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Texas Administrative Code (Last Updated: March 27,2024) |
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TITLE 16. ECONOMIC REGULATION |
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PART 1. RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS |
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CHAPTER 3. OIL AND GAS DIVISION |
| § 3.1. Organization Report; Retention of Records; Notice Requirements |
| § 3.2. Commission Access to Properties |
| § 3.3. Identification of Properties, Wells, and Tanks |
| § 3.4. Oil and Geothermal Lease Numbers and Gas Well ID Numbers Required on All Forms |
| § 3.5. Application To Drill, Deepen, Reenter, or Plug Back |
| § 3.6. Application for Multiple Completion |
| § 3.7. Strata To Be Sealed Off |
| § 3.8. Water Protection |
| § 3.9. Disposal Wells |
| § 3.10. Restriction of Production of Oil and Gas from Different Strata |
| § 3.11. Inclination and Directional Surveys Required |
| § 3.12. Directional Survey Company Report |
| § 3.13. Casing, Cementing, Drilling, Well Control, and Completion Requirements |
| § 3.14. Plugging |
| § 3.15. Surface Equipment Removal Requirements and Inactive Wells |
| § 3.16. Log and Completion or Plugging Report |
| § 3.17. Pressure on Bradenhead |
| § 3.18. Mud Circulation Required |
| § 3.19. Density of Mud-Fluid |
| § 3.20. Notification of Fire Breaks, Leaks, or Blow-outs |
| § 3.21. Fire Prevention and Swabbing |
| § 3.22. Protection of Birds |
| § 3.23. Vacuum Pumps |
| § 3.24. Check Valves Required |
| § 3.25. Use of Common Storage |
| § 3.26. Separating Devices, Tanks, and Surface Commingling of Oil |
| § 3.27. Gas to be Measured and Surface Commingling of Gas |
| § 3.28. Potential and Deliverability of Gas Wells to be Ascertained and Reported |
| § 3.29. Hydraulic Fracturing Chemical Disclosure Requirements |
| § 3.30. Memorandum of Understanding between the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) |
| § 3.31. Gas Reservoirs and Gas Well Allowable |
| § 3.32. Gas Well Gas and Casinghead Gas Shall Be Utilized for Legal Purposes |
| § 3.33. Geothermal Resource Production Test Forms Required |
| § 3.34. Gas To Be Produced and Purchased Ratably |
| § 3.35. Procedures for Identification and Control of Wellbores in Which Certain Logging Tools Have Been Abandoned |
| § 3.36. Oil, Gas, or Geothermal Resource Operation in Hydrogen Sulfide Areas |
| § 3.37. Statewide Spacing Rule |
| § 3.38. Well Densities |
| § 3.39. Proration and Drilling Units: Contiguity of Acreage and Exception Thereto |
| § 3.40. Assignment of Acreage to Pooled Development and Proration Units |
| § 3.41. Application for New Oil or Gas Field Designation and/or Allowable |
| § 3.42. Oil Discovery Allowable |
| § 3.43. Application for Temporary Field Rules |
| § 3.45. Oil Allowables |
| § 3.46. Fluid Injection into Productive Reservoirs |
| § 3.47. Allowable Transfers for Saltwater Injection Wells |
| § 3.48. Capacity Oil Allowables for Secondary or Tertiary Recovery Projects |
| § 3.49. Gas-Oil Ratio |
| § 3.50. Enhanced Oil Recovery Projects--Approval and Certification for Tax Incentive |
| § 3.51. Oil Potential Test Forms Required |
| § 3.52. Oil Well Allowable Production |
| § 3.53. Annual Well Tests and Well Status Reports Required |
| § 3.54. Gas Reports Required |
| § 3.55. Reports on Gas Wells Commingling Liquid Hydrocarbons before Metering |
| § 3.56. Scrubber Oil and Skim Hydrocarbons |
| § 3.57. Reclaiming Tank Bottoms, Other Hydrocarbon Wastes, and Other Waste Materials |
| § 3.58. Certificate of Compliance and Transportation Authority; Operator Reports |
| § 3.59. Oil and Gas Transporter's Reports |
| § 3.60. Refinery Reports |
| § 3.61. Refinery and Gasoline Plants |
| § 3.62. Cycling Plant Control and Reports |
| § 3.63. Carbon Black Plant Permits Required |
| § 3.65. Critical Designation of Natural Gas Infrastructure |
| § 3.66. Weather Emergency Preparedness Standards |
| § 3.70. Pipeline Permits Required |
| § 3.71. Pipeline Tariffs |
| § 3.72. Obtaining Pipeline Connections |
| § 3.73. Pipeline Connection; Cancellation of Certificate of Compliance; Severance |
| § 3.76. Commission Approval of Plats for Mineral Development |
| § 3.78. Fees and Financial Security Requirements |
| § 3.79. Definitions |
| § 3.80. Commission Oil and Gas Forms, Applications, and Filing Requirements |
| § 3.81. Brine Mining Injection Wells |
| § 3.83. Tax Exemption for Two-Year Inactive Wells and Three-Year Inactive Wells |
| § 3.84. Gas Shortage Emergency Response |
| § 3.85. Manifest To Accompany Each Transport of Liquid Hydrocarbons by Vehicle |
| § 3.86. Horizontal Drainhole Wells |
| § 3.91. Cleanup of Soil Contaminated by a Crude Oil Spill |
| § 3.93. Water Quality Certification Definitions |
| § 3.95. Underground Storage of Liquid or Liquefied Hydrocarbons in Salt Formations |
| § 3.96. Underground Storage of Gas in Productive or Depleted Reservoirs |
| § 3.97. Underground Storage of Gas in Salt Formations |
| § 3.98. Standards for Management of Hazardous Oil and Gas Waste |
| § 3.99. Cathodic Protection Wells |
| § 3.100. Seismic Holes and Core Holes |
| § 3.101. Certification for Severance Tax Exemption or Reduction for Gas Produced From High-Cost Gas Wells |
| § 3.102. Tax Reduction for Incremental Production |
| § 3.103. Certification for Severance Tax Exemption for Casinghead Gas Previously Vented or Flared |
| § 3.106. Sour Gas Pipeline Facility Construction Permit |
| § 3.107. Penalty Guidelines for Oil and Gas Violations |