LAC 43:XIX.4905. All Other Applications

A. All applications for permits to repair (except ordinary maintenance operations) or workovers involving, but not limited to, abandonment (plug and abandon), acidizing, deepening, perforating, perforating and squeezing, plugging (plug back), plugging and perforating, plugging back and sidetracking, plugging and squeezing, pulling casing, sidetracking, squeezing, squeezing and perforating, sand control, cementing casing or liner as workover feature, or when a well is to be killed or directionally drilled, shall be made to the district office on Form GR-4 and a proper permit shall be received from the district manager before work is started. A description of the work done under the above recited Work Permit(s) shall be furnished on the reverse side of the Well History and Work Resume Report (Form WH-GR), which form shall be filed with the district office of the Office of Conservation in which the well is located within 20 days after the completion or recompletion of the well. At least 12 hours prior notice of the proposed operations shall be given the district manager and/or an offset operator in order that one of them may witness the work. If the district manager or an agent fails to appear within 12 hours, the work may be witnessed by the off­set operator, but failing in this, the work need not be held up longer than 12 hours. This rule shall not deter an operator from taking immediate action in an emergency to prevent damage.