Texas Administrative Code › Title 16 - ECONOMIC REGULATION › Part 1 - RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS › Chapter 5 - CARBON DIOXIDE (CO2) › Subchapter B - GEOLOGIC STORAGE AND ASSOCIATED INJECTION OF ANTHROPOGENIC CARBON DIOXIDE (CO2) › Section 5.207 - Reporting and Record-Keeping

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a)
				  Reporting requirements. The operator of a geologic storage facility must
				  provide, at a minimum, the following reports to the director and retain the
				  following information:
(1) Test records. The
				  operator must file a complete record of all tests in duplicate with the
				  district office within 30 days after the testing. In conducting and evaluating
				  the tests enumerated in this subchapter or others to be allowed by the
				  director, the operator and the director must apply methods and standards
				  generally accepted in the industry. When the operator reports the results of
				  mechanical integrity tests to the director, the operator must include a
				  description of any tests and methods used. In making this evaluation, the
				  director must review monitoring and other test data submitted since the
				  previous evaluation.
(2) Operating
				  reports. The operator also must include summary cumulative tables of the
				  information required by the reports listed in this paragraph.
(A) Report within 24 hours. The operator must
				  report the items listed in clauses (i) through (v) of this subparagraph to the
				  director and the appropriate district office orally as soon as practicable, but
				  within 24 hours of discovery, and in writing within five working days of
				  discovery. The written submission shall contain a description of the
				  noncompliance and its cause, the period of noncompliance, including exact dates
				  and times, and if the noncompliance has not been corrected, the anticipated
				  time it is expected to continue, and steps taken or planned to reduce,
				  eliminate, and prevent reoccurrence of the noncompliance. The operator shall
				  report the following items:
(i) the discovery
				  of any significant pressure changes or other monitoring data that indicate the
				  presence of leaks in the well or the lack of confinement of the injected gases
				  to the geologic storage reservoir;
(ii) any evidence that the injected
				  CO2 stream or associated pressure front may cause an
				  endangerment to a USDW;
(iii) any
				  noncompliance with a permit condition, or malfunction of the injection system,
				  which may cause fluid migration into or between USDWs;
(iv) any triggering of a shut-off system
				  (i.e., down-hole or at the surface); and
(v) any failure to maintain mechanical
				  integrity.
(B) Report
				  within 30 days. The operator must report:
(i)
				  the results of periodic tests for mechanical integrity;
(ii) the results of any other test of the
				  injection well conducted by the operator if required by the director;
				  and
(iii) a description of any well
				  workover.
(C) Semi-annual
				  report. The operator must report:
(i) a
				  summary of well head pressure monitoring;
(ii) changes to the source as well as the
				  physical, chemical, and other relevant characteristics of the
				  CO2 stream from the proposed operating data;
(iii) monthly average, maximum and minimum
				  values for injection pressure, flow rate, temperature, and volume and/or mass,
				  and annular pressure;
(iv) monthly
				  annulus fluid volume added;
(v) a
				  description of any event that significantly exceeds operating parameters for
				  annulus pressure or injection pressure as specified in the permit;
(vi) a description of any event that triggers
				  a shutdown device and the response taken; and
(vii) the results of monitoring prescribed
				  under §
													5.206(e) of this
				  title (relating to Permit Standards).
(D) Annual reports. The operator must submit
				  an annual report detailing:
(i) corrective
				  action performed;
(ii) new wells
				  installed and the type, location, number, and information required in §
													5.203(e) of this
				  title (relating to Application Requirements);
(iii) re-calculated AOR unless the operator
				  submits a statement signed by an appropriate company official confirming that
				  monitoring and operational data supports the current delineation of the AOR on
				  file with the Commission;
(iv) the
				  updated area for which the operator has a good faith claim to the necessary and
				  sufficient property rights to operate the geologic storage facility;
(v) tons of CO2
				  injected; and
(vi) other
				  information as required by the permit.
(E) Annual updates. The operator must
				  maintain and update required plans in accordance with the provisions of this
				  subchapter.
(i) Operators must submit an
				  annual statement, signed by an appropriate company official, confirming that
				  the operator has:
(I) reviewed the monitoring
				  and operational data that are relevant to a decision on whether to reevaluate
				  the AOR and the monitoring and operational data that are relevant to a decision
				  on whether to update an approved plan required by §
														5.203 or §
														5.206 of this title; and
(II) determined whether any updates were
				  warranted by material change in the monitoring and operational data or in the
				  evaluation of the monitoring and operational data by the operator.
(ii) Operators must submit either
				  the updated plan or a summary of the modifications for each plan for which an
				  update the operator determined to be warranted pursuant to subclause (I) of
				  this clause. The director may require submission of copies of any updated plans
				  and/or additional information regarding whether or not updates of any
				  particular plans are warranted.
(3) The director may require the revision of
				  any required plan following any significant changes to the facility, such as
				  addition of injection or monitoring wells, on a schedule determined by the
				  director or whenever the director determines that such a revision is necessary
				  to comply with the requirements of this subchapter.