TAX ADMINISTRATION

(a) Purpose. The purpose of this section is to provide a procedure by which an operator may obtain commission certification that the operator markets gas that was previously released into the air for 12 months or more pursuant to § 3.32 of this title (relating to Gas Well Gas and…

(a) Definitions. The following words and terms when used in this section shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. (1) Affected person--The owner or occupant of real property located in the area of influence of the proposed route of a sour…

(a) Policy. Improved safety and environmental protection are the desired outcomes of any enforcement action. Encouraging operators to take appropriate voluntary corrective and future protective actions once a violation has occurred is an effective component of the enforcement pro…

(a) General. All wells shall be drilled as nearly vertical as possible by normal, prudent, practical drilling operations. Nothing in this section shall be construed to permit the drilling of any well in such a manner that the wellbore crosses lease and/or property lines (or unit …

(a) For each well drilled for oil, gas, brine, or geothermal resources for which a directional survey report is required by rule, regulation, or order, the surveying company shall prepare and file the following information. The information shall be certified by the person having …

(a) General. Operators shall comply with this section for any wells that will be spudded on or after January 1, 2014. (1) Intent. The operator is responsible for compliance with this section during all operations at the well. It is the intent of all provisions of this section tha…

(a) Definitions and application to plug. (1) The following words and terms, when used in this section, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (A) Approved cementer--A cementing company, service company, or operator approved by the Commi…

(a) Definitions. The following words and terms, when used in this section, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) Electric log--A density, sonic, or resistivity (except dip meter) log run over the entire wellbore. (2) Drilling opera…

(a) All wells shall be equipped with a Bradenhead. Whenever pressure develops between any two strings of casing, the district office shall be notified immediately. No cement may be pumped between any two strings or pipe at the top of the hole, except after permission has been gra…

When coming out of the hole with the drill pipe, drilling fluid shall be circulated until equalized, and a fill-up line shall be turned into the casing to insure a full load of fluid on the bottom of the hole at all times. Notes 16 Tex. Admin. Code § 3.18 The provisions of this §…

In cable tool drilling, no operator shall drill into a known oil, gas, or geothermal resource producing formation with water from a higher formation in the hole, or with a sufficient head of water introduced into the hole to prevent gas blowing to the surface. The well shall eith…

(a) The commission or its representatives shall have access to come upon any lease or property operated or controlled by an operator, producer, or transporter of oil, gas, or geothermal resources, and to inspect any and all leases, properties, and wells and all records of said le…

(a) General requirements. (1) Operators shall give immediate notice of a fire, leak, spill, or break to the appropriate commission district office by telephone or telegraph. Such notice shall be followed by a letter giving the full description of the event, and it shall include t…

(a) No hydrocarbon flow tank, unless entirely buried, shall hereafter be placed nearer than 150 feet from any derrick, rig, building, power plant, or boiler of any description. The director of the Oil and Gas Division or his delegate may administratively grant exceptions to this …

(a) If an operator who maintains a tank or pit does not take protective measures necessary to prevent harm to birds, the operator may incur liability under federal and state wildlife protection laws. Federal statutes, such as the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, provide substantial pen…

The installation of a vacuum pump or other device for the purpose of putting vacuum on any gas or oil-bearing formation, or the application of any vacuum to any gas or oil-bearing formation is prohibited, except as follows. (1) If casinghead gas is utilized in a casinghead-gas pl…

(a) Where two or more wells are being produced through a common line, a common separator, or a common manifold, the flow lines leading from each well to such common line, common separator, or common manifold shall be equipped with a check valve or other means of shut-off which sh…

(a) Where oil and/or other liquid hydrocarbons are produced from two or more separate reservoirs or zones and separate proration schedules are published by the Commission for each reservoir or zone, the use of common storage is authorized as long as the requirements of § 3.26 and…

(a) Where oil and gas are found in the same stratum and it is impossible to separate one from the other, or when a well has been classified as a gas well and such gas well is not connected to a cycling plant and such well is being produced on a lease and the gas is utilized under…

(a) All natural gas, except casinghead gas, produced from wells shall be measured, with each completion being measured separately, before the gas leaves the lease, and the producer shall report the volume produced from each completion to the Commission. For Commission purposes, t…

(a) The information necessary to determine the absolute daily open flow potential of each producing associated or nonassociated gas well shall be ascertained, and a report shall be filed as required with the Commission within 90 days of completion of the well. The test shall be p…

(a) Definitions. The following words and terms when used in this section shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. (1) Accredited laboratory--A laboratory as defined in Texas Water Code, § 5.801 . (2) Additive--Any chemical substance or co…

Each property that produces oil, gas, or geothermal resources and each oil, gas, or geothermal resource well and tank, or other approved crude oil measuring facility where tanks are not utilized thereon, shall at all times be clearly identified as follows. (1) A sign shall be pos…

(a) Need for agreement. Several statutes cover persons and activities where the respective jurisdictions of the RRC and the TCEQ may intersect. This rule is a statement of how the agencies implement the division of jurisdiction. (1) Section 10 of House Bill 1407, 67th Legislature…

(a) General. (1) Allowables of gas wells not currently assigned an allowable will not be made effective: (A) prior to the well's completion or reclassification date; or (B) more than 15 days prior to the date all reports or information necessary to the assignment of an allowable …

