definitions Flashcards
ABANDONMENT
The permanent dismantlement of a well, pipeline, or facility in the manner prescribed by the regulations; includes any measures required to ensure that the well, pipeline, or facility is left in a permanently safe and secure condition.
COMPRESSOR STATION/SITE
Service equipment intended to maintain or increase the flowing pressure of the gas that it receives from a well, battery, or gathering system prior to delivery to market or other disposition.
(3)
CONDENSATE
A hydrocarbon liquid recovered either from a natural gas well or at some point in the field handling system consisting primarily or pentane and heavier hydrocarbons.
CONFIRMATION OF NONOBJECTION
(E)
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(20)
CRITICAL SOUR WELL
(AA)
(6)
EMERGENCY PLANNING ZONE (EPZ)
(N)
An area surrounding a facility, pipeline, or well where residents or other members of the public may be at highest risk during the early stages of an incident such as an uncontrolled release of toxic materials (e.g. H2S), an explosion, or a fire and the area for which the operator must have a specific emergency response plan.
(10)
EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN (ERP)
(W)
A comprehensive plan to protect the public, including criteria for assessing an emergency situation and procedures for mobilizing response personnel and agencies and establishing communications and coordination. The ERP is to be followed by all parties in the event of an incident.
(26)
FACILITY
(EE)
Any building, structure, installation, equipment, or appurtenance over which the AER has jurisdiction and that is connected to or associated with the recovery, development, production, handling, processing, treatment, or disposal of hydrocarbon-based resources or any associated substances or wastes. This does not include wells or pipelines.
(24)
HYDROGEN SULPHIDE (H2S)
(G)
A naturally occurring gas found in a variety of geological formations and also formed by the natural decomposition of organic matter in the absence of oxygen. H2S is colourless, heavier than air, and extremely toxic. In small concentrations it has a rotten egg smell and causes eye and throat irritation.
(10)
INJECTION/DISPOSAL FACILITY
(A)
A system or arrangement of surface equipment associated with the injection or disposal of any substance through one or more wells for the purpose of water disposal or enhanced oil recovery (EOR).
(16)
LINE HEATER
(R)
Equipment installed at either the well site lease or along a pipeline right-of-way to prevent the formation of gas hydrates.
(2)
LINER
(H)
A tubular product that is inserted into buried pipelines to form a corrosion-resistant barrier or separate free-standing pressure –containing pipe.
(12)
MULTIWELL FACILITY
(GG)
A facility handling the production from multiple zones being produced in segregation from one wellbore; production from more than one pipelined well at one surface location; multiple single-well facilities operated within one surface lease.
(27)
NON OBJECTION
(M)
The potentially directly and adversely affected party has been personally consulted or notified of the project, has fully understood the details, has no outstanding concerns or objections, and does not oppose the AER issuing a license for the proposed energy development.
(18)
NONROUTINE
(D)
An application is nonroutine if the applicant cannot meet requirements or chooses to apply for a regulatory relaxation; all participant involvement requirements have not been met; outstanding concerns/objections exist; the applicant proposes to implement new technology; the application is designated nonroutine.
(29)
NOTIFICATION
(Q)
The distribution of project-specific information to participants that may be directly and adversely affected by the proposed energy development.
(1)
OCCUPANT
(Z)
A person other than the owner who is in actual possession of land; a person who is shown on a certificate of title or by contracts as having an interest in the land; in the case of Métis land, a person having a right or interest in land recorded on the Mets title register pursuant to the Métis Settlements Land Registry Regulations; the holder of a permit for a coal mine; the owner of a private access road.
(22)
PARTICIPANT
(HH)
An organization, community, group, or individual with a stake in the discovery, development, and delivery of Alberta’s resources.
(7)
PARTICIPANT INVOLVEMENT
(U)
Participant involvement encompasses all aspects of public, industry, and regulator interactions and communications. It means that each organization, community, group, and individual with a stake in the discovery, development, and delivery of Alberta’s resources may be a participant.
(32)
PERFORATION
(J)
The holes placed through the casing and cement into the formation using a perforation gun or by cutting the casing and cement using sand-laden fluids to expose a formation.
(25)
PERSONAL CONSULTATION
(CC)
Consultation through face-to-face visits or telephone conversation with identified parties and providing the required information packages.
(11)
PUBLIC FACILITY
(L)
A public building, such as a hospital, rural schools, or a major recreational facility, situated outside of an urban centre.
(30)
PUBLIC NOTICE
(T)
In accordance with the AER Rules of Practice, the delivery, circulation, or advertising by the AER of a notice stating that the AER might take an action in a proceeding as the notice may specify.
(4)
PUBLICLY USED
DEVELOPMENT
(X)
Places where the presence of people can be anticipated, e.g., places of business, campgrounds, cottages, churches, and other locations created for the use of the public.
(13)
REQUIREMENT
(C)
A rule that industry has an obligation to meet and against which the AER may take enforcement action in cases of noncompliance.
