Integrated Resource Information System (IRIS)

• January 25, 2021: IRIS will be unavailable Wednesday, February 3, 2021, between 7AM and 9AM CST for system improvements and maintenance.
• December 16, 2020: IRIS Release 7.4.1 was successfully implemented December 16, 2020. To see what was implemented see IRIS 7.4.1 Release Notes - Obligation Management and Inactive Liability.
• December 2, 2020: IRIS Release 7.4 was successfully implemented December 2, 2020. To see what was implemented see IRIS 7.4 Release Notes.
• October 27, 2020: Please be advised that the Preliminary Lease Continuance Reports that were run October 27, 2020 are not correct. If you have already viewed, printed or downloaded your reports, please disregard. Another Preliminary Lease Continuance has been scheduled and will be available in IRIS on October 28, 2020.
• September 14, 2020: Reporting Relief Measures Rescinded, Two Month Grace Period in Effect - The suspension of penalties associated with reporting non-compliance ceased as of September 1, 2020. Industry has been granted an additional two-month grace period from penalties to become compliant with outstanding reporting obligations. Please refer to the Industry Tip for further information.
• July 30, 2020: The Ministry of Energy and Resources has extended the payment due date for all oil and gas disposition invoices issued on May 20th and June 1st, 2020 to August 14th, 2020. The Pre-Authorized Debit (PAD) will also be withdrawn on August 14th. If you are not set up for PAD and would like your payments withdrawn through PAD, please contact our Service Desk at 1-855-219-9373.
• July 27, 2020: The Government of Saskatchewan is providing additional time for lease holders to submit surrenders on Crown Petroleum and Natural Gas Leases to avoid being charged rentals for lands that the lease holder would otherwise have expected to expire on March 31, 2020, but instead were continued on April 1, 2020. To avoid being assessed rentals on these leases, lease holders must submit surrender applications through the Integrated Resource Information System on or before July 31, 2020. Please contact the Service Desk at 1-855-219-9373 if you have any questions.
• June 26, 2020: It has been discovered that Pipelines Module Spec Change coordinates entered during Replacement application in IRIS are stored incorrectly under Spec Changes tab main screen. Please refer Spec Changes details screen for correct Spec Change coordinates.
• May 20, 2020: Oil and Gas disposition rental invoices generated on May 20, 2020, indicate a payment due date of June 9, 2020; however, please note that the payment due date has been extended to July 31, 2020. The pre-authorized debit withdrawal will occur on August 4, 2020.
• April 28, 2020: Further to the Alert published Monday, Apr 20, 2020 at 8:00 a.m. the following activities are scheduled:
  • Preliminary Notice of Lease Continuance will be available in IRIS on May 11, 2020
  • Surrenders for previously expiring land will be accepted until May 15, 2020
  • Lease Continuance Final will execute and reports will be available on May 20, 2020
  • Lease Rental Billing will execute and rental invoices will be available on May 20, 2020 after the Lease Continuance Final has been completed
  • PAD withdrawal for rental invoices issued will occur on June 9, 2020
  • Lease Rental Invoices issued May 20, 2020, will include all dispositions where their new term falls between April 1, 2020, and May 31, 2020.
  • Extensions to permits, exploration licences and lease of spaces are to be requested through an Extension to Disposition Term in IRIS.
• April 20, 2020: An amendment to the Lease Continuance Final in support of the April 14, 2020, announcement by the Government of Saskatchewan that provided for an extension of one-year to the term of active oil and gas dispositions has been implemented. This change will result in land and rights that would have expired April 1, 2020, to now continue. The lease continuance final review will be run prior to the rental invoicing, scheduled for mid-May, to allow lessees time to surrender any leases they are no longer interested in retaining.
• April 12, 2020: The annual lease continuance review and rental invoicing have been moved from March 31, 2020, to April 20, 2020. Note that March 31, 2020, remains the effective date of the lease continuance review.
• March 30, 2020: The annual lease continuance review and rental invoicing have been moved from March 31, 2020, to April 3, 2020. Note that March 31, 2020, remains the effective date of the lease continuance review.
• June 4, 2019: Further to communication emailed to all Industry Security Administrators from IRIS Security ER on Wed, May 29, 2019, please be advised that Permission Set I.Mna.Reports.All is unavailable to Industry users. Instead, a new Permission MonitorAnalytics.Reports.EORProjectReturnsWellEventsReport has been added to Permission Set I.BLNG.Reports.SelfServeforEORRoyaltyTax. Users who have this Permission Set will automatically receive access to the new function.
• February 8, 2019: It has recently been determined that there are several issues with the calculations of Permit Expenditures Obligations in our Integrated Resource Information System and that the amounts specified under the Obligations Tab on permits may not be accurate in all cases; therefore the Ministry of Energy and Resources has made the decision to suspend Industry access to the Obligations Tab until the functionality of obligations on permits can be fully explored. Once we have fixed the issues access to the Obligations Tab will be restored. If you require confirmation of expenditure obligations please send a request through our ER Service Desk at ER.Servicedesk@gov.sk.ca and we will work towards providing this to you.

