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2025 California Code
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DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS
CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation
ARTICLE 3 - Well Stimulation
Section 3152.
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CA Pub Res Code § 3152 (2025)
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3152. “Hydraulic fracturing” means a well stimulation treatment that, in whole or in part, includes the pressurized injection of hydraulic fracturing fluid or fluids into an underground geologic formation in order to fracture or with the intent to fracture the formation, thereby causing or enhancing, for the purposes of this division, the production of oil or gas from a well.
(Added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 313, Sec. 2. (SB 4) Effective January 1, 2014.)
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