1. (a) During the drilling, original completion, recompletion, or workover of every well, the owner, operator, contractor, driller, or other person responsible for the conduct of drilling, original completion, recompletion, or workover operations, shall keep adequate records of the well being drilled, all of which shall be accessible to the Oil and Gas Commission and its agents at all reasonable times.

2. (b)

   1. (1) For purposes of this section, original completion shall be defined as initial zone perforation and configuration of wellhead for production, excluding pipeline connections.
   2. (2) Any further completion work, after the initial configuration of the wellhead, shall be considered a recompletion or workover, and subject to the filing requirements of subsections (d) or (f) of this section, below.
3. (c) For purposes of this section, “recompletion” is as defined in 15 CAR § 275-103.

4. (d)

   1. (1) For purposes of this section, “workover” is as defined in 15 CAR § 275-103.
   2. (2) Upon completion of workover operations, only well records specified in subdivisions (f)(1) – (3) of this section are required to be submitted.
5. (e) Wells drilled as dry holes, where production casing has not been set, shall be subject to the well record submission requirements specified in subdivisions (f)(1) – (3) of this section within thirty (30) days after the completion of drilling activities.

6. (f) Upon original completion or recompletion of the well, the operator, contractor, driller, or other person responsible for the conduct of the drilling operation shall file with the commission:

   1. (1) Properly filled out Well Completion Report;

   2. (2)

      1. (A) All electric logs or other geophysical logs of the open well bore, which measure resistivity, porosity, temperature, and gamma ray emission and for planned directional and horizontal wells, borehole deviation, and direction logs including a true vertical depth log, to be submitted in:

7. (i) A one-inch, two-inch, and five-inch to one hundred foot (100’) scale format; or

   1. (ii) Other scale format acceptable to the commission.

      1. (B) All logs shall be submitted, at a minimum, as paper copies in standard continuous logging paper format.

      2. (C)

         1. (i) If electronic copies of the logs can be provided from the logging service company, the operator is also required to submit copies of the electronic logs in either LAS (ASCII Format) or raster format image (two hundred dots per inch (200 DPI) black and white in TIF, JPG, BMP) to the commission on an approved electronic storage device.
         2. (ii) If electronic copies of the logs cannot be provided by the logging service company, the operator shall file an affidavit with the commission stating electronic logs could not be provided by the logging service company;
   2. (3) All logging and well service company tickets applicable to the completion or recompletion operation which indicate all logging and completion activities occurring in the well;
   3. (4) Properly filled out Request for Certificate of Compliance; and
   4. (5) Application to Abandon other than for a dry hole.

8. (g) For directional or horizontal wells, or deviated wells not in compliance with 15 CAR § 275-220, the following shall also be submitted:

   1. (1)

      1. (A) A post drilling plat shall be filed with any Completion and Recompletion Report to demonstrate the actual location of all vertical, directional, and horizontally drilled boreholes in the drilling unit.

      2. (B) The plat should provide and present the following:

         1. (i) The locations of all wells which have been drilled within the drilling unit, except for those wells that have been plugged and abandoned, by providing their surface and bottom hole location, and either midpoint perforations for deviated or directionally drilled wells or the closest point along any lateral section of the horizontal portion of the well bore, whichever is applicable, measured to the nearest mineral lease, drilling unit, or division line within a governmental section, whichever applies to the established drilling unit in that field;
         2. (ii) The distance between common sources of supply for which an allowable determination is required; and
         3. (iii) The actual location of the entire perforated length of the lateral section in a horizontal well showing the setback distances to offset wells; and

   2. (2) A directional survey in table form, accompanied by the following:

      1. (A) A two-dimensional cross section diagram, viewed perpendicular to the axis of maximum lateral borehole displacement, which depicts the measured and true vertical depth and the displacement from vertical of the wellbore; and
      2. (B) An azimuth plot viewed in plan view providing displacement of the well path from the surface location.

9. (h)

   1. (1) The above reports shall be filed within thirty (30) days of the original completion, recompletion, or workover of the well and prior to commencement of production.
   2. (2) Upon receipt of the required information specified in subdivisions (f)(1), (2), and (4) of this section and 15 CAR § 275-230(o)(3)(J), if applicable, a Certificate of Compliance shall be issued granting authority to produce and transport oil and/or gas for a period of thirty (30) days at which time the required information specified in subdivision (f)(3) of this section must be on file in order for a final Permit to Produce and Transport to be issued.

   3. (3) However, if completion activities are not completed within ninety (90) days of the setting of the production casing or other production-related casing, the required information specified in subdivisions (f)(1) – (3) of this section are required to be submitted, pending submission of final reports at the conclusion of completion activities and a request for a Certificate of Compliance.

      1. (i) Failure to comply with the provisions of this section shall be sufficient reason to cause the suspension of the issuance of any further drilling permits on a statewide basis to that operator until the required information is submitted to the commission within ten (10) days following written notice provided to the operator of the failure to provide the required information.
10. (j) If an operator makes a request, in writing, that the log described in subdivision (f)(2) of this section be kept confidential, the request will be honored for a period not to exceed ninety (90) days after the logging for completion or abandonment of the well, provided that the report or the data thereon, when pertinent, may be introduced in evidence in any public hearing before the commission or any court, regardless of the request that such record be kept confidential.

Codification Notes: “BMP” means bitmap. "TIF" means tagged image format. This section as promulgated prior to codification into the Code of Arkansas Rules provided as follows: "(Source: 1992 rule book; amended September 16, 2006; amended January 14, 2008; amended May 11, 2008)"