Responsibilities

By legislative mandate, the Oil and Gas Program of the Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining has oversite responsibility for the following:

• All operations for and related to the production of oil or natural gas including:
  • drilling, testing, equipping, completing, operating, producing, and plugging of wells, and reclamation of sites.
• The spacing and location of wells.
• Operations to increase ultimate recovery, such as:
  • cycling of natural gas,
  • the maintenance of pressure, and
  • the introduction of natural gas, water, or other substances into a reservoir.
• The disposal of salt water and oil-field wastes.
• The underground and surface storage of oil, natural gas, or products.
• The flaring of natural gas from an oil well.