Natural Resources Code § 101.011

Sec. 101.011. AUTHORIZED AGREEMENTS FOR SEPARATELY OWNED PROPERTIES. Subject to the approval of the commission, as provided in this chapter, persons owning or controlling production, leases, royalties, or other interests in separate property in the same oil field, gas field, or oil and gas field may voluntarily enter into and perform agreements for either or both of the following purposes: (1) to establish pooled units, necessary to effect secondary recovery operations for oil or gas, including those known as cycling, recycling, repressuring, water flooding, and pressure maintenance and to establish and operate cooperative facilities necessary for the secondary recovery operations; (2) to establish pooled units and cooperative facilities necessary for the conservation and use of gas, including those for extracting and separating the hydrocarbons from the natural gas or casinghead gas and returning the dry gas to a formation underlying any land or leases committed to the agreement. Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2567, ch. 871, art. I, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1977.