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§ 250.522 — How Do I Manage The Thermal Effects Caused By Initial Production On A Newly Completed Or Recompleted Well?

30 C.F.R. § 250.522

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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.