No person engaged in the drilling and operation of oil and/or gas wells within the City shall fail to comply with the following rules and regulations:
(a) In order to enable the holder of each license to move oil, gas, water or other products to or from each drilling unit within the City, the holder of each license issued under this chapter for the drilling and operation of a well for oil or gas in the City shall apply to Council for an easement on, over, under, along or across the streets, sidewalks, alleys and other property in the City for the purpose of constructing, laying, maintaining, operating, repairing, replacing and removing pipe lines so long as production or operation may be continued under any license issued pursuant to this chapter, provided such licensee shall:
(1) Not interfere with or damage existing water, sewer or gas lines or the facilities of public utilities, located on, under or across the course of such rights of way;
(2) Furnish the City Engineer with a plat showing the location of such pipe lines;
(3) Construct such lines or cause the same to be constructed out of new or reconditioned pipe in accordance with directions of the Mayor and properly cased and vented if under a street; and
(4) Grade, level and restore such property to the same surface condition, as nearly as practical, as existed when operations for the drilling of the well were first commenced.
(b) Any violation of the law of the State or any rule, regulation or requirement of any State or Federal regulatory body having jurisdiction in reference to drilling, completing, equipping, operating, producing, maintaining or abandoning any oil or gas well or related appurtenances, equipment or facilities, or in reference to fire wall, fire protection, blowout protection, safety protection or convenience of persons or property, shall also be a violation of this chapter and shall be punishable in accordance with the provisions hereof.
(c) No person engaged in drilling or operating any well shall permit gas to escape or be vented into the air unless such gas is flared and burned. All gas flared and burned from a torch, pipe or other burning device, within the City shall be done in such manner so as not to constitute a fire hazard to any property. The location of the torch, pipe or other burning device, the construction thereof, the maintenance thereof and the operation thereof shall at all times be in full compliance with such regulations as may from time to time be issued by the Fire Chief.
(d) No person shall use or operate in connection with the drilling or working over of any well within the City any wooden derrick or steam-powered rig, or permit any drilling rig or derrick to remain on the premises or drilling site for a period longer than sixty days after completion or abandonment of the well. All engines shall be equipped with effective mufflers of adequate size and type to match the engine used.
(e) Two dual-controlled, fluid-operated blowout preventers with working pressures equal to the maximum anticipated wellhead pressures shall be used for all drilling or completion operations involving the use of drill pipe or tubing after the surface casing has been set. The mechanical operation of the preventers shall be checked every twenty-four hours and shall be tested with pump pressure with enough frequency to insure good working order at all times.
(f) No oil, waste water, sludge water or salt water, produced or used in connection with the drilling operation or production of oil or gas wells, shall be disposed of within the City or shall be emptied into any sanitary sewer, storm sewer or surface drainage. However, temporary repositories for salt water, waste or sludge water and basic sediment and water may be constructed of concrete, steel or other material and, in the latter case, such pits for temporary deposits shall be so constructed that no seepage will result therefrom and that surface water resulting from water drainage or rain cannot drain into such pit, and provided that disposal of salt water may be made in a well drilled for that purpose or an abandoned oil well, further provided that approval for such disposal is first obtained from the Chief Inspector of the Oil and Gas Division of the Division of Mines, Department of Industrial Relations of the State.
(g) All trucks hauling oil, sludge water, salt water, petroleum products or byproducts shall be closed and leakproof at all times and the intake vent and outlet valves and pump connections shall be watertight and leakproof. The operation of any truck engaged in the hauling of any of the products or by-products mentioned in this section, which permits leakage, seepage or drainage of such products or by- products, salt water or sludge water, is unlawful and the driver or operator of such truck shall be subjected to the penalties provided in this chapter. No person engaged in the hauling of salt water shall permit his truck, vehicle or other instrument of conveyance to overflow or leak while loading or after loading.
(h) No well shall be drilled or worked over in the City without the bore holes at all times being filled with drilling fluid of a weight and viscosity as a reasonably prudent operator would use to keep the well under control at all times.
(i) No person in connection with the drilling or working over operations of any well within the City shall conduct any swabbing operations or take and complete any drill stem test except during daylight hours. Drill stem tests may be conducted only if the well effluent during the test is produced through an adequate oil and gas separator to storage tanks, and the effluent remaining in the drill pipe at the time the tool is closed is flushed to the surface by circulating drilling fluid down the annulus and up the drill pipe. The Mayor shall be informed before drill stem testing or swabbing is performed so that a City representative may be present during such operations.
