Bill Text: TX SB367 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the requirements for an application for a permit to drill an oil or gas well at a site adjacent to a well blowout site.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-24 - House passage as amended reported [SB367 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB367-Comm_Sub.html
By: Miles | S.B. No. 367 | |
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relating to the requirements for an application for a permit to | ||
drill an oil or gas well at a site adjacent to a well blowout site. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 91, Natural Resources | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 91.118 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 91.118. APPLICATION FOR PERMIT FOR WELL ADJACENT TO | ||
WELL BLOWOUT SITE IN CERTAIN COUNTIES. (a) The commission by rule | ||
shall require that an applicant for a permit to drill an oil or gas | ||
well in a county with a population of more than 750,000 disclose to | ||
the commission in the application that the applicant was the | ||
operator of an oil or gas well: | ||
(1) located at a site adjacent to the site of the | ||
proposed well; | ||
(2) drilled through or into the same formations as the | ||
proposed well is to be drilled; and | ||
(3) from which an uncontrolled release of a | ||
subterranean fluid containing oil, gas, or condensate or of a well | ||
fluid that is caused by a loss of well control occurred while the | ||
applicant operated the oil or gas well. | ||
(b) The rules may include criteria for determining whether a | ||
site is adjacent to another site for the purposes of this section. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |