Sec 66-111 Definitions
All technical industry words or phrases related to the drilling and production of oil and gas wells not specifically defined in this article shall have the meanings customarily attributable thereto by prudent and reasonable oil and gas industry operators. 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:
   A.   Abandonment means "abandonment" as defined by the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma and includes the plugging of the well and the restoration of any well site as required by this article.
   B.   Ambient noise level means the all-encompassing noise level associated with a given environment, being a composite of sounds from all sources at the location, constituting the normal or existing level of environmental noise at a given location.
   C.   Blowout preventer means a mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic or other device or combination of such devices secured to the top of a well casing, including valves, fittings and control mechanisms connected therewith, which can be closed around the drill pipe, or other tubular goods which completely close the top of the casing and are designed for preventing blowouts.
   D.   Building means any structure used or intended for supporting or sheltering any use or occupancy. The term "building" shall be construed as if followed by the words "or portions thereof."
   E.   Cathodic protection means an electrochemical corrosion control technique accomplished by applying a direct current to the structure that causes the structure potential to change from the corrosion potential to a protective potential in the immunity region. The required cathodic protection current is supplied by sacrificial anode materials or by an impressed current system.
   F.   Cessation of drilling activities means the time when the blowout protectors (BOPs) are removed or otherwise rendered inoperable and/or there are no further activities to trip drill pipe, casing or insert other tools into or out of the hole.
   G.   City means the City of Purcell.
   H.   City Code means the Code of the City of Purcell.
   I.   City Attorney means the City Attorney of the City of Purcell.
   J.   City regulated pipelines means those pipelines within the City that under federal and State rules and regulations are not exempt from City regulations and ordinances regarding mapping, inventorying, locating or relocating of pipelines, including, but not limited to, pipelines over, under, along, or across a public street or alley, pipelines from the well to the first point of custody transfer or in private residential areas within the boundaries of the City.
   K.   Closed loop mud system means a system utilized while drilling so that reserve pits are not used and instead steel bins are used to collect all drilling waste.
   L.   Commission means the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma and all State rules.
   M.   Commencement of drilling activities means the reflection of either "spud well" or "nipple up" the blow out protectors (BOP) by the drilling contractors on the IADC- API daily drilling report form maintained by the operator's tool pusher on the pad site.
   N.   Completion of drilling, re-drilling and re-working means the date the work is completed for the drilling, re-drilling or re-working and the crew is released by completing their work or contract or by their employer.
   O.   Daytime means the period from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
   P.   Decibel (db) means a unit for measuring the intensity of a sound/noise and is equal to ten (10) times the logarithm to the base ten (10) of the ratio of the measured sound pressure squared to a reference pressure which is twenty (20) micropascals.
   Q.   Demobilization means those activities when the drilling has ceased and the rig equipment and related pad site equipment is being dismantled for the purpose of moving off the drill pad site.
   R.   Derrick means any portable framework, tower, mast and/or structure which is required or used in connection with drilling or re-working a well for the production of oil and gas.
   S.   Drilling means digging or boring a new well for the purpose of exploring for, developing or producing oil and gas or other hydrocarbons, or for the purpose of injecting oil and gas, water or any other fluid or substance into the earth.
   T.   Drilling equipment means the derrick, together with all parts of and appurtenances to such structure, every piece of apparatus, machinery or equipment used or erected or maintained for use in connection with drilling.
   U.   Drilling operations means drilling with drill pipe and bit, running casing, circulating mud and fluids, tripping tools and setting production casing/tubing.
   V.   Exploration means geologic or geophysical activities, including seismic surveys, related to the search for oil and gas or other subsurface hydrocarbons.
   W.   FEMA means Federal Emergency Management Agency.
   X.   FIRM means flood insurance rate map.
   Y.   Fire Department means the Fire Department of the City of Purcell.
   Z.   Flowback means the process of flowing a completed/fractured well for the purpose of recovering water and residual sand from the oil and gas stream prior to sending oil and gas down a sales line.
   AA.   Fracture or fracturing means the process of fracture stimulation of a rock formation.
