From time to time, the commission may inquire into the production, storage, transportation, refining, reclaiming, treating, marketing, and processing of oil and gas, and the reasonable market demand for oil and gas, so that it may determine whether or not waste exists or is imminent or whether the oil and gas conservation laws of this state or the rules and orders of the commission promulgated under those laws are being violated.
Tex. Nat. Res. Code § 85.058
COMMISSION INQUIRY AND DETERMINATION
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Arkla Exploration Co. v. Haywood, Rice & William Venture (1993)
Most recently applied in Arkla Exploration Co. v. Haywood, Rice & William Venture (September 1993)
Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2519, ch. 871, art
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