Texas Administrative Code
Title 16 - ECONOMIC REGULATION
Part 1 - RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS
Chapter 3 - OIL AND GAS DIVISION
- Section 3.1 - Organization Report; Retention of Records; Notice Requirements
- Section 3.2 - Commission Access to Properties
- Section 3.3 - Identification of Properties, Wells, and Tanks
- Section 3.4 - Oil and Geothermal Lease Numbers and Gas Well ID Numbers Required on All Forms
- Section 3.5 - Application To Drill, Deepen, Reenter, or Plug Back
- Section 3.6 - Application for Multiple Completion
- Section 3.7 - Strata To Be Sealed Off
- Section 3.8 - Water Protection
- Section 3.8 - Water Protection
- Section 3.9 - Disposal Wells
- Section 3.10 - Restriction of Production of Oil and Gas from Different Strata
- Section 3.11 - Inclination and Directional Surveys Required
- Section 3.12 - Directional Survey Company Report
- Section 3.13 - Casing, Cementing, Drilling, Well Control, and Completion Requirements
- Section 3.14 - Plugging
- Section 3.14 - Plugging
- Section 3.15 - Surface Equipment Removal Requirements and Inactive Wells
- Section 3.16 - Log and Completion or Plugging Report
- Section 3.17 - Pressure on Bradenhead
- Section 3.18 - Mud Circulation Required
- Section 3.19 - Density of Mud - Fluid
- Section 3.20 - Notification of Fire Breaks, Leaks, or Blow-Outs
- Section 3.21 - Fire Prevention and Swabbing
- Section 3.22 - Protection of Birds
- Section 3.22 - Protection of Birds
- Section 3.23 - Vacuum Pumps
- Section 3.24 - Check Valves Required
- Section 3.25 - Use of Common Storage
- Section 3.26 - Separating Devices, Tanks, and Surface Commingling of Oil
- Section 3.27 - Gas to Be Measured and Surface Commingling of Gas
- Section 3.28 - Potential and Deliverability of Gas Wells to be Ascertained and Reported
- Section 3.29 - Hydraulic Fracturing Chemical Disclosure Requirements
- Section 3.30 - Memorandum of Understanding between the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)
- Section 3.30 - Memorandum of Understanding between the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)
- Section 3.31 - Gas Reservoirs and Gas Well Allowable
- Section 3.32 - Gas Well Gas and Casinghead Gas Shall Be Utilized for Legal Purposes
- Section 3.33 - Geothermal Resource Production Test Forms Required
- Section 3.34 - Gas To Be Produced and Purchased Ratably
- Section 3.35 - Procedures for Identification and Control of Wellbores in Which Certain Logging Tools Have Been Abandoned
- Section 3.36 - Oil, Gas, Brine, or Geothermal Resource Operation in Hydrogen Sulfide Areas
- Section 3.37 - Statewide Spacing Rule
- Section 3.38 - Well Densities
- Section 3.39 - Proration and Drilling Units: Contiguity of Acreage and Exception Thereto
- Section 3.40 - Assignment of Acreage to Pooled Development and Proration Units
- Section 3.41 - Application for New Oil or Gas Field Designation and/or Allowable
- Section 3.42 - Oil Discovery Allowable
- Section 3.43 - Application for Temporary Field Rules
- Section 3.45 - Oil Allowables
- Section 3.46 - Fluid Injection into Productive Reservoirs
- Section 3.47 - Allowable Transfers for Saltwater Injection Wells
- Section 3.48 - Capacity Oil Allowables for Secondary or Tertiary Recovery Projects
- Section 3.49 - Gas-Oil Ratio
- Section 3.50 - Enhanced Oil Recovery Projects - Approval and Certification for Tax Incentive
- Section 3.51 - Oil Potential Test Forms Required
- Section 3.52 - Oil Well Allowable Production
- Section 3.53 - Annual Well Tests and Well Status Reports Required
- Section 3.54 - Gas Reports Required
- Section 3.55 - Reports on Gas Wells Commingling Liquid Hydrocarbons before Metering
- Section 3.56 - Scrubber Oil and Skim Hydrocarbons
- Section 3.57 - Reclaiming Tank Bottoms, Other Hydrocarbon Wastes, and Other Waste Materials
- Section 3.57 - Reclaiming Tank Bottoms, Other Hydrocarbon Wastes, and Other Waste Materials
- Section 3.58 - Certificate of Compliance and Transportation Authority; Operator Reports
- Section 3.59 - Oil and Gas Transporter's Reports
- Section 3.60 - Refinery Reports
- Section 3.61 - Definitions
- Section 3.62 - Prerequisites to Suit
- Section 3.63 - Sovereign Immunity
- Section 3.65 - Critical Designation of Natural Gas Infrastructure
- Section 3.66 - Weather Emergency Preparedness Standards
- Section 3.70 - Pipeline Permits Required
- Section 3.71 - Costs of Negotiation
- Section 3.72 - Request for Contested Case Hearing
- Section 3.73 - Pipeline Connection; Cancellation of Certificate of Compliance; Severance
- Section 3.76 - Costs of Mediation
- Section 3.78 - Fees and Financial Security Requirements
- Section 3.79 - Definitions
- Section 3.80 - Commission Oil and Gas Forms, Applications, and Filing Requirements
- Section 3.81 - Class III Brine Mining Injection Wells
- Section 3.82 - Brine Production Projects and Associated Brine Production Wells and Class V Spent Brine Return Injection Wells
- Section 3.83 - Tax Exemption for Two-Year Inactive Wells and Three-Year Inactive Wells
- Section 3.84 - Gas Shortage Emergency Response
- Section 3.85 - Manifest To Accompany Each Transport of Liquid Hydrocarbons by Vehicle
- Section 3.86 - Horizontal Drainhole Wells
- Section 3.91 - Cleanup of Soil Contaminated by a Crude Oil Spill
- Section 3.91 - Cleanup of Soil Contaminated by a Crude Oil Spill
- Section 3.93 - Water Quality Certification Definitions
- Section 3.95 - Underground Storage of Liquid or Liquefied Hydrocarbons in Salt Formations
- Section 3.96 - Underground Storage of Gas in Productive or Depleted Reservoirs
- Section 3.97 - Underground Storage of Gas in Salt Formations
- Section 3.98 - Standards for Management of Hazardous Oil and Gas Waste
- Section 3.98 - Standards for Management of Hazardous Oil and Gas Waste
- Section 3.99 - Cathodic Protection Wells
- Section 3.100 - Seismic Holes and Core Holes
- Section 3.101 - Certification for Severance Tax Exemption or Reduction for Gas Produced From High-Cost Gas Wells
- Section 3.102 - Tax Reduction for Incremental Production
- Section 3.103 - Certification for Severance Tax Exemption for Casinghead Gas Previously Vented or Flared
- Section 3.106 - Sour Gas Pipeline Facility Construction Permit
- Section 3.107 - Penalty Guidelines for Oil and Gas Violations
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