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Amendment H-8477 to SF 2490

Relating to oil and gas production, including filing requirements, the authority of the department of natural resources, confidential information, pooling orders, negotiation of surface damage, imposition and distribution of a tax, and jurisdiction, and providing civil penalties

Failed · May 2, 2026Vote: 25 yeas, 61 nays

Filed May 3, 2026 in the House by

What it changes

  1. Page 1, by striking lines 14 through 18 and inserting: “NEW SUBSECTION .
  2. “Casing” means tubular materials used to line a well bore.”
  3. Page 1, by striking lines 24 through 28 and inserting: “NEW SUBSECTION . 18A. “Spud date” means the date of first actual penetration of the earth with a drilling bit. NEW SUBSECTION . 20A. “Well log” means the written record progressively describing the strata, water, oil, gas, or metallic minerals encountered in drilling a well with such additional information as to give volumes, pressures, rates of fill-up, water depths, caving strata, casing records, and other similar data, as is usually recorded in normal procedure of drilling. The well log includes any electrical or other geophysical logging, detail of all cores, and all drill-stem tests, including depth tested, cushion used, time pool open, flowing and shut-in pressures, and recoveries.”
  4. Page 3, line 6, before “If an owner” by inserting “
  5. ”
  6. Page 3, lines 9 and 10, by striking “or otherwise under law”
  7. Page 3, line 11, by striking “hard”
  8. Page 3, line 12, after “information” by inserting “in a data format and medium approved by the director”
  9. Page 3, lines 12 and 13, by striking “but labeled confidential in a conspicuous location on the document”
  10. Page 3, line 16, after “cause” by inserting “or as otherwise provided in subsection 2”
  11. Page 3, line 18, by striking “
  12. ” and inserting “a.”
  13. Page 3, line 21, by striking “
  14. ” and inserting “b.”
  15. Page 3, by striking lines 24 and
  17. Page 3, line 26, by striking “
  18. ” and inserting “c.”
  19. Page 3, line 28, by striking “
  20. ” and inserting “d.”
  21. Page 3, line 30, by striking “
  22. ” and inserting “e.”
  23. Page 3, line 31, by striking “
  24. ” and inserting “f.”
  25. Page 3, after line 33 by inserting: “
  26. a. Confidential information that is basic data shall be maintained as confidential and held without public access for a period of one year from the spud date or the date of the commencement of recompletion of the well. A one-year extension of confidentiality may be granted upon written request received by the department within sixty days of the expiration of the initial one-year period. b. Confidential information that is interpretive data shall be maintained as confidential and held without public access for a period of three years from the spud date or the date of the commencement of recompletion of the well. A one-year extension of confidentiality may be granted upon written request received by the department within sixty days of the expiration of the initial three-year period.
  27. For purposes of this section: a. “Basic data” means any samples and data collected during drilling and raw data provided directly by down hole instruments, including but not limited to cuttings, cores, sidewall cores, mud logs, mechanical logs, geophysical or electrical logs, drill-stem tests, cuttings and core sample intervals, and borehole deviations. b. “Interpretive data” means data that has been interpreted by the owner or service provider, including but not limited to borehole imagery, petrophysical analysis, and geochemical analysis.”
  28. Page 19, after line 28 by inserting: “Sec. ___. NEW SECTION . 458A.31 Reporting requirements.
  29. Within one hundred twenty days of the spud date or date of commencement of recompletion of the well, a producer shall deliver a report to the department that includes all of the following information: a. A copy of the affidavit of completion. b. Core analyses. c. Final drill stem data elements. d. Recorded drill stem fluid recoveries and charts. e. Final electric logs. f. Final radioactivity logs. g. Similar wireline logs or surveys run by operators on all boreholes, excluding seismic shot holes. h. Final logs run to obtain geophysical data. i. Geological well reports.
  30. If available, log files required under subsection 1 shall be delivered to the department electronically in lieu of paper logs, and shall be in a data format and medium approved by the director. Electronic logs submitted under this section must meet all of the following requirements: a. Be submitted pursuant to the most recent version of American standard code for information interchange. b. Include an image file.”
  31. By renumbering as necessary.

Official amendment (PDF) · In the Bill Book