   AB.   Freshwater fracture pit means a pit used for the collection and storage of fresh water for the purpose of fracture stimulation of oil and gas wells.
   AC.   Fresh water means water obtained from any source (natural or reuse) that contains three thousand (3,000) ppm chlorides or less or as defined by the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma.
   AD.   Oil and gas means any fluid, either combustible or noncombustible, which is produced in a natural state from the earth and which maintains an oil and gaseous or rarefied state at standard temperature and pressure conditions and/or the oil and gaseous components or vapors occurring in or derived from petroleum or natural oil and gas.
   AE.   Oil and gas drilling review committee means a committee consisting of applicable City departments assembled for the purpose of reviewing wells drilled within one thousand (1,000) feet of a protected use without waivers, all pipeline permit applications for oil and gas pipelines through a private residential area, and permit applications involving noncommercial truck routes. A Parks Advisory Board member will be included on the Oil and Gas Drilling Review Committee when any of the aforementioned reviews affects dedicated public parkland.
   AF.   Oil and gas well means any well drilled, to be drilled, or used for the intended or actual production of natural oil and gas.
   AG. Habitable structure means any structure for which a certificate of occupancy is required. A habitable structure shall not include detached accessory buildings, garages and sheds.
   AH.   Hospital building means any building used or designed to and intended to be used for medical, surgical, psychiatric, nursing or custodial care on a twenty-four (24) hour basis, including convalescent facilities, social rehabilitation centers, mental hospitals, detoxification facilities, and alcohol and drug centers.
   AI.   Inspector means the Oil and Gas Inspector(s) or other inspectors as needed and as designated by the City.
   AJ.   Lift compressor means a device that raises the pressure of a compressible fluid (oil and gas) in order to lift oil and gas from the well.
   AK.   Line compressor means a device that raises the pressure of a compressible fluid (oil and gas) in order for the oil and gas to be transported through a pipeline.
   AL.   Mobilization means those activities when the drilling rig and related equipment and personnel arrive at the well site and are conducting activities to rig up or position the rig equipment at the well and prepare for drilling. This includes all activities and services prior to the drill bit being lowered below the rotary table and entering the conductor pipe in an attempt to make hole ("spud in") for the first time at the pad site.
   AM.   Multiple well site permit means that permit issued for the sole purpose of allowing future wells to be drilled on an existing pad site and within one thousand (1,000) feet of protected uses without obtaining waivers and/or variances.
   AN.   Nighttime means the period between 7:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
   AO.   Operator means, for each well, the person listed on the corporation commission forms (permit to drill or completion report) for an oil and gas well that is, or will be, actually in charge and in control of drilling, maintaining, operating, pumping or controlling any well, including, without limitation, a unit operator. If the operator, as herein defined, is not the lessee under an oil and gas lease of any premises affected by the provisions of this article, then such lessee shall also be deemed to be an operator. In the event that there is no oil and gas lease relating to any premises affected by this article, the owner of the fee mineral estate in the premises shall be deemed an operator.
   AP.   Outer boundary surface property line means the outer boundary of any property for which a preliminary plat or concept plan has been filed with the City of Purcell.
   AQ.   Person means both the singular and the plural and means a natural person, a corporation, association, guardian, partnership, receiver, trustee, administrator, executor, and fiduciary or representative of any kind.
   AR.   Pipeline means all parts of those physical facilities through which oil and gas, hazardous liquids, fresh water, saltwater, or chemicals move in transportation, including, but limited to, pipe, valves and other appurtenance attached to pipe, whether or not laid in public or private easement or public or private right-of-way within the City, including but not limited to gathering lines, production lines and transmission lines. This definition does not include pipelines associated with franchise utilities.
   AS.   Pipeline construction means the initiation of any excavation or other disturbance of property for the purpose of installation, construction, maintenance, repair, replacement, modification or removal of a pipeline.
   AT.   Pipeline or well emergency means a pipeline or well incident that is required to be reported to the corporation commission, the Oklahoma Water Resource Board, or any federal, State, or local regulatory agency.
   AU.   Pipeline permit means a permit for the movement of oil and gas, oil, water or other products.
   AV.   Pipeline operator means any person owning, operating or responsible for operating a pipeline.
