Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-92
Section 403 - Applicability; exclusions; construction(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, this act shall apply to all lands in the Commonwealth, including any lands owned or administered by the Commonwealth, or any political subdivision thereof, except the excluded horizons. The commission shall have jurisdiction over all persons and property necessary to enforce effectively the provisions of this act.(b) This act shall not apply to or affect-- (1) Any well or wells which do not penetrate the Onondaga horizon, or in those areas in which the Onondaga horizon is nearer to the surface than thirty-eight hundred feet, any well or wells which do not exceed a depth of thirty-eight hundred feet beneath the surface. For the purposes of this act, the question whether a pool is covered by the act shall be determined by the depth of the producing interval in the discovery well in such pool, and if such producing interval is covered by the act, then all wells drilled to such pool shall be covered by this act, even though some of the wells in the pool, if considered alone, would not be covered by the act.(2) Any well or wells of whatever depth commenced prior to the effective date of this act, except such wells previously completed in strata above the Onondaga horizon, but subsequent to the effective date of this act drilled deeper than the Onondaga horizon, or three thousand eight hundred feet, whichever is deeper, provided that such wells may be considered in spacing and pooling orders entered by the commission.(3) Any well or wells drilled to inject gas into or withdraw gas from gas storage reservoir.(c) This act shall not be construed to grant to the commission authority or power to-- (1) Limit production or output, or prorate production of any oil or gas well, except as provided in clause (6) of section 7 ; or(2) Fix prices of oil or gas.1961, July 25, P.L. 825, § 3.