Tips

​​To remind Petrinex users on the meter station infrastructure elements and how volumetric data is reported at the various meter station facilities, including the additional volumetric data elements (ISC) required for AB royalty reporting obligations.

​To notify AB stakeholders that the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) has introduced new well statuses for Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage (CCUS) observation wells and expanded the well infrastructure requirements for observation wells.

​Petrinex hosts the AEPA Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) data in the facility infrastructure information,​

To inform Manitoba Industry users that Indian Oil and Gas Canada (IOGC) reporting
functionality is now available in Petrinex.

Effective, March 6, 2025, Petrinex will only allow wells with a crude oil status to be linked to crude oil battery subtypes, and wells with a crude bitumen status to be linked to crude bitumen battery subtypes.

To notify users that new editions of Directive 007: Volumetric and Infrastructure Requirements and Manual 011: How to Submit Volumetric Data to the AER are available on the AER website www.aer.ca.

This tip outlines the purpose of each of the various infrastructure reports available in Petrinex. 

This tip outlines the data contained in the new Petrinex GCI, Perforation and Packer Report and who has access to the data

To advise licensees that when changing the commingled process to MU Commingling Order, the MU Commingling Approval Number must be entered.

The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) process when requesting a change to the links between a licence and a reporting facility ID has been enhanced. The AER is streamlining the process of requesting this change by introducing an Excel template that is to be completed by the licensee/operator. The Excel template titled “Facility Licence Linking Template (see Bulletin 2023-34)” is available on the AER’s Directive 007 web page under the Forms dropdown. Upon filling in the requested information in the template, please email it to PA.Help@aer.ca. For additional information please review the AER Bulletin “Bulletin 2023-34 – Validating Facility Operational Life-Cycle Statuses”.

To remind Industry that Saskatchewan Ministry of Energy and Resources made enhancements to Petrinex effective June 2, 2022, to create two new facility subtypes that will allow source water to be reported as produced and injected/disposed under rare circumstances.

To advise all users that effective September 8, 2022, a new Orphan Well Association (OWA) indicator was added to Petrinex and the Alberta Public Data Portal to indicate assets (licences, wells, or facilities) that have been designated as orphan by the AER

To inform Industry of changes to the Operator Change functionality in Saskatchewan

Extending the suspension of penalties associated with RTP101 Petrinex errors for two months.
To inform Industry that changes have been made to the Royalty/Tax Payer information in IRIS which may have caused RTP101 and RTP104 errors

To inform Industry of adjustments made to the SK Code Table on Petrinex to allow additional facility subtype/licence type links.

The IOGC First Nation (FN) Interest Discrepancy Report has been available to Saskatchewan operators since June 2019 and as of September 3, 2020 is available to Alberta operators of active wells that are IOGC of Interest. This tip describes the information contained in this new report.

To notify Petrinex users that the Lahee Classification field in Petrinex is renamed to the AER Classification

To notify operators to stop using the waste location ID description created for oilfield spill material location released during transportation.

To inform Operators of the new Gas Oil Ratio (GOR) Factor functionality added to Petrinex and of a new process to submit a GOR Factor to the Ministry of Energy and Resources (ER) that will discontinue the generation of unavoidable errors and penalties for VME0041, VME0042 and VME0010.

To inform Industry that the Saskatchewan Energy and Resources has implemented a change in Petrinex to provide Royalty/Tax Attribute (RTA) information to Industry through the query functionality in Petrinex.

To notify stakeholders of the new waste location ID description created for oilfield spill material location released during transportation.