Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 82. MINERALS, OIL, AND GAS

CHAPTER 10. OIL AND GAS -- GENERAL PROVISIONS

Part 6. Disclosure of Fracturing Fluids

Definitions

82-10-602. Definitions. For the purposes of this part, the following definitions apply:

(1) "Administrator" means the administrator of the division of oil and gas conservation.

(2) "Fracturing" means the introduction of fluid that may carry in suspension a propping agent under pressure into a formation containing oil or gas for the purpose of creating cracks in the formation to serve as channels for fluids to move to or from the well bore.

(3) "Systems approach" means the reporting of the identity of chemicals separately from the additive products they go into or the reporting of fracturing chemicals without attribution to the specific products in the fracturing fluid.

History: En. Sec. 2(4), Ch. 316, L. 2017.