Section 9-17-82 Order Requiring Unit Operation - When Issued.
The board must issue an order requiring unit operation when it finds the stated conditions are met.
- Resource development
- Unit operation
- Waste prevention
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The board must issue an order requiring unit operation when it finds the stated conditions are met.
This order must be fair and reasonable, protect interested parties, and include specified items about the unit area, operations, production allocation, cost sharing, unit operator selection, payment handling, and when the unit operation starts and ends.
A unit operation order does not take effect unless required owners approve it, and it is automatically revoked if that approval is not obtained within six months.
The board may issue new or amending orders to add pools to unit operations and extend the unit area, but the order only becomes effective if specified agreement and evidence requirements are met.
A contribution for a separately owned tract generally cannot be changed after it is established, unless the board finds after notice and hearing that it was erroneous for the stated reasons.
Unit production allocated to a separately owned tract is treated as if it came from that tract, and unit-pool operations are treated as operations for producing oil or gas from each separately owned tract.
This article applies only to field or pool units, and it does not apply to unitization of interests within a drilling unit covered by Article 1.
The State Geologist serves as the State Oil and Gas Supervisor, has that office’s duties and powers, and receives $3,600 per year.
Alabama enacts the Southern Interstate Nuclear Compact, which creates a multi-state board and sets rules for its duties, powers, financing, reporting, and withdrawal from the compact.
The Governor must appoint one member of the Southern Interstate Nuclear Board. That member serves at the Governor’s pleasure. If the member is the head of a state department or agency, the member may designate a subordinate to serve instead, subject to the compact and the board’s bylaws.
The Board of Control of the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama may enter contracts with the Southern Interstate Nuclear Board, but the contracts cannot take effect until approved by the Director of Finance.
The board must submit its budget of estimated expenditures to the Governor for presentation to the Legislature.
A supplementary agreement that would require new spending cannot take effect for this state until the Legislature makes an appropriation for it.
State departments, agencies, and officers, including those of subdivisions, are authorized to cooperate with the Southern Interstate Nuclear Board.
This compact creates a Southern States Energy Board and sets rules for its meetings, votes, reports, finances, and powers.
This section assigns who serves on the Southern States Energy Board and who may appoint or designate substitutes or assistants.
This provision sets who serves on the Southern States Energy Board, who appoints them, and who may name deputies or assistants.
A supplementary agreement covered by Article VI does not become effective for this state unless the needed funds have been appropriated by law.
State departments, agencies, and officers may cooperate with the Southern States Energy Board.
This section defines four terms used in the chapter: cave, speleothem, commercial cave, and wild cave.
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