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
  • 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)
    • Maximum Permissible Rate (MPR) Application - Horizontal Well
    • Maximum Permissible Rate (MPR) Application - Non-Horizontal Well
    • 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 have:

1. An active Business Associate Identification Code (BA ID)
2. An appointed IRIS Security Administrator (SA)
3. 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:
   • Directive PNG001: Facility Licence Requirements
   • Directive PNG002: Coal Mine Area Instruction
   • Directive PNG003: Well Survey Requirements
   • Directive PNG004: Surface Lease Construction Requirements
   • Directive PNG005: Casing and Cementing Requirements
   • Directive PNG006: Horizontal Oil Well Requirements
   • Directive PNG007: Off-Target Well Requirements
   • Directive PNG008: Disposal and Injection Well Requirements
   • Directive PNG009: Public Notice Requirements
   • Directive PNG010: Well Logging Requirements
   • Directive PNG011: Allowable Rate of Production: Gas Wells
   • Directive PNG012: Allowable Rate of Production: Oil Wells
   • Directive PNG013: Well Data Submission Requirements
   • Directive PNG014: Incident Reporting Requirements
   • Directive PNG015: Well Abandonment Requirements
   • Directive PNG016: Acknowledgement of Reclamation Requirements
   • Directive PNG017: Measurement Requirements for Oil and Gas Operations
   • Directive PNG018: Detailed Site Assessment Requirements
   • Directive PNG025 Licensee Liability Rating (LLR) Program
   • Directive PNG030: Fees for Oil and Gas Data and Related Services
   • Directive PNG031: Site Specific Liability Assessment
   • Directive PNG032: Volumetric, Valuation and Infrastructure Reporting in Petrinex
   • Directive PNG033: Phase II Environmental Site Assessment
   • Directive PNG034: Saskatchewan Pipelines Code
   • Directive PNG036: Venting and Flaring Requirements
   • Directive PNG075: Enhanced Valuation Audit Program (EVAP)
   • Directive PNG076: Enhanced Production Audit Program (EPAP)
   • Directive S-01: Saskatchewan Upstream Petroleum Industry Storage Standards
   • Directive S-20: Saskatchewan Upstream Flaring and Incineration Requirements
   • Guidelines:
     • Exploration Licence Guidelines
     • Lease Continuance Review Guidelines
     • Guideline MIN001: Builder's Liens and Provincial Crown Minerals
     • Guideline: Amendment to Statutory Unit Application Process
     • Guideline: Gas Well Absolute Open Flow (AOF) Tests
     • Guideline GL 97-01: Guidelines for the Construction and Monitoring of Oily Byproduct Storage Structures in Saskatchewan
     • Guideline GL 99-01: Saskatchewan Drilling Waste Management Guidelines
     • Guideline GL 2000-01: Saskatchewan Hydraulic Fracturing Fluids and Propping Agents Containment and Disposal Guidelines
     • Guideline: Proposed Units in Saskatchewan
     • Guideline S-18: Reduce Benzene Emissions from Glycol Dehydrators
     • Guideline PNG001: Facility Licensing Process
     • Guideline PNG015: Applications for Commingled Abandonments
     • Guideline PNG021: Determining Drainage Units and Target Areas
     • Guideline PNG022: Lahee Classification
     • Guideline PNG023: Submission of Drill Cuttings: Oil, Gas and Potash Wells
     • Guideline PNG024: Reclassification and Recompletion
     • Guideline PNG026: Gas Migration
     • Guideline PNG029: Annulus Test Reporting Requirements
     • Guideline PNG034: Submission of Gas Oil Ratio Factor
     • Guideline PNG035: Estimating Venting and Fugitive Emissions
     • Guideline PNG037: Emissions Reduction Plans
     • Guideline PNG038: Commingling of Production - Oil or Gas Well
     • Guideline PNG039: Minimum Standards for Flare Tanks during Drilling and Servicing Operations
     • Guideline PNG040: Application for Removing Equipment Essential to the Proper Control of a Well
     • Guideline PNG042: Measurement, Accounting and Reporting Plan (MARP) Requirements for Thermal Heavy Oil Recovery Projects
5. Complete the relevant application for authorization forms required for the activity you're 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 Billing and IRIS Technical Support 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 the Application for IRIS Security Administrator Account form.
3. Email completed SA application form to ER.Servicedesk@gov.sk.ca
4. If the application is approved, 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

Contact Us

The Ministry of Energy and Resources Service Desk is available Monday-Friday, 8 AM-5 PM 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.

• December 16, 2020: Project and Reporting Facility Obligations - FAQ

Archive

• 2020 Industry Tips
• 2019 Industry Tips
• 2018 Industry Tips
• 2017 Industry Tips
• 2016 Industry Tips

IRIS Release Notes

See what was included in each release of IRIS.

• December 16, 2020: Obligation Management and Inactive Liability - IRIS Version 7.4.1
• December 2, 2020: IRIS Version 7.4

Archive

• 2020 Release Notes
• 2019 Release Notes
• 2018 Release Notes
• 2017 Release Notes
• 2016 Release Notes

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