RCW 78.52.205 Development units to be prescribed for pool after discovery—Temporary development units. Within sixty days after the discovery of oil or gas in a pool not then covered by an order of the department, a hearing shall be held and the department shall issue an order prescribing development units for the pool. If sufficient […]
RCW 78.52.210 Development units—Size and shape. (1) The size and the shape of any development units shall be such as will result in the efficient and economical development of the pool as a whole, and the size shall not be smaller than the maximum area that can be efficiently and economically drained by one well […]
RCW 78.52.220 Development units—Location of well. An order establishing development units for a pool shall specify the size and shape of each area and the location of the permitted well thereon in accordance with a reasonable uniform spacing plan. Upon application and after notice and a hearing, if the department finds that a well drilled […]
RCW 78.52.230 Development units—Order must cover entire pool—Modifications. An order establishing development units for a pool shall cover all lands determined or believed to be underlaid by such pool, and may be modified by the department from time to time to include additional areas determined to be underlaid by such pool. When the department determines […]
RCW 78.52.240 Development units—Pooling of interests. When two or more separately-owned tracts are embraced within a development unit, or when there are separately owned interests in all or a part of the development unit, then the owners and lessees thereof may pool their interests for the development and operation of the development unit. In the […]
RCW 78.52.245 Pooling order—Allocation of production. A pooling order shall be upon terms and conditions that are fair and reasonable and that afford to each owner and royalty owner his or her fair and reasonable share of production. Production shall be allocated as follows: (1) For the purpose of determining the portions of production owned […]
RCW 78.52.250 Pooled interests in well in development unit—Allocation of costs—Rights of owners. (1) Each such pooling order shall make provision for the drilling and operation of a well on the development unit, and for the payment of the reasonable actual cost thereof by the owners of interests required to pay such costs in the […]
RCW 78.52.253 Pooling agreement, offer to pool, pooling order—Fairness to nonconsenting, unleased owners. A pooling agreement, offer to pool, or pooling order is not considered fair and reasonable as applied to nonconsenting, unleased owners only, if it provides for an operating agreement containing any of the following provisions: (1) Preferential right of the operator to […]
RCW 78.52.255 Operations on development unit deemed operations on each tract—Production allocated to tract deemed produced from each tract—Shut-in well considered on each tract—Lease on part of tract excluded from unit. (1) Operations incident to the drilling of a well upon any portion of a development unit covered by a pooling order shall be deemed, […]
RCW 78.52.257 Dissolution of pooling order—Interests covered by terminated lease—Modification or termination of pooling order—Extension of dissolution of pooling order. (1) An order pooling a development unit shall automatically dissolve: (a) One year after its effective date if there has been no production of commercial quantities or drilling operations on lands within the unit; (b) […]
RCW 78.52.260 “Wildcat” or “exploratory” well data confidential. Whenever the department requires the making and filing of well logs, directional surveys, or reports on the drilling of, subsurface conditions found in, or reports with respect to the substance produced, or capable of being produced from, a “wildcat” or “exploratory” well, as those terms are used […]
RCW 78.52.270 Limitation of production to “oil allowable”—Proration. Whenever the total amount of oil which all of the pools in this state can currently produce in accordance with good operating practices, exceeds the amount reasonably required to meet the reasonable market demand, the department shall limit the oil which may be currently produced in this […]
RCW 78.52.280 Determining market demand—No undue discrimination in proration of “allowable.” The department shall not be required to determine the reasonable market demand applicable to any single pool of oil except in relation to all pools producing oil of similar kind and quality and in relation to the reasonable market demand. The department shall prorate […]
RCW 78.52.290 Limitation of production to “gas allowable”—Proration. Whenever the total amount of gas which all of the pools in this state can currently produce in accordance with good operating practice exceeds the amount reasonably required to meet the reasonable market demand, the department shall limit the gas which may be currently produced to an […]
RCW 78.52.300 Limitation of gas production from one pool. Whenever the total amount of gas which may be currently produced from all of the pools in this state has not been limited as hereinabove provided, and the available production from any one pool containing gas only is in excess of the reasonable market demand or […]
RCW 78.52.310 Proration of allowable production in pool—Publication of orders—Emergency orders. Whenever the department limits the total amount of oil or gas which may be produced from any pool to an amount less than that which the pool could produce if no restrictions were imposed (whether incidental to, or without, a limitation of the total […]
RCW 78.52.320 Compliance with limitation or proration required. Whenever the production of oil or gas in this state or any pool therein is limited and the “oil allowable” or “gas allowable” is established and prorated by the department as provided in RCW 78.52.310, no person shall thereafter produce from any well, pool, lease, or property […]
RCW 78.52.330 Unit operation of separately owned tracts. To assist in the development of oil and gas in this state and to further the purposes of this chapter, the persons owning interests in separate tracts of land, may validly agree to integrate their interests and manage, operate, and develop their land as a unit, subject […]
RCW 78.52.335 Unit operation of pools. (1) The department shall upon the application of any interested person, or upon its own motion, hold a hearing to consider the need for the operation as a unit of one or more pools or parts of them in a field. (2) The department may enter an order providing […]
RCW 78.52.345 Ratable purchase of oil from owners or operators of pool required. Each person now or hereafter purchasing or taking for transportation oil from any owner or producer shall purchase or take ratably without discrimination in favor of any owner or operator over any other owner or producer in the same pool offering to […]