(8)
RESIDENCE
(P)
Full-time or part-time dwelling
(15)
ROUTINE APPLICATION
(BB)
The applicant meets all requirements, including participant involvement, there are no outstanding public or industry concerns, and regulatory waivers or relaxations are not requested.
(5)
SETBACK DISTANCE
(I)
The minimum required distance between a well, pipeline, or other facility and land-use development, such as a surface improvement, permanent dwelling, unrestricted country development, urban centre, or public facility.
(19)
applicant/licensee
(DD)
The company responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the application and all supporting documentation. The applicant becomes the licensee once the licence is approved by the AER and is responsible for the development throughout the life cycle.
(21)
SURFACE IMPROVEMENT
(F)
A railway, pipeline, canal or other right-of-way, road allowance, surveyed roadway, dwelling, industrial plant, aircraft runway or taxiway, buildings used for military purposes, permanent farm buildings, school, or church.
(17)
URBAN AUTHORITY
(FF)
The administrator of a city, town, new town, village, summer village or hamlet with not fewer than 50 separate buildings, each of which must be an occupied dwelling, or other incorporated centre.
(26)
URBAN CENTRE
(V)
A city, town, new town, village, summer village, hamlet with not fewer than 50 separate buildings, each of which must be an occupied dwelling, or similar development the AER may designate as an urban centre.
(33)
CONFIRMATION OF
NONOBJECTION
(Y)
Statement made by a person confirming they have no objection to the AER granting a licence for a proposed energy development.
(28)
DEHYDRATOR
(II)
Equipment designed to remove water from raw gas
(35)
HAND DELIVERED
(KK)
Prefered method of delivery for PC where documents are given directly to a participant at their place of residence or business.
(36)
LANDOWNER
(LL)
The Crown or other body administering the land. The person in whose name a Cof T has been issued. The person registered in the Metis Settlements Land Registry.
(37)
LARGE DIAMETER PIPELINE
HIGH PRESSURE PIPELINE
(JJ)
A hydrocarbon pipeline with both an OD equal to or greater than 323.9mm AND an MOP equal to or greater than 3475 kPa.
(38)
LOCAL AUTHORITY
(KK)
Band council of a FN reserve, the council of a Metis Settlement, council of a city, town, village, or municipal district or in the case of an ID or Special Areas, the Minister of Municipal Affairs.(40)
OIL/BITUMEN BATTERY
(LL)
The system of tanks and other surface equipment receiving the effluent of one or more wells for the purpose of separating and measuring the product prior to delivery to market.
(39)
OPERATOR
(MM)
The person/company that has control of the day-to-day operations of the energy development. They may or may not be the licensee for that development.
(41)
PIPELINE ABANDONMENT
(NN)
Permanent deactivation of a pipeline. May be removed or left in place.
(43)
PIPELINE DISCONTINUATION
(OO)
Temporarily deactivated pipeline or part of a pipeline
(42)
PIPELINE INSTALLATION
(PP)
Any equipment, apparatus, mechanism, machinery or instrument incidental to the operation of the pipeline. Includes compressor station, pump station, line heaters….
(44)
PIPELINE REMOVAL
(QQ)
Removal of the ENTIRE pipeline including crossings.
(48)
RESIDENT
(RR)
A person occupying a residence temporarily or permanently.
(46)
REFER STATUS
(SS)
AER status indicator that tells the regulator the corporation has been unwilling or unable to comply with requirements. It impacts the approval of pending and future applications to the AER by that licensee.
(49)
PUMP STATION
(TT)
Equipment spaced out along a main pipeline and used to maintain flow of the product in the pipeline to the receipt point.
(50)
SURFACE DEVELOPMENT
(UU)
Anywhere the public may gather on a regular basis. Dwellings that are full time or part time occupied. Publicly used development, public facilities (ex. campgrounds), places of business
(47)
UNRESTRICTED COUNTRY
DEVELOPMENT
(VV)
Collection of permanent dwellings located outside an urban centres AND having more than 8 permanent dwellings per quarter section.
(45)
SUSPENSION
(WW)
Temporary stoppage in operations as prescribed or directed by the AER to leave the well, pipeline or facility in a safe and secure condition.
(51)
TERMINATING FORMATION
(XX)
Related to well licensing, this is the deepest formation in which the well will terminate/end and which the applicant has the mineral rights to produce
(54)
NORMAL WELL SPACING
(YY)
GAS=one well per section
OIL=4 wells per 1/4section
(53)
WATER BODY
(ZZ)
Natural or manmade and contains or moves water continuously, intermittently, or seasonally. Includes the bed and shore of naturally occuring water bodies. Manmade water bodies include: canals, drainage ditches, dugouts, reservoirs.
(52)
A statement made by a person that confirms there is no objection to the AER granting a license for the proposed energy development
The AER designation of a well for drilling purposes that identifies a well with an H2S release rate of >2.0m3/second or other wells with a lesser release rate in close proximity to an urban centre
