30 CFR 250.522
§ 250.522 How do I manage the thermal effects caused by initial production on a newly completed or recompleted well?
United States · 30 CFR — Mineral Resources · Status: effective
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- 30 CFR 250.522, § 250.522 How do I manage the thermal effects caused by initial production on a newly completed or recompleted well?, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/134553
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A newly completed or recompleted well often has thermal casing pressure during initial startup. Bleeding casing pressure during the startup process is considered a normal and necessary operation to manage thermal casing pressure; therefore, you do not need to evaluate these operations as a casing diagnostic test. After 30 days of continuous production, the initial production startup operation is complete and you must perform casing diagnostic testing as required in §§ 250.521 and 250.523.
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.