   AW.   Private residential area means any area within the territorial limits of the City zoned and used as single or multi-family residential.
   AX.   Property owner means the owner of the surface property.
   AY.   Protected use means a residence, religious institution, hospital building, school or public park.
   AZ.   Public building means all buildings with occupancies of fifty (50) or more persons and more than seven hundred fifty (750) square feet used or designed to and intended to be used for motion picture theaters, symphony and concert halls, television and radio studios admitting an audience, theaters, banquet halls, night clubs, restaurants, taverns and bars, amusement arcades, art galleries, bowling alleys, community halls, courtrooms, dance halls, exhibition halls, funeral parlors, gymnasiums without spectator seating, indoor swimming pools and tennis courts without spectator seating, lecture halls, libraries, museums, waiting areas in transportation terminals, pool and billiard parlors, arenas with spectator seating, skating rinks with spectator seating, swimming pools with spectator seating, tennis courts with spectator seating and amusement park structures, bleachers, grandstands and stadiums used for viewing outdoor activities.
   BA.   Public park means any land area dedicated to the City for traditional park-like recreational purposes.
   BB.   Re-drill means re-completion of an existing well by deepening or sidetrack operations extending more than one hundred fifty (150) feet from the existing well bore.
   BC.   Reduced emission completion (green completion) means techniques or methods that minimize the release of natural oil and gas and vapors to the environment when a well is being flowed during the completion or re-completion phase of a Barnett Shale well.
   BD.   Religious institution means any building in which persons regularly assemble for religious worship and activities intended primarily for purposes connected with such worship or for propagating a particular form of religious belief.
   BE.   Residence means a house, duplex, apartment, townhouse, condominium, City-inspected mobile home or other building designed for dwelling purposes, including those for which a building permit has been issued on the date the application for an oil and gas well permit is filed with the Oil and Gas Inspector. Residence shall include assisted living facilities, nursing homes (both intermediate care facilities and skilled nursing facilities), residential board and care facilities, group homes, twenty-four (24) hour shelters, half-way houses, hotels, motels and jails.
   BF.   Re-working means re-completion or re-entry of existing well within the existing bore hole or by deepening or sidetrack operations which do not extend more than one hundred fifty (150) feet from the existing well bore, or replacement of well liners or casings.
   BG.   Right-of-way means public rights-of-way, including streets, easements and other property within the City and which is dedicated to the use and benefit of the public.
   BH.   School means any public and private, primary and secondary educational facilities providing education or off-site related school sports venues up through and including the twelfth grade level and any licensed day care centers, meaning a facility licensed by the State of Oklahoma or by the City of Purcell that provides care, training, education, custody, treatment or supervision for more than six (6) children under fourteen (14) years of age, and for less than twenty-four (24) hours per day.
   BI.   Site means the area used for drilling, development and production and all operational activities associated with oil and gas production.
   BJ.   Site preparation means any grading, tree removal, construction of access roads, delivery of fill material, staging of equipment or any other activity that would disturb the surface of the property.
   BK.   State or Federal Regulated Pipelines means those pipelines within the City that under State and federal rules and regulations are exempt from City regulations and ordinances regarding mapping, inventorying, locating and relocating of pipelines.
   BL.   Street means any street, highway, sidewalk, alley, avenue, recessed parking area or other public right-of-way, including the entire right-of-way.
   BM.   Tank means a container, covered or uncovered, used in conjunction with the drilling or production of oil and gas or other hydrocarbons for holding or storing fluids.
   BN.   Technical advisor means such person(s) familiar with and educated in the oil and gas industry or the law as it relates to oil and gas matters that may be retained from time to time by the City.
   BO.   Well means a hole or holes, bore or bores, to any horizon, formation, or strata for the purpose of producing oil and gas, liquid hydrocarbon, brine water or sulphur water, or for use as an injection well for secondary recovery, disposal or production of oil and gas, or other hydrocarbons from the earth.
   BP.   Workover operation means work performed in a well after its completion in an effort to secure production where there has been none, restore production that has ceased or increase production.
(Ord. No. 10-08, 7-6-2010)