GroundRules
36 CFR 9.170: When must I plug my well?
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 36—Parks, Forests, and Public Property
- CHAPTER I—NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
- PART 9—MINERALS MANAGEMENT
- Subpart B—Non-Federal Oil and Gas Rights
Except as provided in § 9.171, you must plug your well when any of the following occurs:
(a) Your drilling operations have ended and you have taken no further action to produce the well within 60 days;
(b) Your well, which has been completed for production operations, has no measureable production quantities for 12 consecutive months; or
(c) The period approved in your operations permit to maintain your well in shut-in status has expired.
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