Archived Bill Info

"WEINER", "KALMAN", "MCGINNIS", "WADE", "MURRAY"

An Act defining and prohibiting waste in the production of oil and gas; defining the powers and duties of the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and the Oil and Gas Division of the Department of Mines and Minerals Industries with respect to the prevention of waste in the production of oil and gas from certain geological horizons, the protection of correlative rights, the spacing of well drilling operations, the unitization of lands and horizons for the purpose of regulating well spacing; providing for the enforcement of this act and the issuance of rules, regulations and orders; prescribing the rights, obligations and duties of owners and operators of interests in lands and leasehold interests therein with respect to the drilling of oil and gas wells thereon; providing for hearings and the procedures to be followed therein; imposing duties upon the courts; providing methods for the enforcement of the provisions of this act; limiting all the provisions hereof to certain geological horizons; imposing penalties and making an appropriation.

0791 Pink

Referred to Mines and Mineral Industries, May 23.