312 IAC 29-20-10 - Approval of alternate well construction methods
Authority: IC 14-10-2-4; IC 14-37-3
Affected: IC 14-37
Sec. 10.
(a) The
division director may authorize an alternative well construction method if the
owner or operator demonstrates the construction method:
(1) will not cause the pollution of,
endanger, or threaten any underground source of drinking water;
(2) will not damage a source of oil, gas, or
coal bed methane or result in waste; and
(3) is designed to confine formation fluids
and injected fluids to the approved interval.
(b) Applications for an alternative well
construction method shall include the following information:
(1) A typical cross section depicting:
(A) the various hole and casing sizes
proposed;
(B) casing setting depths
and cementing information for each casing string including tubing and packers,
if proposed;
(C) coal seams and the
lowermost underground source of drinking water; and
(D) other water, oil, gas, and coal bed
methane formations above the producing interval.
(2) A description of the geographical area in
which the alternate method is intended to be used.
(3) Other information demonstrating how the
alternative construction method will:
(A)
afford protection to underground sources of drinking water; and
(B) not result in waste.
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