California Public Resources Code ARTICLE 3 - Unit Agreements

• Section 3640.
  Tracts of land may be unitized as provided in this article to provide for the management, development, and operation thereof as a unit to prevent,...
• Section 3641.
  An agreement for the management, development, and operation of two or more tracts of land in the same field or in the same producing or...
• Section 3642.
  Any proposed agreement for unit operation of tracts of land which has been consented to by persons who own title to working interests which aggregate...
• Section 3643.
  The unit agreement shall be approved, if, after a public hearing, the supervisor finds all of the following:(a) The unit area of the proposed agreement for...
• Section 3644.
  A tract of land’s fair, equitable, and reasonable share of the unit production shall be measured by the value of such tract for oil and...
• Section 3645.
  Upon giving his approval to the unit agreement pursuant to Section 3643, the supervisor shall issue an order directing unit operations of the unit area...
• Section 3646.
  The supervisor’s order shall include fair and reasonable provisions for all of the following:(a) The date when all tracts of land not theretofore committed to the...
• Section 3647.
  The owner of any working interest or royalty interest in a tract which is the subject of a unit agreement who did not consent to...
• Section 3648.
  Any unit agreement approved by the supervisor shall contain a provision under which a party whose surface land is being utilized for the benefit of...
• Section 3649.
  Any proposed modification of an approved unit agreement shall be submitted by the unit operator to the supervisor for his review and approval. No modification...
• Section 3650.
  If at any time after the entry of an order of unitization issued pursuant to Section 3645, it develops that all or a portion of...
• Section 3651.
  The supervisor shall issue his order that such further tract or tracts of land insofar as they contain the pool or pools, or portions thereof,...
• Section 3652.
  The supervisor’s order issued pursuant to Section 3651 shall contain a fair basis for allocating production to such further tract or tracts of land and...
• Section 3653.
  Any disagreement with respect to the unit operation between persons owning any interest in the pool or pools, or portions thereof, subject to the unit...
• Section 3653.5.
  A petition requesting approval of a unit agreement and each copy thereof shall contain or have attached to it:(a) A request that the supervisor approve the...
• Section 3654.
  Any and all decisions or determinations made by the supervisor under the provisions of this chapter shall be appealable to any court of competent jurisdiction...
• Section 3655.
  The three-fourths interests referred to in Sections 3642, 3649, and 3651 shall be determined as follows:(a) A total value, composed of the combined value of all...
• Section 3656.
  No unit agreement approved by the supervisor pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall effect or result in, or be construed to effect or...
• Section 3657.
  Operations incident to the drilling, producing, or operating of a well or wells on any portion of a unit area under a unit agreement approved...
• Section 3658.
  Any order of the supervisor issued pursuant to this article shall, from and after its effective date, be effective as to, and be binding upon,...
• Section 3659.
  Prior to any public hearing held by the supervisor pursuant to this chapter, the supervisor shall give reasonable written notice of the hearing to all...

Last modified: October 22, 2018