Planning | Form: (02 ) 400864910 3/15/2016 | 804. Visual Impacts: All existing structures have been and any future long term facility structures will be painted a color that enables the facilities to blend in with the natural background color of the landscape, as seen from a viewing distance and location typically used by the public. 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. |
Planning | Form: (02 ) 400864910 3/15/2016 | 604.c.(2)J.i 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. |
Planning | Form: (02 ) 400864910 3/15/2016 | 604.c.(2)J.ii Backup stabbing valves will 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. |
Planning | Form: (02 ) 400864910 3/15/2016 | 604.c.(2)N. 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. |
Planning | Form: (02 ) 400864910 3/15/2016 | The C Street location is fenced with a combination of chain link and wood privacy fencing. Wood privacy fencing is located along the south side of the location, adjacent to C Street, and chain link fencing is located along the west, east, and north sides. Access to the site is controlled by an automated security gate. |
Planning | Form: (02 ) 400864910 3/15/2016 | The C Street location has an approved Use by Special Review permit with Weld County, USR 13-0009. |
Traffic control | Form: (02 ) 400864910 3/15/2016 | 604.c.(2)S. Access Roads: The access road has been constructed to accommodate local emergency vehicles. The access road is paved from C Street to the gate entrance to reduce dust and sediment tracking onto C Street. |
General Housekeeping | Form: (02 ) 400864910 3/15/2016 | 604.c.(2)P. Trash Removal: All trash, debris and material not intrinsic to the operation of the oil and gas facility shall be removed and legally disposed of as applicable. |
Storm Water/Erosion Control | Form: (02 ) 400864910 3/15/2016 | Implement and maintain BMPs to control stormwater runoff in a manner that minimizes erosion, transport of sediment offsite, and site degradation. A water quality pond is located in the northeastern corner of the property to provide sediment retention from stormwater flows. An Erosion and Sediment Control Plan was submitted to Weld County as part of the approved grading permit and will be covered under Extraction Oil & Gas’s field wide CDPHE permit, permit number COR03M013. |
Material Handling and Spill Prevention | Form: (02 ) 400864910 3/15/2016 | 604.c.(2)F. Leak Detention Plan: Pumper will visit the location daily and visually inspect all tanks and fittings for leaks. Additionally, monthly documented SPCCP inspections are conducted pursuant to 40 CFR 112. |
Material Handling and Spill Prevention | Form: (02 ) 400864910 3/15/2016 | 604.c.(2)R Tank Specifications: Tanks will be designed, constructed and maintained in accordance with NFPA Code 30. The tanks are visually inspected once a day for issues, and recorded inspections are conducted once a month. |
Dust control | Form: (02 ) 400864910 3/15/2016 | 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. The access road from C Street to the gate entrance has been paved to minimize dust and sediment tracking off of the location. |
Construction | Form: (02 ) 400864910 3/15/2016 | 604.c.(3)B. Berm Construction. The berming around the tank battery is constructed of a steel ring with an engineered liner, designed to contain 150% of the capacity of the largest tank. All berms will be visually checked periodically to ensure proper working condition. Secondary containment devices shall be sufficiently impervious to contain any spilled or released material. Tertiary containment, such as an earthen berm, will be installed around additional production facilities. All berms will be visually checked periodically to ensure proper working condition. |
Construction | Form: (02 ) 400864910 3/15/2016 | 803 Light sources during all phases of operations will be directed downwards and away from occupied structures where possible. Permanent lighting shall be mounted at compressor stations on a pole or building and directed downward to illuminate key areas within the facility, while minimizing the amount of light projected outside the facility. |
Construction | Form: (02 ) 400864910 3/15/2016 | 604.c.(2).Q. All guy line anchors left buried for future use shall be identified by a marker of bright color not less than four (4) feet in height and not greater than one (1) foot east of the guy line anchor. |
Noise mitigation | Form: (02 ) 400864910 3/15/2016 | 604.c.(2)A. Extraction intends on powering the drilling rig off of highline power, which would eliminate the noise caused by the generators on the rig. This noise mitigation solution requires proper infrastructure supplied by Xcel Energy. Extraction is currently working with Xcel Energy to have this infrastructure in place prior to the start of drilling. It is anticipated that this infrastructure will be ready for use by October 2015. Additionally sound walls will be constructed around this location to aid in the reduction of noise levels. |
Emissions mitigation | Form: (02 ) 400864910 3/15/2016 | 04.c.(2)C.i. 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. |
Odor mitigation | Form: (02 ) 400864910 3/15/2016 | 805: Oil & gas facilities and equipment shall be operated in such a manner that odors and dust do not constitute a nuisance or hazard to public welfare. The production facilities will have VOC combustors with emission control devices to comply with the Department of Public Health and Environment, Air Quality Control Commission. |
Drilling/Completion Operations | Form: (02 ) 400864910 3/15/2016 | 604.c.I: 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 shall 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 shall 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 ) 400864910 3/15/2016 | 604.c.(2)L. Closed chamber drill stem tests shall be allowed. All other drill stem tests shall require approval by the Director. None planned for this well. |
Drilling/Completion Operations | Form: (02 ) 400864910 3/15/2016 | 604.c.(2).K. Drilling and Completion- Pit level Indicators shall be used on location. |
Drilling/Completion Operations | Form: (02 ) 400864910 3/15/2016 | 604.c.(2).O. Drilling and Completion-All loadlines shall be bullplugged or capped. |
Drilling/Completion Operations | Form: (02 ) 400864910 3/15/2016 | 604.c.(2)B.i Operator will be utilizing a closed loop system |
Drilling/Completion Operations | Form: (02 ) 400864910 3/15/2016 | 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 ) 400864910 3/15/2016 | 317.p 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. |