DRILLING OPERATIONS. 24.01 Lessee shall submit to Department and to District Forester for their approval as to location, a plat showing the location of each well before drilling thereof is commenced, and no well shall be commenced until a permit has been issued by Department of Environmental Protection’s Bureau of Oil and Gas Management.
DRILLING OPERATIONS. The term "Drilling Operations" means the actual drilling of an oil or gas well, together with work in the hole necessary to properly complete or abandon the oil or gas well, conducted with due diligence and in a good and workmanlike manner. Drilling Operations will be deemed to have commenced when a xxxxxxx, a rig, and machinery capable of drilling an oil or gas well to a depth sufficient to test a permitted objective have been erected, and when such well has been spudded-in and the rotary bit is rotating under power. Sidetracking, re-entering, reworking, recompletion, plugging back, or repairing an existing oil or gas well will not constitute Drilling Operations. Drilling Operations will be deemed to have been completed (whether as a dry hole or as a producing oil or gas well) on the earliest of the following dates:
DRILLING OPERATIONS. 11.1 From the Signature Date to the earlier of the date of completion of the Drilling Operations or the date on which this Agreement lapses in accordance with the provisions of clause 4.6, subject to a maximum period of 180 (one hundred and eighty) days, Harmony shall allow Wits Gold access to the Merriespruit South Area in order to allow Wits Gold to conduct the Drilling Operations, which Drilling Operations shall be undertaken at the sole cost and expense of Wits Gold as independent contractor as contemplated by section 101 of the MPRDA.
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DRILLING OPERATIONS. All drilling ahd production operations shall be conducted in such manner as to eliminate as far as practicable dust, noise, vibration, or noxious odors. The operating site shall be kept neat, clean and safe. Drilling dust shall be controlled to prevent widespread deposition of dust. Detrimental material deposited on trees and vegetation shall be removed. Lessee will take such steps as may be required to prevent damage to crops. The determination as to what is detrimental will be made by the Lessor. No well shall be drilled within five hundred (500) feet of any residence or building on the leased lands without first obtaining the occupier's written consent. In any well drilled by Lessee hereunder sufficient casing shall be set and cemented so as to seal off surface and subsurface waters, any of which would be harmful to agricultural or other operations.
DRILLING OPERATIONS. The Operator may have drilling operations conducted by qualified and responsible independent contractors who are not an Affiliate of the Operator and are employed under competitive contracts. A competitive contract is a contract, or any extension thereof (a) that was entered into within five (5) years before the commencement of drilling operations and (b), that contains terms, rates, and provisions that, when the contract was entered into, did not exceed those generally prevailing on the OCS for operations involving drilling rigs of an equivalent type, operating in similar environments and water depths, equipped to the Operator’s standard conditions, and capable of drilling the proposed well or conducting other required operations within the schedule in the well AFE. The Operator may employ its own or its Affiliate’s equipment, personnel, drilling rig, Workover rig, and snubbing unit in the conduct of those operations, either under Exhibit “C” or under a written agreement among the Participating Parties. If the Operator’s or its Affiliate’s equipment, personnel, drilling rig, Workover rig, or snubbing unit is employed in conducting operations under this Agreement, the terms, conditions, and rates for that employment shall be consistent with those currently prevailing in competitive contracts for the deepwater OCS.
DRILLING OPERATIONS. 27.1 Before drilling is commenced, Lessee shall submit to the Department for written approval as to location a plat showing the proposed location of each well, well pad and all associated infrastructure, including but not limited to: roads, pipelines, compressor stations, safety-system communication infrastructure, soil erosion and sedimentation control plans which include post- construction storm water management and restoration plans, antennas, safety poles, and fresh water impoundments. No well, well pad or associated infrastructure shall be commenced on the Leased Premises until the Department has issued its written approval for such to the Lessee and a permit for the well has been issued by DEP.
DRILLING OPERATIONS. (a) The designation of a Prospect Area in accordance with the terms of Article V above does not constitute a commitment to participate in the drilling of a well within the Prospect Area. After a Prospect Area has been designated in accordance with terms of Article V above, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 6.8 below, any Party owning an interest in Options, Leases or Farm-Ins within such Prospect Area may propose the drilling of the initial well (being the first well drilled by any of the Parties within the applicable Prospect Area and being hereinafter referred to as an "Initial Well") or any subsequent well (being any well drilled within a Prospect Area following the drilling of the Initial Well within such Prospect Area and being hereinafter referred to as a "Subsequent Well") within the Prospect Area in accordance with the procedures set forth in the form Operating Agreement which is attached hereto as Exhibit F. In the event that a Party proposes a completion operation within an Initial Well or Subsequent Well hereunder, in addition to the information which must be included with the completion proposal as set forth in the Operating Agreement, such proposing Party shall specify the exact interval (by log depths) within the well bore which such Party reasonably believes may produce from the completion operations which are proposed (the formation(s) or partial formation(s) which are located between the high and low log depth which are reasonably described in such completion proposal being herein referred to as the "Completion Interval," regardless of the exact location of the perforations within said Completion Interval).
DRILLING OPERATIONS. 4.1 CONTRACTOR'S STANDARD OF PERFORMANCE - CONTRACTOR warrants that all work will be performed safely and in good and workmanlike manner in accordance with accepted international oilfield practices and in compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations; that CONTRACTOR's equipment shall be in good working order and its personnel fully trained and capable of safely operating such equipment and performing services required herein for OPERATOR; that CONTRACTOR regularly conducts training and safety programs; that all materials, equipment, goods, supplies or manufactured articles furnished by CONTRACTOR in the performance of the work or services shall be of suitable quality and workmanship for their intended purposes, in accordance with specifications, and shall be free from defects; and that CONTRACTOR will not employ any employee whose employment violates applicable labor or other laws. CONTRACTOR further covenants, warrants and represents that all work performed by it hereunder shall be conducted in accordance with accepted international safety regulations (as used in the country of Colombia), environmental laws and regulations, precautions and procedures in effect as of the effective date and by employing the necessary protective equipment and devices described in the attached inventory. Any breach of this safety covenant shall be grounds for immediate termination of this Contract by Operator.
DRILLING OPERATIONS. A Party's election to participate in a Prospect Area in accordance with the terms of Article III above does not constitute a commitment to participate in the drilling of a well within the Prospect Area; however, as provided in the form Operating Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit F, in the event that a Party does not participate in the first well proposed and drilled within the Prospect Area, such Party must relinquish all of its interest in the applicable Prospect Area. Except as provided herein to the contrary, or as otherwise provided in any Farm-in or Option agreement to the contrary, all drilling, completing, workover and other well and production operations on each Prospect Area shall be governed by the terms of a separate Operating Agreement for each such Prospect Area in the form attached hereto as Exhibit F (with appropriate insertions and exhibits reflecting the agreements hereunder on Prospect Area, participation percentages and initial well). In the event that there are any irreconcilable inconsistencies or ambiguities between the terms of this Agreement and the terms of the Operating Agreement, the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement shall control.
