Any working interest owner may file an application with the division requesting an order for the unit operation of a pool or any part thereof. The application shall contain:
A. a description of the proposed unit area and the vertical limits to be included therein with a map or plat thereof attached;
B. a statement that the reservoir or portion thereof involved in the application has been reasonably defined by development;
C. a statement of the type of operations contemplated for the unit area;
D. a copy of a proposed plan of unitization which the applicant considers fair, reasonable and equitable;
E. a copy of a proposed operating plan covering the manner in which the unit will be supervised and managed and costs allocated and paid; and
F. an allegation of the facts required to be found by the division under Section 70-7-6 NMSA 1978.
History: 1953 Comp., § 65-14-5, enacted by Laws 1975, ch. 293, § 5; 1977, ch. 255, § 111.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 38 Am. Jur. 2d Gas and Oil §§ 164, 172.
Compulsory pooling or unitization statute or ordinance requiring owners or lessees of oil and gas lands to develop their holdings as a single drilling unit and the like, 37 A.L.R.2d 434.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Article 7 - Statutory Unitization Act
Section 70-7-1 - Purpose of act.
Section 70-7-3 - Additional powers and duties of the oil conservation division.
Section 70-7-5 - Requisites of application for unitization.
Section 70-7-6 - Matters to be found by the division precedent to issuance of unitization order.
Section 70-7-7 - Division orders.
Section 70-7-8 - Ratification or approval of plan by owners.
Section 70-7-9 - Amendment of plan of unitization.
Section 70-7-10 - Previously established units.
Section 70-7-11 - Unit operations of less than an entire pool.
Section 70-7-12 - Operation; expressed or implied covenants.
Section 70-7-13 - Income from unitized substances.
Section 70-7-14 - Lien for costs.
Section 70-7-15 - Liability for expenses.
Section 70-7-16 - Division orders.
Section 70-7-17 - Property rights.
Section 70-7-18 - Existing rights, rights in unleased land and royalties and lease burdens.
Section 70-7-19 - Agreements not violative of laws governing monopolies or restraint of trade.