§ 38-25-01 — Definitions

North Dakota § 38-25-01

• Jurisdiction: North Dakota
• Title 38: Mining and Gas and Oil Production
• Ch. 38-25: Underground Storage of Oil and Gas

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As used in this chapter:
1. "Commission" mean the industrial commission.
2. "Gas" includes all natural gas, including hydrogen, and all other fluid hydrocarbons not
defined as oil.
3. "Geological storage" means the underground storage of oil or gas in a storage
reservoir or salt cavern.
4. "Oil" includes crude petroleum oil and other hydrocarbons regardless of gravity which
are produced at the wellhead in liquid form and the liquid hydrocarbons known as
distillate or condensate recovered or extracted from gas, other than gas produced in
association with oil and commonly known as casinghead gas.
5. "Permit" means a permit issued by the commission allowing a person to operate an
underground storage facility.
6. "Pore space" has the same meaning as in section 47-31-02.
7. "Prevent waste" means the locating, spacing, drilling, equipping, operating, or
producing of any oil or gas storage well or facility in a manner that increases the
quantity of oil or gas stored, or which decreases unnecessary loss or destruction of oil
or gas.
8. "Reservoir" means a subsurface sedimentary stratum, formation, aquifer, or void,
whether natural or artificially created, including oil and gas reservoirs and saline
formations suitable for or capable of being made suitable for injecting, storing, and
withdrawing oil or gas. The term does not include salt caverns.
9. "Salt cavern" means a natural occurring cavity contained within a salt formation or a
cavity created in a salt formation by solution mining, suitable for injecting, storing, and
withdrawing oil or gas.
10. "Solution mining" means the process of injecting fluid into a well to dissolve rock salt or
other readily soluble rock to create a salt cavern for underground storage of oil or gas.
11. "Storage facility" means the reservoir, salt cavern, underground equipment, and
surface facilities and equipment used or proposed to be used in an underground
storage operation. The term does not include a pipeline used to transport oil or gas to
the storage facility.
12. "Storage operator" means a person holding or applying for a permit.
13. "Waste" means the inefficient storing of oil or gas.