Virginia Administrative Code (Last Updated: January 10, 2017) |
Title 4. Conservation and Natural Resources |
Agency 25. Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy |
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 [Repealed] |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) |