In order to promote the conservation of oil and gas resources, prevent waste, avoid the drilling of unnecessary wells, allow the drilling of wells at optimum geologic locations, and protect correlative rights, the State Oil and Gas Board of Alabama upon its own motion may, or upon the petition of any interested person shall, hold a hearing to consider the need for the operation as a unit of an entire field or of any pool or pools or of any portion of a pool or combinations thereof within a field for the production of oil or gas or both in order to increase the ultimate recovery by enhanced recovery methods or any other method of cooperative development and operation calculated to increase the ultimate recovery of oil or gas.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.
Section 9-17-80 - Enhanced Recovery Methods.
Section 9-17-81 - Meeting of Board to Consider Need for Unit Operation.
Section 9-17-82 - Order Requiring Unit Operation - When Issued.
Section 9-17-83 - Order Requiring Unit Operation - Contents.
Section 9-17-84 - Order Requiring Unit Operation - When Effective; When Automatically Revoked.
Section 9-17-85 - New or Amending Orders.
Section 9-17-86 - Alteration of Contribution of Separately Owned Tract.
Section 9-17-87 - Production and Operations Deemed to Be Those of Separately Owned Tracts.