Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 27 - Minerals, Oil and Gas
§ 27-555.01 - Extension of lease due to lack of transportation, processing facilities or market

27-555.01. Extension of lease due to lack of transportation, processing facilities or market
A. When the owner of an oil and gas lease issued pursuant to this chapter has discovered oil or gas on the leased premises or on lands joined therewith in a cooperative or pooled unit, while the lease is in full force and effect, but is unable to produce oil or gas in paying quantities because of lack of transportation or processing facilities or a market for the oil or gas that would support production in paying quantities, each lease on which there is an oil or gas well or which is part of the cooperative or pooled unit shall be extended beyond the primary term, or any extension of the lease under section 27-555, subsection E, paragraph 1, from year to year, but not to exceed a period of five years, by payment of a shut-in oil or gas royalty of one dollar per acre for the first year, two dollars per acre for the second year and three dollars per acre for the third, fourth and fifth years, payable in advance annually on the anniversary date of the lease. If the payment is made it will be deemed that oil or gas is being procured and produced in paying quantities from the leased premises for such year.
B. To successfully assert shut-in status under subsection A of this section, the owner of the lease must:
1. Complete the well by installing and perforating production casing, by installing a production liner at reservoir depth or by other standard industry practices.
2. File a standard well completion report with the commission indicating an oil or gas discovery.
3. Submit to the department, not later than thirty days before the expiration of the lease, and at or before tendering the first year's shut-in royalties, a copy of the well completion report filed with the commission and the information described in either subdivision (a) or (b) of this paragraph. A well meeting either of the following criteria is considered to be capable of production in paying quantities for the purposes of this section:
(a) A calculation reasonably demonstrating that, as of the date of submission, the monthly proceeds of the well would be expected to exceed the well's monthly operating expenses, if transportation and processing facilities were present and a market existed. The owner may estimate monthly production based on well test results and any other data the owner considers helpful, estimate the monthly value of that production using approximate then-current pricing and estimate monthly operating expenses for the well based on recent history of comparable wells. Costs of drilling, completing and equipping the well shall not be considered in the calculation.
(b) Information satisfying any other alternate test that may be adopted by the department for demonstrating capability to produce in paying quantities, if transportation and processing facilities were present and a market existed.
C. If the department considers that the requirements of subsection B of this section have not been met, it has ninety days after receiving the submission required under subsection B, paragraph 3 of this section in which to deny shut-in status by appealable agency order, which must identify with reasonable particularity the basis for the determination that the requirements of subsection B of this section have not been met. The lease shall remain in effect pending final resolution, whether administrative, judicial or otherwise, as to whether the criteria in subsection B of this section have been met.
D. Subsection B of this section sets forth the full set of information that an owner of a lease must furnish the department with reasonable particularity before the expiration of the lease for which shut-in status is asserted. To assert shut-in status, further reviews or additional tests or audits shall not be conducted for the owner to be entitled to a lease extension pursuant to this section.
E. This section shall apply to existing oil and gas leases in good standing.

Structure Arizona Revised Statutes

Arizona Revised Statutes

Title 27 - Minerals, Oil and Gas

§ 27-101 - Definitions

§ 27-102 - Arizona geological survey; state geologist; powers

§ 27-103 - Objectives of Arizona geological survey

§ 27-104 - Qualifications of employees; private activities relating to geological services prohibited

§ 27-105 - Immunity

§ 27-106 - Duties of Arizona geological survey; mining, mineral and natural resources educational museum

§ 27-107 - Powers and duties; fund

§ 27-108 - Publications; deposit

§ 27-110 - Trade secrets; confidentiality; definition

§ 27-111 - Mining, mineral and natural resources educational museum advisory council; membership; duties; terms; compensation

§ 27-121 - Qualifications of state mine inspector; affidavit; continuing education; deputy inspectors; salary; seal; immunity

§ 27-122 - Deputy inspectors

§ 27-123 - Education and training fees

§ 27-124 - Mine inspections required; powers of inspector

§ 27-125 - Inspection report

§ 27-126 - Annual report to governor

§ 27-127 - Restrictions on divulging information by inspectors and employees; dismissal for violation

