To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to provide for commingling.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1926 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1926

      To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to provide for commingling.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 6, 2025

   Mr. Hunt introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL

      To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to provide for commingling.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. COMMINGLING UNDER MINERAL LEASING ACT.

    Section 17 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 226) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (h) through (q) as
        subsections (i) through (r), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (g) the following:
    ``(h) Commingling.--To promote and allow for the minimization of
surface disturbing activities, the Secretary of the Interior shall
approve applications allowing for the commingling of production from
two or more sources (including oil and gas leases, unit participating
areas, communitized areas, or non-Federal or non-Indian properties)
before production reaches the point of royalty measurement regardless
of ownership, the royalty rates or the number or percentage of acres
for each such source. Provided that the applicant agrees to either
install measurement devices for each source or utilize an allocation
meter or method that achieves volume measurement uncertainly levels
within plus or minus 2 percent during the production phase reported on
a monthly basis.''.
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