Florida Statutes Part I - Regulation Of Oil And Gas Resources (Ss. 377.01-377.43)

• 377.01 - Governor To Enter Into Interstate Compact To Conserve Oil And Gas.
  The Governor of the state is hereby authorized and directed, for and in the name of the state, to join with other states in the...
• 377.03 - Extension Of Compact.
  The Governor of Florida is further authorized and empowered, for and in the name of the state, to execute agreements for the further extension of...
• 377.04 - Official Report Of State.
  The Governor shall be the official representative of the state on the Interstate Oil Compact Commission, provided for in the compact to conserve oil and...
• 377.06 - Public Policy Of State Concerning Natural Resources Of Oil And Gas.
  It is hereby declared the public policy of this state to conserve and control the natural resources of oil and gas in this state, and...
• 377.07 - Division Of Resource Management; Powers, Duties, And Authority.
  The Division of Resource Management of the Department of Environmental Protection is hereby vested with power, authority, and duty to administer, carry out, and enforce...
• 377.075 - Division Of Technical Services; Geological Functions.
  (1) PERSONNEL.—The Department of Environmental Protection shall, through the Division of Technical Services, establish the Florida Geological Survey and employ such suitable persons as in the...
• 377.10 - Certain Persons Not To Be Employed By Division.
  No person in the employ of, or holding any official connection or position with any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association of any kind, engaged...
• 377.18 - Common Sources Of Oil And Gas.
  All common sources of supply of oil or native gas shall have the production controlled or regulated in accordance with the provisions of this law.History.—s....
• 377.19 - Definitions.
  As used in ss. 377.06, 377.07, and 377.10-377.40, the term:(1) “Completion date” means the day, month, and year that a new productive well, a previously shut-in...
• 377.20 - Waste Prohibited.
  Waste of oil or gas defined in this law is hereby prohibited.History.—s. 15, ch. 22819, 1945.
• 377.21 - Jurisdiction Of Division.
  (1) The division shall have jurisdiction and authority over all persons and property necessary to administer and enforce effectively the provisions of this law and all...
• 377.22 - Rules And Orders.
  (1) The department shall provide, by rule, for ratable takings in all pools on a reasonable and equitable basis.(2) The department shall issue orders and adopt rules...
• 377.23 - Monthly Reports To Division.
  Every producer of oil or gas in the state shall submit to the division, on forms prescribed by the division, a monthly report of the...
• 377.24 - Notice Of Intention To Drill Well; Permits; Abandoned Wells And Dry Holes.
  (1) Before drilling a well in search of oil or gas, or before storing gas in or recovering gas from a natural gas storage reservoir, the...
• 377.2407 - Natural Gas Storage Facility Permit Application To Inject Gas Into And Recover Gas From A Natural Gas Storage Reservoir.
  (1) Before drilling a well to inject gas into and recover gas from a natural gas storage reservoir, the person who desires to conduct such operation...
• 377.24075 - Exemption From Public Records Requirements.
  Proprietary business information held by the Department of Environmental Protection in accordance with its statutory duties with respect to an application for a natural gas...
• 377.2408 - Application To Conduct Geophysical Operations.
  (1) Before any geophysical operation in search of oil, gas, or minerals shall be conducted, the person desiring to conduct such operation shall make application to...
• 377.2409 - Geophysical Activities; Confidential Information; Penalties.
  (1) Whenever geophysical activities are conducted on state-owned mineral lands, the person conducting such activities shall furnish to the division, acting as agent of the owner...
• 377.241 - Criteria For Issuance Of Permits.
  The division, in the exercise of its authority to issue permits as hereinafter provided, shall give consideration to and be guided by the following criteria:(1) The...
• 377.2411 - Lawful Right To Drill, Develop, Or Explore.
  Before applying for a drilling permit, the applicant or operator must acquire a lawful right to drill, explore, or develop from a majority of the...
• 377.242 - Permits For Drilling Or Exploring And Extracting Through Well Holes Or By Other Means.
  The department is vested with the power and authority:(1)(a) To issue permits for the drilling for, exploring for, or production of oil, gas, or other petroleum...
• 377.2421 - Division To Review Federal Applications.
  (1) The division shall review all applications for federal oil leases in the territorial waters of the United States adjacent to Florida waters and shall signify...
• 377.2424 - Conditions For Granting Permits For Geophysical Operations.
  Exploration for oil, gas, or minerals by means of geophysical activities shall be exercised only pursuant to permit issued by the department, upon the applicant’s...
• 377.2425 - Manner Of Providing Security For Geophysical Exploration, Drilling, And Production.
  (1) Prior to granting a permit to conduct geophysical operations; drilling of exploratory, injection, or production wells; producing oil and gas from a wellhead; or transporting...
• 377.2426 - Abandonment Of Geophysical Holes.
  Each hole drilled as part of permitted geophysical operations shall be plugged promptly in the manner prescribed by the department.History.—s. 4, ch. 80-283.
• 377.243 - Conditions For Granting Permits For Extraction Through Well Holes.
  (1) Prior to the application to the Division of Resource Management for the permit to drill for oil, gas, and related products referred to in s....
• 377.2431 - Conditions For Granting Permits For Natural Gas Storage Facilities.
  (1) A natural gas storage facility permit shall authorize the construction and operation of a natural gas storage facility and must be issued for the life...
