| Planning | Form: (02 )
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7/24/2016 | 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. |
| Traffic control | Form: (02 )
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7/24/2016 | Access Roads: The access road will be constructed to accommodate local emergency vehicles. This road will be maintained for access at all times. A traffic study is not required to obtain an access in Weld County. |
| General Housekeeping | Form: (02 )
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7/24/2016 | 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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7/24/2016 | 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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7/24/2016 | Leak Detention Plan: Operator will monitor production facilities on a regular schedule to identify fluid leaks, including, but not limited to, visually inspecting all wellheads, tanks and fittings. Additionally annual SPCC inspections will be conducted and documented.
Control of fire hazards: All material that is considered a fire hazard shall be a minimum of 25’ from the wellhead tanks or separators. 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.
Annual flowline testing will also occur according to COGCC rules 1101 and 1102. Inspection and record retention of flowline testing will be in accordance per COGCC regulation. All records will be made available to the COGCC upon to request. |
| Dust control | Form: (02 )
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7/24/2016 | 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 may be used. |
| Noise mitigation | Form: (02 )
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7/24/2016 | Sound walls and/or hay bales will be used on the North, South, and East sides of the well site during drilling operations to shield sensitive areas.
Baseline noise monitoring and testing will be conducted prior to commencement of construction and dirt work. |
| Emissions mitigation | Form: (02 )
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7/24/2016 | Green Completions - Emission Control System: Test separators and associated flow lines and sand traps shall be installed on-site 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 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. Test separators and associated flow lines and sand traps shall be installed on-site to accommodate green completions techniques pursuant to COGCC Rules.
Extraction will tie into the sales line immediately after flowback. |
| Odor mitigation | Form: (02 )
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7/24/2016 | 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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7/24/2016 | 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.
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. |
| Drilling/Completion Operations | Form: (02 )
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7/24/2016 | One of the first wells drilled on the pad will be logged with open-hole Resistivity Log and Gamma Ray Log from the kick-off point into the surface casing. All wells on the pad will have a cement bond log with gamma-ray run on production casing (or on intermediate casing if production liner is run) into the surface casing. The horizontal portion of every well will be logged with a measured-while-drilling gamma-ray log. The Form 5, Completion Report, for each well on the pad will list all logs run and have those logs attached.The Form 5 for a well without open-hole logs shall clearly state “No open-hole logs were run” and shall clearly identify (by API#, well name & number) the well in which open-hole logs were run. |
| Interim Reclamation | Form: (02 )
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7/24/2016 | 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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7/24/2016 | 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. |