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Compliance Categories and Contacts

Compliance Categories and ERCB Contact Personnel

To assist our customers, the ERCB has compiled a list of compliance categories and key contact personnel.

Compliance categories, previously known as audit/inspection categories, describe an activity or operation, such as drilling, participant involvement, or injection and disposal. The ERCB uses compliance categories for administering and tracking enforcement and identifying licensees (or the responsible duty holder, as defined in legislation) that are persistently noncompliant.  

PDF Version (December 2011)

ERCB Compliance Categories Contact
Applications Branch
Facilities Applications Group
-Audit Section
  • Facilities Technical
  • Participant Involvement
  • Pipelines/Pipeline Installations Technical
  • Wells Technical
Gavin McClenaghan (403) 297-6847
Resources Applications Group
-Enforcement & Surveillance Section and Coal Section
  • Acid Gas Injection/Disposal
  • Coalbed Methane Schemes
  • Commingling
  • Concurrent Production
  • Control Wells
  • Enhanced Recovery Schemes
  • Equity Orders ( Common Carrier, Common Processor, Common
  • Purchaser, Compulsory Pooling, Rateable Take, Turner Valley Units )
  • Gas Allowables
  • Gas Cycling
  • Gas Storage
  • Groundwater Protection
  • Injection/Disposal
  • Production without Common Ownership
    Spacing

Hellen Groen (403) 297-3581
Mike McCrank (403) 592-4165
Judith Zatzek (403) 297-6932

-Waste and Storage Section
  • Drilling Waste Audits
  • Material Storage Audits
  • Oilfield Waste Generator Audits
  • Oilfield Waste Receiver Audits

Sasha Desjardins (403) 297-3707
Christine MacDonald (403) 476-9377
Jolene McKendrick (403) 297-5377
Ian Dahl (403) 297-8178

Field Surveillance & Operations Branch
Liability Management Group
-Liability Management Section
  • Noncompliance with Liability Management Program Requirements
  • Orphan Levy

Anu Nandiwanda (403) 297-6417

Emergency Management Group
-Emergency Planning & Assessment Section
  • General ERP Requirements
  • Technical ERP Requirements
Jenny Miller (403) 297-2529
 
Technical Operations Group
-Production Operations Section
  • Production Measurement & Reporting
  • Enhanced Production Audit Program (EPAP)  
  • Glycol Dehydrator Benzene Emissions
     
  • Flaring, Incinerating and Venting Audits
     
  • Sulphur Recovery Guidelines

Shelley Weyman (403) 297-6510

Catherine Thistlethwaite (403) 297-6918
Colby Ruff (403) 297-4544
Henry Ewa (403) 297-3502
Kathy Ostermann (403) 297-8531
Jim Spangelo (403) 297-3566
Catherine Thistlethwaite (403) 297-6918

-Well Operations Section
  • Packer Testing Audits
  • Surface Casing Vent Flow/Gas Migration Audits
  • Well Casing Failure Audits
  • Shallow Fracturing Operations Assessments
  • Suspended Well Audits
  • Well Abandonment Audits
  • Well Casing Design Requirements

Ian Peleshok (403) 355-4293
Joanne Petryk (403) 297-5330
Suzanne Belliveau (403) 297-6441
Evgeny Michurin (403) 297-4795
Ian Peleshok (403) 355-4293
Lisa DiTosto (403) 297-8958
Suzanne Belliveau (403) 297-6441

Field Operations Group
(On-line access to the Field Inspection System [FIS] is available through the Digital Data Submission [DDS] system)

 

  • Drilling Operations
  • Well Servicing 
  • Drilling Waste
  • Waste Facilities  
  • Oil Facilities/Gas Facilities
  • Well Site Inspections  
  • Pipelines

Paul Saulnier (780) 460-3809

Joe Gormley (403) 340-5484

Daniel Gades (403) 340-5462

Murray Barber (780) 876-2470  

Oil Sands and Coal Branch
Oil Sands and Coal Mining Group
  • Mineable Oil Sands
  • Coal Mines
  • Coal Preparation Plants

Luis Grilo (780) 743-7489
Andrea Larson (403) 297-8161
Andrea Larson (403) 297-8161

In Situ Oil Sands Group
  • Oil Sands Processing Plants

  • Commercial In Situ Oil Sands Schemes
  • Experimental In Situ Oil Sands Schemes
  • Gas Production in Defined Oil Sands Strata
  • Industrial Development Permits
  • In Situ Waterflood Schemes
  • Primary In Situ Oil Sand Schemes

Luis Grilo (780) 743-7489
Andrew MacPherson.(403) 297-5613

Tom Keelan (403) 297-6950
Andrew MacPherson.(403) 297-5613
Ken Schuldhus (403) 297-3572
Andrea Lawson (403) 297-8161
Andrew MacPherson.(403) 297-5613
Andrew MacPherson.(403) 297-5613

Geology, Environmental Sciences and Economics Branch
Environmental Monitoring & Regulation Group
- Environmental Operations Section
  • Baseline Water Well Testing
    (Recompletions/Completions)
Al Smandych (403) 297-6154
Market Intelligence and Regulatory Analysis Group
-Applications and Policy Section
  • Gas Removal Permits *
Bani Ashrafi (403) 297-5836

Reserves and Pore Space Management Group

  • Oil Overproduction
Nashila Visram (403) 297-8354
Information and Systems Services Branch
Information Collection and Dissemination Group
-Well Test Data Section
  • Pressure, Deliverability and Fluid Analysis Testing and Reporting
Sheila Hallett (403) 355-5742
Lisa Heddinger (403) 355-5742 
-Well Log Section
  • Well Drilling Log Reporting
Abby Cook (403) 297-2581
David Benning (403) 297-8574
-Production/Well Data Section
  • Well Drilling Data Requirements
  • Directional Surveys  
  • Monthly Volumetric Reporting
  • Well Status Reporting
Gitta Wicke (403) 297-8952
Gitta Wicke (403) 297-8952
Jennifer Hogarth (403) 297-4300 
Gitta Wicke (403) 297-8952

*Please note: all inquiries regarding the issuance of gas removal permits should be directed to the ERCB's Facility Applications Group.

Page Last Updated: December 20, 2011