Reports of purchasers and transporters of crude oil.

43-02-03-80. Reports of purchasers and transporters of crude oil. 1. By five p.m. on the first day of the second month succeeding the month in which oil is removed, purchasers and transporters, including truckers, shall file with the director the appropriate monthly reporting forms. The purchaser shall file on the oil purchasers monthly report and the transporter on the oil transporters monthly report the amount of all crude oil removed and purchased by them from each well, central production facility, treating plant, or saltwater handling facility during the reported month. The transporter shall report the disposition of such crude oil on an oil transporters and storers monthly report (form 10b). All meter and tank measurements, and volume determinations of crude oil removed and purchased from a well or central production facility must conform to American petroleum institute standards and corrected to a base temperature of sixty degrees Fahrenheit [15.56 degrees Celsius] and fourteen and seventy-three hundredths pounds per square inch absolute [1034.19 grams per square centimeter]. 2. Prior to removing any oil, purchasers and transporters shall obtain an approved copy of a producer's authorization to purchase and transport oil from either the producer or the director. 3. The operator of any oil rail facility shall report the amount of oil received and shipped out of such facility on form 10rr. History: Amended effective April 30, 1981; January 1, 1983; May 1, 1990; May 1, 1992; May 1, 1994; July 1, 1996; September 1, 2000; April 1, 2014; October 1, 2016; April 1, 2026. General Authority: NDCC 38-08-04 Law Implemented: NDCC 38-08-04