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NRS 522.082 – “Unit production” defined.

As used in NRS 522.082 to 522.0878, inclusive, “unit production” includes all oil and gas produced from a unit area from and after the effective date of the order of the Division creating the unit regardless of the well or tract within the unit area from which it is produced. (Added to NRS by 1983, […]

NRS 522.0824 – Voluntary unitization; petition for compulsory unitization.

1. To prevent, or to assist in preventing waste, as prohibited by this chapter, to ensure a greater ultimate recovery of oil and gas, and to protect the correlative rights of persons owning interests in the tracts of land affected, those persons may validly integrate their interests to provide for the unitized management, development and […]

NRS 522.0828 – Order for compulsory unitization: Findings required before issuance.

If upon the filing of a petition and after notice and hearing, the Division finds that: 1. The unitized management, operation and further development of a pool or portion thereof is reasonably necessary in order effectively to carry on pressure control, pressure-maintenance or repressuring operations, cycling operations, waterflooding operations, or any combination thereof, or any […]

NRS 522.0838 – Plan of unitization: Required provisions.

The plan of unitization for each such unit and unit area must be one suited to the needs and requirements of the particular unit dependent upon the facts and conditions found to exist with respect thereto. In addition to such other terms, provisions, conditions and requirements found by the Division to be reasonably necessary or […]

NRS 522.0858 – Expenses of unit: Lien for amount assessed; persons primarily responsible for payment; payment by persons not responsible; payment to royalty owners free of lien and expenses.

1. Subject to such reasonable limitations as may be set out in the plan of unitization, the unit has a first and prior lien upon the leasehold estate and all other oil and gas rights (exclusive of a one-eighth landowners’ royalty interest) in and to each separately owned tract, the interest of the owners thereof […]

NRS 522.087 – Implied covenants unaffected.

NRS 522.082 to 522.0878, inclusive, and any plan of unitization do not increase or decrease the implied covenants of a lease in respect to a common source of supply or lands not included within the unit area of a unit. (Added to NRS by 1983, 2077)

NRS 522.0874 – Procedural requirements for petitions, notices and hearings.

1. Except as otherwise expressly provided in NRS 522.082 to 522.0878, inclusive, all proceedings held under this chapter, including the filing of petitions, the giving of notices, the conduct of hearings and other action taken by the Division must be in the form and manner and in accordance with the procedure and procedural requirements provided […]