Florida Senate - 2020                                     SB 200
       
       
        
       By Senator Montford
       
       
       
       
       
       3-00108A-20                                            2020200__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to advanced well stimulation
    3         treatment; amending s. 377.19, F.S.; defining the
    4         terms “high-pressure well stimulation” and “matrix
    5         acidization”; creating s. 377.2405, F.S.; prohibiting
    6         the performance of high-pressure well stimulation or
    7         matrix acidization; providing that permits for
    8         drilling or for operating a well do not authorize the
    9         performance of high-pressure well stimulation or
   10         matrix acidization; providing applicability; providing
   11         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, new subsections (6) and (12) are added to
   19  that section, and subsection (5) of that section is amended, 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 and the purpose or effect is to
   30  fracture the formation to increase production or recovery from
   31  an oil or gas well, such as in hydraulic fracturing or acid
   32  fracturing.
   33         (12) “Matrix acidization” means all stages of a well
   34  intervention performed by injecting fluids into a rock formation
   35  at a pressure below the fracture gradient of the rock formation
   36  and the purpose or effect is to dissolve the formation to
   37  increase production or recovery from an oil or gas well. The
   38  term does not include techniques used for routine well cleanout
   39  work, well maintenance, removal of formation damage due to
   40  drilling or production, or acidizing techniques used to maintain
   41  or restore the natural permeability of the formation near the
   42  wellbore.
   43         Section 2. Section 377.2405, Florida Statutes, is created
   44  to read:
   45         377.2405 Advanced well stimulation treatments.—
   46         (1) PROHIBITION.—The performance of high-pressure well
   47  stimulation or matrix acidization is prohibited in this state. A
   48  permit for drilling or operating a well does not authorize the
   49  performance of high-pressure well stimulation or matrix
   50  acidization.
   51         (2) APPLICABILITY.—This section applies only to wells
   52  regulated pursuant to this chapter.
   53         Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.