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Infrastructure Reporting


Jurisdiction Topic Area Date – Last Published Title Purpose

​SK

​Infrastructure Reporting

​Feb 1/22

Operator Changes - Back-date Ability for Streams (SKWI)

​To inform Industry of changes to the Operator Change functionality in SK.

​SK

​Infrastructure Reporting

​Jan 25/21

​​Update Facility Subtype 362, 363, 364, and 519 to Licence Type Link

​To inform Industry of adjustmens made to the SK Code Table on Petrinex to allow additional facility subtype/licence type links.

​AB

​Infrastructure Reporting

​Oct 30/20

New Notificvation to Licvensee When a Licence Transfer Has Occured at the AER.

A Petrinex notification will be sent to a licensee notifying them of a licence transfer change in Petrinex when a licence transfer has been processed at the AER.​

​AB

​Infrastructure Reporting/
Volumetrics

​Mar 30/20

​AER: Reporting Challenges Due to COVID-19 Restrictions

​To inform Industry Operators facing chanllenges in submitting their volumetric and infrastructure data in Petrinex due to the COVID-19 restrictions to contact AER's Productioni Accounting Helpdesk at PA.Help@aer.ca for prompt assistance and/or noncompliance penalty relief.

AB​

​Infrastructure Reporting

​Feb 5/20

Changes to the Lahee Classification in Petrinex​​

​To notify Petrinex users that the Lahee Classificaiton field in Petrinex is renamed to the AER Classification.

​SK

​Infrastructure Reporting

​Aug 28/18

New Gas Oil Ratio (GOR) Factor functionality in Petrinex and Submission of GOR Factors

​To inform Operators of the new GOR Factor functionality and of a new process to submit a GOR factor to ER that will discontinue the generation of unavoidable errors and penalties for VME0041, VME0042 and VME0010.

AB

Infrastructure Reporting

Nov 7/16

New Well Hydraulic Fracturing Report

A new report titled "Well Hydraulic Fracturing Report" has been created in Petrinex detailing the well hydraulic fracturing information that is already being submitted to AER by Industry.

AB

Infrastructure Reporting

Nov 7/16

Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Composition Data Submitted to the AER Displayed in Petrinex

To notify stakeholders that hydraulic fracture fluid composition data submitted to the AER is displayed at the stage level on Petrinex.

SK

Infrastructure Reporting

Jun 16 /16

Crude Oil Type Amendments to Well Completions - Ministry of the Economy

To advise Saskatchewan operators that ECON is amending the Crude Oil Type (e.g. Light, Medium, Heavy) that has been assigned to over 1,300 well completions in Saskatchewan

SK

Infrastructure Reporting

Nov 5/15

Changes to Petrinex Data/Functionality as a Result of the Well and Facility Infrastructure Module (IRIS)

To advise SK Petrinex users that ECON is removing some data elements/functionality in Petrinex and adding others. these changes will be reflected in Petrinex when the Well and Facility Infrastructure Module is implemented within ECON's new Industry self-serve Integrated Resource Information system (IRIS) on Nov 19/15.

SK

Infrastructure Reporting

June 23/15

New Saskatchewan Paper Battery Requirements

To inform Industry that Saskatchewan has adopted new eligibility requirements with respect to wells that are connected to a Heavy Crude Oil Paper Battery (facility sub-type 313)

SK

Infrastructure Reporting

May 14/15

Implementation of Enhanced Oil and Gas Measurement and Reporting Requirements in Saskatchewan

To inform SK Petrinex users that new facility subtypes have been incorporated into Petrinex effective May 6, 15 to facilitate the adoption of new oil and gas measurement requirements in Saskatchewan.

SK

Infrastructure Reporting

Mar 30/15

Adding Well Location to Paper Battery

To inform Industry that prior to May 6/15 Industry is required to add a proper facility location for each existing Heavy Crude Oil Paper Battery subtype 313.

AB

Infrastructure and Volumetric Reporting

Mar 19/15
Updated

AER Directive 007: Volumetric and Infrastructure Requirements and Manual 011: How to Submit Volumetric Data to the AER

To notify stakeholders of the revised edition of Directive 007: Volumetric and Infrastructure Requirements and Manual 011: How to Submit Volumetric Data to the AER (formerly the online supplement to Directive 007).