§ 27-128 - Inspection of mines; violation; classification

§ 27-129 - Locating abandoned mines; public education; donor immunity

§ 27-131 - Abandoned mines safety fund; annual report

§ 27-201 - Location of mining claim upon discovery of mineral in place

§ 27-202 - Method of locating a lode claim; monument; location notice; amendments

§ 27-203 - Completing lode, placer or millsite locations; recording location notice; monumenting; map, plat or sketch requirements; abandonment of claims; recorder duties and fees

§ 27-204 - Monumenting lode claims

§ 27-205 - Locating and monumenting placer and millsite claims

§ 27-206 - Relocation

§ 27-208 - Affidavit of annual work; affidavit of claim maintenance fee payment; fees

§ 27-209 - Sufficiency of description of mining claims

§ 27-210 - Existing claims

§ 27-221 - Notice to delinquent co-owner to contribute share of annual labor expense or maintenance fees

§ 27-222 - Acknowledgment of contribution by delinquent co-owner

§ 27-231 - Definition of mineral

§ 27-233 - Preferred right to renew mineral lease; evaluation of geologic and economic evidence

§ 27-234 - Rent; royalty; appeal; interest; penalty; lien

§ 27-235 - Offering permits and leases at auction; terms of lease; financial security termination

§ 27-236 - Suspension of royalty rights

§ 27-237 - Review by commissioner

§ 27-238 - Existing leases

§ 27-239 - Inspections, investigations and audits

§ 27-251 - Application for mineral exploration permit

§ 27-252 - Terms of mineral exploration permit; definition

§ 27-253 - Renewal of permit

§ 27-254 - Mineral lease

§ 27-255 - Bonds

§ 27-256 - Assignment

§ 27-271 - Definition of common variety minerals

§ 27-271.01 - Inventory of trust land containing common mineral products, materials and property

§ 27-272 - Common variety mineral leases; terms and conditions; rules

§ 27-273 - Performance and reclamation bonds

§ 27-274 - Trade secrets; confidentiality; definition

§ 27-276 - Enforcement

§ 27-301 - Definitions

§ 27-302 - Operations subject to chapter; enforcement by inspector; violation; classification

§ 27-303 - Notification to inspector of beginning or suspending operations

§ 27-304 - Operator responsibility

§ 27-305 - Employee responsibility

§ 27-306 - First aid; inspectors as qualified instructors

§ 27-307 - Notice to operator of dangerous condition; compliance; failure to comply as prima facie evidence of negligence; order to cease operations

§ 27-308 - Complaint to inspector of dangerous conditions by employee; inspection

§ 27-309 - Reports of fatal accidents to inspector; investigation

§ 27-310 - Copy of law available for inspection

§ 27-311 - Fire prevention and protection

§ 27-312 - Safety equipment

§ 27-313 - Machinery

§ 27-314 - Electrical installations

§ 27-315 - Unauthorized persons

§ 27-316 - Intoxicating liquors and drugs

§ 27-317 - Waste dumps and tailings areas; signs; violation; classification

§ 27-318 - Abandoned and inactive mines to be secured; inspector authority; violation; classification

