Clarification to ERCB Directive 047: Waste Reporting Requirements for Oilfield Waste Management Facilities

Currently, ERCB-licensed oil and gas sites with a licence status of abandoned and corresponding facility ID operational status of abandoned are not able to report any activity to the Petroleum Registry of Alberta (PRA). Consequently, if a Waste Plant submission is made that includes an abandoned facility, the associated volumes will be rejected.

Oilfield waste management facilities (OWMFs) must continue to account for the receipt of the waste material accepted from a licensed oil and gas site with a licence/operational status of abandoned. Until the PRA is changed to allow a submission that includes a receipt from an abandoned facility, OWMF operators must request a Waste Location ID to report the associated volumes.

A change to the PRA has been requested that will allow OWMF operators to submit a receipt of volumes from licensed oil and gas sites with a licence/operational status of abandoned that are sending waste material generated during remediation and surface land reclamation to an OWMF. In these cases, the typical auto-population functionality (disposition record) to the OWMF from the generating (abandoned) location will not occur.

icensed oil and gas sites with a licence/operational status of abandoned must continue to report waste material generated at that site, in accordance with the requirements set out in Directive 058: Oilfield Waste Management Requirements for the Upstream Petroleum Industry and Directive 030: Digital Data Submissions of the Annual Oilfield Waste Disposition Report.