Petroleum and Natural Gas Articles List View

Click Here to read the proposal by Rep. Veasey to add Landman Licensing to the Texas Railroad Commission Sunset Bill.

Click Here to read a proposed bill addressing NPRI in horizontal wellbores.

There have been several bills of interest to oil and gas explorers and producers proposed in the Texas Legislator. Click this link to see a summary of a few of these bills.

The bill below is specifically aimed at the Barnett Shale, intending to let municipalities exert greater control over drilling permits. HB 91 Cook Relating to the extent of extraterritorial jurisdiction for certain municipalities. Remarks: Expands the extraterritorial of municipalities with ...

Below is legislation by Senator Davis that (in addition to less bothersome aspects) would allow cities to implement air monitoring ordinances for gas wells. It is aimed at the Barnett Shale. SB 104 Davis, Wendy Relating to restrictions on the release into the air of natural gas and associated vapors from a gas well.  ...

As I mentioned in a previous email, below are the decisions made by the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission relating to the Railroad Commission of Texas; these decisions will be drafted into legislation to be considered by the 82nd Texas Legislature. 1.1 Establish the Texas Oil and Gas Commission, governed by a single elected Commissioner, and continue the agency for 12 years. The current 3-member elected Commission will be abolished September 1, ...

The Governor has declared Eminent Domain as an emergency issue, meaning that it can be considered in the opening weeks of the legislative session (while other legislation must wait). Strictly FYI, here is a bill analysis of the bill as introduced. There is immense pressure to pass this bill exactly as written. The vast majority of the bill is exactly the same as a bill from last session, which died only because it ran out of time. Landowner groups and the oil and gas association ...