(a) The commission has jurisdiction under this chapter over geothermal wells to prevent waste, to protect correlative rights, and to ensure public safety. (b) The Department of Natural Resources has jurisdiction under this chapter over management of geothermal leases and units in the public interest and to effect development.
The waste of geothermal resources in the state is prohibited. The commission may investigate to determine whether waste exists or is imminent, or whether other facts exist that justify or require action by the commission to prohibit waste.
(a) The commission has jurisdiction over all persons and property, public and private, necessary to carry out the purposes and intent of this chapter. (b) The authority of the commission applies to all land in the state lawfully subject to the police power of the state, including private land, municipal land, state land, land of […]
(a) The commissioner shall require the filing and approval of a plan of development and operation on a geothermal system that includes state land. (b) Lessees of all or part of a geothermal system that includes state land may enter into a unit agreement for cooperative development, with the approval of the commissioner. The commissioner […]
(a) The commission may issue well-spacing and pooling orders, place limits on production, and impose reinjection requirements for the purpose of preventing waste and to protect correlative rights in a geothermal system. (b) The commission may adopt regulations under AS 44.62 and issue orders appropriate to carry out the purposes and intent of this chapter […]
(a) The commission shall adopt regulations under AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act), issue orders, and take other appropriate action to carry out the purposes and intent of this chapter, including adopting regulations to prevent (1) geothermal resources, water or other fluids, and gases from escaping into strata other than that in which they are found, […]
(a) A person shall apply for and receive a permit from the commission before drilling a well in (1) search of geothermal resources; or (2) support of the recovery or production of geothermal resources. (b) The application required in (a) of this section must contain sufficient information to enable the commission to determine if the […]
(a) Each person that, on the first day of a state fiscal year, operates a well within the jurisdiction of the commission for which a permit to drill has been issued under AS 41.06.050 shall pay to the commission an annual regulatory charge for each well that has not, before the first day of that […]
In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, (1) “commercial use” means the sale of heat or power to a third party; (2) “commission” means the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission created under AS 31.05.005; (3) “correlative rights” means the right of an owner of each property in a geothermal system to produce without […]
