to people, the environment or property. For the proposed well, upon conclusion of drilling operations, an as-constructed directional survey will be submitted to the COGCC with the Form 5.
Identification of plugged and abandoned wells will be identified pursuant to 319.a.(5) |
| Traffic control | Form: (02 )
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2/3/2015 | Access Roads: The access road will be constructed to accommodate local emergency vehicles. This road will be maintained for access at all times. Traffic will be routed to minimize local interruption. |
| General Housekeeping | Form: (02 )
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2/3/2015 | Visual Impacts: Equipment, regardless of construction date, which are observable from any public highway shall be painted with uniform, non-contrasting, non-reflective color tones (similar to the Munsell Soil Color Coding System), and with colors matched to, but slightly darker than, the surrounding landscape.
Maintain appearance with garbage clean-up; a trash bin will be located on site to accumulate waste by the personnel drilling the wells. Site will have unused equipment, trash and junk removed immediately. Operator shall keep the Surface Use Area as well as any roads or other areas used by Operator safe and in good order, including control of noxious weeds litter and debris. |
| Storm Water/Erosion Control | Form: (02 )
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2/3/2015 | Use water bars, and other measures to prevent erosion and non-source pollution. Implement and maintain BMPs to control stormwater runoff in a manner that minimizes erosion, transport of sediment offsite, and site degradation. Co-locate gas and water gathering lines whenever feasible, and mitigate any erosion problems that arise due to the construction of any pipeline(s). |
| Material Handling and Spill Prevention | Form: (02 )
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2/3/2015 | Leak Detention Plan: Pumper will visit the location daily and visually inspect all wellheads and fittings for leaks. Additionally, monthly documented SPCCP inspections are conducted pursuant to 40 CFR 112.
Control of fire hazards: All material that is considered a fire hazard shall be a minimum of 25’ from the wellhead. Electrical equipment shall comply with API IRP 500 and will comply with the current national electrical code.
Operator shall comply with state and federal laws, rules and regulations governing the presence of any petroleum products, toxic or hazardous chemicals or wastes on the Subject lands. |
| Dust control | Form: (02 )
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2/3/2015 | Operator shall employ practices for control of fugitive dust caused by their operations. Such practices shall include but are not limited to the use of speed restrictions, regular road maintenance, restriction of construction activity during high- wind days, and silica dust controls when handling sand used in hydraulic fracturing operations. Additional management practices such as road surfacing, wind breaks and barriers, or automation of wells to reduce truck traffic may also be required if technologically feasible and economically reasonable to minimize fugitive dust emissions. |
| Construction | Form: (02 )
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2/3/2015 | Guy line anchors: All guy line anchors shall be brightly marked pursuant to Rule 604.c.(2)Q. |
| Noise mitigation | Form: (02 )
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2/3/2015 | The drill site will be powered by electricity, mitigating the majority of noise from drilling operations. Sound walls and/or hay bales will be used to surround the well site during drilling operations. |
| Emissions mitigation | Form: (02 )
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2/3/2015 | Green Completions - Emission Control System: Test separators and associated flow lines and sand traps shall be installed to accommodate green completions techniques pursuant to COGCC Rules. In the anticipated absence of a viable gas sales line, the flowback gas shall be thermally oxidized in an emissions control device (ECD), which will be installed and kept in operable condition for at least the first 90-days of production pursuant to CDPHE rules. This ECD shall have an adequate capacity for 1.5 times the largest flowback within a 10 mile radius, will be flanged to route gas to other or permanent oxidizing equipment and shall be provided with the equipment needed to maintain combustions where non-combustible gases are present. |
| Odor mitigation | Form: (02 )
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2/3/2015 | Equipment shall be operated in such a manner that odors and dust do not constitute a nuisance or hazard to public welfare.
Oil and gas operations shall be in compliance with the Department of Public Health and Environment, Air Quality Control Commission, Regulation No. 2 Odor Emission, 5 C.C.R. 1001-4, Regulation No. 3 (5 C.C.R. 1001-5), and Regulation No. 7 Section XVII.B.1 (a-c) and Section XII. |
| Drilling/Completion Operations | Form: (02 )
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2/3/2015 | A closed –loop system will be used for drilling operations.
Blowout Prevention Equipment (“BOPE”): A double ram and annular preventer will be used during drilling. Stabbing valves shall be installed in the event of reverse circulation and shall be prior tested with low and high pressure fluid.
Lighting: Site lighting shall be directed downward and inward and shielded so as to avoid glare on public roads and Building Units within one thousand (1000) feet where possible. Once the drilling and completion rigs leave the site, there will be no permanently installed lighting on site.
Bradenhead Monitoring: Operator acknowledges and will comply with COGCC Policy for Bradenhead Monitoring during Hydraulic Fracturing Treatments in the Greater Wattenberg Area dated May 29, 2012. |
| Interim Reclamation | Form: (02 )
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2/3/2015 | Operator shall be responsible for segregating the topsoil, backfilling, repacking, reseeding, and recontouring the surface of any disturbed area so as not to interfere with Owner’s operations and shall reclaim such area to be returned to pre-existing conditions as best as possible with control of all noxious weeds. |
| Final Reclamation | Form: (02 )
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2/3/2015 | Within 90 days subsequent to the time of plugging and abandonment of the entire site, superfluous debris and equipment shall be removed from the site. The Operator shall restore the surface of the Land affected by such terminated operations as near as possible to the previous state that existed prior to operations. |