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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
1. The order of the Division must define the area of the pool or portion thereof to be included within the unit area and prescribe with reasonable detail the plan of unitization applicable thereto. 2. Each unit and unit area must be limited to all or a portion of a single pool. Only so much […]
1. No order of the Division creating a unit and prescribing the plan of unitization applicable thereto becomes effective unless: (a) The plan of unitization has been signed or in writing ratified, or approved by the lessees of record of not less than 62.5 percent of the unit area affected thereby and by the owners […]
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 […]
The unit area of a unit may be enlarged to include adjoining portions of the same pool, including the unit area of another unit, and a new unit created for the unitized management, operation and further development of the enlarged unit area, or the plan of unitization may be otherwise amended, all in the same […]
All property, whether real or personal, which the unit may in any way acquire, hold or possess, may not be acquired, held or possessed by the unit for its own account but must be so acquired, held and possessed by the unit for the account and as agent of the several lessees and is the […]
1. This chapter does not require a transfer to or vesting in the unit of title to the separately owned tracts or leases within the unit area, other than the right to use and operate them to the extent set out in the plan of unitization; nor may the unit be regarded as owning the […]
1. The amount of the unit production allocated to each separately owned tract within the unit, and only that amount, regardless of the well or wells in the unit area from which it may be produced and regardless of whether it be more or less than the amount of the production from the well or […]
The obligation or liability of the lessees or other owners of the oil and gas rights in the several separately owned tracts for the payment of unit expense is at all times several and not joint or collective and in no event is a lessee or other owner of the oil and gas rights in […]
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 […]
Operations carried on under and in accordance with the plan of unitization must be considered as a fulfillment of a compliance with all of the provisions, covenants and conditions, express or implied, of the several oil and gas leases upon lands included with the unit area, or other contracts pertaining to the development thereof insofar […]
Property rights, leases, contracts and all other rights and obligations must be regarded as amended and modified to the extent necessary to conform to the provisions and requirements of this chapter and to any valid and applicable plan of unitization or order of the Division made and adopted pursuant to this chapter, but otherwise to […]
No agreement or plan for the development and operation of a field or pool of oil or gas as a unit, if approved by the Division for the purpose of conserving oil or gas, violates any of the statutes of this state prohibiting monopolies or acts, arrangements, agreements, contracts, combinations or conspiracies in restraint of […]
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)
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 […]
After the effective date of an order of the Division creating a unit and prescribing the plan of unitization applicable thereto, the operation of any well producing from the pool or portion thereof within the unit area defined in the order by persons other than the unit or persons acting under its authority or except […]