Texas Natural Resources Code - Section 102.011. Authority Of Commission
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§ 102.011. AUTHORITY OF COMMISSION. When two or more
separately owned tracts of land are embraced in a common reservoir
of oil or gas for which the commission has established the size and
shape of proration units, whether by temporary or permanent field
rules, and where there are separately owned interests in oil and gas
within an existing or proposed proration unit in the common
reservoir and the owners have not agreed to pool their interests,
and where at least one of the owners of the right to drill has
drilled or has proposed to drill a well on the existing or proposed
proration unit to the common reservoir, the commission, on the
application of an owner specified in Section 102.012 of this code
and for the purpose of avoiding the drilling of unnecessary wells,
protecting correlative rights, or preventing waste, shall
establish a unit and pool all of the interests in the unit within an
area containing the approximate acreage of the proration unit,
which unit shall in no event exceed 160 acres for an oil well or 640
acres for a gas well plus 10 percent tolerance.
Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2571, ch. 871, art. I, § 1, eff. Sept. 1,
1977.
Section: 101.018 101.051 101.052 102.001 102.002 102.003 102.004 102.011 102.012 102.013 102.014 102.015 102.016 102.017 102.018
Last modified: August 10, 2007
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