Mississippi Administrative Code

The State Oil and Gas Supervisor (Supervisor) shall maintain a Docket Book and all petitions, and requests for hearings called on the motion of the Board shall be docketed and given a docket number, and a file carrying such number shall be opened by the Supervisor. All petitions …

Notice of public hearing held by the Board shall be given in the following manner: (A) NOTICE BY PUBLICATION. Unless otherwise provided or required by statute or rule of this Board, notice of all hearings of the Board shall be given by publishing notice thereof at least twenty (2…

(A) All motions for continuance of contested matters shall state the reason for continuance. (B) Parties other than petitioner who desire to continue a matter must (1) notify by telephone the petitioner or the petitioner's representative set forth in the petition and the Board of…

(A) NOTICE OF CONTEST. (1) If an interested person desires to contest a petition or docket, then not later than 5 p.m. on Tuesday of the week which precedes the regular monthly Board Meeting the contestant shall deliver to the petitioner's representative set forth in the petition…

Emergency action may be taken by the Board without notice and hearing in the event the Board finds immediate action is necessary in order to prevent waste, to prevent irreparable injury or for some other cause, but each emergency rule, regulation and order shall provide that it w…

After the announcement of, or notice of intention to contest any petition or application for relief submitted to this Board, there shall be no ex parte contacts relating to the facts or merits of the petition between (a) any person acting on behalf of the petitioner or applicant …

The hearings shall be opened with the call of the docket. The request for hearing, the notice or notices thereof and proof of the due publication of the notice or notices of the hearing shall be made a part of the record of the hearing. Opening and closing statements may be made …

The rules and regulations hereby adopted and hereinafter set out are general rules of statewide application and shall apply to all fields; provided, however, special rules, applicable to particular areas or subject matter, shall prevail over these general rules only to the extent…

(a) No stratum upon being penetrated shall be drilled or left open, except at the direction of the Supervisor, without the application of mud-laden fluid or other means to prevent the escape of oil or gas while further drilling in or through such stratum. (b) All fresh waters and…

The minimum amount of surface or first-intermediate casing to be set shall be determined from the following table: Proposed Total Depth-Feet Minimum Casing Requirements-Feet 0-2500 200' 2500-6000 200'+ 8% of proposed depth in excess of 2500' 6000-7000 480'+ 10% of proposed depth …

All oil and gas wells shall be completed with a string of casing which shall be properly cemented at a sufficient depth adequately to protect the oil- or gas-bearing pool. In every case no less cement shall be used than the calculated amount necessary to fill the annular space to…

On all wells being drilled, completed or recompleted and on any production work when tubing is to be pulled from the well, all proper and necessary precautions shall be taken for keeping the well under control, including the use of blowout preventers (BOPs) and auxiliary equipmen…

(a) Each operator shall file on Form No. 3 a record of all deviation tests taken. (b) No well shall cross drilling unit lines unless permit is obtained from the Board after notice and hearing. (c) Except as set forth in paragraphs (d), (e) and (f) hereof, no well may be direction…

(a) No well shall be permitted to produce either oil or gas from different pools through the same string of casing and no well shall be completed with the casing open to one (1) pool and the tubing open to another, unless a permit is obtained from the Board after notice and heari…

(a) Anything that might constitute a fire hazard and which is not used, or useful, in the operation of the well, tanks, separator or other equipment shall be removed to a distance of at least 100 feet from the well location, tanks and separators. All heaters, treaters and other f…

All persons operating any oil, gas or injection well or pipeline, or receiving tank, storage tank, or receiving and storage receptacle into which produced fluid is produced, received or stored, or through which produced fluid is piped or transported, shall immediately notify the …

Well head connections of flowing wells shall have a test pressure at least equivalent to 125% of the calculated pressure in the reservoir from which production is expected. Each flowing oil well shall be equipped with and be produced through tubing not larger than two and one-hal…

Each flowing well must be produced through an oil and gas separator or treater of a type generally used in the industry. Notes 26 Miss. Code. R. 2-1.19 MCA Section 53-1-17(3) (1972)

Unless the context otherwise requires, the words hereinafter defined shall have the following meaning when found in these rules, to-wit: (a) "Board" shall mean the State Oil & Gas Board created by Chapter 256 of the Laws of 1948. (b) "Person" shall mean any individual, corporatio…

Each flowing well shall be equipped with adequate choke or bean to control properly the flowing of the well. Notes 26 Miss. Code. R. 2-1.20 MCA Section 53-1-17(3) (1972)

A. MEASUREMENT OF PRODUCTION. (1) The operator of each producing well shall maintain proper separators and stock tanks or metering devices and such connections thereto as are necessary to measure the total production from such producing well. Where metering devices are used, as h…

The use of vacuum pumps or other devices for the purpose of putting a vacuum on any gas- or oil-bearing pool is prohibited. Air lift devices shall be used only on order of the Board and after notice and hearing. Notes 26 Miss. Code. R. 2-1.22 MCA Section 53-1-17(3) (1972)

(a) Within thirty (30) days after the completion or recompletion of a well drilled for oil or gas, a completion report on Form No. 3 shall be filed with the Board. Immediately thereafter the Board shall, if such well is a producer, designate the well as an oil or a gas well. (b) …

