CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 2743Introduced by Assembly Member LevineFebruary 18, 2022 An act to amend Section 3157 of the Public Resources Code, relating to oil and gas. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 2743, as introduced, Levine. Oil and gas: well stimulation treatment.Existing law authorizes the Geologic Energy Management Division in the Department of Conservation to regulate the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of oil and gas wells in the state. Existing law requires an operator proposing to perform a well stimulation treatment, as defined, to apply to the State Oil and Gas Supervisor or a district deputy for a permit to perform the well stimulation treatment and imposes other requirements and conditions on the use of well stimulation treatments.This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the definition of well stimulation treatment for those purposes.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 3157 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read:3157. (a) For purposes of this article, well stimulation treatment means any treatment of a well designed to enhance oil and gas production or recovery by increasing the permeability of the formation. Well stimulation treatments include, but are not necessarily limited to, hydraulic fracturing treatments and acid well stimulation treatments.(b) Well stimulation treatments do not include steam flooding, water flooding, or cyclic steaming and do not include routine well cleanout work, routine well maintenance, routine removal of formation damage due to drilling, bottom hole pressure surveys, or routine activities that do not affect the integrity of the well or the formation.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 2743Introduced by Assembly Member LevineFebruary 18, 2022 An act to amend Section 3157 of the Public Resources Code, relating to oil and gas. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 2743, as introduced, Levine. Oil and gas: well stimulation treatment.Existing law authorizes the Geologic Energy Management Division in the Department of Conservation to regulate the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of oil and gas wells in the state. Existing law requires an operator proposing to perform a well stimulation treatment, as defined, to apply to the State Oil and Gas Supervisor or a district deputy for a permit to perform the well stimulation treatment and imposes other requirements and conditions on the use of well stimulation treatments.This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the definition of well stimulation treatment for those purposes.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2743
Introduced by Assembly Member LevineFebruary 18, 2022
Introduced by Assembly Member Levine
February 18, 2022
An act to amend Section 3157 of the Public Resources Code, relating to oil and gas.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2743, as introduced, Levine. Oil and gas: well stimulation treatment.
Existing law authorizes the Geologic Energy Management Division in the Department of Conservation to regulate the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of oil and gas wells in the state. Existing law requires an operator proposing to perform a well stimulation treatment, as defined, to apply to the State Oil and Gas Supervisor or a district deputy for a permit to perform the well stimulation treatment and imposes other requirements and conditions on the use of well stimulation treatments.This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the definition of well stimulation treatment for those purposes.
Existing law authorizes the Geologic Energy Management Division in the Department of Conservation to regulate the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of oil and gas wells in the state. Existing law requires an operator proposing to perform a well stimulation treatment, as defined, to apply to the State Oil and Gas Supervisor or a district deputy for a permit to perform the well stimulation treatment and imposes other requirements and conditions on the use of well stimulation treatments.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the definition of well stimulation treatment for those purposes.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 3157 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read:3157. (a) For purposes of this article, well stimulation treatment means any treatment of a well designed to enhance oil and gas production or recovery by increasing the permeability of the formation. Well stimulation treatments include, but are not necessarily limited to, hydraulic fracturing treatments and acid well stimulation treatments.(b) Well stimulation treatments do not include steam flooding, water flooding, or cyclic steaming and do not include routine well cleanout work, routine well maintenance, routine removal of formation damage due to drilling, bottom hole pressure surveys, or routine activities that do not affect the integrity of the well or the formation.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 3157 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read:3157. (a) For purposes of this article, well stimulation treatment means any treatment of a well designed to enhance oil and gas production or recovery by increasing the permeability of the formation. Well stimulation treatments include, but are not necessarily limited to, hydraulic fracturing treatments and acid well stimulation treatments.(b) Well stimulation treatments do not include steam flooding, water flooding, or cyclic steaming and do not include routine well cleanout work, routine well maintenance, routine removal of formation damage due to drilling, bottom hole pressure surveys, or routine activities that do not affect the integrity of the well or the formation.
SECTION 1. Section 3157 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read:
### SECTION 1.
3157. (a) For purposes of this article, well stimulation treatment means any treatment of a well designed to enhance oil and gas production or recovery by increasing the permeability of the formation. Well stimulation treatments include, but are not necessarily limited to, hydraulic fracturing treatments and acid well stimulation treatments.(b) Well stimulation treatments do not include steam flooding, water flooding, or cyclic steaming and do not include routine well cleanout work, routine well maintenance, routine removal of formation damage due to drilling, bottom hole pressure surveys, or routine activities that do not affect the integrity of the well or the formation.
3157. (a) For purposes of this article, well stimulation treatment means any treatment of a well designed to enhance oil and gas production or recovery by increasing the permeability of the formation. Well stimulation treatments include, but are not necessarily limited to, hydraulic fracturing treatments and acid well stimulation treatments.(b) Well stimulation treatments do not include steam flooding, water flooding, or cyclic steaming and do not include routine well cleanout work, routine well maintenance, routine removal of formation damage due to drilling, bottom hole pressure surveys, or routine activities that do not affect the integrity of the well or the formation.
3157. (a) For purposes of this article, well stimulation treatment means any treatment of a well designed to enhance oil and gas production or recovery by increasing the permeability of the formation. Well stimulation treatments include, but are not necessarily limited to, hydraulic fracturing treatments and acid well stimulation treatments.(b) Well stimulation treatments do not include steam flooding, water flooding, or cyclic steaming and do not include routine well cleanout work, routine well maintenance, routine removal of formation damage due to drilling, bottom hole pressure surveys, or routine activities that do not affect the integrity of the well or the formation.
3157. (a) For purposes of this article, well stimulation treatment means any treatment of a well designed to enhance oil and gas production or recovery by increasing the permeability of the formation. Well stimulation treatments include, but are not necessarily limited to, hydraulic fracturing treatments and acid well stimulation treatments.
(b) Well stimulation treatments do not include steam flooding, water flooding, or cyclic steaming and do not include routine well cleanout work, routine well maintenance, routine removal of formation damage due to drilling, bottom hole pressure surveys, or routine activities that do not affect the integrity of the well or the formation.