Florida Senate - 2019                              CS for SB 314
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources; and
       Senators Montford, Stewart, and Berman
       
       
       
       
       592-02363-19                                           2019314c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to advanced well stimulation
    3         treatment; amending s. 377.19, F.S.; conforming a
    4         cross-reference; defining the terms “high-pressure
    5         well stimulation” and “matrix acidization”; creating
    6         s. 377.2405, F.S.; prohibiting the performance of
    7         high-pressure well stimulation or matrix acidization;
    8         clarifying that permits for drilling or operating a
    9         well do not authorize the performance of high-pressure
   10         well stimulation or matrix acidization; providing
   11         applicability; providing an effective date.
   12          
   13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   14  
   15         Section 1. Present subsections (6) through (10) and (11)
   16  through (32) of section 377.19, Florida Statutes, are
   17  redesignated as subsections (7) through (11) and (13) through
   18  (34), respectively, subsection (5) of that section is amended,
   19  and new subsections (6) and (12) are added to that section, to
   20  read:
   21         377.19 Definitions.—As used in ss. 377.06, 377.07, and
   22  377.10-377.40, the term:
   23         (5) “Gas” means all natural gas, including casinghead gas,
   24  and all other hydrocarbons not defined as oil in subsection (17)
   25  (15).
   26         (6) “High-pressure well stimulation” means all stages of a
   27  well intervention performed by injecting fluids into a rock
   28  formation at a pressure that equals or exceeds the fracture
   29  gradient of the rock formation in order to fracture the
   30  formation to increase production or recovery from an oil or gas
   31  well, such as in hydraulic fracturing or acid fracturing.
   32         (12) “Matrix acidization” means all stages of a well
   33  intervention performed by injecting fluids into a rock formation
   34  at a pressure below the fracture gradient of the rock formation
   35  in order to dissolve the formation and increase production or
   36  recovery from an oil or gas well. The term does not include
   37  techniques used for routine well cleanout work, routine well
   38  maintenance, routine treatment for the purpose of removal of
   39  formation damage due to drilling or production, or acidizing
   40  techniques used to maintain or restore the natural permeability
   41  of the formation near the wellbore.
   42         Section 2. Section 377.2405, Florida Statutes, is created
   43  to read:
   44         377.2405 Advanced well stimulation treatments.—
   45         (1) PROHIBITION.—The performance of high-pressure well
   46  stimulation or matrix acidization is prohibited in this state. A
   47  permit for drilling or operating a well does not authorize the
   48  performance of high-pressure well stimulation or matrix
   49  acidization.
   50         (2) APPLICABILITY.—This section applies only to wells
   51  regulated pursuant to chapter 377.
   52         Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.