Pacify the picky regulator

They want all the details

What can you learn from the industry submissions to the regulator?

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Without AppIntel AI, how can you avoid the mistakes of other operators? AppIntel reveals closed applications and the reasons for their closure.

One operator had responded to a noncompliance notice from the regulator. Twenty out of the 40 documents in the application include email negotiations with the regulator.

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Picky Adjudicator

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In Alberta, the government owns 76% of all oil and gas rights. They have skin in the game on everything operators propose.

The regulator is a very picky adjudicator. They want all the technical details. They dig in and question everything.

Because new technologies are difficult for regulators to approve, they require significant explanation and scientific proof. All this vetting discussion is included in AppIntel AI training information.

Because of this scrutiny, submission documents contain the most relevant and useful oil and gas field information available.

Reinventing the Wheel?

Why re-invent the wheel? You can avoid the problems others have already discovered.

Find out about those setbacks. You can discover the details and failures of other operators pilots through their submission documents in AppIntel AI.

The picky regulator demands all the particulars. All the details are recorded in the submissions documents.

Detecting and avoiding the failures of others

Data services like Accumap and geoScout provide measurements to help you form opinions. But what about the opinions already formed by other operators?

The background opinions of previous operators are essential to understanding the performance of a field. These opinions are not available in data providers.

But you can get them from industry submission documents.

Not in textbooks

You won't find technology problems in textbooks. Textbooks don't contain enough detail.

Textbooks teach concepts and application, but they never show failures.

Not at conferences

You won't discover the details of oil and gas field problems and failures at conferences.

True, conferences are full of leading edge technology in the lab or at field pilot stage. Conference talks are about exciting new experiments.

But failures are rarely documented at conferences -- and never documented in detail. Conference papers are only two to three pages.

In contrast, industry submission documents are always longer than a few pages. Often they contain hundreds of pages.

Not in simulations

You won't find problems by running simulations.

Simulations do not predict the unexpected. They only quantify that which you already expect.

The only way to find problems and failures is to read the industry submissions in AppIntel AI.

Regulator requires an explanation

Regulators want to know all the failure details. Its all examined in the submission documents.

When things go wrong, the regulator issues a non-compliance order. The regulator requires submissions explaining the failure.

Without an explanation by the operator, the regulator has punitive measures up to and including shutting in production from the entire company (see Sanling).

Industry submissions explain failures

AppIntel AI is the best way to learn what went wrong with other installations. It is all included in the industry submissions. The regulator requires an explanation when a scheme fails.

And the regulator is a very picky adjudicator. They want to know all the details.

The state of the science

To find the state of the science, you must read the submissions of other operators. These submissions are:

Full of start-up field trials and strategies;

Full of successes and failures;

Full of delight and embarrassment;

Full of the thrill of victory;

Full of the agony of defeat.

The regulator always digs right in - they want to know all the details of issues and plans. And they don't approve any industry submission until they are satisfied on a technical level.

Always use AppIntel AI to check out submissions similar to the approval you need.

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It is all in AppIntel.

Tags: AER application, Closure, Compliance, AppIntel advantage

Granger Low   Updated 23 Jun 2025

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