California Public Resources Code

§ 3008

PRC § 3008 Effective Jan 1, 2025Div. 3 · Ch. 1 · Art. 1

Statute text

(a)“Well” means any oil or gas well or well for the discovery of oil or gas; any well on lands producing or reasonably presumed to contain oil or gas; any well drilled for the purpose of injecting fluids or gas for stimulating oil or gas recovery, repressuring or pressure maintenance of oil or gas reservoirs, or disposing of waste fluids from an oil or gas field; any well used to inject or withdraw gas from an underground storage facility; or any well drilled within or adjacent to an oil or gas pool for the purpose of obtaining water to be used in production stimulation or repressuring operations.

(b)“Prospect well” or “exploratory well” means any well drilled to extend a field or explore a new, potentially productive reservoir.

(c)“Active observation well” means a well being used for the sole purpose of gathering reservoir data, such as pressure or temperature in a reservoir being currently produced or injected by the operator. For a well to be an active observation well, the operator shall demonstrate to the division’s satisfaction that the well fulfills a need for gathering reservoir data, and the operator shall provide the division with a summary report of the type of data collected at least annually or as requested by the division.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2024, Ch. 549, Sec. 2. (AB 2716) Effective January 1, 2025.