Colorado Oil and Gas Regulations
The BLM relies on a robust regulatory framework that guides us as we manage public land and mineral estate for multiple uses. This webpage provides access to BLM Colorado's current regulations and Notices to Lessees.
Extension of Expiration Date for Memorandum of Understanding among BLM, USFS, COGCC
- MOU Extension: Permitting Oil and Gas Operations on BLM and NFS Lands in Colorado
- January 2020: MOU Extension: Permitting Oil and Gas Operations on BLM and NFS Lands in Colorado
Memorandum of Understanding Between The Colorado Bureau of Land Management And The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
Colorado Notices to Lessees
- Timeframes and Implementation of 43 CFR Subparts 3173, 3174, and 3175
- Facility Measurement Point Delay Letter to Operators
- NTL-87-4 - Procedures for Concurrent Processing of Applications for Permit to Drill, Sundry Notices, and Related Rights-of-Way
- NTL-88-1 - Well Abandonment and Bonding Requirement Revisions
- NTL-88-2 - Paying Well Determinations and Venting and Flaring Applications on Jurisdictional Coal Bed Methane Wells
- NTL-89-1 - Changes in Lease Operations due to the Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing Reform Act of 1987
- NTL-90-1 - Standards for the Use of Electronic Flow Computers and Electronic Gas Measurement Systems
- IB 1/30/95 - Prevention of Potential Bird and Bat Mortalities Caused by Production Equipment Design
- NTL-07-01 - Final Electronic Flow Computer
- NTL-14-01 - Standards for the Use of Isolating Flow Conditioners in Meter Runs for Gas Measurement, updated Sept. 13, 2016
- Survey Plat Requirements Information Notice, Oct. 21, 2016
- NTL-16-1 and 2 - Modular Large Volume Tanks and Well Mechanical Integrity Tests