§ 62-26. Definitions.  


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  • (a)

    The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

    Bottom-hole location means the point in the subsurface of the earth where a well is perforated for production of oil or gas from the surrounding subsurface strata.

    Director means the director of planning and development services.

    Drilling block means an area that contains 16 oil drilling units.

    Drilling, oil or gas operations shall mean the drilling, completion or re-working of any type of oil, gas, disposal, exploratory or injection well or pipeline and subsequent life of a well or pipeline or any associated appurtenances or operations, including changes to existing operations and all related equipment and structures, including associated non-residential temporary office structures.

    Drilling site means the surface premises used for drilling, oil or gas operations.

    Drilling unit for gas means an area within the corporate limits that contains a minimum of 640 acres and shall be 5,280 feet square.

    Drilling unit for oil means an area within the corporate limits that contains a minimum of 40 acres and shall be 1,320 feet square.

    Extraterritorial jurisdiction means that land within three and one-half miles of the corporate limits of the city or as otherwise established by state law.

    Fire chief means the chief of the fire department.

    Gas means natural gas, including all of its constituent elements, which elements include but not by way of limitation, gasoline, condensate, distillate, butanes, propanes and other hydrocarbons.

    Gas well means a well producing gas, as defined in this section, and which produces no oil, as defined in this section, or less than one barrel of oil to each 100,000 cubic feet of gas.

    Oil means any liquid hydrocarbon, regardless of gravity, capable of being produced from a drilling unit in liquid form at the well by ordinary production methods and that is not the result of the condensation of gas after it leaves the reservoir.

    Oil well means any well that produces one barrel or more of oil, as defined in this section, to each 100,000 cubic feet of gas, as defined in this section.

    Permittee means the person to whom is issued a permit for the drilling and operation of a well under this article and his administrators, executors, heirs, successors and assigns.

    Regulated area or regulated area of the city means and includes, subject to the exceptions contained in this article, all lands within the corporate limits and lands within the extraterritorial jurisdiction to the extent governed by subsection 62-28(c).

    Surface location means the point where a well penetrates the surface of the earth.

    Well means any hole or bore to any sand, formation, strata or depth, which is drilled, bored, sunk, dug or put down for the purpose of either exploring for or ascertaining the existence of any oil, gas or liquid hydrocarbon or for the purpose of producing and recovering any oil, gas or liquid hydrocarbon.

    Well servicing means the installation or servicing of artificial lift equipment and the removal of tubing obstructions such as paraffin and sand.

    Workover means working over a well, which shall be considered to be the act of reentering a well for any purpose after it is initially completed or abandoned, other than for well servicing.

    (b)

    All technical or oil and gas industry words and phrases used in this article and not specifically defined in this section shall have the meaning customarily attributable thereto by prudent operators in the oil and gas industry.

(Ord. No. 671, § 2, 2-14-63; Code 1967, § 20-2; Ord. No. 11,434, § 1, 9-9-10; Ord. No. 12,474, § 2, 2-13-14)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.