Tex. Nat. Res. Code § 121.002 · Chapter 121. OWNERSHIP AND STEWARDSHIP OF ANTHROPOGENIC CARBON DIOXIDE
OWNERSHIP OF ANTHROPOGENIC CARBON DIOXIDE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) This section does not apply to anthropogenic carbon dioxide injected for the primary purpose of enhanced recovery operations.
(b) Unless otherwise expressly provided by a contract, bill of sale, deed, mortgage, deed of trust, or other legally binding document or by other law, anthropogenic carbon dioxide stored in a geologic storage facility is considered to be the property of the storage operator or the storage operator's heirs, successors, or assigns.
(c) Absent a final judgment of wilful abandonment rendered by a court or a regulatory determination of closure or abandonment, anthropogenic carbon dioxide stored in a geologic storage facility is not considered to be the property of the owner of the surface or mineral estate in the land in which the anthropogenic carbon dioxide is stored or of a person claiming under the owner of the surface or mineral estate.
(d) The owner, as designated by Subsection (b) or (c), of the anthropogenic carbon dioxide stored in a geologic storage facility, or the owner's heirs, successors, or assigns, may produce, take, extract, or otherwise possess anthropogenic carbon dioxide stored in the facility.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Redesignated from Natural Resources Code, Chapter 120 by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 91 (S.B. 1303), Sec. 27.001(44), eff. September 1, 2011.
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