2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Chapter 520 - Conservation of Gas and Oil
Section 520.270 - Plan for unit operations.


(1) A description of the pool or pools or parts thereof to be so operated.
(2) A statement of the nature of the operations contemplated.
(3) An allocation to the separately owned tracts in the unit area of all the oil and gas that is produced from the unit area and is saved, being the production that is not used in the conduct of operations on the unit area or not unavoidably lost.
(4) A provision for the credits and charges to be made in the adjustment among the owners in the unit area for their respective investments in wells, tanks, pumps, machinery, materials and equipment contributed to the unit operations.
(5) A provision stating how the costs of unit operations, including capital investments, shall be determined and charged to the separately owned tracts and how these costs shall be paid, including a provision stating when, how and by whom the unit production allocated to an owner who does not pay the share of the cost of unit operations charged to such owner, or the interest of such owner, may be sold and the proceeds applied to the payment of such costs.
(6) A provision, if necessary, for carrying or otherwise financing any person who elects to be carried or otherwise financed, allowing a reasonable interest charge for such service payable out of that person’s share of the production.
(7) A provision for the supervision and conduct of the unit operations, in respect to which each person shall have a vote with a value corresponding to the percentage of the costs of unit operations chargeable against the interest of that person.
(8) The time when the unit operations shall commence, and the manner in which, and the circumstances under which, the unit operations shall terminate.
(9) Additional provisions that are found appropriate for carrying on the unit operations, and for the protection of correlative rights. [1961 c.671 §3]

Structure 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources

Chapter 520 - Conservation of Gas and Oil

Section 520.005 - Definitions.

Section 520.017 - Fees; rules; disposition of fees.

Section 520.025 - Permit for drilling well or using well; extension; annual report; grounds for granting or denying permit.

Section 520.027 - Information holes; holes drilled as part of seismic program; trade secrets.

Section 520.045 - Determination of waste of oil or gas.

Section 520.055 - General jurisdiction and authority of board; tidal lands; rules.

Section 520.095 - Rules and orders; bond.

Section 520.097 - Abandonment or completion of well; well logs and records; trade secrets.

Section 520.125 - Authority of board to summon witnesses and require production of evidence.

Section 520.175 - Injunctions to restrain violation or threatened violation of chapter.

Section 520.210 - Establishment of spacing units for pool or field; purpose; scope; effect.

Section 520.220 - Integrating interests or tracts within spacing unit.

Section 520.230 - Approved agreement for cooperative or unit development of pool not to be construed as violating certain regulatory laws.

Section 520.240 - Voluntary unitization of operations by lessees of tidal or submersible lands; Department of State Lands’ function.

Section 520.260 - Hearing to determine need for unitization of operations; required findings; order.

Section 520.270 - Plan for unit operations.

Section 520.280 - Allocation of production under plan; ownership.

Section 520.290 - When unitization order to become effective; supplemental hearings.

Section 520.300 - Amending unitization order.

Section 520.310 - Unitization of area including area previously unitized; partial unitization of pool.

Section 520.320 - Unitization order does not terminate prior agreements or affect oil and gas rights; acquisition of property during unit operations.

Section 520.350 - Property rights in underground reservoirs for natural gas storage.