Texas Administrative Code
Title 16 - ECONOMIC REGULATION
Part 1 - RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS
Chapter 3 - OIL AND GAS DIVISION
Section 3.56 - Scrubber Oil and Skim Hydrocarbons
Universal Citation: 16 TX Admin Code ยง 3.56
Current through Reg. 49, No. 12; March 22, 2024
(a) Definitions. The following words and terms, when used in this section, shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1) Identifiable liquid hydrocarbons--Volume
of scrubber oil/skim hydrocarbons that is received at a gas plant/produced
water disposal facility where the origin of such liquid hydrocarbons can be
clearly identified.
(2) Producing
property--A location from which hydrocarbons are being produced that has been
assigned a lease identification number by the Commission and which is used in
reporting production.
(3) Scrubber
oil--Liquid hydrocarbons which accumulate in lines that are transporting
casinghead gas and which are captured at the inlet to a gas processing
plant.
(4) Skim hydrocarbons--Oil
and condensate which accumulate during produced water disposal
operations.
(5) Tolerance--The
amount of skim hydrocarbons that may be recovered before the produced water
disposal system operator must allocate to the producing property.
(6) Unidentifiable liquid
hydrocarbons--Scrubber oil/skim hydrocarbons received at a gas plant/produced
water disposal facility where the origin of such liquid hydrocarbons cannot be
identified.
(b) Disposition of scrubber oil, skim hydrocarbons, and identifiable liquid hydrocarbon volumes.
(1) Scrubber oil. Any
scrubber oil that has not been returned to a producing property by the end of a
monthly report period shall be reported by the operator of the gas plant on the
monthly plant report, Form R-3 (Monthly Report for Gas Processing Plants). The
unidentifiable liquid hydrocarbons recovered and reported on Form R-3 may be
disposed of at the point of accumulation. The accepted Form R-3 shall be the
authority for the movement of the hydrocarbons to beneficial
disposition.
(2) Skim hydrocarbons.
(A) All unidentifiable liquid hydrocarbons
recovered by a single operator or multiple operator produced water disposal
system shall be reported on the Form P-18 (Skim Oil/Condensate Report) for each
reporting period.
(B) The
unidentifiable liquid hydrocarbons recovered and reported on Form P-18 may be
disposed of at the point of accumulation. The accepted Form P-18 shall be the
authority for the movement of the hydrocarbons to beneficial
disposition.
(C) Unidentifiable
liquid hydrocarbons recovered by a single operator produced water disposal
system shall be allocated to each producing property in the proportion that the
volume of water received from the producing property bears to the total volume
of water received by the system during a reporting period.
(D) Unidentifiable liquid hydrocarbons
recovered by a multiple operator produced water disposal system in excess of a
tolerance ratio of one barrel of liquid hydrocarbons for each 2,000 barrels of
produced water received shall be allocated to each producing property in the
proportion that the volume of water received from the producing property bears
to the total volume of water received by the system during a reporting period.
The produced water disposal system operator shall notify the operator of each
producing property of any allocations to that property by furnishing a copy of
the allocations as shown on Form P-18 (Skim Oil/Condensate Report).
(E) The operator of each producing property
shall report the volume of liquid hydrocarbons allocated to the producing
property as production from the property on Form PR, Monthly Production Report.
The volume allocated back shall be shown as skim oil or skim condensate on the
form.
(3) Identifiable
liquid hydrocarbon volumes.
(A) Identifiable
liquid hydrocarbon volumes returned to the producing property during the
reporting period in which the volume is received at the gas plant/produced
water disposal facility shall not be reported to the Commission by the gas
plant/facility operator. The gas plant/produced water disposal facility
operator shall notify the appropriate Commission district office by telephone
prior to the return of such volumes. The movement of these volumes back to the
producing property shall comply with §
RSA
3.85 of this title (relating to Manifest to
Accompany Each Transport of Liquid Hydrocarbons by Vehicle), commonly referred
to as Statewide Rule 85.
(B)
Identifiable volumes not returned to the producing property shall be reported
to the Commission and to the operator of the producing property on Form R-3 or
Form P-18 as prescribed in paragraph (1) or (2) of this subsection. Volumes
shall be specifically credited to the appropriate producing property. The
operator of the producing property shall report the disposition of such
identifiable volumes as either skim hydrocarbons or scrubber oil on the
appropriate production report.
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