Landowner's Roadmap for Energy Development: Facilities and Structures

What Type of Development Are Your Dealing With?

• Provide a basic overview of different facilities and structures
• Provide links to publications and basic information
• Midfield Structures Increase Farming Costs compensation page?
• Discuss and provide parameter for gas, oil and pipeline facilities; set backs for wells and pipelines

Frequently Asked Questions …

• Provide an overview of pipeline construction and implications
• Pipelines in Alberta – What Farmers Need to Know
• Negotiating Surface Rights
• Discuss setback requirements
• CFER? Circle
• Alberta Environment
  • Conservation and Reclamation problems
• Surface Rights Board
  • Disagreement Right-of-entry
• Energy and Utilities Board
  • Technical and Safety concerns, Pipeline Abandonment, Pipeline Removal

Frequently Asked Questions … 1. What should the compensation for pipelines be based on? Pipelines represent short tem disturbance – generally on year. Damages are normally assessed the crop season following installation but may be negotiated for 1-3 years.

• Provide a basic overview of oil and gas wells and implications
• Negotiating Surface Rights
• Link to Drilling 101’
• EnerFAQ4: All About Critical Sour Wells - This publication from the Energy & Resources Conservation Board discusses commonly asked questions regarding sour wells and the safeguards that regulate them.

Frequently Asked Questions … 1. What if the company and I do not agree on the location of a pipeline or well site? The operator may apply to the Board for a Right of Entry Order.

• Provide a basic overview of compressors stations and implications
• Discuss noise and provide link to regulations and acceptable levels
• Discuss effect on livestock
• Weed control
• Negotiating Surface Rights
• Link to CAPP (Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers) and best management practices

Frequently Asked Questions …

• Provide a basic overview of CBM and implications
• Negotiating Surface Rights
• Coalbed Methane Survey
• Methane Gas in Well Water
• Coal Bed Methane (CBM) Wells and Water Well Protection
• About Coal Bed Methane – Alberta Energy
• EnerFAQs08: Coalbed Methane - This publication from the Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) disucsses coalbed methane from an Alberta perspective
• Refer to CAPP (Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers) best management practices for CBM

Frequently Asked Questions … 1. What is coalbed methane (CBM)? CBM is natural gas contained in coal and consists primarily of methane. CBM is commonly referred to as "unconventional" gas because it is mostly stored through adsorption to the coal itself rather than in the pore space of the rock, like most "conventional" gas. The gas is released when there is a drop in pressure in the coal. If the coal is water saturated, water will need to be extracted to initially reduce the pressure and allow gas production to occur. If the coal is gas saturated, little or no water will be produced, and gas will be produced from the onset of production. 2. Who owns the rights to CBM in Alberta? For Crown owned mineral rights, CBM is considered to be natural gas and is therefore administered in the same manner as conventional gas. In all other instances where freehold ownership exists the matter is determined and ruled on by the courts. 3. How many CBM wells are allowerd per section? The Energy Resources & Conservation Board (ERCB) regulate the number of wells required to effectively drain the available hydrocarbons (or CBM). Given the variance in rock and fluid properties in different locations, the number of wells necesary can vary considerably.

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