Integrated Resource Information System (IRIS)

• July 11, 2025: Please note that planned server maintenance may cause the following websites to be unavailable on June 17, 2025, between 6 p.m. and 11 p.m.: Daily Drilling Activity Report Archive, Daily Licensed Well Bulletin Archive and Mineral Deposit Query. If you continue to experience any difficulties, please reach out to the ER Service Desk at 1-855-219-9373 for assistance.
• June 10, 2025: The 2025 Orphan Fund Levy has been set for $10,500,000 and invoices will be issued/available through IRIS on June 10, 2025. The orphan levy evaluation will be based on industry's deemed liability under the LLR Program on June 5, 2025. Please refer to the Orphan Fund Levy webpage for further information.
• June 4, 2025: IRIS Release 9.20 was successfully implemented today, June 4, 2025. To see what was implemented see IRIS 9.20 Release Notes.
• May 21, 2025: This tip provides guidance to applicants conducting Public Notice in circumstances where a Postal Strike may hinder Canada Post’s mailing services. Please refer to the Industry Tip for further information.
• May 8, 2025: This tip notifies industry that we are conducting an online IRIS user experience survey between May 12 to May 27, 2025. Please refer to the Industry Tip for further information.
• April 28, 2025: This tip identifies the reporting requirements that differ from the current processes and the expectation on how they will be handled. Please refer to the Industry Tip for further information.
• March 26, 2025: IRIS Release 9.19 was successfully implemented today, March 26, 2025. To see what was implemented see IRIS 9.19 Release Notes.
• March 3, 2025: IRIS Production environment is now available. If you continue to experience any difficulties, please reach out to the ER Service Desk at 1-855-219-9373 for assistance.
• February 12, 2025: Please note that as part of IRIS release 9.18, an issue is identified with the validate button on the design details page of the facility licence application. As a temporary work around, we recommend restarting the application, completing each section, and selecting next on the design detail page without using the validate button. This should allow an applicant to proceed to the disclosure questions page and submit the application without encountering the unhandled error. For any further assistance, questions, or concerns please contact the ER Service Desk at 1-855-219-9373.
• February 4, 2025: This tip is to aid industry in navigating through the changes, and provide details on the implications to facility licence applications. Please refer to the Industry Tip for further information.
• December 3, 2024: This Tip is to aid Industry when submitting an Enhanced Recovery Application that includes a reclassification or recompletion. Please refer to the Industry Tip for further information.
• October 2, 2024: Multiple notification related updates are now available in IRIS: notification tracking fix, creation of notification type Obligation Due Date Reminder, and amendment to Notification Preferences functionality. Please refer to the Industry Tip for further information.
• October 2, 2024: Beginning in October 2024, there will be changes to the look and function of obligations that relate to cut and cap operations reported in IRIS (i.e. Report Cut and Cap obligation (due 12 months after downhole abandonment), as well as the Submit Cut and Cap Report obligation (due 7 days after the cut and cap operation)). Please refer to the Industry Tip for further information.

IRIS is unavailable the first Wednesday of each month between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. CST for maintenance. Should that Wednesday fall on the first day of the month, the maintenance window moves to the first Thursday.

You can complete the following activities on IRIS

Petroleum Tenure Module

• Apply for Crown sale parcel posting
• Participate in Crown sale bidding
• Apply for non-advertised dispositions
• Register instruments against a disposition, including builder's liens
• Search for dispositions and instruments
• Apply to transfer disposition ownership
• Apply to change a designated representative
• Apply to surrender dispositions
• Obtain invoices for tenure related activities
• Obtain prior and final lease continuance reports

Emissions Management Module

• Apply for Emissions Adjustment
• Apply for Qualifying Conservation Project
• Submit Emissions Reduction Plan

Well and Facility Infrastructure Module

• Apply for a well licence
  • Include applications for land reviews required by the Government of Saskatchewan's ministries of Environment and Agriculture
• Apply for a licence to construct and operate an oil and gas facility
• Apply to transfer well and facility licences
• Apply for authorizations related to:
  • Reservoir:
    • Acid Gas Disposal
    • Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)
    • Waterflood
    • Spacing modification
    • Commingling
      • Production
      • Disposal
    • Additional wellbore
    • Reclassify and Recomplete
    • Well Test
    • Other Subsurface Operations (example: Lithium)
  • Storage
    • Storage Project (Hydrocarbon Storage or Waste Cavern Disposal)
    • Geothermal Project
    • CO2 Project (Non-EOR)
  • Waiver:
    • Well logging requirements
    • Gas well test
    • 30-day Absolute Open Flow (AOF) test
    • Directional survey
  • Production and measurement:
    • Measurement exemption
    • Allowable Rate of Production - Oil
    • Allowable Rate of Production - Gas
    • Good Production Practice (GPP)
    • Overproduction Mitigation Plan
    • Concurrent production
    • Venting and Flaring Application
    • Special production flare test application
  • Repair, abandonment and liability:
    • Acknowledgement of Reclamation (AOR) program
    • Well repair
    • Well abandonment
  • Units and forced pooling: new unit and unit amendment
  • Royalty:
    • High Water-Cut Program
    • Net royalty lease conversion
• Submit well drilling, completion and workover information
• Submit abandonment information
• Submit reports, tests and other documents related to applications, wells and facilities
• Search and manage well and facility infrastructure information
• Search and manage well obligations
• Report incidents
• Receive inspection results and manage inspection resolutions

Other IRIS functionality

• Apply for a full or partial waiver of Petrinex non-compliance penalties
• Search, view and download oil and gas royalty/tax summaries and details
• Subscribe to and manage IRIS Notifications

To use IRIS effectively, it's important that you understand the following concepts:

Industry Self-Declaration: The Business Associate (BA) self-declares they have met the specific regulations or provided mitigation in accordance with policy before submitting applications, data, reports (etc.) in IRIS. It's important that the BA know and understand what is required under the regulations, and that submissions will be reviewed for regulatory compliance. False declarations may have serious consequences; the Government of Saskatchewan has the ability to cancel or suspend an issued licence, withhold future approvals or force abandonment of a well.

