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Bakken Oil Well Facilities Adhere to IBC Building Codes?

Bakken Oil Well Facilities Adhere to IBC Building Codes?

Bakken Oil Well Facilities Adhere to IBC Building Codes?

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I'm looking for guidance and perhaps even documentation that supports Oil Well Facilities (low risk, low occupancy facilities) should be exempt from adhereing to IBC (Internation Building Code).

Equipment and piping supports are often on compacted soil and generally not on more robust foundations that would be able to resist wind and seismic loading per IBC.

If somebody has experience with this topic and even specifically to the Bakken area it would be much appreciated.

RE: Bakken Oil Well Facilities Adhere to IBC Building Codes?

Canadian side or American side? If you are working in Southern Saskatchewan I highly doubt the avg battery or well site on lease land fully meets codes. As for justification on how it is exempt from meeting code... you aren't going to find it, the leeway is given with the risk/ occupancy reduction factors.

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