​​AB/SK 

Infrastructure Reporting 

Apr 9/14 

New Functionality - Query Licence and Request Licence Report 

To inform users about changes implemented in Petrinex on April 2/14 related to Query Licence and Request Licence Report 

AB 

Infrastructure Reporting

Mar 20/14 

Changes to the Experimental Flag on Facilities 

To inform Alberta users about changes implemented in Petrinex on April 2/14 related to the experimental flag on facilities. 

AB/SK

Infrastructure Reporting 

May 31/13 

Contact Information Enhancement

To describe enhancements made to the Petrinex contact functionality in Infrastructure allowing users to view contact information. 

AB

Infrastructure Reporting

Aug 8/12 

Change to Facility Licence Requirements for Facility Sub-Types 344, 345 and 506

This tip informs AB Petrinex users that a facility licence may or may not be entered when requesting a new facility identifier for facility sub-types 344 - In-Situ Oil Sands, 345 - Sulphur Reporting at Oil Sands and 506 - In-Situ Oil Sands. 

AB

Infrastructure Reporting

Aug 22/11

ERCB Bottom and Surface Hole Integrity Project (BSHIP) - Changes to UWI and True Vertical Depth

This tip informs users of the impact of the ERCB's Bottom and Surface Hole Integrity Project (BSIP) to some wells unique well identifier (UWI) and True Vertical Depth (TVD).

AB

Infrastructure Reporting

Jun 10/11

Changes to Facility Lookup

To advise users of changes to the Facility Lookup functionality when using the Query Facility Information screen.

AB

Infrastructure Reporting

Feb 23/11

Facility Subtype Reporting Water Clarification

This tip reminds users that the ERCB requires Industry to utilize the correct well status type and its valid facility sub types of 503 and 501 for water disposal wells and water injection wells to report the monthly injected water volumes to Petrinex.

AB

Infrastructure Reporting

Feb 15/11

Modifications to the Well Status Process

This tip is to inform users that effective February 3/11, there have been changes made to the "Edit Well Status" process on Petrinex.  These changes affect the "ADD" and "MODIFY" functions.

AB

Infrastructure Reporting

Feb 3/11

New ABZONE and CLOSED Well Statuses for Commingled and Drain Wells

This tip informs stakeholders of two new statuses for commingled and drain wells that will be applied by AER staff as a result of completion data received or a Board Closure enforcement.

AB

Infrastructure Reporting

Aug 4/09

New Facility Subtypes That Do Not Require Licences 

This tip informs users of six new facility subtypes that do not require licences and the process to be followed to set up these facilities in Petrinex.

AB

Infrastructure Reporting

Nov 5/08

New Royalty Framework (NRF) Changes in the Registry - Phase 1 

This tip outlines enhancements to Petrinex to accommodate the New Royalty Framework (NRF). The first phase of the NRF changes was implemented November 5th, 2008 - AER Pool Density Values.

AB

Infrastructure Reporting

Nov 29/07

Three New Fluid Types for Shale

This tip informs users that on December 6th, 2007, three new fluid types for shale wells will be incorporated in Petrinex. These new fluid types will be found on the Edit Well Status Screen.

AB

Infrastructure Reporting

May 12/06

Linking and Reporting Licensed Water Source Wells  

This tip identifies linking and reporting requirements for licensed water source wells.

AB

Infrastructure Reporting

Oct 6/04

New Well Status for Coal Bed Methane to be added to Registry

The alert informs users that as of October 6, 2004, there will be new well statuses for Coal bed Methane (CBM) wells incorporated in Petrinex.  These new statuses will be found on the Edit Well Status screen.

AB

Infrastructure Reporting

Mar 4/04

New Well Status: Gas Test Completed

This tip informs clients of the introduction, and the workings, of a new well status: Gas Test Completed.

AB

Infrastructure Reporting

Nov 14/02 

Reminder regarding the correct format for well and facility licence numbers

Explains the correct format to use for inputting well and facility licence numbers to avoid error messages

AB

Infrastructure Reporting

Nov 5/02

Facility Infrastructure: Returned Gas eligible for Gas Credit

Operators may be overlooking their eligibility for gas credits


Retired Tips
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​SK

Infrastructure Reporting

​Dec 22/14

Removed

​Changes Required to Facility Subtypes​

​To inform SK users that they are required to review their facility subtypes that are detailed in a file provided on the Ministry of the Economy (ECON) website to ensure that the correct facility subtype has been assigned to each facility.

This tip is no longer valid.