• Business Associate (BA): Any entity that conducts business activities with the Ministry of Energy and Resources is referred to as a BA.
• Business Associate Identification Code (BA ID): Every BA must have an active BA ID, which is a five-character numeric identification code. BAs apply to the Government of Saskatchewan for a BA ID through Petrinex.
• Petrinex: Petrinex is the system the oil and gas industry uses to submit volumetric, valuation, royalty taxpayer and certain infrastructure information to the Government of Saskatchewan. The Government also uses Petrinex to administer it's BA ID codes. For more information about Petrinex, go to: www.petrinex.ca
• IRIS Security Administrator (SA): The SA is responsible for managing all of the IRIS user accounts on behalf of the BA, including assigning permissions and ensuring proper security and risk management procedures are in place to maintain the confidentiality and integrity of the BA's data in IRIS.
• Permission Sets: Permission sets (or a group of tasks) govern what activities an IRIS user can perform in the system on behalf of the BA. To perform any activity in IRIS, the user must have the appropriate permission sets assigned to them by the BA's Security Administrator (SA). A user may have many permission sets depending on the tasks he/she is required to perform in IRIS for the BA.
• IRIS User Accounts: BAs have individual IRIS users within their organization, and each of those users requires an IRIS account. IRIS user accounts are set up by the BA's Security Administrator (SA). What each user can perform and see in IRIS is assigned by the SA through permission sets.
• The Ministry of Energy and Resources (the Ministry): The ministry is the Government of Saskatchewan organization responsible for development and regulation of the energy and resources industry, and is also responsible for the processes performed in IRIS.

To complete tasks on IRIS, you must:

1. Have an active Business Associate Identification Code (BA ID)
2. Have an appointed IRIS Security Administrator (SA)
3. Have an active IRIS user account assigned by your BA's SA
4. Read and understand the rules, regulations and directives that govern the business processes completed through IRIS:
   • Directives
   • Guidelines
5. Complete the relevant application for authorization forms required for the activity you are completing in IRIS (see this IRIS Industry Tip for attachment types and file sizes accepted by IRIS)
6. Ensure your screen resolution is set to 1280 X 1024, and have one of the following web browser versions on your computer:

Individual IRIS user accounts are set up by your BA's Security Administrator (SA). If you require access to IRIS, contact your BA's SA. Don't know who your SA is? Contact the Energy and Resources Service Desk at 1-855-219-9373 or ER.Servicedesk@gov.sk.ca.

Apply for a BA ID (if you don't have one):

1. Complete and submit the Requesting a Business Associate Identifier (BA ID) for Saskatchewan application form on Petrinex.

• If your organization doesn't report production data (volumetrics, valuation, etc.) to the Government of Saskatchewan you do not need to apply for access to Petrinex.
  • Click "no" to this question in the BA ID application form: "Once you have been assigned a BA Identifier will you need access to Petrinex?"

Apply for an IRIS Security Administrator account:

1. Read the Integrated Resource Information System Security Administrator Role and Responsibilities Information Circular.
2. Download and complete EITHER (a. or b.) below:
   • Application for IRIS Security Administrator Account form.
   • Mineral Rights Tax (MRT) Users may delegate Ministry of Energy and Resources as their security Administrator. To request delegation, select Mineral Rights Tax (MRT) Delegation of Security Administration (SA) Account form.
3. Email completed SA application form to ER.Servicedesk@gov.sk.ca.
4. Upon approval of the application, the Ministry creates your BA SA account and contacts your designated SA by phone to provide the IRIS account name and password information.
5. The BA's SA logs into IRIS using the account name and password. Once successfully logged in, the SA can begin setting up individual accounts and assigning permission sets for their BA's IRIS users.
6. Regular review of the BA Security Administrators Responsibilities.

Before you log in to IRIS be sure to check the Alerts and Notifications section for system maintenance and availability information.

Log in to IRIS

The IRIS Learning Centre provides online training courses to support industries in their regulatory reporting requirements and activities through the Integrated Resources Information Systems (IRIS).

Go to IRIS Learning Centre

Contact Us

The Ministry of Energy and Resources Service Desk is available Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. CST, excluding holidays.

For any assistance, please contact:

ER Service Desk
1-855-219-9373 (toll free)
ER.Servicedesk@gov.sk.ca

Emergency Support Reporting (24 hours a day, seven days a week)
1-844-764-3637

IRIS Industry Tips

Find information to help you use IRIS more efficiently.

View the Archive of Industry Tips from Previous Years

IRIS Release Notes

See what was included in each release of IRIS.

• June 4, 2025: IRIS Version 9.20
• March 26, 2025: IRIS Version 9.19

View the Archive of Release Notes from Previous Years

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