§ 27-321 - Explosives; records; inspection

§ 27-322 - Explosives; marking; utilization and storage

§ 27-323 - Explosives; rules and regulations; access to operations

§ 27-324 - Blasting

§ 27-325 - Use of tamping bar

§ 27-341 - Escapement shafts

§ 27-342 - Mine outlets

§ 27-343 - Structures over mine outlet

§ 27-344 - Timbering support

§ 27-345 - Shelter areas

§ 27-346 - Ladder-ways

§ 27-347 - Construction of ladder-ways

§ 27-348 - Shaft stations

§ 27-349 - Tracks and roadbeds; maintenance underground

§ 27-350 - Lights; trolley wires

§ 27-351 - Hoists; operator; indicator

§ 27-352 - Inspection and construction of hoists

§ 27-353 - Safety cage and catches

§ 27-354 - Cross-heads; buckets

§ 27-355 - Hoisting tools and materials

§ 27-356 - Protection from falling materials

§ 27-357 - Hoist release signal

§ 27-358 - Signaling apparatus

§ 27-359 - Signal code

§ 27-360 - Precautions against flooding

§ 27-361 - Common system of drainage; contribution of cost

§ 27-362 - Order for inspection

§ 27-363 - Danger signals; visitors

§ 27-364 - Interfering with equipment

§ 27-365 - Regulation of underground use of internal combustion engines

§ 27-366 - Maps of underground workings

§ 27-367 - Maintenance and use of loading equipment

§ 27-368 - Ventilation; condition of airways; testing

§ 27-369 - Evacuation; procedure; routes

§ 27-370 - Stench warning

§ 27-371 - Radon control

§ 27-372 - Uranium operations; testing for radon daughters

§ 27-373 - Cap lamps

§ 27-411 - Definitions

§ 27-412 - Dust control

§ 27-421 - Ingress and egress

§ 27-422 - Banks

§ 27-423 - Tracks, roadbeds and roadways

§ 27-424 - Operation of heavy equipment

§ 27-425 - Open pits; fencing or blocking

§ 27-441 - Definitions

§ 27-442 - Aggregate mining operations; community notice; application

§ 27-443 - Application fee; aggregate community notice fund

§ 27-444 - Community notice; public meeting

§ 27-445 - Approval of community notice or major modification

§ 27-446 - Claims of deviation from an approved community notice

§ 27-447 - Inspection and enforcement

§ 27-448 - Sand and gravel safety rules

§ 27-461 - Definitions

§ 27-462 - Administration by inspector; rules and regulations

§ 27-463 - Procedure

§ 27-464 - Notice of proposed adoption of rule

§ 27-469 - Exceptions to rules and regulations

§ 27-501 - Definitions

§ 27-502 - Declaration of policy

§ 27-503 - Waste of oil or gas prohibited; powers of commissioner to prevent waste

§ 27-504 - Drilling units; rules and regulations; exceptions

§ 27-505 - Pooling of interests

§ 27-506 - Regulation of drilling in pools; notice of sale, transfer or purchase

§ 27-507.01 - Common purchaser of crude oil and petroleum; duties; ratable taking; discrimination prohibited

§ 27-508.01 - Common purchaser of gas; duties; ratable taking; discrimination prohibited

§ 27-509 - Certificate of compliance

§ 27-510 - Certificate of clearance

§ 27-511 - Confiscation proceedings

§ 27-512 - Sale of illegal oil or gas or illegal products

§ 27-513 - Permit to drill well

§ 27-513.01 - Appointment by drilling permittee of attorney upon whom to serve process

§ 27-514 - Commission; appointment; terms; compensation

§ 27-515 - Administration; powers of the commission; fees

§ 27-516 - Rules

§ 27-517 - Hearings; reporter; fees

§ 27-519 - Refusal to obey subpoena

§ 27-520 - Judicial review; procedures

§ 27-521 - Duties of attorney general

§ 27-522 - Records

§ 27-523 - Deposit of monies; expenses

§ 27-524 - Enforcement

§ 27-525 - Injunctions and restraining orders

§ 27-526 - Appeals

§ 27-527 - Violation; classification

§ 27-531 - Integration of interests and spacing units

§ 27-532 - Order; units and unit areas; plan of unitization

§ 27-533 - Ratification or approval of plan by lessees and owners

§ 27-534 - Unlawful operation

§ 27-535 - Status and powers of unit; liability and expenses; lien

§ 27-536 - Modification of property rights, leases and contracts; title to property; distribution of proceeds; delivery in kind; effect of operations; matters not affected

§ 27-537 - Enlargement of area; creation of new units; amendment of plan

§ 27-538 - Federal taxation

§ 27-539 - Validation of unit agreements

§ 27-551 - Definitions

§ 27-552 - Rules and regulations

§ 27-553 - Leasing state lands for oil and gas

§ 27-554 - Designation of known geological structures of producing oil and gas fields

