SECTION 3.54. Gas Reports Required

(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, condensate, kerosene, or other derivatives from natural gas, or refinery or storage vapors, shall file, in duplicate, in the Austin office, a report concerning the operation of the plant during the immediately preceding month, which must contain the data and information required on the form.

(b) Pressure maintenance and repressuring plant report.

(1) As soon after the first day of each month as practicable, but never later than the 15th day of each calendar month, the operator of each plant that returns natural gas to oil or gas producing reservoirs, or both, for the purpose of maintaining pressure or repressuring an oil or gas reservoir, but is not reporting such gas on any other commission approved form, shall file in duplicate in the district office a report concerning the operation of the plant during the immediately preceding month, which must contain the data and information required on the form.

(2) Pressure maintenance.

(A) The operator of each pressure-maintenance or repressuring plant shall file the report although no liquid hydrocarbons are recovered.

(B) The term "pressure-maintenance plant" or "repressuring plant" as used herein means any equipment or device, mechanical or otherwise, used for the purpose of returning any natural gas, residue gas from a gas processing plant, including plant and storage vapors, to an underground oil reservoir if the plant is operated as a separate unit. If pressure maintenance or repressuring operations are conducted as an integral part of a gas processing plant extracting, manufacturing, or recovering liquid hydrocarbons from natural gas or vapors, or both, the operations shall be reported by the operator of the processing plant.

(c) Producer's report of condensate and/or crude oil produced from gas wells. As soon as practicable after the first day, and never later than the last day of the calendar month, subsequent to the period of the report, the operator of each gas well from which liquids are recovered on the lease shall file the required form.

(d) Carbon black plant report. As soon as practicable after the first day and never later than the 15th day of each calendar month, each operator of a carbon black plant shall file a report. The report shall cover the operation of the plant for the immediately preceding month and shall be filed in duplicate in the district office.

(e) Monthly gas production report. As soon after the first day of each month as practicable, and never later than the last day of the calendar month, subsequent to the period of the report, every operator producing natural gas from wells classified as either gas wells or oil wells by the commission, except those expressly exempted by the commission shall file a report on the required form.

Source Note: The provisions of this §3.54 adopted to be effective January 1, 1976; amended to be effective February 23, 1979, 4 TexReg 436; amended to be effective May 7, 1991, 16 TexReg 2297.