Oregon Statutes - Chapter 520 - Conservation of Gas and Oil

• 520.005   Definitions.
  As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Condensate” means liquid hydrocarbons that were originally in the gaseous phase in the reservoir....
• 520.010   [Repealed by 1953 c.667 §21]
• 520.015   [1953 c.667 §2; 1999 c.59 §164; repealed by 2007 c.672 §24]
• 520.017   Fees; rules; disposition of fees.
  (1) The following fees are established under this chapter: (a) The application fee for a permit to drill a well, $2,000. (b) The fee for...
• 520.020   [Repealed by 1953 c.667 §21]
• 520.025   Permit for drilling well or using well; extension; annual report; grounds for granting or denying permit.
  (1) A person may not drill or use a well without first obtaining a permit from the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries and...
• 520.027   Information holes; holes drilled as part of seismic program; trade secrets.
  (1) A person may not drill an information hole or a hole drilled as part of a seismic program without first applying for approval from...
• 520.030   [Repealed by 1953 c.667 §21]
• 520.035   Waste of oil or gas prohibited.
  The waste of oil or gas, as defined in ORS 520.005, is prohibited. [1953 c.667 §3; 2007 c.672 §7]
• 520.040   [Repealed by 1953 c.667 §21]
• 520.045   Determination of waste of oil or gas.
  The State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries may determine whether waste of oil or gas over which it has jurisdiction exists or is imminent....
• 520.050   [Repealed by 1953 c.667 §21]
• 520.055   General jurisdiction and authority of board; tidal lands; rules.
  (1) The governing board of the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries has jurisdiction and authority over all persons and property, including tidal submerged...
• 520.060   [Repealed by 1953 c.667 §21]
• 520.065   [1953 c.667 §8; renumbered 520.210]
• 520.070   [Repealed by 1953 c.667 §21]
• 520.075   [1953 c.667 §9; 1961 c.671 §16; renumbered 520.220]
• 520.080   [Repealed by 1953 c.667 §21]
• 520.085   [1953 c.667 §10; 1961 c.671 §17; renumbered 520.230]
• 520.090   [Repealed by 1953 c.667 §21]
• 520.095   Rules and orders; bond.
  The governing board of the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries may adopt rules and issue orders, and the department may issue orders, as...
• 520.097   Abandonment or completion of well; well logs and records; trade secrets.
  (1) For a period of two years from the date of abandonment or completion of a well, all well logs and records and well reports...
• 520.100   [Repealed by 1953 c.667 §21]
• 520.105   [1953 c.667 §11; 1961 c.671 §19; repealed by 2007 c.672 §24]
• 520.110   [Repealed by 1953 c.667 §21]
• 520.115   [1953 c.667 §12; repealed by 2007 c.672 §24]
• 520.120   [Repealed by 1953 c.667 §21]
• 520.125   Authority of board to summon witnesses and require production of evidence.
  (1) The governing board of the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries may summon witnesses, administer oaths and require the production of records, books...
• 520.130   [Repealed by 1953 c.667 §21]
• 520.135   [1953 c.667 §14; repealed by 2007 c.672 §24]
• 520.145   Judicial review of board or department actions.
  Any person adversely affected by any rule adopted by the governing board of the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries under this chapter or...
• 520.155   Records, accounts, reports and writings not to be falsified, altered, destroyed or removed from state.
  A person may not, for the purpose of evading the provisions of this chapter or any rule adopted or order issued under this chapter, make...
• 520.165   Aiding or abetting in violation of chapter prohibited.
  A person may not knowingly aid or abet any other person in the violation of any provision of this chapter or any rule adopted or...
• 520.175   Injunctions to restrain violation or threatened violation of chapter.
  (1) Whenever it appears that any person is violating or threatening to violate any provision of this chapter or any rule adopted or order issued...
• 520.210   Establishment of spacing units for pool or field; purpose; scope; effect.
  (1) When necessary to prevent waste of oil or gas, to avoid the drilling of unnecessary wells or to protect correlative rights, the governing board...
• 520.220   Integrating interests or tracts within spacing unit.
  (1) When two or more separately owned tracts are embraced within a spacing unit or when there are separately owned interests in all or a...
• 520.230   Approved agreement for cooperative or unit development of pool not to be construed as violating certain regulatory laws.
  (1) An agreement for the unit or cooperative development and operation of a field or pool in connection with the conduct of repressuring or pressure...
• 520.240   Voluntary unitization of operations by lessees of tidal or submersible lands; Department of State Lands’ function.
  (1) For the purpose of properly conserving the natural resources of any single oil or gas pool or field, lessees under ORS 274.705 to 274.860...
• 520.260   Hearing to determine need for unitization of operations; required findings; order.
  (1) The governing board of the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries upon its own motion may, and upon the application of any interested...
• 520.270   Plan for unit operations.
  An order issued pursuant to ORS 520.260 shall be upon terms and conditions that are just and reasonable, and shall prescribe a plan for unit...
• 520.280   Allocation of production under plan; ownership.
  (1) The allocation described in ORS 520.270 (3) shall be in accord with the agreement, if any, of the interested parties. If there is no...
• 520.290   When unitization order to become effective; supplemental hearings.
  (1) No order of the governing board of the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries providing for unit operations is effective until: (a) The...
• 520.300   Amending unitization order.
  An order providing for unit operations may be amended by an order made by the governing board of the State Department of Geology and Mineral...
• 520.310   Unitization of area including area previously unitized; partial unitization of pool.
  (1) The governing board of the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries by order may provide for the unit operation of a pool or...
• 520.320   Unitization order does not terminate prior agreements or affect oil and gas rights; acquisition of property during unit operations.
  (1) No division order or other contract relating to the sale or purchase of production from a separately owned tract may be terminated by the...
• 520.330   Effect of operations in unit area.
  All operations, including but not limited to the commencement, drilling or operation of a well, upon any portion of the unit area, are considered for...
• 520.340   Legislative findings.
  The underground storage of natural gas in Oregon is found by the Legislative Assembly to be in the public interest in that the establishment of...
• 520.350   Property rights in underground reservoirs for natural gas storage.
  (1) All natural gas in an underground reservoir utilized for underground storage, whether acquired by eminent domain or otherwise, shall at all times be the...
• 520.990   [Repealed by 1953 c.667 §21]
• 520.991   Penalties.
  Subject to ORS 153.022, violation of any provision of this chapter, any rule adopted by the governing board of the State Department of Geology and...

Last modified: August 7, 2008