• 377.2432 - Natural Gas Storage Facilities; Protection Of Water Supplies.
  (1) An operator of a natural gas storage facility who affects a public or private underground water supply by pollution or diminution shall restore or replace...
• 377.2433 - Protection Of Natural Gas Storage Facilities; Remedies.
  (1) The department may not authorize the drilling of any well into or through a permitted natural gas storage reservoir or reservoir protective area, except upon...
• 377.2434 - Property Rights To Injected Natural Gas.
  (1) All natural gas that has previously been reduced to possession and that is subsequently injected into a natural gas storage facility is at all times...
• 377.2435 - Rule Adoption Relating To Natural Gas Storage.
  The Department of Environmental Protection shall adopt rules relating to natural gas storage before issuing a natural gas storage facility permit.History.—s. 25, ch. 2013-205.
• 377.244 - Conditions For Granting Permits For Surface Exploratory And Extraction Operations.
  (1) Exploration for and extraction of minerals under and by virtue of the authority of a grant of oil, gas, or mineral rights, or which, subsequent...
• 377.245 - Provision For Distribution Of Earnings To Lessees Or Owners Of The Fractional Undivided Mineral Rights Not Owned By Applicant For Permit Under Ss. 377.243 And 377.244.
  Lessees or owners of the fractional undivided oil, gas or other mineral rights in lands described in permits issued under the provisions of ss. 377.243...
• 377.247 - Designation And Distribution Of Earnings Owed To Owners Of Mineral Rights Who Are Unknown Or Unlocated.
  (1) In the event that the operator of a well cannot locate the owner of a minority mineral interest within a drilling unit or the identity...
• 377.25 - Production Pools; Drilling Units.
  (1) No rule, regulation or order of the division shall be such in terms or effect:(a) That it shall be necessary at any time for the producer...
• 377.26 - Location Of Wells.
  Whenever the division fixes the location of any well or wells on the surface, the point at which the maximum penetration of such well into...
• 377.27 - Drilling Units.
  (1) When two or more separately owned tracts of land are embraced within an established drilling unit, the owners thereof may validly agree to integrate their...
• 377.28 - Cycling, Pooling, And Unitization Of Oil And Gas.
  (1) The department may consider the need for the operation as a unit of an entire field, or of any pool or pools, portion or portions,...
• 377.29 - Agreements In Interest Of Conservation.
  Agreements made in the interest of conservation of oil or gas, or both, or for the prevention of waste, between and among owners and operators,...
• 377.30 - Limitation On Amount Of Oil Or Gas Taken.
  (1) Whenever the total amount of oil or gas which all the pools in the state can produce exceeds the amount reasonably required to meet the...
• 377.31 - Evidence Of Rules And Orders.
  A certified copy of any division rule, regulation, or order shall be received in evidence in all courts of this state with the same effect...
• 377.32 - Issuance Of Subpoenas; Service, Etc.
  (1) The division is hereby empowered to issue subpoenas for witnesses, to require their attendance and the giving of testimony before it, and to require the...
• 377.33 - Injunctions Against Division.
  (1) Any interested person adversely affected by any statute of this state with respect to conservation of oil or gas, or both, or by provisions of...
• 377.34 - Actions And Injunctions By Division.
  (1) Whenever it appears that a person is violating, or threatening to violate, any statute of this state with respect to the conservation of oil or...
• 377.35 - Suits, Proceedings, Appeals, Etc.
  In all proceedings brought under authority of this law, or of any oil or gas conservation statute of this state, or of any rule, regulation,...
• 377.36 - False Entries And Statements; Incomplete Entries; Penalties.
  Any person who, for the purpose of evading this law, or of evading any rule, regulation, or order made hereunder, shall intentionally make, or cause...
• 377.37 - Penalties.
  (1)(a) Any person who violates any provision of this law or any rule, regulation, or order of the division made under this chapter or who violates...
• 377.371 - Pollution Prohibited; Reporting, Liability.
  (1) A person drilling for or producing oil, gas, or other petroleum products, or storing gas in a natural gas storage facility, may not pollute land...
• 377.38 - Illegal Oil, Gas, And Other Products; Sale, Purchase, Acquisition, Transportation, Refining, Processing, Or Handling Prohibited.
  (1) The sale, purchase, or acquisition, or the transportation, refining, processing, or handling in any other way, of illegal oil, illegal gas, or illegal product is...
• 377.39 - Seizure And Sale Of Illegal Oil, Gas, Or Product.
  (1) Apart from, and in addition to, any other remedy or procedure which may be available to the division, or any liquidated damages which may be...
• 377.40 - Negligently Permitting Gas And Oil To Go Wild Or Out Of Control.
  (1) In order to protect further the gas fields and oil fields in the state, it is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person to...
• 377.41 - Disposition Of Fines.
  Moneys collected as fines for violations of this part, implementing rules, or permit conditions shall be paid into the Minerals Trust Fund established pursuant to...
• 377.42 - Big Cypress Swamp Advisory Committee.
  (1) For purposes of this section, the Big Cypress watershed is defined as the area in Collier County and the adjoining portions of Hendry, Broward, Miami-Dade,...
• 377.43 - Disbursement Of Funds Received For Damages Caused By The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
  (1) For purposes of this section, the term “Disproportionally Affected County” means Bay County, Escambia County, Franklin County, Gulf County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Walton...

Last modified: September 23, 2016