Current through Reg. 49, No. 12; March 22, 2024
(a) General. The commission may, from time to
time, require oil and gas pipeline companies to make reports to the commission
showing wells connected with their lines during any month, the amount of
production taken therefrom, names of parties from whom oil and gas are
purchased, and the amount of oil or gas purchased therefrom.
(b) Daily report. The commission may, in case
of overproduction or for any other reason which it deems urgent, require oil
and gas pipe line companies to furnish daily reports of the amount of oil or
gas purchased or taken from different wells or parties.
(c) Weekly stock report. Rescinded by Order
Number 20-57,970, effective 11-16-67.
(d) Monthly transportation and storage
report.
(1) Each gatherer, transporter,
storer, and/or handler of crude oil or products, or both, shall file with the
commission on or before the last day of each calendar month a report showing
the required information concerning the transportation operations of such
gatherer, transporter, or storer for the next preceding month. Such form is
incorporated in and made a part of this section.
(2) The original of the report, covering all
of the operations of the gatherer, transporter, storer, and/or handler of crude
oil or products, or both, shall be filed in the Austin office of the
commission. One copy of the report shall be filed in each district office in
which the gatherer, transporter, storer, and/or handler of crude oil or
products, or both, operates, but may include only the information pertaining to
the operations in that district in which it is filed.
(3) The written instructions appearing on
said form are incorporated in and made a part of this section, and all of the
data and information on the form shall be reported and arranged on the form as
required by the form.
(4) No
gatherer, transporter, storer, and/or handler of crude oil shall remove crude
oil from any property unless such property is identified by a sign posted in
compliance with §
RSA
3.3<subdiv>(3)</subdiv> of this
title (relating to Identification of Properties, Wells, and Tanks).
(5) The provisions of this section shall not
apply to the operator of any refinery, processing plant, blending plant, or
treating plant to which §
RSA
3.60 of this title (relating to Refinery
Reports) applies if the operator has filed the required form.
(e) Annual report.
(1) Each common carrier pipeline shall make
and file with the commission, at its Austin office, an annual report for each
calendar year. The report must show the names of the officers, directors, and
stockholders, and the residence of each; the amount of capital stock and bonded
indebtedness outstanding; the results of financial operations; the sources of
revenue; and the expenditures, assets and liabilities, and statistical data of
oil transported; and such other information as may be deemed pertinent by the
commission concerning the carrier's transactions in the performance of services
under its charter provisions relative to the transportation of crude petroleum
in the State of Texas.
(2) The
annual report must be made to the commission on the form prescribed and
furnished by the commission; and must be returned complete, under oath, within
30 days after the receipt of the forms from the commission.
(3) For all purposes applicable under these
rules and regulations the "Classification of Investment for Pipe Lines, Pipe
Line Operating Revenues, and Pipe Line Operating Expenses" prescribed by the
Interstate Commerce Commission and effective on January 1, 1915, is adopted and
made a part of these rules for the use of all common carrier pipelines subject
to the provisions of that act of the legislature, being Chapter 30 of the
Regular Session of the 35th Legislature, State of Texas.