ACTS for Water Resource Management and Well Pad Development

Presentation By:

Phillip G. Levasseur

Environmental & Regulatory Compliance

Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation

July 25th, 2012

An Overview of Water Resource Requirements in

Pennsylvania

10 day reporting requirement from receipt of finalized laboratory data deliverable to the Department of Environmental Protection(DEP) and landowners.

All water resources within 2,500’ of an unconventional gas or oil well are sampled to preserve defense under PA law (Act 13).

Operators are presumed guilty in allegations of water contamination and can only secure a defense if the operator submitted pre-alteration water quality data to the DEP.

All water sources within 3,000’ must be identified and marked on the well plat that is submitted to the DEP.

Water resource set backs are measured from the vertical section for unconventional oil and gas wells: 1,000’ from public water supplies and 500’ from water wells.

Well Pad Planning

Water Resources Within 3,000’ of Well Pad

Creating an Asset Directory

• COGC created an asset directory by importing an existing government land management system and commonly referred to as parcel asset management systems (PAMS).

• PAMS vary by state and county.

• COGC adopted the existing government identification conventions and has integrated ACTS in to the COGC land management workflow.

Asset Directory- Defined as Facilities

Project Management Tools

Implementing ACTS Projects and Task Management Tools

Facility and Equipment Scheduling Tab

Mail Management

Stakeholder Communication

Leveraging Existing Data Sources to Augment Field

Operations (Data Migration)

Importation of county assessors database.

Importation of 911 address information from county database.

Importation of land management records from legacy systems.

Establishing Roles and Responsibilities

Corporate Planning Team

Project Manager @ Laboratory

Laboratory A

Laboratory B

Project Manager@ Environmental

Consultancy Field Crews

Utilizing Valid Values

Values that must match on the inspection and the laboratory electronic data deliverables.

Facility and Equipment

Date and Time Stamps

Water Source Types

Sample Point Types

Establishing File Name Conventions

As a best management practice it is recommended that an administrator defines a file naming convention for field technicians and laboratory information management systems.

Saving and Associating Documentation

Types of Documentation:

Inspections

Photos

Sketches

Landowner Correspondence

Emails

Other documentation

Methods:

Direct attachment in ACTS.

Automated upload using key file and FTP site for batch processing.

File Upload Process to ACTS

Inspections and data deliverables completed

Files named and loaded to FTP site

Files processed and associated in ACTS

Well Pad Example

Reviewing Parcels (Facilities)

Facility Associations Within 3,500’

Stakeholder Identification and Management

Establishing stakeholders and recording contact information

Define Person Type and Assign Role:

Surface Landowners

Mineral Right Owners

Corporate Employees

Consultants

Agency Representatives

Stakeholder Management in ACTS

Task Scheduling

Water Resource Hierarchy in ACTS for Water Sampling

Parcel

Water Source

Sampling

Point

Sample Point

Water Source

Facility

Parcel

Well

Sample

Point 1

Sample

Point 2

Spring Sample Point

Data Workflow and Integration

Field Sheet Laboratory

Data Completed

Record

Customizable Inspections (Field Sheets)

Laboratory Data Deliverables

One to many relationships can be established in ACTS when work is contracted to multiple labs for the same sampling event.

Common Reports

Landowner Reports

Agency Reports

Reports for GIS

Creating Reports

Utilize prepared report styles

Ad hoc report option

Coordinate and design reports with Ecocion

Geospatial Applications

Exporting data for use in maps.

Point data in ACTS can be projected if stored on the location tab.

Using ACTS has streamlined workflows by allowing staff to write reports and communicate information to geospatial information systems.

Data Compatibility

Exporting data to other data systems.

ACTS can generate data deliverables that are compatible with other environmental management software.

Data Security Protocols and User Groups

Using the security window in ACTS to establish role based security:

Establish contractor security profiles that limit the types of functionality and areas the contractors may explore.

Incident Management and Response

Leveraging the asset management system to respond to incidents.

Structured well pad relationships defined with facilities out to 3,500’.

Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation

Phillip G. Levasseur Water Sampling Program Coordinator North Region Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation Five Penn Center West Suite 401 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15276 Business Mobile: 412-759-4585 Desk Phone: 412249-3921