Announcements 

December 20, 2011

1. Update to the Compliance Categories and ERCB Contact Personnel list, found under the “Compliance Categories and Contacts” link.

Updates to the ERCB's Compliance Categories and ERCB Contact Personnel list are reflective of the ERCB's organizational changes.

2. Update to the ERCB Persistent Noncompliance Criteria for 2012, found under the “Persistent Noncompliance Criteria by Compliance Category” link.

Updates to the ERCB's Persistent Noncompliance Criteria for 2011 reflect the ERCB's organizational changes. Please note there have been no changes to the different Compliance Categories Persistent Noncompliance threshold criteria from 2011.  

Any questions/comments regarding persistent criteria for a specific Compliance Category should be directed to the respective ERCB group. Contact details for those groups responsible for each Compliance Category can be found on the Compliance Categories and ERCB Contact Personnel list, found under the “Compliance Categories and Contacts” link.  

Any questions/comments regarding the ERCB Persistent Noncompliance Framework should be directed to ComplianceCoordination@ercb.ca

3. Update to the Table of Noncompliant Events and Associated Risk Rating of ERCB Requirements.

Updates to the ERCB's Table of Noncompliant Events and Associated Risk Rating of ERCB Requirements are reflective of the ERCB's organizational changes.

Minor updates to the Pipeline Inspection, Mineable Oil Sands & Pressure, Drilling Operations, Well Servicing, Deliverability and Fluid Analysis Testing and Reporting Compliance Categories.

July 29, 2011

Directive 019: Compliance Assurance FAQs have been updated and are now available.

Any questions concerning the FAQs, please directed your e-mails to ComplianceCoordination@ercb.ca

 July 4, 2011

Update to the Risk Assessed Noncompliance spreadsheet, found under the link "Risk Assessed Noncompliance".

In effort to streamline and consolidate Board requirements, a number of updates have recently been made to ERCB Directives, Interim Directives, Information Letters, and Bulletins. Each of these updates has been communicated at different times and in different forms to ERCB licensees.  The updates to the Risk Assessed Noncompliance spreadsheet reflect such work and have resulted in updated information in the following Compliance Categories:

(i)    Flaring, Incinerating and Venting Audits
(ii)   Facilities Technical
(iii)  Mineable Oil Sands
(iv)  Production Measurement and Reporting
(v)   Pipelines
(vi)  Well Drilling Log Reporting
(vii)  Monthly Volumetric Reporting
(viii) Spacing
(ix)  Commingling

In addition to the updates in the above Compliance Categories, specific reference to the noncompliant events in the Compliance Categories of Waste Facilities, Oil Facilities/Gas Facilities, and Well Site Inspections have been removed from the Risk Assessed Noncompliance spreadsheet, and are now located in Manual 001: Facility and Well Site Inspections.