(a) Where the Oil and Gas Commission has received a proper petition praying an order for the operation of an entire pool as a unit and after proper hearing and evidence has issued its order unitizing the pool, then the following procedure may be instituted by one (1) or more persons authorized in the unit operating agreement to file with it a petition praying for an order setting up a salt water disposal unit within the production unit of the entire pool.
(b) The unitization of the entire pool as an operating unit must be ordered by the commission as a condition precedent before the petition praying a salt water disposal unit may be filed.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development
Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine
Chapter 72 - Oil and Gas Production and Conservation
Subchapter 3 - Pools and Drilling Units
§ 15-72-301. Applicability of §§ 15-72-307 — 15-72-314
§ 15-72-302. Just and equitable shares — Preventing waste, avoiding risks, etc. — Drilling units
§ 15-72-303. Authority to integrate production in drilling units
§ 15-72-304. Integration orders generally
§ 15-72-305. Allocation of production and cost following integration order — Procedure
§ 15-72-306. Limitation on production if no integration
§ 15-72-307. Formation of units not in restraint of trade
§ 15-72-308. Petition for unit operation — Hearing
§ 15-72-309. Findings to support order requiring unit operation — Issuance
§ 15-72-310. Order requiring unit operation — Contents
§ 15-72-311. Obligation or liability of owners for expenses
§ 15-72-313. New unit operation order in pool established by previous order
§ 15-72-314. Unit area oil and gas — Product of tract
§ 15-72-315. Unitization of entire pool as one operating unit
§ 15-72-316. Salt water disposal unit operation of a pool — Petition
§ 15-72-317. Findings to support order requiring salt water disposal unit operation
§ 15-72-318. Order requiring salt water disposal unit operation — Contents
§ 15-72-319. Salt water disposal unit operation — Expenses
§ 15-72-320. Salt water disposal unit — Operator's lien
§ 15-72-321. Enlarged operation of salt water disposal unit established by previous order
§ 15-72-322. Oil and gas from salt water disposal unit — Product of tract