(a) General. The commission may, from time to time,
require oil and gas pipeline companies to make reports to the commission
showing wells connected with their lines during any month, the amount
of production taken therefrom, names of parties from whom oil and
gas are purchased, and the amount of oil or gas purchased therefrom.
(b) Daily report. The commission may, in case of overproduction
or for any other reason which it deems urgent, require oil and gas
pipe line companies to furnish daily reports of the amount of oil
or gas purchased or taken from different wells or parties.
(c) Weekly stock report. Rescinded by Order Number
20-57,970, effective 11-16-67.
(d) Monthly transportation and storage report.
(1) Each gatherer, transporter, storer, and/or handler
of crude oil or products, or both, shall file with the commission
on or before the last day of each calendar month a report showing
the required information concerning the transportation operations
of such gatherer, transporter, or storer for the next preceding month.
Such form is incorporated in and made a part of this section.
(2) The original of the report, covering all of the
operations of the gatherer, transporter, storer, and/or handler of
crude oil or products, or both, shall be filed in the Austin office
of the commission. One copy of the report shall be filed in each district
office in which the gatherer, transporter, storer, and/or handler
of crude oil or products, or both, operates, but may include only
the information pertaining to the operations in that district in which
it is filed.
(3) The written instructions appearing on said form
are incorporated in and made a part of this section, and all of the
data and information on the form shall be reported and arranged on
the form as required by the form.
(4) No gatherer, transporter, storer, and/or handler
of crude oil shall remove crude oil from any property unless such
property is identified by a sign posted in compliance with §3.3(3)
of this title (relating to Identification of Properties, Wells, and
Tanks).
(5) The provisions of this section shall not apply
to the operator of any refinery, processing plant, blending plant,
or treating plant to which §3.60 of this title (relating to
Refinery Reports) applies if the operator has filed the required form.
(e) Annual report.
(1) Each common carrier pipeline shall make and file
with the commission, at its Austin office, an annual report for each
calendar year. The report must show the names of the officers, directors,
and stockholders, and the residence of each; the amount of capital
stock and bonded indebtedness outstanding; the results of financial
operations; the sources of revenue; and the expenditures, assets and
liabilities, and statistical data of oil transported; and such other
information as may be deemed pertinent by the commission concerning
the carrier's transactions in the performance of services under its
charter provisions relative to the transportation of crude petroleum
in the State of Texas.
(2) The annual report must be made to the commission
on the form prescribed and furnished by the commission; and must be
returned complete, under oath, within 30 days after the receipt of
the forms from the commission.
(3) For all purposes applicable under these rules and
regulations the "Classification of Investment for Pipe Lines, Pipe
Line Operating Revenues, and Pipe Line Operating Expenses" prescribed
by the Interstate Commerce Commission and effective on January 1,
1915, is adopted and made a part of these rules for the use of all
common carrier pipelines subject to the provisions of that act of
the legislature, being Chapter 30 of the Regular Session of the 35th
Legislature, State of Texas.
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