- IRIS will be unavailable Wednesday, February 3, 2021, between 7AM and 9AM CST for system improvements and maintenance.
- 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.
- IRIS Release 7.4 was successfully implemented December 2, 2020. To see what was implemented see IRIS 7.4 Release Notes.
- 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.
- Reporting Relief Measures Rescinded, Two Month Grace Period in Effect - The suspension of penalties associated with reporting non-compliance ceased as of September 1, 2020.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.
- 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 The Pre-Authorized Debit (PAD) will also be withdrawn on August 14th. If you are not set up for PAD and would like your payments withdrawn through PAD, please contact our Service Desk at 1-855-219-9373.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.