Chapter 150. Virginia Gas and Oil Regulation  


Section 10. Definitions
Section 20. Basis and authority
Section 30. Other laws, regulations, and ordinances
Section 40. Registration
Section 50. Gas or oil in holes not permitted as a gas or oil well
Section 60. Due dates for reports and decisions
Section 70. [Repealed]
Section 80. Application for a permit
Section 90. Plats
Section 95. Groundwater baseline sampling, analysis, and monitoring plan
Section 100. Operations plans
Section 110. Permit supplements and permit modifications
Section 120. Transfer of permit rights
Section 130. Notice of permit applications and modifications
Section 135. Waiver of right to object to permit applications
Section 140. Objections to permit applications
Section 150. Hearing and decision on objections to permit applications
Section 160. Approval of permits and permit modifications
Section 170. Enforcement
Section 180. Notices of violation
Section 190. Closure orders
Section 200. Show cause orders
Section 210. Monthly reports
Section 220. Annual reports
Section 230. Commencement of activity
Section 240. Signs
Section 250. Blasting and explosives
Section 260. Erosion, sediment control and reclamation
Section 270. Stormwater management
Section 280. Logs and surveys
Section 290. Actual well or corehole location
Section 300. Pits
Section 310. Tanks
Section 320. Blowout prevention
Section 330. Swabbing, perforating and wireline operations
Section 340. Drilling fluids
Section 350. Gas, oil or geophysical operations in hydrogen sulfide areas
Section 360. Drilling, completion, and other reports
Section 365. Disclosure of well stimulation fluids
Section 370. Wellhead equipment
Section 380. Incidents, spills and unpermitted discharges
Section 390. Shut-in wells
Section 400. Measurement of gas and oil
Section 410. Venting and flaring of gas; escape of oil
Section 420. Disposal of pit and produced fluids
Section 430. Disposal of solids
Section 435. Plugging for abandonment or plug-back operations
Section 440. Abandonment of a gas or oil well or corehole as a water well
Section 450. Identification, plugging and control of wells or coreholes in which radioactive source logging tools have been abandoned
Section 460. Identifying plugged wells and coreholes; plugging affidavit
Section 470. Release of bond
Section 480. Orphaned wells; right of entry
Section 490. Applicability, conventional gas and oil wells and Class II injection wells
Section 500. Application for a permit, conventional well or Class II injection well
Section 510. Plats, conventional wells or Class II injection wells
Section 520. Setback restrictions, conventional wells or Class II injection wells
Section 530. Casing requirements for conventional gas or oil wells
Section 535. Pressure testing requirements for production casing in conventional gas or oil wells
Section 540. [Repealed]
Section 550. Applicability, coalbed methane wells
Section 560. Application for a permit, coalbed methane well operations
Section 570. [Repealed]
Section 580. Variance request to convert a vertical ventilation hole to a coalbed methane gas well
Section 590. Plats, coalbed methane wells
Section 600. Setback restrictions, coalbed methane wells
Section 610. Casing requirements for coalbed methane gas wells
Section 615. Pressure testing requirements for production casing in coalbed methane gas wells
Section 620. Coalbed methane gas wellhead equipment
Section 630. Report of produced waters, coalbed methane wells
Section 640. [Repealed]
Section 650. Conversion of a coalbed methane well to a vertical ventilation hole
Section 660. Applicability, ground-disturbing geophysical activity
Section 670. Application for a permit, geophysical activity or coreholes
Section 680. Plats, coreholes
Section 690. Operations plans, coreholes.
Section 700. Setback restrictions, coreholes
Section 710. [Repealed]
Section 711. Voids and lost circulation zones
Section 720. Applicability; gathering pipelines
Section 730. General requirements for gathering pipelines
Section 740. Operations plans for gathering pipelines
Section 750. Inspections for gathering pipelines
Appendix 9998. FORMS (4VAC25-150)