Who supplies this information (permittee or staff)?
Staff make the determination if a well is an exploratory well or a development well. Development well, as defined in R 324.102(i), is “a well which has as its objective an oil or gas pool known to be, or have been, productive through the discovery well of the oil or gas pool and which is located either within a 2-mile radius of the discovery well or on the same structure as the development well.