California Public Resources Code ARTICLE 4 - Regulation of Operations

• Section 3200.
  An owner or operator of a well or production facility shall designate an agent, giving his or her address, who resides in this state, to...
• Section 3201.
  The operator of a well or production facility shall notify the supervisor or the district deputy, in writing, in such form as the supervisor or...
• Section 3202.
  (a) A person who acquires the right to operate a well or production facility, whether by purchase, transfer, assignment, conveyance, exchange, or other disposition, shall, as...
• Section 3203.
  (a) The operator of any well, before commencing the work of drilling the well, shall file with the supervisor or the district deputy a written notice...
• Section 3204.
  (a) An operator who, on or after January 1, 2018, engages in the drilling, redrilling, deepening, or in any operation permanently altering the casing, of a...
• Section 3205.
  (a) An operator who engages in the drilling, redrilling, deepening, or in any operation permanently altering the casing, of 20 or more wells at any time,...
• Section 3205.1.
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 3204 and 3205, a person who engages in the drilling, redrilling, deepening, or in any operation permanently altering the casing, of one or...
• Section 3205.2.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 3204, any person who engages in the operation of a class II commercial wastewater disposal well, as defined in subdivision (d), shall file...
• Section 3205.5.
  In lieu of the indemnity bond required by Sections 3204, 3205, 3205.1, 3205.2, and 3206, a deposit may, with the written approval of the supervisor,...
• Section 3206.
  (a) The operator of any idle well shall do either of the following:(1) No later than January 31 of each year, for each idle well that was...
• Section 3206.1.
  (a) By June 1, 2018, the division shall review, evaluate, and update its regulations pertaining to idle wells. The update shall include idle well testing and...
• Section 3206.3.
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, on or before July 1, 2019, and annually thereafter until July 1, 2026, the supervisor shall, in compliance...
• Section 3206.5.
  (a) Any city or county may request from the supervisor a list of all idle wells, as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 3008, within its...
• Section 3207.
  (a) Any individual or blanket indemnity bond issued in compliance with this chapter may be terminated and canceled and the surety relieved of all obligations thereunder...
• Section 3208.
  (a) For the purposes of Sections 3206 and 3207, a well is properly abandoned when it has been shown, to the satisfaction of the supervisor, that...
• Section 3208.1.
  (a) To prevent, as far as possible, damage to life, health, and property, the supervisor or district deputy may order, or permit, the reabandonment of any...
• Section 3209.
  The provisions of Section 3207 as to termination and cancellation shall also apply to all bonds which have been heretofore filed with the supervisor as...
• Section 3210.
  The owner or operator of any well shall keep, or cause to be kept, a careful and accurate log, core record, and history of the...
• Section 3211.
  The log shall show the character and depth of the formation passed through or encountered in the drilling of the well. The log shall show...
• Section 3212.
  The core record shall show the depth, character, and fluid content of cores obtained, so far as determined.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 93.)
• Section 3213.
  The history shall show the location and amount of sidetracked casings, tools, or other material, the depth and quantity of cement in cement plugs, the...
• Section 3214.
  The log shall be kept in the local office of the owner or operator, and, together with the tour reports of the owner or operator,...
• Section 3215.
  (a) Within 60 days after the date of cessation of drilling, rework, well stimulation treatment, or abandonment operations, or the date of suspension of operations, the...
• Section 3216.
  The owner or operator of any well, or his local agent, shall file with the supervisor a copy of the log, history, and core record,...
• Section 3217.
  (a) (1) The supervisor shall continue the prohibition against Southern California Gas Company injecting any natural gas into the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility located in...
• Section 3219.
  Any person engaged in operating any oil or gas well wherein high pressure gas is known to exist, and any person drilling for oil or...
• Section 3219.5.
  (a) On or before July 1, 2001, the Department of Conservation shall report to the Governor and the Legislature on options for ensuring the existence of...
• Section 3220.
  The owner or operator of any well on lands producing or reasonably presumed to contain oil or gas shall properly case it with water-tight and...
• Section 3222.
  The owner or operator of any well shall, at the request of the supervisor, demonstrate that water from any well is not penetrating oil-bearing or...
• Section 3223.
  The district deputy or an inspector designated by the supervisor may be present at the test for shutoff. If the test is personally witnessed by...
• Section 3224.
  The supervisor shall order such tests or remedial work as in his judgment are necessary to prevent damage to life, health, property, and natural resources;...
• Section 3225.
  (a) An order of the supervisor or a district deputy issued pursuant to this chapter shall provide a clear and concise recitation of the acts or...
• Section 3226.
  Within 30 days after service of an order pursuant to Sections 3224 and 3225, or Section 3237, or if there has been an appeal from...
• Section 3226.3.
  The division shall annually provide to the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards an inventory of all unlined...
• Section 3227.
  (a) The owner of any well shall file with the supervisor, on or before the last day of each month, for the last preceding calendar month,...
• Section 3227.5.
  The supervisor shall compile from statements filed pursuant to Section 3227 and publish monthly statistics, within 90 days of the end of each calendar month,...
• Section 3227.6.
  As used in Sections 3227 and 3227.5, the following terms have the following meaning:(a) “Field” means the same general surface area which is underlain, or reasonably...
• Section 3228.
  Before abandoning any well in accordance with methods approved by the supervisor or the district deputy, and under his or her direction, the owner or...
• Section 3229.
  Before commencing any work to abandon any well, the owner or operator shall file with the supervisor or the district deputy a written notice of...
• Section 3230.
  The notice of intention to abandon shall contain the following information:(a) The total depth of the well to be abandoned.(b) The complete casing record of the well,...
• Section 3232.
  The supervisor or the district deputy shall, within 10 days after the receipt of a written report of abandonment, furnish the owner or operator with...
• Section 3233.
  (a) The division may develop field rules which establish volumetric thresholds for emergency reporting by the operator of oil discharges to land associated with onshore drilling,...
• Section 3234.
  (a) (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, all the well records, including production reports, of any owner or operator which are filed pursuant to this...
• Section 3235.
  The supervisor may upon his own initiative or shall upon receipt of a written complaint from a person owning land or operating wells within a...
• Section 3236.
  Any owner or operator, or employee thereof, who refuses to permit the supervisor or the district deputy, or his inspector, to inspect a well, or...
• Section 3236.5.
  (a) A person who violates this chapter or a regulation implementing this chapter is, at the supervisor’s discretion, subject to a civil penalty as described in...
• Section 3237.
  (a) (1) The supervisor or district deputy may order the plugging and abandonment of a well or the decommissioning of a production facility that has been deserted...
• Section 3238.
  (a) For oil and gas produced in this state from a well that qualifies under Section 3251 or that has been inactive for a period of...

Last modified: October 22, 2018