Existing law authorizes the Geologic Energy Management Division in the Department of Conservation to regulate the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of oil and gas wells in the state. Existing law requires an operator proposing to perform a well stimulation treatment, as defined, to apply to the State Oil and Gas Supervisor or a district deputy for a permit to perform the well stimulation treatment and imposes other requirements and conditions on the use of well stimulation treatments.
Existing law also defines “hydraulic fracturing,” commonly known as fracking, to mean a well stimulation treatment that, in whole or in part, includes the pressurized injection of hydraulic fracturing fluid or fluids into an underground geologic formation in order to fracture, or with the intent to fracture, the formation, thereby causing or enhancing, for specified purposes, the
production of oil or gas from a well.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that definition.