Utah
Oil and gas incidents
The Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining (DOGM) must receive reports of major and minor reportable events at injection or disposal facilities and at facilities used for gathering, processing, transporting, producing or drilling for oil and gas. Its incident reporting rule is R649-3-32. DOGM says it does not provide emergency response. As far as it can, its oil and gas program instead oversees remediation over the longer term, gives operators and the public short-term guidance, and gathers the information on these events.
In a Phase I ESA
ASTM E1527-21 does not name state spill lists among its standard record sources. The federal counterpart of a state spill list is the emergency response record described on the ERNS page. A DOGM incident report can be the state record of a release at an oil or gas well, a gathering or processing facility, or a disposal facility. Four details shape the search.
- Call DEQ, then file with DOGM. DOGM's incidents page tells a caller to start with the Department of Environmental Quality's 24-hour line, 801-536-4123, the line described on the Environmental incidents and the Spills Database page, and then to send DOGM a written report within five days of the event on its Incident Report eForm. The pages read do not say whether an oil and gas incident called in to that line reaches the Spills Database, so check both agencies.
- Ask for the report and its amendments. DOGM lets operators amend a report already in its system, and asks them to correct the original instead of filing a new report on the same event. Ask for the first report and every amendment.
- What makes an event major. By DOGM's definitions, an event is major if it is a blowout or a loss of control of a well; an accident that kills someone; an uncontrolled release of natural gas carrying 100 parts per million or more of hydrogen sulfide; a spill, venting or fire of any size in a sensitive place such as a stream, lake or reservoir, a park, recreation site or wildlife refuge, or an urban or suburban area; an unauthorized release exceeding 25 barrels involving oilfield chemicals, oilfield wastes, salt water or oil; natural gas flared, vented or wasted without authorization beyond 500 Mcf at a well site that is drilling or producing or at an injection or disposal facility, or beyond 1,500 Mcf at a transportation, gathering or processing facility; or a fire consuming material above the volumes listed. The page read does not define a minor event.
- Spills bring inspectors. DOGM names spill and incident inspections among the ten kinds of inspection it makes most often, and says its inspectors check surface spills to protect groundwater and keep contamination off the surface. Ask for the inspection reports along with the incident report.
Where to look a site up
- The DOGM pages read link no public search of incident reports. DOGM's Incidents page links the Incident Report eForm that operators file on.
- A well's own record is found as the Oil and gas well records page describes, through DOGM's Data Explorer.
- DOGM's main number is 801-538-5340, and its office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Getting the file
The DOGM pages read give no records request route of their own. DOGM's privacy notice says that under Utah law some of what is filed with it counts as a public record, which it may have to release when someone asks for it under the Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMA). Ask the main office how DOGM takes such a request.
Sources
Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining pages, read October 17, 2026, no modified date shown: