by Dave English

Oil & Gas Production and Waste Reporting in PA

PENNSYLVANIA Production and Waste Reporting

•well status•on a calendar year basis

•on form provided by the department •on as well specific basis as available

•required by March 31 for the prior year•production information confidential for five years

Section 212 of Oil and Gas Act

DEP Home Page

DEP Oil and Gas Page

BOGM Home Page

Forms Page

Forms Page

Options for Production Reporting• Hardcopy submission

– Fill in official form which is available from Forms page link– Postmarked by 3/31– Form preprinted by DEP with available information pre-

populated when address correct in our system.– by early March to:

• smaller operators with 1 well – 1,300 operators• 2-20 wells – 1,900 operators• 21-110 wells – 400 operators• > 110 wells - 150 operators - reminder letter only

If no letter received by early March – DEP may not have good address.

Call Ruth Plant at 717-772-2199 to verify address. OR

• File Electronically via web site (preferred)

Form 5500-FM-OG0049 from e-LibraryHardcopy - WORD or PDF – Fill in the blanks

Electronic Production Reporting via the web

Oil & Gas Annual Production System

First Time Sign-in - confirm agreement for electronic submission

Option to complete report on-line with the on-line form;

OR,

If you have over 100 wells you have the additional option to download an ACCESS database of your inventory to your computer and either key the information into each record or import your data for all wells.

OR,

Upload XML file in schema format.

User Agreement

On-Line Options

1

2

3

On-line form - 1

On-line form - 1 Add a well – change details

On-line form - 1 Add Production (oil, gas, waste)

On-line form - 1 Add Production (oil, gas, waste)

On-line form - 1 Submit – error check – Production or Comment

On-line form - 1 View/Print prior to submission

Option 2 ACCESS db

Note – ACCESS converted to XML – OPTION 3 – Schema in HELP file for direct upload to OGAPS.

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Well Records - 1 &

Completion Reports - 2

1. Pursuant to Section 212(b) of the Oil and Gas Act and Section 78.122(a) of Chapter 78 of the Oil and Gas Regulations, a Well Record must be submitted to the Department within thirty (30) days of cessation of drilling or altering a well.

2. Pursuant to Section 212(b) of the Oil and Gas Act and Section 78.122(b) of Chapter 78 of the Oil and Gas Regulations, a Completion Report must be submitted to the Department within thirty (30) days of completion of the well.

Well Record (formation Log) and Completion Report

Completion Report (bottom portion of Well Record form)

Questions? David J English 

Chief, Compliance, Administration & Well Plugging Department of Environmental Protection Rachel Carson State Office Building 400 Market Street Harrisburg, PA 17101

Phone: 717-772-2199

WWW.DEPWEB.STATE.PA.US