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Texas Natural Resources Code

§ 101.017 — PROHIBITED PROVISIONS

NR § 101.017Title 3. OIL AND GAS · Part C. POOLING AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS · Ch. 101. COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT · Art. B. COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS IN SECONDARY RECOVERY OPERATIONS

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(a)No agreement authorized by this chapter may attempt to contain the field rules for the area or field, or provide for or limit the amount of production of oil or gas from the unit properties, those provisions being solely the province of the commission.
(b)No agreement authorized by this chapter may provide directly or indirectly for the cooperative refining of crude petroleum, distillate, condensate, or gas, or any by-product of crude petroleum, distillate, condensate, or gas. The extraction of liquid hydrocarbons from gas, and the separation of the liquid hydrocarbons into propanes, butanes, ethanes, distillate, condensate, and natural gasoline, without any additional processing of any of them, is not considered to be refining.
(c)No agreement authorized by this chapter may provide for the cooperative marketing of crude petroleum, condensate, distillate, or gas, or any by-products of them.

Legislative history

Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2569, ch. 871, art. I, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1977.

Source: Texas Natural Resources Code § 101.017 from the Texas Constitution and Statutes (Texas Legislature) (public record). DecisionDepot is for informational use only and is not legal advice — verify against the official source before relying on this text.