---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 C.F.R. § 250.812"
title: "30"
number: "250.812"
heading: "Surface-controlled SSSVs—dry trees."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/30/250.812"
---

# §250.812. Surface-controlled SSSVs—dry trees.


You must equip all tubing installations open to a hydrocarbon-bearing zone that is capable of natural flow with a surface-controlled SSSV, except as specified in §§ [250.813](/cfr/30/250.813.md), [250.815](/cfr/30/250.815.md), and [250.816](/cfr/30/250.816.md).

- (a) The surface controls must be located on the site or at a BSEE-approved remote location. You may request District Manager approval to situate the surface controls at a remote location.
- (b) You must equip dry tree wells not previously equipped with a surface-controlled SSSV, and dry tree wells in which a surface-controlled SSSV has been replaced with a subsurface-controlled SSSV, with a surface-controlled SSSV when the tubing is first removed and reinstalled.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 81 FR 61918, Sept. 7, 2016, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 30 U.S.C. 1751, 31 U.S.C. 9701, 33 U.S.C. 1321(j)(1)(C), 43 U.S.C. 1334.

### Source

Source: 76 FR 64462, Oct. 18, 2011, unless otherwise noted.