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Offshore production from depths greater than 8,000 feet below mean sea level is taxed at 1.66% of the gross proceeds attributable to that production.
This provision defines key terms for alternative energy facilities and gives the State Oil and Gas Board power to authorize, regulate, fee, and require abandonment-related actions for those facilities.
Two board members make a quorum, and two affirmative votes are required to adopt or promulgate a board rule, regulation, or order.
The Attorney General is the board’s attorney. In an emergency, the board may ask the local district attorney to represent it until the Attorney General takes over. Board members and the secretary may administer oaths to witnesses in covered hearings, investigations, or proceedings.
When an optional gas and oil lease on record lapses, the lessee must, on written request from the lessor, cancel it on the records or give the lessor a duly acknowledged instrument directing cancellation.
The board has broad authority to regulate and enforce oil and gas conservation rules, including inspections, records, hearings, meters, and related enforcement actions.
The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources may lease certain state lands for oil, gas, minerals, and related energy uses, and may change renewal or extension terms for those leases.
The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources may lease certain state-owned or state-beneficial lands for oil, gas, or other mineral exploration, development, and production, if the head of the relevant state entity makes a written request.
The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources may lease certain state lands and interests in them for oil, gas, and mineral exploration, development, and production, and the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources supervises and manages those lands for those purposes.
A lease covered by this division may allow the lessee to pool or unitize the lease or related lands or minerals with other property, on terms approved by the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources.
The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources may execute certain pooling/unitization and lease-amendment agreements, but Governor approval in writing is required.
Land leases under this division must be handled through competitive bids, with public bid opening, bid notices, a 25-day publication lead time, and a five-day decision window for the Commissioner.
People who ask the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources to advertise state lands for oil and gas lease purposes must pay the necessary legal advertisement costs.
The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources may set a reasonable charge for its oil and gas lease tract charts.
This provision allocates lease revenues and administration costs from certain state lands and waters, and requires the Commissioner to route the money accordingly.
These revenues may be spent only if, and only to the extent that, the spending is appropriated by law.
The board must set its own procedure for hearings and generally hold a public hearing with at least 10 days’ notice before making or changing rules, regulations, or orders unless there is an emergency.
The board can issue subpoenas and demand witnesses, testimony, and records, and courts can enforce compliance by attachment and contempt. People generally must comply, but unrelated inquiries are excluded, and testifying does not protect against perjury prosecution.
This provision defines “enhanced recovery methods” for oil and gas as increased recovery from a pool achieved by artificial means or added energy.
The State Oil and Gas Board of Alabama may, or must on petition, hold a hearing to consider whether part or all of a field or pool should be operated as a unit for oil or gas production.
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