Except as provided in § 9.171, you must plug your well when any of the following occurs:
(a) Your drilling operations have ended and you have taken no further action to produce the well within 60 days;
(b) Your well, which has been completed for production operations, has no measureable production quantities for 12 consecutive months; or
(c) The period approved in your operations permit to maintain your well in shut-in status has expired.