# Environment (GEN)

## Title 14. Gas and Oil

### Subtitle 1. In General

#### Section 14-107.1

(a) In this section, "hydraulic fracturing" means a stimulation treatment performed on oil and natural gas wells in low-permeability oil or natural gas reservoirs through which specially engineered fluids are pumped at high pressure and rate into the reservoir interval to be treated, causing fractures to open.

(b) A person may not engage in the hydraulic fracturing of a well for the exploration or production of oil or natural gas in the State.

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Md. Code Ann., Envir. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)