It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person or corporation to violate any of the following, and such violations are declared to be a public nuisance:
A. Pits:
1. Steel mud or circulating pits shall be used. Such pits and contents shall be removed from the premises and the drilling site within sixty (60) days after completion of the well.
2. Earthen "slush pits", as herein defined, shall not be constructed, built, maintained or used by any person or corporation at any location within the city.
3. Earthen "reserve pits", as herein defined, which contain no salt water, oil, oil derivatives, caustics, acids or other deleterious substances harmful to soil, vegetation or injurious to animal or human life shall be allowed to be constructed or used in connection with the drilling, swabbing, cleaning out or reworking of oil or gas wells within the city, and the contents thereof need not be transported from the premises to a disposal facility, provided the same are leveled and the surface of the ground restored as nearly as possible to its original condition within ninety (90) days after completion of said drilling, swabbing, cleanout or reworking operations.
4. An earthen retaining wall of adequate size for the terrain shall be constructed on the low side of all well sites situated within the city on sloping or unlevel ground. The top of the retaining wall shall be at least as high as the top of the Christmas tree or other wellhead connections on any completed well, or at least as high as the ground at the point where surface casing is set in the well when drilling.
5. All waste oil, salt water, liquid with oil content, gasoline or other waste produced in connection with the drilling, testing, cleaning, swabbing, reworking or operating of any oil, gas, or disposal well shall be captured and retained in steel tanks or vessels and transported from the premises to a disposal facility. In no event shall any of such substances be permitted to escape from the premises owned, leased or controlled by the persons carrying on such operations by seepage, overflow or otherwise, nor flow across the surface of the ground, or upon any public way, into any storm or sanitary sewer, drainage ditch, upon any gutter or paving or into any gully, stream or tributary within the city.
B. Storage Tanks And Separators:
1. Crude oil storage tanks shall not be constructed, operated or used except to the extent of one three hundred (300) barrel steel tank for oil storage. Should the production of the well so require, different size tankage or additional tankage may be approved by the city administrator.
2. A permittee may use, construct and operate a steel conventional separator and such other steel tanks and appurtenances as are necessary for treating oil with each of such facilities to be so constructed and maintained as to be vaportight. Each oil and gas separator shall be equipped with both a regulation pressure relief safety valve and a bursting head.
3. Storage tanks or other types of tanks containing flammable substances used in connection with any oil, gas or disposal well within the city shall have earthen embankments constructed around them of sufficient size and height to be able to adequately contain one and one-half (11/2) times the volume of such tanks in the event of a rupture thereof at the floor of such tank. No drain plugs, openings or siphons shall be placed in the walls or dikes which will permit the escape of any liquids through the same.
4. In no event shall any such tank be located nearer than one hundred feet (100') to a dwelling or business structure, street or highway within the city.
C. Fire Prevention: Adequate firefighting apparatus and supplies approved by the city fire department shall be maintained on the drilling site at all times during drilling and production operation. All machinery, equipment and installations on all drilling sites within the city limits shall conform to such requirements as may from time to time be issued by the fire department.
D. Well Location:
1. A permit may be issued for the drilling of an original well or for the reentry of an abandoned well for each one-fourth (1/4) section of land covering one hundred sixty (160) acres. Additional wells may be permitted, provided the Oklahoma corporation commission approves such well location and city staff and mayor and council are satisfied the public interest is preserved. (Ord. 369, 2-26-2002)
2. No permit shall be issued for the drilling of an original well or for the reentry of an abandoned well at any location which is nearer than five hundred feet (500') from the well bore to any residence, residential or commercial platted lot, commercial or office building, producing fresh water well, or any building used as a place of public assembly, institution, church or school. After the well has been completed and established as a producing well, any person owning property adjoining the well site shall be allowed to obtain a building permit for the establishment of a structure so long as the structure is no closer than three hundred feet (300') from the well bore. Further, on any reentry of an abandoned well, or redrilling of an existing well on the same permitted location, the operator of said drilling site shall be required to meet the five hundred foot (500') distance requirement set forth above. (Ord. 381, 11-18-2004)
3. No oil, gas or disposal well shall be drilled, operated or maintained, nor shall any operations in connection therewith be carried on or conducted, within three hundred feet (300') of any church, school or hospital building within the city.
E. Noise and Other Nuisances:
1. All oil operations, drilling and production operations shall be conducted in such a manner as to eliminate, as far as practicable, dust, noise, vibration or noxious odors, and shall be in accordance with the best accepted practices incident to exploration for, drilling for and production of oil, gas and other hydrocarbon substances. Proven technological improvements in exploration, drilling and production methods shall be adopted as they become, from time to time, available, if capable of reducing factors of nuisance and annoyance. The motive power for all operations after completion of drilling operations shall be electricity produced off site.
