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Committee approves change to oil-and-gas statute to allow centralized produced-water reservoirs
Summary
The Minerals, Business & Economic Development Committee gave a due-pass recommendation to Senate File 15, which removes language limiting regulation of produced-water reservoirs to lease units or communitized areas so operators can locate centralized reuse reservoirs across multiple leases.
The Minerals, Business & Economic Development Committee voted to give Senate File 15 a due-pass recommendation after hearing testimony from the state Oil and Gas Supervisor and industry representatives.
The bill strikes language in Wyoming Statute 30-5-104(d)(a) that historically limited the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission’s authority to regulate oilfield pits to locations ‘‘on a lease unit or communitized area,’’ allowing the commission to permit centralized produced-water reuse reservoirs that may lie outside a single lease or unit.
Tom Kropatch, state oil and gas supervisor for the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, told the committee the change responds to…
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