(j) All completed wells within the City shall be equipped with Christmas tree fittings and wellhead connections, with a rated working pressure equal to or greater than the surface shut-in pressure of the well. All wellhead connections shall be assembled and tested prior to installation by a fluid pressure which shall be equal to the test pressure of the fitting employed.
(k) Whenever any well is abandoned within the City, it shall be the obligation of the licensee to plug such well in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Mines, and to take any and all additional provisions or precautionary measures prescribed by the State in connection with abandonment and plugging of the well. It shall be the further obli gation of the licensee or the operator of the well to cut the surface casing off at least six feet below the surface of the ground and to place at least a twenty-five foot cement plug in the top of the casing and to weld the top of the casing completely shut. The resulting hole in the ground shall be completely filled to the surface of the ground and duly tamped.
(l) No person shall use, construct or operate in connection with any oil producing well within the City any crude oil storage tanks, except to the extent of two steel tanks for oil storage, not exceeding 500-barrel capacity each and so constructed and maintained as to be vapor-tight and each surrounded with a well compacted earthen fire wall at such distance from the tanks as will, under any circumstances, hold and retain at least two and one-half times the maximum capacity of such tank. A licensee 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 vapor-tight. Each oil and gas separator shall be equipped with both a regulation pressure relief safety valve and a bursting head.
(m) No person within the City shall install any fired vessel or open flame nearer than 150 feet to any well or storage tank.
(n) Before any actual drilling commences within the City, there shall be constructed completely around the work area, in no case exceeding an area of one acre, a farm type fence (10-47"-12"-9 ga. top and bottom - 11 ga. filler) not less than four to six feet in height. Access to the site shall be through proper gates which shall be closed when not being used for supply of material or other facilities.
(o) All producing wells, wellheads, tank batteries, pumping units and equipment appurtenant thereto within the City shall be enclosed and protected by a six-foot galvanized or aluminum chain link type fence with matching type gates and effectively screened with evergreen plantings to the approval of the Mayor.
(p) The premises shall be kept in a clean and sanitary condition, free from rubbish of every character, at all times during the drilling operation and as long there after as oil and/or gas is being produced therefrom. All licensee's premises shall be kept clear of high grass, weeds and combustible trash or any other rubbish or debris that might constitute a fire hazard within a radius of 100 feet around any oil tank or producing well, or to the limits of the premises, whichever is the lesser.
(q) Within thirty days after any oil and/or gas well within the City has been completed for the production of oil and/or gas, or within thirty days after the same is abandoned for the reason that a dry hole is found, the licensee shall remove the excess sludge or mud and fill all pits and excavations and level off the surface of the working area and the licensee shall not allow any accumulation of sludge or oil or other offensive or dangerous substances to accumulate and shall keep his premises in a sanitary and sightly condition. The licensee shall restore any disturbed drainage facilities and leave the premises in such a condition that no pooling of surface water will result.
(r) Printed signs reading "DANGER, NO SMOKING ALLOWED" or similar words shall be posted in conspicuous places on each well, storage tank or battery of tanks, within the City.
(s) Material, equipment, tools or pipe used for either drilling or producing operations at the well shall not be delivered to or removed from the well site except between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. of any day except in case of emergency.
(t) No person shall block, encumber or close up any streets or alleys in any drilling or production operations, except pursuant to an ordinance duly passed by Council permitting a temporary closing of a street or alley.
(u) There shall be constructed from the public street to the drilling work area a driveway and turnaround area. Such driveway and turnaround area shall be constructed of gravel or plank of sufficient thickness as determined by the City Engineer to support equipment and trucks using such drive. Vehicles delivering supplies and material shall stay on the surfaced drive to prevent tracking of dirt or mud onto streets. Such driveways shall be kept in good repair and free from dust.
(v) All pumps and equipment operated in conjunction with a producing well shall be operated with electric motors and no internal combustion engines shall be permitted.
(w) All oil removed from the site of a producing well shall be removed from the site between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. (Ord. 120-77. Passed 11-22-77.)