February 2015 - Volume 10 Issue 2

VRR Compliance Pain?

Un-dirty

ER Applications at Five Year High

VRR Compliance Pain?
AppIntel Helps You Get Back in Compliance



What does the regulator want when they send you a VRR noncompliance notice? How do you answer such a notice?

The AER believes that full voidage replacement is always the best policy to maximize oil recovery. When they notice that your pool has not had enough injection to fully replace voidage according to your approval document, they may send a noncompliance notice.

Noncompliance notices from the AER follow the enforcement ladder policy. The more noncompliance notices your company has received, the higher up the ladder you reach. At some point on this enforcement ladder, production in an area is suspended and your company receives a shut-in order.

Usually a company must submit an application that includes an action plan to get back into compliance. Often this action plan includes additional injection and sometimes a change of the AER approval document. Reviewing others’ applications allows you to determine what the AER will accept for action plans.

A few years back, two companies received notices for VRR noncompliance on over 100 pools each. The first company found a way to get back in compliance within six months. The second took two years, with all the extra manpower and distraction. If Company B could have seen how Company A dealt with the regulator, they could have saved significant trouble and cost.

AppIntel is a web based data-mining solution that allows you to quickly find and review applications. Using AppIntel, you can quickly find out what the regulator will accept for getting back in compliance. Would you like to see a demo?

 ~Granger J. Low
MetroPetro


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Did You Know?
ER Applications at Five Year High


The number of ER Schemes submitted in January is the highest in history.

More ER Schemes were submitted in January than ever before. There have been 139 such applications submitted in January alone. Sixty applications were also submitted in November and over thirty submitted in December when much of Canada celebrated Christmas for two weeks.



Usually only about thirty ER Scheme applications are submitted in a month. The previous record of eighty-one was set in June 2009 when Talisman alone submitted a third of the applications, half of which went on to be closed by the regulator.

ER Schemes include new water floods, new ASP and polymer schemes, new miscible and non-miscible gas injection schemes and amendments and terminations of these schemes.


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