Texas Administrative Code
Title 16 - ECONOMIC REGULATION
Part 1 - RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS
Chapter 3 - OIL AND GAS DIVISION
Section 3.6 - Application for Multiple Completion
Current through Reg. 49, No. 12; March 22, 2024
(a) Authority will be granted to multicomplete a well in separate reservoirs that are not in communication without the necessity of notice and hearing on each separate application; provided, that an application for multiple completion on the form prescribed and the required accompanying data, as hereafter listed, is filed with the Engineering unit of the Commission's Permitting and Production Section for its consideration and approval.
(b) If the proposed zones of completion are not presently recognized by the commission as being acceptable for multicompletion approval, all data necessary to substantiate a conclusion by the commission that the proposed zones of completion are feasible and reasonably susceptible of having multicompleted and producing wells drilled thereto and therein must be filed with the application.
(c) If the additional data furnished with the application is not considered by the commission to be sufficient to establish the proposed zones of completion as separate zones of production which are feasible and reasonably susceptible of having multicompleted and producing wells drilled thereto and therein, or if any party protests such an application, then, if an operator so elects, his application will be set for hearing.
(d) Multiple completion authority for a well will not be granted unless the following required data have been filed with the Engineering unit of the Commission's Permitting and Production Section: