By: Haywood S.B. No. 315
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the testing of gas well deliverability and pressure.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 86.141, Natural Resources Code, is
1-4 amended to read as follows:
1-5 Sec. 86.141. DUTY TO TEST GAS WELLS <PRESSURE>. The
1-6 commission may require <All> persons producing gas from any gas
1-7 well to <shall> determine periodically through an appropriate test
1-8 <tests during the months of January and July of each year> the
1-9 deliverability and wellhead <open flow and rock> pressure of each
1-10 gas well from which gas is produced.
1-11 SECTION 2. Section 86.142, Natural Resources Code, is
1-12 amended to read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 86.142. <PRESSURE> TEST REQUIREMENTS. A <The> test to
1-14 determine the deliverability and pressure of a gas well shall be
1-15 made:
1-16 (1) under uniform and generally recognized methods;
1-17 and
1-18 (2) <in the presence of and under the supervision of a
1-19 representative of the commission; and>
1-20 <(3)> under rules prescribed by the commission.
1-21 SECTION 3. Section 86.143, Natural Resources Code, is
1-22 amended to read as follows:
1-23 Sec. 86.143. <PRESSURE> TEST REPORTS. (a) Verified reports
2-1 of the tests to determine deliverability and pressure shall be
2-2 filed with the commission within a time period after the end of the
2-3 test period as set by the commission <on or before the 10th day of
2-4 each January and July>.
2-5 (b) <The reports shall disclose the name of the
2-6 representative of the commission who was actually present when the
2-7 tests were made.>
2-8 <(c)> The reports are a <permanent> public record. They
2-9 shall be kept on file with the commission for a period of time
2-10 determined by the commission and shall be open to the inspection
2-11 and examination of the public.
2-12 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
2-13 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.