| AAIF |
Archaeology Assessment Information
Form |
| AC |
Advisory Committee |
| ADR |
Alternative Dispute Resolution |
| AEUB |
Alberta Energy and Utilities Board |
| AIA |
Archaeology Impact Assessment |
| ALC |
Agricultural Land Commission |
| ALR |
Agricultural Land Reserve |
| AOF |
Absolute Open Flow |
| BPWG |
Best Practices Working Group |
| C&E; |
Compliance and Enforcement |
| CAPL |
Canadian Association of
Professional Landmen |
| CAPP |
Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers |
| CBG |
Coal Bed Gas |
| CBM |
Coal Bed Methane |
| CEAA |
Canadian Environmental Assessment Act |
| Completion / Completed Well |
A well in which the productive formation is open
to the well bore, with equipment installed in the well and at the wellhead, so that the
well is physically able to produce oil or gas. |
| COR |
Certificate of Restoration |
| CLR |
Crown Land Registry |
| DGA |
Daily Gas Allowable |
| DOA |
Daily Oil Allowable |
| DFO |
Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada |
| DST |
Drill Stem Test |
| EAA |
Environmental Assessment Act |
| EAO |
Environmental Assessment Office |
| EBA |
Economic Benefits Agreement |
| EMD |
Energy and Minerals Division |
| EPZ |
Emergency Planning Zone |
| ERP |
Emergency Response Plan |
| Facility |
A gas processing plant,
production facility or any other surface equipment deemed to be a facility by the
Commissioner |
| FN |
First Nations |
| FRPA |
Forest Range Protection Act |
| Gas Processing Plant |
A facility designed primarily for
the extraction from natural gas of hydrogen sulphide, carbon dioxide, helium, ethane,
natural gas liquids or other substances but does not include a production facility |
| GDP |
General Development Plan |
| GEP |
Good Engineering Practice |
| GIS |
Geographic Information System |
| GOR |
Gas to Oil Ratio |
| GPP |
Good Production Practice |
| H2S |
Hydrogen Sulphide |
| ILRR |
Integrated Land and Resource
Registry |
| IMP |
Integrity Management Plan |
| IOGCC |
Interstate Oil and Gas Compact
Commission |
| IRIS |
Integrated Resource Information System |
| IRP |
Industry Recommended Practice |
| LLI |
Landowner Liaison Inspector |
| LRMP |
Land and Resource Management Plan. The BC
government’s sub-regional land use (integrated resource) planning process, which will
guide the management of Crown land for ten years. |
| Logging Plan |
A legal document required under the Forest
Practices Code for all oil and gas applications where Crown timber is to be cut down. |
| M-K |
Muskwa - Kechika |
| MAA |
Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs |
| MAB |
Mediation Arbitration Board |
| MAR |
Ministry of Aboriginal Relations |
| MEMPR |
Ministry of Energy, Mines and
Petroleum Resources |
| MOE |
Ministry of Environment |
| MOFR |
Ministry of Forests and Range |
| MOT |
Ministry of Transportation |
| MOU |
Memorandum of Understanding |
| NEB |
National Energy Board |
| O&G |
Oil and Gas |
| OGC |
Oil and Gas Commission |
| OGRII |
Oil and Gas Regulatory Improvement
Initiative |
| PA |
Project Assessment |
| PAC |
Project Approval Certificate. The approval under
the provincial EAA process. |
| PAG |
Practice Advisory Group |
| PIMS |
Petroleum Information Management System |
| Pipeline |
A pipeline to transport oil, gas, solids or
water, including all branches, extensions, tanks, reservoirs, pumps, racks, loading
facilities, inter-station communication systems, and related property and works. |
| PNG Act |
Petroleum and Natural Gas Act |
| Production Facility |
A battery, oil treater, pumping
station, compressor station, dehydrator, gas injection station, line heater, waste
disposal facility, waste processing facility, water disposal facility, water injection
station or, upon designation of the Commissioner, any other system of vessels and
equipment designed primarily to accommodate production or disposal, or both production and
disposal, of well effluent products and byproducts, but does not include a gas processing
plant |
| PRRD |
Pease River Regional District |
| PST |
Pressure Survey Test |
| PTAC |
Petroleum Technology Alliance
Canada |
| RFP |
Request Form Proposal |
| R4R |
Request for Reconsideration |
| SCEK |
Science and Community Environmental Knowledge Fund |
| SEPAC |
Small Explorers and Producers Association of Canada |
| SSMP |
Special Site Management Plan |
| SRMP |
Sustainable Resource Management
Plan |
| TAS |
Tenure Administration System |
Tenure/Oil and Gas
Rights or Parcel |
Rights to explore for or produce any oil or gas
found beneath a defined geographical surface area or defined subsurface depth interval
within that area. |
| Workover |
Any operation that has changed the producing
interval or producing characteristics of a well by perforating, abandoning a portion of
the well, running casing or any major or recently developed stimulation operation.
Excludes routine stimulation operations or the changing/replacement of equipment. |
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