Tex.
Nat. Resources Code Section 86.081
Regulation of Production
(a)
For the protection of public and private interests, the commission, on written complaint by an affected party or on its own initiative and after notice and an opportunity for a hearing, shall prorate and regulate the daily gas well production from a common reservoir if the commission finds that action to be necessary to:(1)
prevent waste; or(2)
adjust the correlative rights and opportunities of each owner of gas in a common reservoir to produce and use or sell the gas as permitted in this chapter.(b)
When, as provided in Subsection (b) of Section 85.046 (Waste) or Subsection (b) of Section 86.012 (Definition of Waste), the commission has permitted production by commingling oil or gas or oil and gas from multiple stratigraphic or lenticular accumulations of oil or gas or oil and gas, the commission may regulate all activities that are under its jurisdiction and associated with such commingled, separate multiple stratigraphic or lenticular accumulations of oil or gas or oil and gas as if the accumulations were a single common reservoir; provided, however, that:(i)
such commingling shall not cause the allocation of allowable production from a well producing from any separate accumulation or accumulations to be less than that which would result from the commission applying the provisions of Section 86.095 (Zoning Common Reservoirs) to such accumulation or accumulations; and(ii)
the allocation of the allowable for such commingled production shall be based on not less than two factors which the Railroad Commission shall take into account as directed by Section 86.089 (Factors in Determining Allowable).
Source:
Section 86.081 — Regulation of Production, https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/NR/htm/NR.86.htm#86.081 (accessed May 4, 2024).