§ 27-555 - Lease of state lands not located within known geological structure of producing oil and gas field; application; lease extension; provisions of lease; withdrawal of lands from leasing

§ 27-555.01 - Extension of lease due to lack of transportation, processing facilities or market

§ 27-556 - Lease of state lands located within known geological structure of producing oil or gas field; sealed bids; call for bids; publication; lease extension; provisions of lease; acreage limitation

§ 27-557 - Unit operations; unit agreements

§ 27-558 - Conservation laws

§ 27-559 - Development of water for use in operations; taking over well which yields fresh water

§ 27-560 - Surface use by lessee; liability for damages; bond; appraisal of damages; appeal

§ 27-561 - Assignment of lease; recording

§ 27-562 - Surrender

§ 27-563 - Payment of noncompetitive lease royalties in kind or cash

§ 27-564 - Receipt and sale of royalty oil

§ 27-565 - Application to purchase royalty oil

§ 27-566 - Notice to lessee of election; storage

§ 27-567 - Sales of royalty oil

§ 27-568 - Delivery of oil to purchaser

§ 27-569 - Prohibitions on resale

§ 27-570 - Bond and penalties; waiver

§ 27-571 - Inspecting well records; trade secrets; confidentiality; definition

§ 27-601 - Authorization to enter compact

§ 27-602 - Extension of expiration date

§ 27-603 - Official representative

§ 27-651 - Definitions

§ 27-652 - Supervision by commission

§ 27-653 - Information; filing; confidentiality

§ 27-654 - Drilling bond; amount; responsibility

§ 27-655 - Commission approval prior to operation; information; hearing

§ 27-656 - Rules and orders; hearing

§ 27-657 - Agent for process

§ 27-658 - Notice of sale or conveyance of well or land

§ 27-659 - Application to drill

§ 27-660 - Safety requirements

§ 27-661 - Drilling record; samples

§ 27-662 - Monthly report

§ 27-663 - Unlawful interference; classification

§ 27-664 - Cooperative development agreements; unitization

§ 27-665 - Unitization; requirements

§ 27-666 - Pooling

§ 27-667 - Relationship of geothermal resources to water laws

§ 27-668 - Leasing state lands for development of geothermal resources

§ 27-669 - Designation of known geothermal resource areas

§ 27-670 - Lease of state lands; application; call for bids; publication; withdrawal of lands from leasing

§ 27-671 - Provisions of lease

§ 27-672 - Unit operations; unit agreements

§ 27-673 - Surface use by lessee; liability for damages; bond; appraisal of damages; appeal

§ 27-674 - Assignment of lease; recording

§ 27-675 - Surrender

§ 27-676 - Enjoining violations

§ 27-677 - Violation; civil penalty

§ 27-901 - Definitions

§ 27-902 - Division of mined land reclamation; coordination of programs and activities

§ 27-903 - Exemption for state lands; agreements for coordination with other governmental agencies and landowners

§ 27-904 - Rules; contributions

§ 27-905 - Certificate of disclosure of violations; remedies; definition

§ 27-921 - Surface disturbances created by new exploration operation or mining unit

§ 27-922 - Surface disturbances created by existing exploration operation or mining unit; extension; continuing operations

§ 27-923 - Creating surface disturbances of five acres or less

§ 27-924 - Inactive mining units

§ 27-925 - Remedial response to emergencies and governmental orders

§ 27-926 - Initiation, extension and completion of reclamation

§ 27-927 - Substantial changes to approved reclamation plan; fee

§ 27-928 - Transferring an approved reclamation plan

§ 27-929 - Notice of plan or substantial change

§ 27-930 - Public disclosure of information; definition

§ 27-931 - Variances

§ 27-932 - Coordination with other governmental agencies

§ 27-933 - Denials; appeals

§ 27-934 - Plan submission fee; accounting and appropriation of revenues

§ 27-935 - Plan review and evaluation by private consultants

§ 27-1221 - Surface disturbances created by new exploration operation or aggregate mining unit

