If oil or gas, or both, is produced through different strings of casing set in the same well bore, the inner string through which oil or gas, or both, is produced shall be regarded as one well, and each successive additional string of casing through which oil or gas, or both, is produced from a different producing horizon through the same well bore shall be regarded as another well.
Tex. Nat. Res. Code § 86.003
DETERMINATION OF SEPARATE WELLS
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Seagull Energy E & P, Inc. v. Railroad Commission (2003)
Most recently applied in Seagull Energy E & P, Inc. v. Railroad Commission (March 2003)
Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2532, ch. 871, art
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