Deepen or Deepening definition
Deepen or Deepening means any operation to drill an existing well (including sidetracking a well) deeper than the stratigraphic equivalent of the deepest formation previously authorized to be encountered in such well.
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drilling means the act of boring a hole to reach a proposed bottom hole location through which oil or gas may be produced if encountered in paying quantities, and includes redrilling, sidetracking, deepening, or other means necessary to reach the proposed bottom hole location, testing, logging, plugging, and other operations necessary and incidental to the actual boring of the hole;
Rework and “Reworking” means subjecting a Product to one or more processing steps that are different from the established Manufacturing Process.
Workover means operations on a producing well to restore or increase production.
borehole means a hole sunk into the earth for the purpose of locating, abstracting or using subterranean water and includes a spring;
Shallow well means a well located and constructed in such a manner that there is not a continuous layer of low permeability soil or rock (or equivalent retarding mechanism acceptable to the department) at least 5 feet thick, the top of which is located at least 25 feet below the normal ground surface and above the aquifer from which water is to be drawn.