Certain gas producers now eligible for major tax credit

Journal Article · Mon Jul 31 00:00:00 EDT 1989 · Oil and Gas Journal; (USA)

OSTI ID:5457601

Lewis, F W; Osburn, A S ^[1]

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1. Petroleum Management Systems, Del City, OK (US)

Recent revisions have expanded Devonian eligibility and make the Non-conventional Fuel Tax Credit available for Devonian shale gas production in Oklahoma, Texas, and other areas of the nation. Nonconventionoal Fuel Tax Credits of 80 cents/MMBTU for gas produced from Devonian shale are widely utilized by producers in West Virginia, Ohio, and other states. Unfortunately, no producer had ever filed a Devonian shale application for Oklahoma or Texas prior to 1989. Producers in Oklahoma and Texas felt precluded from applying for the tax credit because of restrictive definitions in the original legislation. Initial regulations restricted the tax credit to production with a gamma ray index of 0.7 or greater for 95% of the total Devonian age stratigraphic interval encountered by the wellbore for shale deposited during the Paleozoic Devonian period.

• OSTI ID: 5457601
• Journal Information: Oil and Gas Journal; (USA), Vol. 87:31; ISSN 0030-1388
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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