[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 43, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 43CFR3162.3-2]

[Page 421]
 
                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 3160--ONSHORE OIL AND GAS OPERATIONS--Table of Contents
 
  Subpart 3162--Requirements for Operating Rights Owners and Operators
 
Sec. 3162.3-2  Subsequent well operations.

    (a) A proposal for further well operations shall be submitted by the 
operator on Form 3160-5 for approval by the authorized officer prior to 
commencing operations to redrill, deepen, perform casing repairs, plug-
back, alter casing, perform nonroutine fracturing jobs, recomplete in a 
different interval, perform water shut off, commingling production 
between intervals and/or conversion to injection. If there is additional 
surface distubance, the proposal shall include a surface use plan of 
operations. A subsequent report on these operations also will be filed 
on Form 3160-5. The authorized officer may prescribe that each proposal 
contain all or a portion of the information set forth in Sec. 3162.3-1 
of this title.
    (b) Unless additional surface disturbance is involved and if the 
operations conform to the standard of prudent operating practice, prior 
approval is not required for routine fracturing or acidizing jobs, or 
recompletion in the same interval; however, a subsequent report on these 
operations must be filed on Form 3160-5.
    (c) No prior approval or a subsequent report is required for well 
cleanout work, routine well maintenance, or bottom hole pressure 
surveys.

[47 FR 47765, Oct. 27, 1982. Redesignated and amended at 48 FR 36583-
36586, Aug. 12, 1983, further amended at 52 FR 5391, Feb. 20, 1987; 53 
FR 17363, May 16, 1988; 53 FR 22847, June 17, 1988]