(a) The following words and terms, when used in this section, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. (1) Fugitive emissions--Releases of gas from lease production, gathering, compression, or gas plant equipment components, including emi…

(a) A production test form, with all information requested thereon filled in, shall be filed in the district office not later than 10 days after the test is completed. Production operations shall not be commenced before the test form is filed and the commission grants authority t…

(a) Definitions. The following words and terms, when used in this section and in § 3.31 of this title (relating to Gas Reservoirs and Gas Well Allowable) (Statewide Rule 31) shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. (1) Affiliate--A person…

(a) Abandonment of radioactive source. (1) Immediate notice of the loss of a radioactive source shall be filed by the operator with the commission designating the location, by county, survey name and abstract number, lease name and well number, distances from survey boundaries an…

(a) Applicability. Each operator who conducts operations as described in paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be subject to this section and shall provide safeguards to protect the general public from the harmful effects of hydrogen sulfide. This section applies to both intenti…

(a) Distance requirements. (1) No well for oil, gas, or geothermal resource shall hereafter be drilled nearer than 1,200 feet to any well completed in or drilling to the same horizon on the same tract or farm, and no well shall be drilled nearer than 467 feet to any property line…

(a) Definitions. The following words and terms, when used in this section, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. (1) Commission designee--Director of the Oil and Gas Division or any Commission employee designated in writing by the dire…

(a) Proration and drilling units established for individual wells drilled or to be drilled shall consist of acreage which is contiguous. (b) An exception to the contiguous acreage provision may be granted at the operator's request if acreage that is to be included in the proratio…

(a) Lease name and number. (1) All operators with oil and geothermal producing properties must ascertain from the appropriate proration schedule the lease number assigned to each separate lease, and thereafter include on each commission-required form or report the exact lease nam…

(a) An operator may pool acreage, in accordance with appropriate contractual authority and applicable field rules, for the purpose of creating a drilling unit or proration unit by filing an original certified plat delineating the pooled unit and a Certificate of Pooling Authority…

(a) The commission shall assign a new field designation and/or discovery allowable after an operator furnishes to the commission's Austin office proper evidence, other than horizontal distance, proving that a well is a new discovery. An operator shall include the following in the…

(a) The commission shall determine the discovery allowable rate for oil wells proven to be completed in a new and separate reservoir from the following discovery allowable schedule. Attached Graphic (b) Duration and exemption from market demand limitation. (1) Onshore. Each oil w…

(a) The commission will accept applications for temporary field rule hearings for oil, gas, or geothermal resource fields after the first well has been completed. (b) When requesting such hearings, the applicant must furnish the commission a list of the names and addresses of all…

(a) Oil allowable yardsticks. (1) 1947 allowable yardstick. The following schedule allowable shall be assigned all wells according to depth of the reservoir and proration unit size authorized by the commission upon expiration of the discovery allowable, if discovery of the field …

(a) Permit required. Any person who engages in fluid injection operations in reservoirs productive of oil, gas, or geothermal resources must obtain a permit from the commission. Permits may be issued when the injection will not endanger oil, gas, or geothermal resources or cause …

An allowable transfer will not be authorized for a well converted from oil production to saltwater disposal; however, an operator may make application to use the well for dual-purpose waterflood and saltwater disposal if injection is into an oil productive zone, and it is shown t…

(a) Definitions. The following words and terms, when used in this section, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. (1) Capacity oil allowable--The allowable assigned from time to time by the director of the Oil and Gas Division or the di…

(a) Any oil well producing with a gas-oil ratio in excess of 2,000 cubic feet of gas per barrel of oil produced shall be allowed to produce daily only that volume of gas obtained by multiplying its maximum daily oil allowable, as determined by the allocation formula applicable to…

(a) Requirements for spacing, density, and units. An application for a permit to drill, deepen, plug back, or reenter any oil well, gas well, brine production well, or geothermal resource well shall be made under the provisions of §§3.37, 3.38, 3.39, 3.40, and/or 3.82 of this tit…

(a) Purpose. The purpose of this section is to provide a procedure by which an operator can obtain Railroad Commission approval and certification of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects pursuant to Texas Tax Code, § 202.052 , § 202.054, and § 202.0545. (b) Applicability. (1) This…

(a) A completed potential test form shall be filed with the Commission not later than the deadline for filing completion reports under § 3.16 of this title (relating to Log and Completion or Plugging Report). If the operator fails to file a potential test in an acceptable form pr…

(a) The daily allowable production of any lease or property shall not include production based upon the daily potential production of the field or area in which such well is located unless such well is actually on production, and such lease or property shall share in the total al…

(a) Oil wells. (1) Unless otherwise provided for in this section, each operator of producing oil wells shall annually test each producing oil well for a 24-hour period during the test period specified on the well status report form and shall record all oil, gas and water volumes …

(a) Gas processing plant report. As soon after the first day of each calendar month as practicable, and never later than the 25th day of each calendar month, the operator of each plant manufacturing or extracting liquid hydrocarbons, including gasoline, butane, propane, condensat…

Applicants must include a detailed description of all proposed equipment purchases in their grant applications for approval. Grantees must request any additional equipment purchases through grant adjustments. Notes 1 Tex. Admin. Code § 3.81 The provisions of this §3.81 adopted to…