What is a Well Milestone?

Work Group Preparation Survey

This short question set was developed to help the Regulatory Data Standards identify date milestones that have unclear, ambiguous or conflicting definitions. Regulators believe that consistency in terminology and meaning is important to clear and effective communications between stakeholders.

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1. Contact Information (optional, but helpful in case we need clarification)

Name

Company

City/Town

State/Province

Country

Email Address

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2. How many years of experience do you have in the oil and gas business?

less than 5

5 - 10

10 - 20

more than 20

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3. What is your primary experience? Pick as many as necessary

Geoscientist

Engineering disciplines

Financial or taxation

Regulatory

IT

Data manager

Manager or executive

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4. Which phases of the well life cycle are you most familiar with?

Operator planning

Regulatory filing and approvals

Well design and construction

Well operations and production

Decommissioning

HSE, environmental

Vendor or service company relations

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5. Kick off date

Everyone agrees what this is, the definitions are very clear for all stakeholders

Definitions are variable, depending on who you are dealing with

There is no clear definition of this term

Please include your working definition for this term

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6. Spud date

Everyone agrees what this is, the definitions are very clear for all stakeholders

Definitions are variable, depending on who you are dealing with

There is no clear definition of this term

Please include your working definition for this term

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7. Drilling suspended date

Everyone agrees what this is, the definitions are very clear for all stakeholders

Definitions are variable, depending on who you are dealing with

There is no clear definition of this term

Please include your working definition for this term

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8. Drilling resumed date

Everyone agrees what this is, the definitions are very clear for all stakeholders

Definitions are variable, depending on who you are dealing with

There is no clear definition of this term

Please include your working definition for this term

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9. Final drill date

Everyone agrees what this is, the definitions are very clear for all stakeholders

Definitions are variable, depending on who you are dealing with

There is no clear definition of this term

Please include your working definition for this term

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10. Log run start and end date

Everyone agrees what this is, the definitions are very clear for all stakeholders

Definitions are variable, depending on who you are dealing with

There is no clear definition of this term

Please include your working definition for this term

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11. Rig onsite date

Everyone agrees what this is, the definitions are very clear for all stakeholders

Definitions are variable, depending on who you are dealing with

There is no clear definition of this term

Please include your working definition for this term

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12. Rig release date

Everyone agrees what this is, the definitions are very clear for all stakeholders

Definitions are variable, depending on who you are dealing with

There is no clear definition of this term

Please include your working definition for this term

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13. Completion date

Everyone agrees what this is, the definitions are very clear for all stakeholders

Definitions are variable, depending on who you are dealing with

There is no clear definition of this term

Please include your working definition for this term

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14. Platform installation date

Everyone agrees what this is, the definitions are very clear for all stakeholders

Definitions are variable, depending on who you are dealing with

There is no clear definition of this term

Please include your working definition for this term

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15. First or last production date

Everyone agrees what this is, the definitions are very clear for all stakeholders

Definitions are variable, depending on who you are dealing with

There is no clear definition of this term

Please include your working definition for this term

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16. First or last injection date

Everyone agrees what this is, the definitions are very clear for all stakeholders

Definitions are variable, depending on who you are dealing with

There is no clear definition of this term

Please include your working definition for this term

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17. Last reported production injection date

Everyone agrees what this is, the definitions are very clear for all stakeholders

Definitions are variable, depending on who you are dealing with

There is no clear definition of this term

Please include your working definition for this term

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18. Suspended date

Everyone agrees what this is, the definitions are very clear for all stakeholders

Definitions are variable, depending on who you are dealing with

There is no clear definition of this term

Please include your working definition for this term

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19. Shut in date

Everyone agrees what this is, the definitions are very clear for all stakeholders

Definitions are variable, depending on who you are dealing with

There is no clear definition of this term

Please include your working definition for this term

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20. Temporarily abandoned date

Everyone agrees what this is, the definitions are very clear for all stakeholders

Definitions are variable, depending on who you are dealing with

There is no clear definition of this term

Please include your working definition for this term

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21. (Permanantly) abandoned date

Everyone agrees what this is, the definitions are very clear for all stakeholders

Definitions are variable, depending on who you are dealing with

There is no clear definition of this term

Please include your working definition for this term

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22. Plugged date

Everyone agrees what this is, the definitions are very clear for all stakeholders

Definitions are variable, depending on who you are dealing with

There is no clear definition of this term

Please include your working definition for this term

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23. Final Completion date

Everyone agrees what this is, the definitions are very clear for all stakeholders

Definitions are variable, depending on who you are dealing with

There is no clear definition of this term

Please include your working definition for this term

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24. Reclamation date

Everyone agrees what this is, the definitions are very clear for all stakeholders

Definitions are variable, depending on who you are dealing with

There is no clear definition of this term

Please include your working definition for this term

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25. Are there any additional milestone dates that you feel are confusing or ambiguous?