Tex. Natural Resources Code § 91.752
This is the official text of Tex. Natural Resources Code § 91.752, part of Texas’s Natural Resources Code — governs land, minerals, and natural resource management.
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§ 91.752. APPLICABILITY.
Official statutory text
This subchapter applies only to the drilling of a new oil or gas well or the reentry of a plugged and abandoned oil or gas well. This subchapter does not apply to:
(1) the plugging back, reworking, sidetracking, or deepening of an existing oil or gas well that has not been plugged and abandoned; or
(2) the use of a surface location that is the site of an existing oil or gas well that has not been plugged and abandoned to drill a horizontal oil or gas well.
(1) the plugging back, reworking, sidetracking, or deepening of an existing oil or gas well that has not been plugged and abandoned; or
(2) the use of a surface location that is the site of an existing oil or gas well that has not been plugged and abandoned to drill a horizontal oil or gas well.
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