2. No steam, gasoline, natural gas, diesel or other internal combustion engine of any kind shall be operated in conjunction with the drilling or operation of an oil or gas well within two hundred fifty feet (250') of any dwelling or business structure within the city. (Ord. 369, 2-26-2002)
3. In order to avoid unnecessary noise and nuisance, mufflers on engines used in drilling operations shall be used as required by the city administrator. Fracing, flaring of gas, or tripping operations shall be conducted during daylight hours when possible. (Ord. 381, 11-18-2004)
F. Movement Of Heavy Equipment: No person shall move or cause to be moved over, upon or across any paving or paved street or alley within the city, any piece of machinery of extreme weight which may crack or injure such pavement, except as herein provided. Prior to the moving of any such machinery over, across or upon any paved street or alley within the city, application shall be made to the city administrator and the route shall be designated by the city administrator.
G. Maintenance, Fencing, Landscaping, Screening Of Facilities:
1. All lease equipment shall be painted and maintained in a good state of appearance, and shall have posted in a prominent place a metal sign no less than two feet (2') square in area upon which the following information shall be conspicuous: permittee's name, lease name, location of the drill site by reference to the United States survey, and identifying number of the permit issued by the city.
2. The premises upon which any oil, gas or disposal well is drilled, operated or maintained shall be kept free of all accumulations of rubbish, litter, unused equipment or materials, excess rotary mud, salt water, waste oil or oil byproducts and other waste, insofar as the same may be reasonably done in the conduct of operations covered by this chapter.
3. Any person who completes any well for production shall enclose the well, together with all surface facilities and storage tanks and any other facilities and appurtenances thereto, by a substantial fence properly built so as to ordinarily keep persons and animals out of the enclosure. All gates thereto shall be kept locked when the permittee or his employees are not within the enclosure. Nothing herein mandates all such facilities be within the same fenced area and the city administrator or his designee shall be authorized to approve any plan which he believes ordinarily protects persons and animals from danger.
4. Screening shall be required in the areas of operation which are in any developed area or within one thousand feet (1,000') of any developed area, park, school, church, public building, or place of public assembly. Landscaping shall include screening by a fenced enclosure of at least eight feet (8') in height and constructed from materials of a solid neutral color, compatible with surrounding uses, and maintained in a neat, orderly, secure condition.
5. That part of the drilling rig adjacent to or facing any lake and situated within one-half (1/2) mile of the normal elevation thereof shall be covered with canvas, sheet metal or other suitable material at all times during drilling operations.
6. Minimum setbacks for all screening shall in no case be less than twenty five feet (25') from the ultimate right of way of any public street as defined in the transportation plan of the city.
7. Prior to the issuance of any permit, a screening plan that meets the requirements of this chapter shall be submitted for review and approval by the city administrator or his designee.
H. Proper Equipment And Procedures:
1. Approved equipment, standard devices and ordinary methods such as are commonly known and used in the oil and gas drilling and producing industry for the safety and protection of property from damage due to drilling and operating activities shall be used at all locations within the city. Failure on the part of any owner, driller or operator to utilize such equipment, devices or methods shall be the basis for injunction thereof by the city, or any person affected thereby, in addition to the penalties therefor otherwise provided therein.
2. At least seven hundred fifty feet (750') of surface casing shall be set in each well after notification of intention to do so has been given the Oklahoma corporation commission, whose representative shall be entitled to inspect the installation thereof and direct the type and amount of cement to be used in cementing the same in the hole.
3. All drilling wells shall be equipped with a master gate, or its equivalent, adequate blowout preventers, flow lines and valves commensurate with the working pressures involved.
4. Production casing of a size not less than four and one-half inch (41/2") outside diameter, in good condition, shall be set no higher than the top of the producing formation and cemented with a sufficient amount of cement to obtain a maximum of five hundred feet (500') of annular fillup above the casing. All of such production casing shall be tested by pressure methods for either drilling the cement plug or perforating, if the cement is not drilled.
5. Upon completion of any flowing well, the wellhead equipment shall have, on the tubing, at least one master valve plus a flow valve, and a valve on the casing annulus. All wells shall be equipped with flow tubing of a size at least two inch (2") inside diameter extending from not less than fifty feet (50') from the top of the lowest producing formation.
6. All disposal wells shall be equipped with at least two inch (2") inside diameter tubing set on a packer and a pressure gauge shall be installed on the casing annulus at all times.
7. All drilling, reentry and operations at any well performed under this chapter shall be conducted in accordance with the best practices of the reasonably prudent operator. All casing, valves and blowout preventers, drilling fluid, tubing, bradenhead, Christmas tree and wellhead connections shall be of a type and quality consistent with the best practices of such reasonably prudent operator. Setting and cementing casing and running drill stem tests shall be performed in a manner and at a time consistent with the best practices of such reasonably prudent operator. Any permittee under this chapter shall observe and follow the recommendations or regulations of the American Petroleum Institute and the Oklahoma corporation commission.
8. Persons drilling, operating or maintaining any well shall use all necessary care and take all precautions, which shall be reasonably necessary under the circumstances to protect the public. The provisions of this chapter shall be deemed to be the minimum requirements for the preservation of the public health, safety and welfare, and compliance with the terms hereof shall not be deemed to relieve any person of any additional duty imposed by law. (Ord. 369, 2-26-2002)