1-1 By: Holzheauser (Senate Sponsor - Haywood) H.B. No. 1178
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1997;
1-3 April 22, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Natural Resources; May 1, 1997, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 1, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the applicability of production limitations to certain
1-9 marginal gas wells.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 86.091, Natural Resources Code, is
1-12 amended to read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 86.091. MARGINAL GAS WELL AND LIMITS ON WELL
1-14 RESTRICTIONS. A "marginal gas well," as applied to a well
1-15 classified by the commission as a gas well, means a well that is
1-16 incapable of producing under normal operating conditions more than
1-17 250,000 cubic feet of gas per day. None of the provisions of this
1-18 chapter shall require the commission to limit the production from a
1-19 marginal gas well [with a daily deliverability of 100,000 cubic
1-20 feet of gas or less] to a quantity less than its actual
1-21 deliverability if the well:
1-22 (1) has a daily deliverability of 100,000 cubic feet
1-23 of gas or less; or
1-24 (2) is in a field for which special field rules are
1-25 not in effect.
1-26 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-27 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-28 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-29 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-30 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-31 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-32 passage, and it is so enacted.
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