1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the applicability of production limitations to certain
1-3 marginal gas wells.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 86.091, Natural Resources Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 86.091. MARGINAL GAS WELL AND LIMITS ON WELL
1-8 RESTRICTIONS. A "marginal gas well," as applied to a well
1-9 classified by the commission as a gas well, means a well that is
1-10 incapable of producing under normal operating conditions more than
1-11 250,000 cubic feet of gas per day. None of the provisions of this
1-12 chapter shall require the commission to limit the production from a
1-13 marginal gas well [with a daily deliverability of 100,000 cubic
1-14 feet of gas or less] to a quantity less than its actual
1-15 deliverability if the well:
1-16 (1) has a daily deliverability of 100,000 cubic feet
1-17 of gas or less; or
1-18 (2) is in a field for which special field rules are
1-19 not in effect.
1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1178 was passed by the House on April
18, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1178 was passed by the Senate on May
12, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor