Texas Natural Resources Code Title 3, Chapter 102 - Pooling

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 102.001 - Title
  This chapter may be cited as the Mineral Interest Pooling Act. Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2570, ch. 871, art. I, Sec. 1, eff. Sept....
• Texas Section 102.002 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Mineral" means and is limited to oil and gas. (2) "Commission" means the Railroad Commission of Texas. Acts 1977, 65th Leg.,...
• Texas Section 102.003 - Application To Certain Reservoirs
  The provisions of this chapter do not apply to any reservoir discovered and produced before March 8, 1961. Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2571, ch....

SUBCHAPTER B REQUIREMENTS AND PROCEDURE FOR POOLING

• Texas Section 102.004 - Application To Public Land
  (a) The provisions of this chapter do not apply to land owned by the State of Texas nor to land in which the State of...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 102.012 - Owners Authorized To Apply For Pooling
  The following interested owners may apply to the commission for the pooling of mineral interests: (1) the owner of any interest in oil and gas...
• Texas Section 102.013 - Required Voluntary Pooling Offer
  (a) The applicant shall set forth in detail the nature of voluntary pooling offers made to the owners of the other interests in the proposed...
• Texas Section 102.014 - Productive Acreage Equal To Standard Proration Unit
  (a) The commission shall not require the owner of a mineral interest, the productive acreage of which is equal to or in excess of the...
• Texas Section 102.015 - Prohibited Provisions In Operating Agreement
  A pooling agreement, offer to pool, or pooling order is not considered fair and reasonable if it provides for an operating agreement containing any of...
• Texas Section 102.016 - Notice Of Hearing
  On the filing of an application for pooling of interests into a unit under the provisions of this chapter, at least 30 days notice before...
• Texas Section 102.017 - Pooling Order
  (a) After notice and hearing, all orders effecting the pooling shall be made on terms and conditions that are fair and reasonable and will afford...

SUBCHAPTER C RIGHTS IN A POOLED UNIT

• Texas Section 102.018 - Acreage Subject To Pooling
  The commission shall pool only the acreage which at the time of its order reasonably appears to lie within the productive limits of the reservoir....
• Texas Section 102.051 - Ownership Of Production
  (a) For the purpose of determining the portions of production owned by the persons owning interests in the pooled unit, the production shall be allocated...
• Texas Section 102.052 - Drilling And Completion Costs
  (a) As to an owner who elects not to pay his proportionate share of the drilling and completion costs in advance, the commission shall make...

SUBCHAPTER D DISSOLUTION OF UNIT

• Texas Section 102.053 - Effect Of Operations
  (a) The operations on and production from any portion of a unit for which a pooling order has been entered shall be considered for all...
• Texas Section 102.081 - Dissolved With Consent Of Owners
  A unit established by order of the commission under this chapter may not be modified or dissolved subsequently without the consent of all mineral owners...
• Texas Section 102.082 - Automatic Dissolution
  A unit is automatically dissolved: (1) one year after its effective date if no production or drilling operations have been had on the unit; (2)...

SUBCHAPTER E JUDICIAL REVIEW

• Texas Section 102.083 - Termination Of Pooled Lease
  On termination of a lease pooled by order of the commission under authority granted by this chapter, interests covered by the lease are considered pooled...
• Texas Section 102.111 - Right To Appeal
  A person affected by an order of the commission adopted under the authority of this chapter is entitled to judicial review of that order in...
• Texas Section 102.112 - Venue
  Appeal shall be to the district court of the county in which the land or any part of the land covered by the order is...

Last modified: September 28, 2016