Bill Details
HR.1926 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-03-06 - Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Introduced Date
2025-03-06
Policy Area
Energy
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This bill would change how oil and gas production can be measured under federal leasing rules. It would require the Secretary of the Interior to approve requests to mix, or “commingle,” production from two or more sources before the oil or gas is measured for royalty purposes. The goal is to reduce surface disturbance by making it easier to use shared production and measurement systems. The rule would apply even if the sources have different owners, royalty rates, or numbers of acres involved, as long as the required measurement standards are met.
- Commingling could include production from oil and gas leases, unit participating areas, communitized areas, and even non-federal or non-Indian property sources.
- Approval would be required for applications to combine production before royalty measurement, rather than leaving that decision fully to agency discretion.
- Applicants would need to either install separate measurement devices for each source or use a shared measurement system that stays within plus or minus 2% uncertainty.
- Production measurements would have to be reported each month.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1926 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1926
To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to provide for commingling.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 6, 2025
Mr. Hunt introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Natural Resources
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A BILL
To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to provide for commingling.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. COMMINGLING UNDER MINERAL LEASING ACT.
Section 17 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 226) is amended--
(1) by redesignating subsections (h) through (q) as
subsections (i) through (r), respectively; and
(2) by inserting after subsection (g) the following:
``(h) Commingling.--To promote and allow for the minimization of
surface disturbing activities, the Secretary of the Interior shall
approve applications allowing for the commingling of production from
two or more sources (including oil and gas leases, unit participating
areas, communitized areas, or non-Federal or non-Indian properties)
before production reaches the point of royalty measurement regardless
of ownership, the royalty rates or the number or percentage of acres
for each such source. Provided that the applicant agrees to either
install measurement devices for each source or utilize an allocation
meter or method that achieves volume measurement uncertainly levels
within plus or minus 2 percent during the production phase reported on
a monthly basis.''.
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