California Public Resources Code ARTICLE 2 - Provisions Relating to Oil and Gas Leases Generally

• Section 6826.
  (a) The commission may permit geological or geophysical surveys on state lands and may grant permits therefor, but the permit shall not give the permittee any...
• Section 6826.1.
  The State Lands Commission shall not permit the taking of cores or other samples by means of drilling operations on or under the tide and...
• Section 6827.
  Leases for the extraction and removal of oil and gas deposits may be made by the commission to the highest qualified bidder, or joint bidders,...
• Section 6827.1.
  Nothing contained in this chapter or any other law shall prevent or prohibit two or more persons who are individually eligible to hold a lease...
• Section 6827.2.
  In order to prevent the premature abandonment of a lease, notwithstanding any other provision in this chapter, if, after the holding of a public hearing,...
• Section 6828.
  All leases of lands containing oil or gas made or issued under this chapter shall be subject to the condition that the lessee will use...
• Section 6829.
  Every oil and gas lease executed under this chapter shall include the following:(a) Such terms, conditions, and provisions as will protect the interests of the State...
• Section 6829.1.
  Every oil and gas lease, including leases of tide and submerged lands, executed under this chapter, shall specify a period of not to exceed three...
• Section 6829.2.
  The commission, in the interest of increasing the ultimate recovery of oil or gas, the protection of oil or gas from unreasonable waste, the possible...
• Section 6830.
  All oil and gas leases issued by the commission for lands under its jurisdiction as set forth in Chapters 3 and 4 of Part 1...
• Section 6830.1.
  It is hereby found and determined by the Legislature of the State of California as follows:(a) That the people of the State of California have a...
• Section 6830.2.
  Whenever the holder of an oil and gas lease of state-owned lands proposes to engage in secondary recovery operations within such lease, the commission and...
• Section 6830.3.
  In satisfaction of the requirements of subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 6830.2, the commission may consider, use, apply or adopt any means, methods, formulas...
• Section 6831.
  Rights of way through all State lands may be granted to any lessee by the commission under such regulations as to survey, location, application, and...
• Section 6832.
  For the purpose of more properly conserving the natural resources of any oil or gas pool or field, or any part thereof, lessees hereunder and...
• Section 6833.
  The commission, upon such conditions as the commission shall prescribe, may approve operating, drilling or development contracts made by one or more lessees holding oil...
• Section 6834.
  Whenever the commission determines that lands shall be leased for oil and gas as provided in this chapter and when the form of lease therefor...
• Section 6835.
  Each bid (which shall be in the form of a lease prepared in accordance with this chapter) for an oil and gas lease shall be...
• Section 6836.
  At the time and place specified in the notice, the commission shall publicly open the sealed bids and shall award the lease for each parcel...

Last modified: October 22, 2018