Agency 82, Article 3 — Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-1215. Long-term monitoring, measurement, and testing for reservoir storage facilities and reservoir storage wells. (a) Each operator shall perform long-term …

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-1216. Safety and emergency response plan. (a) Each operator shall construct, convert, operate, and abandon the storage facility in accordance with a safety a…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-1217. Safety inspection. (a) Each operator shall perform a safety inspection of the storage facility at least once every 12 months. One extension of one mont…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-1218. Plugging-monitoring status. (a) Any operator may place a cavern storage well in plugging-monitoring status according to a plugging-monitoring status pl…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-1219. Storage well plugging. (a) Any operator may plug any storage well pursuant to a well plugging plan signed by a licensed professional engineer or licens…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-122. Operators; complaints; hearing. A hearing may be conducted by the commission if it finds that there is reasonable cause to believe, or upon a written co…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-1220. Temporary abandonment of reservoir storage wells and reservoir storage facilities. (a) Each operator of a reservoir storage well shall, within 90 days …

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-1221. Decommissioning and abandonment of a storage facility. (a) No operator shall permanently abandon a storage facility unless an application is approved b…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-1222. Reporting required; record retention. (a) Each operator shall meet the requirements in subsection (b) if any safety inspection reveals any regulatory o…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-1223. Fees. (a) Each operator shall submit a fee of $18,890 for each storage facility and $305 for each storage well annually on or before January 31. The op…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-123. Well bore; commingling of production. (a) Applicability. Commingling of production from more than one source of supply shall be permitted if the total p…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-123a. Well bore; commingling of fluids. (a) When applicable. Well bore commingling of fluids from one or more intervals with fluids from a production interva…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-124. Dual or multiple-completed wells. (a) When applicable. Production from more than one common source of supply through the same well bore shall be permitt…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-125. Surface commingling of production. The production from one common source of supply may be commingled on the surface with that from another common source…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-126. Tank and truck identification; penalty. (a) Tanks. All oil tanks, tank batteries, tanks used for salt water collection or disposal, and tanks used for s…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-127. Documentation required for transportation and storage. (a) Transportation. (1) Every person that uses a motor vehicle to transport crude petroleum oil, …

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-128. Reports and permits; penalty. Verification of any information necessary to administer these rules and regulations or any commission order may be require…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-130. Completion reports; penalty. (a) Within 120 days of the spud date or commencement of recompletion of a well, the operator shall file an original and two…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-1300. Definitions; horizontal wells. The terms and definitions in K.A.R. 82-3-101, with some of those definitions modified as follows, shall apply to these r…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-1301. Horizontal wells. The regulations applicable to wells, as defined in K.A.R. 82-3-101, shall apply to horizontal wells, except as specifically provided …

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-1302. Notice of intention to drill; setback. (a) Before commencing the drilling of any horizontal well, each operator shall submit to the conservation divisi…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-1303. Oil and gas allowables. (a) The oil allowables specified in K.A.R. 82-3-203 and the standard daily allowable for gas wells specified in K.A.R. 82-3-312…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-1304. Gas well test exemption. The gas well testing requirements in K.A.R. 82-3-303 and K.A.R. 82-3-304 shall not apply to any horizontal well. (Authorized b…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-1305. Venting and flaring. (a) The venting and flaring requirements in K.A.R. 82-3-208 and K.A.R. 82-3-314 shall not apply to any horizontal well. (b) The fo…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-1306. High-volume pumps. The restrictions on and requirements for the use of high-volume pumps in K.A.R. 82-3-131 shall not apply to any horizontal well. (Au…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-1307. Well completion report. Each operator of a horizontal well shall comply with the affidavit requirements in K.A.R. 82-3-106 and K.A.R. 82-3-130 by submi…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-131. Vacuum and high volume pumps; application and approval. (a) Upon application, the installation and use of vacuum pumps in fields that are nearly deplete…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-132. Re-entry notification. Every operator shall notify the conservation division or a district office at least 48 hours before re-entering an abandoned or p…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-133. Penalties for unlawful production. (a) The production of oil or gas in violation of the provisions of a basic proration order, or otherwise in violation…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-133a. Balancing overages and underages in nonprorated areas; penalty. For purposes of determining whether a particular oil or gas well subject to statewide f…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-135. Notice of hearings. (a) Scope. The notice requirements in this regulation apply to each hearing arising under any rule or regulation or statutory provis…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-135a. Notice of application. (a) Scope. Except as otherwise provided in K.A.R. 82-3-100, 82-3-108, 82-3-109, 82-3-138, 82-3-203, 82-3-208, 82-3-209, 82-3-300…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-135b. Protesters. Each protest against the granting of an application for an order or permit filed pursuant to K.A.R. 82-3-135a shall be considered under the…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-136. Transfer of operator responsibility. (a) If operator responsibility is transferred, the past operator shall report this transfer to the conservation div…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-137. Change in purchasers. If a purchaser of production changes and if that production is subject to a proration order issued by the commission, the operator…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-138. New pool application. (a) Application requirements. Each application for a new pool certificate shall be submitted to the conservation division on the f…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-140. Tertiary recovery project certification. (a) Any interested party may file an application for certification of a tertiary recovery project. Each applica…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-1400. Hydraulic fracturing treatment; definitions. The terms and definitions in K.A.R. 82-3-101 shall apply to K.A.R. 82-3-1400 through 82-3-1402, in additio…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-1401. Hydraulic fracturing treatment; chemical disclosure. (a) Applicability. This regulation shall apply to each hydraulic fracturing treatment that uses mo…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-1402. Hydraulic fracturing treatment; disclosure of trade secrets. (a) Director. (1) The manufacturer, supplier, service company, or operator shall provide t…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-144. Abandoned well plugging reimbursement. (a) Reimbursement process. Each person seeking reimbursement under K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 55-180(f), and amendments th…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-200. Prevention of waste, protection of correlative rights, and prevention of discrimination between pools. (a) Any person having the right to drill, complet…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-201. Oil production in prorated areas: balancing of underages. Whenever an oil well producing in a prorated area fails to produce its allowable, this shortag…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-202. Productivities, methods of determining, when required. The productivity of all wells in prorated pools in this state shall be determined in accordance w…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-203. Production allowable. (a) An allowable shall be assigned to each well in a nonprorated pool. The allowable shall be set by the following schedule and sh…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-204. Reports by producers. The producer or operator of each well in prorated pools, including minimum wells, shall file each month a verified statement showi…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Corporation Commission Article 3.—Production and Conservation of Oil and Gas 82-3-206. Oil conservation assessment. In order to pay the conservation division expenses and administration costs not otherwise provided for, an oil conservation…