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Interim Directives

Informational Letters and Interim Directives have been used in the past to document EUB requirements. These are being reviewed and gradually will be converted to Directives, as per EUB Bulletin 2004-02 that describes the initiative to streamline regulatory documents.

The IDs in this list are still in effect.

ID 2003-01  1) Isolation Packer Testing, Reporting, and Repair Requirements, 2) Surface casing venting flow/gas migration testing, reporting, and repair requirements, 3) Casing Failure Reporting

ID 2001-07  Operating Criteria: Resource Recovery Requirements for Oil Sands Mine and Processing Plant Sites

ID 2001-05  Public Safety and Sour Gas Policy Implementation Recommendations 54, 60, and 61 Site Specific Emergency Response Plans for Sour Operations, Emergency Planning Zones, and Reduced Planning Zones

ID 2001-03  Sulphur Recovery Guidelines for the Province of Alberta

ID 2000-04  An Update to the Requirements for the Appropriate Management of Oilfield Wastes

ID 2000-03  Harmonization of Waste Management

ID 99-05  Disposal of Drilling Waste Associated with Alberta Energy and Utilities Board

ID 99-04  Deposition of Oilfield Waste into Landfills

ID 99-01  Gas/Bitumen Production in Oil Sands Areas

ID 99-01-Amendment 1 - March 31, 1999  Amendment to ID 99-1 Amendment

ID 99-01-Amendment 2 - November 30, 1999  Amendment to ID 99-1

ID 99-01-Amendment 3 - November 29, 2000  Third Amendment to Interim Directive 99-1 Amendment

ID 99-01-Amendment 4 - July 22, 2003  Fourth Amendment to ID 99-1

ID 98-04  Electronic Capture of Well Test Data

ID 98-02  Minimum Wellhead Requirements

ID 97-06  Sour Well Licensing and Drilling Requirements

ID 97-05  Pressure and Deliverability Testing

ID 96-03  Oilfield Waste Management Requirements for the Upstream Petroleum Industry

ID 96-01  Hay-Zama Lake Complex - Special Requirements

ID 94-05  Consolidation of Regulations for Off-Target Penalty Factor Determination

ID 94-03  Underbalanced Drilling

ID 94-02  Revisions to Oil and Gas Well Spacing Administration

ID 91-06  Casing, Cementing, Sampling, and Logging Requirements Senex, Kidney, Trout and Associated Areas

ID 91-03  Heavy Oil/Oil Sands Operations [Revised by Directive 017]

ID 90-03  Reporting of Segregation Tests Results

ID 90-01  Completion and Servicing of Sour Wells

ID 81-03  Minimum Distance Requirements Separating New Sour Gas Facilities from Residential and Other Developments

ID 81-01  Subsurface Disposal of Drilling Fluids

Master List -Directives, Informational Letters, Interim Directives
Includes: documents that are in effect plus documents that have been superseded or rescinded since 1996 with an annotation of what has superseded them.

Many of the still in-effect Interim Directives are now quite old. The contact information and phone numbers published in these may be outdated. Please contact our Customer Contact Centre and they will assist you.
Phone: (403) 297-8311 and press '0' OR E-mail: Inquiries@ercb.ca