If upon the filing of a petition and after notice and hearing, the Division finds that:
1. The unitized management, operation and further development of a pool or portion thereof is reasonably necessary in order effectively to carry on pressure control, pressure-maintenance or repressuring operations, cycling operations, waterflooding operations, or any combination thereof, or any other form of joint effort calculated to substantially increase the ultimate recovery of oil and gas from the pool;
2. One or more of the unitized methods of operation as applied to the pool or portion thereof are feasible, will prevent waste and will, with reasonable probability, result in the increased recovery of substantially more oil and gas from the pool than would otherwise be recovered;
3. The estimated additional cost, if any, of conducting those operations will not exceed the value of the additional oil and gas so recovered; and
4. The unitization and adoption of one or more of the unitized methods of operation is for the common good and will result in the general advantage of the owners of the oil and gas rights within the pool or the portion thereof directly affected,
it shall make a finding to that effect and make an order creating the unit and providing for the unitization and unitized operation of the pool or portion thereof described in the order, all upon such terms and conditions, as may be shown by the evidence to be fair, reasonable, equitable, and which are necessary or proper to protect, safeguard and adjust the respective rights and obligations of the several persons affected, including royalty owner, owners of overriding royalties, oil and gas payments, carried interests, mortgages, lien claimants and others, as well as the lessees.
(Added to NRS by 1983, 2072; A 1993, 1692)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
NRS 522.010 - Waste of oil and gas prohibited.
NRS 522.021 - "Correlative rights" defined.
NRS 522.023 - "Division" defined.
NRS 522.024 - "Division order" defined.
NRS 522.025 - "Field" defined.
NRS 522.0275 - "Hydraulic fracturing" and "hydraulically fractured" defined.
NRS 522.028 - "Lessee" defined.
NRS 522.0285 - "Lessor" defined.
NRS 522.0295 - "Operator" defined.
NRS 522.0301 - "Other nonworking interest" defined.
NRS 522.0305 - "Overriding royalty" defined.
NRS 522.031 - "Owner" defined.
NRS 522.033 - "Person" defined.
NRS 522.037 - "Producer" defined.
NRS 522.038 - "Royalty" defined.
NRS 522.039 - "Waste" defined.
NRS 522.0395 - "Working interest" defined.
NRS 522.040 - Powers and duties of Division.
NRS 522.060 - Establishment of drilling units for pools.
NRS 522.082 - "Unit production" defined.
NRS 522.0824 - Voluntary unitization; petition for compulsory unitization.
NRS 522.0828 - Order for compulsory unitization: Findings required before issuance.
NRS 522.083 - Order for compulsory unitization: Limitations on area of pool to be included in plan.
NRS 522.0838 - Plan of unitization: Required provisions.
NRS 522.0844 - Property acquired by unit is owned by lessees subject to management by unit.
NRS 522.085 - Distribution of production; distribution in kind under certain circumstances.
NRS 522.0854 - Expenses of unit: Liability of owners is several and limited to amount charged.
NRS 522.0868 - Plan approved by Division does not violate statutes prohibiting monopolies.
NRS 522.087 - Implied covenants unaffected.
NRS 522.0874 - Procedural requirements for petitions, notices and hearings.
NRS 522.0878 - Operation of well in unit area by persons not included in unit unlawful.
NRS 522.090 - Regulations and orders of Division: Notice; hearing and entry of order.
NRS 522.100 - Witnesses: Attendance and testimony; production of books and records; contempt.
NRS 522.110 - Application for rehearing.
NRS 522.118 - Applicability; alteration of previous agreement prohibited.
NRS 522.119 - Development of program; regulations.
NRS 522.130 - Injunctive relief.
NRS 522.140 - Application of chapter; lands subject to jurisdiction of United States.
NRS 522.160 - Nevada to join Interstate Compact.
NRS 522.170 - Contents of Interstate Compact.
NRS 522.180 - Extension of expiration date of Compact; reentry of State after withdrawal.
NRS 522.190 - Interstate Oil Compact Commission: State representation.