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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Natural Resources Code § 86.003: DETERMINATION OF SEPARATE WELLS.

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  1. NATURAL RESOURCES CODE
  2. TITLE 3. OIL AND GAS
  3. SUBTITLE B. CONSERVATION AND REGULATION OF OIL AND GAS
  4. CHAPTER 86. REGULATION OF NATURAL GAS
  5. SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS

If oil or gas, or both, is produced through different strings of casing set in the same well bore, the inner string through which oil or gas, or both, is produced shall be regarded as one well, and each successive additional string of casing through which oil or gas, or both, is produced from a different producing horizon through the same well bore shall be regarded as another well.

Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2532, ch. 871, art. I, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1977.

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