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standards and requirements for portable storage. In addition, the
following requirements shall also be complied:
i.
Oil wells shall have a minimum distance of fifty meters (50 m)
from a surface property line.
ii. No oil well shall be drilled within fifty meters (50 m) or one and
one half (1-1/2) times the height of the derrick, whichever is
greater from any road or highway or major aboveground utility
line or railroad.
iii. No oil well shall be drilled nor production equipment and
storage tank installed within less than the following setbacks:
iii.a. One hundred sixteen meters (116 m) from an existing
occupied building and/or habitable dwelling
iii.b. One hundred sixteen meters (116 m) from educational
facility, public places assembly and institutional
occupancy
iv. No boiler, fired vessel, heater-breather, open flame device or
other potential sources of ignition shall be located nearer than
fifty meters (50 m) to any oil well or storage tank. Vehicles and
equipment used in the drilling and well servicing operations are
exempt from the above provision.
v. No sump or other basin for the retention of oil or petroleum
products shall exceed three hundred seventy centimeters (370
cm) in width.
vi. No sump or other basin for the retention of oil or petroleum
products, larger than one hundred eighty centimeters (180 cm)
deep shall be maintained longer than sixty (60) days after the
cessation of drilling operations.
vii. Sumps, diversion ditches or depressions used as sumps shall be
securely fenced or covered.
viii. Adequate blowout prevention equipment shall be used on all
well servicing operations. Blowout prevention equipment shall
contain pipe rams that enable closure on the pipe being used.
The choke line and kill lines shall be anchored, tied or otherwise
secured to prevent whipping resulting from pressure surges.
ix. Blowout prevention equipment shall be inspected daily and a
preventer operating test shall be performed on each round trip,
but not more than once every twenty-four (24) hours. Notation
of operating tests shall be made on the daily report.
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