Kan. Admin. Regs. § 82-3-403 - Permitting factors; application approval
(a) Permitting
factors. When a permit authorizing injection is issued, the following factors
shall be considered by the conservation division:
(1) Maximum injection rate;
(2) maximum surface pressure, formation
pressure, pressure at the formation face, or all of the above;
(3) the type of injection fluid and the rock
characteristics of the injection zone and the overlying strata;
(4) the adequacy and thickness of the
confining zone or zones between the injection interval and the base of the
lowest fresh and usable water; and
(5) the construction of all oil and gas wells
within a 1/4-mile radius of the proposed injection well, including all
abandoned, plugged, producing, and other injection wells, to ensure that fluids
introduced into the proposed injection zone will be confined to that zone. If
deemed necessary by the conservation division to ensure the protection of fresh
and usable water, this radius may be determined pursuant to
40 C.F.R.
146.6(a)(2), as published
July 1, 2000, which is hereby adopted by reference.
(b) Conditions for simultaneous injection.
Simultaneous injection may be permitted if, in addition to the requirements of
subsection (a) above, all of the following conditions are met:
(1) Injection will not adversely affect
offsetting production or endanger fresh and usable ground-water.
(2) Injection pressure is limited to less
than the local injection formation fracture gradient.
(3) The injection well is continuously
cemented across the injection and producing intervals.
(4) The well demonstrates mechanical
integrity.
(c)
Protection of fresh and usable water. Before any formations may be approved for
use, determinations shall be made that these formations are separated from
fresh and usable water formations by impervious beds to give adequate
protection to the fresh and usable water formations.
(d) In reviewing applications for injection
wells, the protection of hydrocarbons and water resources and oil and gas
advisory committee recommendations concerning safe depths for injection for all
producing areas in the state shall be considered by the conservation division.
(e) Minimum depth for injection.
If no additional information, including well logs, formation tests, water
quality data, and water well data, is made available by the operator, table II,
"established minimum depths for disposal wells," revised August 1, 1987, and
hereby adopted by reference, shall be used by the conservation division in
determining the minimum depth for the injection of saltwater.
(f) For all injection well applications that
require wellhead pressure to inject fluids, filed on and after December 8,
1982, the operator shall inject the fluids through tubing under a packer set
immediately above the uppermost perforation or open-hole zone, except as
specified in K.A.R. 82-3-406. A packer run on the tubing shall be set in casing
opposite a cemented interval at a point immediately above the uppermost
perforation or open-hole interval.
(g) Design approval. If the application
requests design approval, approval of the design of the proposed well may be
obtained before actual construction of the well.
(1) Each applicant shall be notified by the
conservation division of its approval of the well design if both of the
following conditions are met:
(A) All
requirements set forth in K.A.R. 82-3-401(a), K.A.R. 82-3-402(a), and K.A.R.
82-3-403(a) have been met.
(B) The
design of the proposed well will protect fresh and usable water.
(2) Upon completion of each well,
the applicant shall submit a copy of the well completion report, on the form
furnished by the commission, to the conservation division. The application for
the injection of fluid into the proposed well for injection purposes shall be
approved, if there are not significant differences between actual construction
and the approved designed construction of the proposed well and if the
mechanical integrity of the well has been tested according to K.A.R. 82-3-407.
(h) Emergency
authority. Emergency authority to inject or dispose of fluids at an alternate
location, if a facility is shut in for maintenance, testing, or repairs, or by
order of the commission, may be granted by the conservation division.
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