The State Oil and Gas Board upon the application of any interested person shall, after notice as herein provided, hold a hearing to consider the need for the operation as a unit of an entire field, or of an entire pool or pools, or of any portion or portions or combinations thereof, within a field, for the production of oil or gas or both, in order to increase the ultimate recovery thereof or to prevent waste. The board may reopen the hearing provided in this section at any time prior to the final order adjudicating that the requirements of section 53-3-107 have been satisfied.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals
Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil
Unitization of Oil and Gas Fields and Pools
§ 53-3-101. Applications; hearings
§ 53-3-103. Oil and Gas Board may order unit operation
§ 53-3-105. Provisions and requirements of board's order
§ 53-3-107. When order becomes effective
§ 53-3-109. Amendment of orders; extension of units and inclusion of additional pools
§ 53-3-111. How production allocated
§ 53-3-113. Authority of unit operator; production by others prohibited
§ 53-3-115. Time and manner of giving notice
§ 53-3-117. Administration of Sections 53-3-101 through 53-3-119
§ 53-3-119. Court review of order of oil and gas board by appeal to the chancery court