§ 27-1222 - Surface disturbances created by existing exploration operation or aggregate mining unit; extension; continuing operations

§ 27-1223 - Creating surface disturbances of five acres or less

§ 27-1224 - Inactive aggregate mining units

§ 27-1225 - Remedial response to governmental orders

§ 27-1226 - Initiation, extension and completion of reclamation

§ 27-1227 - Substantial changes to approved reclamation plan

§ 27-1228 - Transferring an approved reclamation plan

§ 27-1229 - Notice of plan or substantial change; new exploration operations; new aggregate mining units

§ 27-1230 - Notice of plan for existing exploration operations and existing aggregate mining units

§ 27-1231 - Public disclosure of information; definition

§ 27-1232 - Coordination with other governmental agencies

§ 27-1233 - Fees; plan submissions; substantial changes; aggregate mining reclamation fund

§ 27-1234 - Plan review and evaluation by private consultants

§ 27-1235 - Appeals

§ 27-1236 - Licensing time frames

§ 27-1237 - Variances

§ 27-951 - Submission and contents of reclamation plan

§ 27-952 - Notice of complete, incomplete or denied plan

§ 27-953 - Approval; criteria

§ 27-954 - Beginning new exploration operations

§ 27-955 - Annual renewal

§ 27-1251 - Submission and contents of reclamation plan

§ 27-1252 - Notice of complete, incomplete or denied plan

§ 27-1253 - Approval; criteria

§ 27-1254 - Beginning new exploration operations

§ 27-1255 - Annual renewal

§ 27-971 - Submission and contents of reclamation plan

§ 27-972 - Notice of complete, incomplete or denied plan

§ 27-973 - Approval; criteria

§ 27-974 - Preservation and conservation of soil; exceptions

§ 27-975 - Features excluded from reclamation plan or allowed to remain following reclamation; public protection measures

§ 27-976 - Beginning new mining units

§ 27-991 - Financial assurance requirements; form

§ 27-992 - Mining unit or existing exploration operation

§ 27-993 - New exploration operation

§ 27-994 - Duplication of financial assurance not required

§ 27-995 - Incremental financial assurance

§ 27-996 - Release of financial assurance

§ 27-997 - Rules; release, forfeiture or exercise of financial assurance

§ 27-1291 - Financial assurance requirements; form

§ 27-1292 - Aggregate mining unit or existing exploration operation

§ 27-1293 - New exploration operation

§ 27-1294 - Duplication of financial assurance not required

§ 27-1295 - Incremental financial assurance

§ 27-1296 - Release of financial assurance

§ 27-1297 - Rules; release, forfeiture or exercise of financial assurance

§ 27-1021 - Inspections

§ 27-1022 - Compliance orders

§ 27-1023 - Enforcement action on reclamation plan approval

§ 27-1024 - Injunctive relief; civil penalties

§ 27-1025 - Agency order; appeal

§ 27-1026 - Violation; classification

§ 27-1321 - Inspections

§ 27-1322 - Compliance orders

§ 27-1323 - Enforcement action on reclamation plan approval

§ 27-1324 - Injunctive relief; civil penalties

§ 27-1325 - Agency order; appeal

§ 27-1326 - Violation; classification

§ 27-1327 - Procurement; aggregate materials; eligibility

§ 27-1201 - Definitions

§ 27-1202 - Coordination of programs and activities

§ 27-1203 - Exemption for state lands; agreements for coordination with other governmental agencies and landowners

§ 27-1203.01 - Exemption for limited, intermittent-use projects

§ 27-1204 - Rules; contributions

§ 27-1205 - Certificate of disclosure of violations; remedies; definition

§ 27-1271 - Submission and contents of reclamation plan

§ 27-1272 - Notice of complete, incomplete or denied plan

§ 27-1273 - Approval; criteria

§ 27-1274 - Preservation and conservation of soil; exceptions

§ 27-1275 - Features excluded from reclamation plan or allowed to remain following reclamation; public protection measures

§ 27-1276 - Beginning new aggregate mining units

§ 27-1277 - Annual status report