Section 9-17-80 Enhanced recovery methods. The phrase “enhanced recovery methods” as used herein shall mean the increased recovery from a pool of oil or gas achieved by artificial means or by the application of energy extrinsic to the pool, including repressuring, cycling, pressure maintenance, injection, or any other enhanced recovery methods of producing hydrocarbons recognized […]
Section 9-17-81 Meeting of board to consider need for unit operation. In order to promote the conservation of oil and gas resources, prevent waste, avoid the drilling of unnecessary wells, allow the drilling of wells at optimum geologic locations, and protect correlative rights, the State Oil and Gas Board of Alabama upon its own motion […]
Section 9-17-82 Order requiring unit operation – When issued. The board shall issue an order requiring such unit operation if it finds that: (1) Unit operation of the field or of any pool or pools or of any portion of a pool or combinations thereof within the field is reasonably necessary to prevent waste, to […]
Section 9-17-83 Order requiring unit operation – Contents. The order shall be fair and reasonable under all the circumstances, shall protect the rights of interested parties and shall include: (1) A description of the area embraced, termed the unit area, and a description of the pool or pools or portions thereof affected and lying within […]
Section 9-17-84 Order requiring unit operation – When effective; when automatically revoked. An order requiring unit operation shall not become effective unless and until agreements incorporating the provisions of Section 9-17-83 have been signed or in writing ratified or approved by the owners of at least 66 2/3 percent in interest as costs are shared […]
Section 9-17-85 New or amending orders. (a) The board, by entry of new or amending orders, may from time to time add to unit operations portions of pools not theretofore included and may add to unit operations new pools or portions thereof and may extend the unit area as required. Any such order, in providing […]
Section 9-17-86 Alteration of contribution of separately owned tract. When the contribution of a separately owned tract with respect to any unit pool has been established pursuant to subdivision (3) of Section 9-17-83, such contribution shall not be subsequently altered, unless the board shall find, after notice and hearing, that such contribution was erroneous because […]
Section 9-17-87 Production and operations deemed to be those of separately owned tracts. The portion of unit production allocated to a separately owned tract within the unit area shall be deemed for all purposes to have been actually produced from such tract, and operations with respect to any unit pool within the unit area shall […]
Section 9-17-88 Applicability of article. This article shall apply only to field or pool units and shall not apply to the unitization of interests within a drilling unit as may be authorized and governed under the provisions of Article 1 of this chapter. (Acts 1957, No. 352, p. 461, §8.)
