Activities Not Requiring Registration

Activities Not Requiring Registration A. Geological work performed by an employee or a subordinate of a registered professional geologist, provided that the work nor the work related products do not state, portray or infer by any manner or suggestion whatsoever that the employee or subordinate is in responsible charge of the geology or geologic work. Any such geological work and/or work products must be conspicuously signed and sealed by the supervising registered professional geologist of that employee or subordinate. B. Geological work performed exclusively in the exploration for and development (proving out) of petroleum resources (See Definitions), including the giving of testimony, or preparation and presentation of exhibits or documents regarding petroleum resources for the sole purpose of consideration by, or being placed into evidence before, any administrative agency, judicial tribunal or public hearing, if the testimony, exhibits or documents do not imply that the person is registered under this chapter; C. The practice of engineering, including the acquisition of engineering data and the utilization of these data in analysis, design, and construction by professional engineers appropriately registered in this state; D. Work customarily performed by physical or natural scientists such as chemists, archaeologists, geographers, oceanographers, pedologists and soil scientists, if that work does not include the planning and execution of geologic investigations, being in responsible charge of geologic work or the drawing of geologic conclusions and making recommendations involving the practice of geology; and E. Geologic work which does not affect the public welfare as specified under §73- 63-7 (3)(d) (Mississippi Code, 1972, as Annotated). Definitions: Exploration geology of petroleum resources pursuant to these Rules and Regulations and §73-63- 1 et seq. (Mississippi Code, Annotated 1972) shall mean that phase of petroleum operations that utilizes various geoscience activities including but not limited to geophysics, structural geology, stratigraphy, geochemistry and other related geoscience activities that may be used to define potential hydrocarbon accumulations leading to the drilling of an exploratory well (adapted from Schlumberger Glossary of Oilfield Terms, from citation acquired in May, 2011 from Schlumberger’s web site at www.schlumberger.com). Development geology (proving-out) of petroleum resources pursuant to these Rules and Regulations and §73-63-1 et seq. (Mississippi Code, Annotated 1972) shall mean that phase of petroleum operations that occurs after exploration has proven successful. During this phase, development geologists perform geoscience activities that may entail subsurface mapping methods as well as other associated geoscientific methods to further delineate the areal extent of hydrocarbon accumulation. These geoscience activities may lead to the drilling of development Page 40 wells to efficiently extract the petroleum resources contained in the hydrocarbon accumulation (adapted from Schlumberger Glossary of Oilfield Terms, citation acquired in May, 2011 from Schlumberger’s web site at www.schlumberger.com).