Designation of Pooled Unit For Oil and Gas

(1) No well for oil, gas, or geothermal resource shall hereafter be drilled nearer than 1,200 feet to any well completed in or drilling to the same horizon on the same tract or farm, and no well shall be drilled nearer than 467 feet to any property line, lease line, or subdivision line; provided the commission, in

Statutes require the Commission to prorate to reduce waste. Proration means all producers will share the pain.

As noted above, while pooling focuses on efficiently combining lands for the purpose of obtaining a drilling permit to drill a single well, unitization focuses on the combination of interests covering a larger area to facilitate development of all or part of a common source of supply (i.e. a field/reservoir).

1. n. Oil and Gas Business The amount of acreage, determined by governmental authority that can be efficiently and economically drained by a well at a particular depth or horizon.

A spacing unit is a legally described boundary designated by a governmental agency (the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC) in the case of Oklahoma)) as a common source of supply of oil and gas for purposes of dividing fairly, among the various owners, production from a particular well or wells.

Pooling is the combination of all or portions of multiple oil and gas leases to form a unit for the drilling of a single oil and/or gas well.The oil and gas company can lease these under separate leases and separate terms and then pool these parcels to drill the well.

A Pugh Clause is meant to prevent a lessee from declaring all lands under an oil and gas lease as being held by production, even if production only occurs on a fraction of the property.

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It also records a "Declaration of Pooling" or similarly named document in the land records office at the local Courthouse. The declaration shows the boundaries of the pooling unit and identifies all the landowners and amount of property each landowner actually has in the unit.