All technical or oil and gas industry words or phrases used herein and not specifically defined herein shall have those meanings customarily attributable thereto by prudent operators in the oil and gas industry. The following terms used in this chapter are hereby defined to have the meanings set out below:
ABANDONED WELL: Any natural production well in which production casing has been run but which has not been operated for six (6) months; and each well in which no production casing has been run, and for which drilling operations have ceased for thirty (30) consecutive days.
CIRCULATING MUD PITS: The working pit from which drilling muds are continuously recirculated during the drilling process into and from the drilling hole for the purpose of flushing from the drill bit cuttings, and as a lubricant to reduce torque, drag, heat, friction and differential sticking during the drilling process.
DELETERIOUS SUBSTANCE: Any chemical, salt water, oil field brine, waste oil, waste emulsified oil, basic sediment, mud or injurious substances produced or used in the drilling, development, producing, transportation, refining and processing of oil, gas or condensate.
DISPOSAL WELL: Any well drilled or actually used for injection of salt water or other substances into the earth at a point other or different than the point of extraction or production thereof from the earth.
ENHANCED RECOVERY: An operation by which fluid or energy is introduced into a source of supply for the purpose of facilitating recovery therefrom.
MUD: The drilling fluid used and recirculated through the drilling hole as a lubricant to reduce torque, drag, heat, friction and differential sticking and to flush drill bit cuttings from the hole during the drilling process.
MUD PROGRAM: The planned usage of drilling fluid lubricants, specifying with particularity the type, name and physical and chemical composition and characteristics of all ingredients thereof, together with such laboratory and other technical data as may be necessary or required by the city building inspector to evaluate the same as pollutive, deleterious or otherwise.
OIL AND GAS INSPECTOR: That person designated by the city administrator to enforce the provisions of this chapter.
OIL OR GAS WELL: Shall mean and include any well drilled, operated or maintained for the production of oil, gas, casinghead gas or any of them or their byproducts or derivatives.
POLLUTION: The contamination or other alteration of the physical, chemical, or biological properties of any natural waters of the city, or such discharge of any liquid, gaseous or solid substance into any water of the city as will or is likely to create a nuisance or render such waters harmful or detrimental or injurious: a) to public health, safety, or welfare; b) to domestic, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational, or other beneficial uses; c) or to livestock, animals or aquatic life.
RESERVE PIT: Any excavation, pit or receptacle designed or actually used to receive, store or hold rocks, drill bit cuttings, shale, sand, fresh water or drilling mud which contains no salt water, oil, oil derivatives, caustics, acids or other deleterious substances harmful to soil, vegetation or injurious to animal or human life.
SLUSH PIT: Any excavation, pit or receptacle designed or actually used to receive, store or hold waste oil, oil derivatives, sand, salt water or other waste products or deleterious substances produced or used in the drilling, swabbing, cleaning or reworking of any oil, gas or disposal well.
WELL: Unless specifically qualified, any hole or holes, bore or bores, to any depth for the purpose of producing and recovering any oil, gas or liquefied matter, or for the injection or disposal of any of the foregoing. (Ord. 369, 2-26-2002)