312 IAC 29-13-2 - Exemption from drilling unit and well spacing requirements
Authority: IC 14-10-2-4; IC 14-37-3
Affected: IC 14-37
Sec. 2.
The following wells may be exempt from the drilling unit and well spacing requirements in accordance with section 7 of this rule:
(1) Noncommercial wells, except that a
noncommercial well shall not be located such that it would cause an existing
commercial gas or coal bed methane well to be in violation of the spacing
requirements of this rule.
(2) Coal
bed methane wells completed in any of the following:
(A) A void created by mining out a coal
seam.
(B) A pillar inside a mined
out area of an abandoned underground coal mine.
(C) Gob created by longwall or other methods
of coal extraction.
(3)
Class II wells.
(4) Gas storage
wells.
(5) Gas storage observation
wells.
(6) Petroleum storage
wells.
(7) Water supply
wells.
(8) Geological or structure
test wells.
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