(a) At least one electric log shall be run in each well and shall be filed with the Board within thirty (30) days of completion of the well, with Form 3, or within 60 days after log is run, whichever is the earlier date. This will include an electrical correlation log consisting …

After a well has once been completed, it shall not be deepened or plugged back, except for ordinary maintenance operations, without first giving five (5) days written notice to the Supervisor of the character of the work proposed and the time when it will begin, except in an emer…

1. Definitions For the purposes of this Rule, the following definitions shall apply: a. "Board" means the Mississippi State Oil and Gas Board. b. "Additive" means any substance or combination of substances, including proppants, having a specified purpose which is intentionally co…

Any drilling well completed as a dry hole, from which the rig is to be moved away, shall be mudded and cemented, provided, however, that authorization to the contrary has not been given by the Board. Before any work is commenced to abandon any well drilled for the discovery of oi…

Each abandoned hole or well shall be plugged by or on behalf of the owner, operator or producer who is in charge of the well and responsible therefore. A. Schedule of Abandonment and Reporting on Form No. OGB 9-12-15-Z and Form No. 9-A. 1. Dry Holes All wells drilled for oil or g…

Before any hole is abandoned which was drilled for seismic, core, and other exploratory purposes, and which penetrated below all freshwater strata, it shall be the duty of the owner or driller of any such hole to plug it in such manner as to protect properly all freshwater-bearin…

The Board will name all oil and gas fields in the State. Unless good reasons to the contrary appear, the Board will accept the recommendation of names made by the Mississippi Geological Society. Notes 26 Miss. Code. R. 2-1.3 MCA Section 53-1-17(3) (1972)

When any well to be plugged may safely be used as a freshwater well and such utilization is desired by the landowner, the well need not be filled above the required sealing plug set below freshwater; provided that written authority for such use is secured from the landowner and f…

(a) Before any person shall hereafter engage in the business of pulling casing from any oil or gas well in this state for compensation, or shall hereafter engage in the business of purchasing abandoned wells, with intention of salvaging casing therefrom, such person shall apply f…

As soon as practicable, the production of oil and gas in all common sources of supply will be controlled or regulated as the facts may warrant, as provided for in Chapter 256 of Laws of 1948. The Board on its own motion may, or at the request of any interested party shall, call h…

Except in those fields where special rules provide otherwise, hearings to establish or change the allowable production of oil in any field shall be held whenever called by order of this Board and also whenever any interested party may petition the Board for such a hearing; provid…

A. Oil: The daily oil allowable per drilling unit, as determined by the Board, must be produced on a monthly basis from the well to which said allowable is allocated, and in the event the well does not have the capacity to produce its total allowable, then it may produce such amo…

(a) If a newly completed oil well comes into production during any allowable period, or if any oil well is placed back into production after having been removed from the allowable schedule, such well may produce, during the remainder of such allowable period, only an allowable eq…

When any oil well shall go off production for any reason and as a result thereof becomes incapable of producing its allowable for any monthly period, or when any oil well becomes incapable of producing its full daily allowable on a monthly basis, same shall be reported to the Boa…

(a) Each producer or operator of any well shall execute under oath, in triplicate, and file with the Board a "Producer's Certificate of Compliance and Authorization to Transport," Form No. 8, for each well. (b) Whenever there shall occur a change in operating ownership of any dri…

The Board may require bottom hole pressure surveys of the pools within the state at such times as it may designate, and such surveys shall be reported to the Board. Notes 26 Miss. Code. R. 2-1.38 MCA Section 53-1-17(3) (1972)

Each producer or operator of an oil or gas well shall furnish for each month a "Monthly Individual Well Status Report," setting forth complete information and data indicated thereon. Such report for each month shall be prepared and filed, according to the instructions on Form No.…

(a) Before any person shall commence the drilling of any well in search of oil or gas, such person shall file in duplicate with the Board on Form 2 his application for a permit to drill, accompanied by a certified plat and by a fee of six hundred dollars ($600), payable to the St…

Any oil well producing with a gas-oil ratio in excess of two thousand (2000) cubic feet of gas per barrel of oil produced shall be allowed to produce daily only that volume of gas obtained by multiplying the normal unpenalized daily oil allowable by two thousand (2000) cubic feet…

(a) A deliverability test of each producing gas well shall be made in conformity with schedules issued by the Board. Such test shall be an actual test to determine whether or not the well is capable of producing efficiently any allowable that may reasonably be expected to be assi…

Each operator or producer of oil or gas shall furnish for each month a "Producer's Monthly Report," setting forth complete information and data indicated thereon. Such report for each month shall be prepared and filed with the Board on Form No. OGB 9-12-15-Z, according to the ins…

All gas produced from gas wells within the state which is taken into a fuel system, transmission system or other system (except gas taken into a gasoline cycling or other extraction plant gathering system which is required to be represented on the "Gasoline or Other Extraction Pl…

No pressure maintenance plant, cycling plant, gas-return plant, salt water disposal system, or similar plant or project shall operate until authorized by the Board after notice and hearing. Notes 26 Miss. Code. R. 2-1.44 MCA Section 53-1-17(3) (1972)

I. Scope and Policy: Pursuant to Chapter 301, General Laws of 1970, these rules and regulations are hereby promulgated to prevent waste by pollution of air, fresh waters and soils. These rules shall be effective throughout the State of Mississippi and are for the purpose of preve…