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MS Code § 53-3-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|In General|§ 53-3-33. Application to rework operating well or injection well

 Before any person shall commence operations to rework an operating well or injection well to recomplete to another zone, formation or reservoir, such person shall file with the board his application to rework, accompanied by a fee of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), or some lesser sum as may be fixed by order of the board, payable to the State Oil and Gas Board. If the application complies in all respects with the rules and regulations of the board relating thereto, a permit shall be issued by the supervisor.
MS Code § 53-3-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|In General|§ 53-3-35. Reports by producer or operator of oil or gas well; monthly individual well status report; producer's monthly report; deliverability test; calibrated stock tank

  Each producer or operator of an oil or gas well shall furnish for each month a "monthly individual well status report," setting forth complete information and data indicated thereon. Such report for each month shall be prepared and filed according to the instructions on a form published by the board for such reports, on or before the first day of the second month following the month during which the production was made.   Each operator or producer of oil or gas shall furnish for each month a "producer's monthly report," setting forth complete information and data indicated thereon. Such report for each month shall be prepared and filed with the board on a form published by the board for such reports, according to the instructions on said form, on or before the first day of the second month following the month during which the production was made.     A deliverability test of each producing gas well shall be made in conformity with schedules issued by the board. Such test shall be an actual test to determine whether or not the well is capable of producing efficiently any allowable that may reasonably be expected to be assigned to it, and, if the well is not found to be capable, then the test shall determine the maximum rate at which the well may efficiently be produced. The method of testing used shall be one acceptable to the board. A report of each test so required shall be promptly furnished to the board on a form published by the board for such reports. Any operator may make such additional deliverability tests at any time and report such tests to the board in the same manner as required tests are reported. Deliverability shall be determined by the latest test information furnished to the board.   Each oil well and each oil completion of a multiply-completed well shall be tested by the operator once during each calendar month during each calendar year in a calibrated stock tank. The result of such tests shall be reported in writing within thirty (30) days after the end of each month to the state oil and gas board on a form published by the board for such test results.
MS Code § 53-3-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|In General|§ 53-3-37. Penalties for violations concerning reports

 Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of Section 53-3-35 regarding the filing of reports by failing to file such reports on a timely basis, or by the willful, knowing or fraudulent execution of a report which contains a false entry or statement of fact, or an omission of fact, shall be subject to a penalty of not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) for each violation. Provided, however, the same procedure for notice and hearing as that found in subsection (b) of Section 53-1-47 shall be followed in cases of violations of Section 53-3-35.
MS Code § 53-3-51 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|Cooperative Development and Operation Under Leases|§ 53-3-51. Agreements for cooperative development and operation under leases by public officers

  The state mineral lease commission, the county boards of supervisors, the mayors and boards of aldermen, the mayor and councilmen, the trustees of agricultural high schools and junior colleges, the trustees of any common school districts, consolidated school districts, special consolidated school districts and separate school districts, and all other state boards, state officers, state agents, and the boards and officers of all political subdivisions of the State of Mississippi, who manage and control mineral and royalty interests, and are authorized by law to execute oil, gas or mineral leases thereon, are hereby authorized and empowered to execute, on behalf of the state or of such political, municipal, or other subdivision or agency thereof, agreements covering any lease or leases now in effect or which may hereafter be granted, and the mineral and royalty interests thereunder, for establishing and carrying out the co-operative development and operation of common accumulations of oil and gas, or both, in all or any portion of a field or area which appears from geological or other data to contain such common accumulations of oil or gas, or both, including the right and power to pool, consolidate and unitize the land covered by any lease or leases, now in effect or which may hereafter be granted, in its entirety or as to any stratum or strata or any portion or portions thereof, with other lands and leases in the immediate vicinity thereof, for the purpose of joint development and operation of the entire consolidated premises as a unit. Such agreements include, but are not limited to, all types of secondary recovery methods and operations, and operations known as cycling, recycling, pressure maintenance, repressuring, and water flooding, and the storage, processing and marketing of gas and all by-products of such operations.   When any mineral or royalty interest belonging to the state, or to any political subdivision or agency thereof, is included within the provisions of such unitization or other agreement, as authorized in subsection (1) hereof, the oil, gas and mineral lease on such interest shall be considered to be amended thereby to conform to such agreement, and such lease shall not terminate as long as the agreement continues in force. No such agreement shall provide for the payment of royalty on any basis which is less favorable to the state, or any such subdivision thereof, than the basis on which royalty is computed to other royalty owners.   The agreements herein authorized as to field-wide unitization shall not become effective until approved by the state oil and gas board by an order duly entered on the minutes of said board, and when so approved shall become fully valid and binding.   The provisions of this section shall be cumulative of other existing laws not in conflict herewith.
MS Code § 53-3-71 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|Facilities for Exploration, Production, or Transportation of Oil or Gas in Navigable Waters|§ 53-3-71. Construction, operation and maintenance of facilities for exploration, production, or transportation of oil or gas in navigable waters

 Any person, firm or corporation duly authorized to engage in the exploration or production of oil, gas or other minerals under the provisions of Chapter 7, Title 29, Mississippi Code of 1972, and any person, firm or corporation duly authorized to engage in the transportation of oil, gas and other minerals under the provisions of Sections 29-1-101 through 29-1-105, Mississippi Code of 1972, shall have the right to construct, operate and maintain facilities incident to such operations in any of the navigable waters of the state upon obtaining from the state oil and gas board a permit for the construction, operation and maintenance of such facilities.
MS Code § 53-3-73 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|Facilities for Exploration, Production, or Transportation of Oil or Gas in Navigable Waters|§ 53-3-73. Fee for permit

 Any person, firm or corporation applying for a permit to construct a facility under Sections 53-3-71 through 53-3-75 shall pay to the state oil and gas supervisor a fee of five hundred dollars ($500.00).
MS Code § 53-3-75 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|Facilities for Exploration, Production, or Transportation of Oil or Gas in Navigable Waters|§ 53-3-75. Restrictions and prohibitions

 The right to construct, operate and maintain any facility as described in Section 53-3-71 in, on, under or across land which is submerged or wherever the tide may ebb and flow shall be subject to the following:   The paramount right of the United States to control commerce and navigation;   The right of the public to make free use of the waters; and   The restrictions and prohibitions contained in Section 81 of the Mississippi Constitution of 1890, as same may be amended.
MS Code § 53-3-101 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|Unitization of Oil and Gas Fields and Pools|§ 53-3-101. Applications; hearings

 The State Oil and Gas Board upon the application of any interested person shall, after notice as herein provided, hold a hearing to consider the need for the operation as a unit of an entire field, or of an entire pool or pools, or of any portion or portions or combinations thereof, within a field, for the production of oil or gas or both, in order to increase the ultimate recovery thereof or to prevent waste. The board may reopen the hearing provided in this section at any time prior to the final order adjudicating that the requirements of section 53-3-107 have been satisfied.
MS Code § 53-3-103 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|Unitization of Oil and Gas Fields and Pools|§ 53-3-103. Oil and Gas Board may order unit operation

 The State Oil and Gas Board may issue an order requiring such unit operation, if it finds that:   Unit operation of the field or of any pool or pools, or of any portion or portions or combinations thereof within the field, is reasonably necessary in order to effectively carry on secondary recovery, pressure maintenance, repressuring operations, cycling operations, water flooding operations, or any combination thereof, or any other form of joint effort calculated to substantially increase the ultimate recovery of oil or gas or both, from the unit so formed, or to prevent waste as defined in Section 53-1-3; and   One or more method of unitized operation as applied to such common source of supply or portion thereof is feasible and will prevent waste or will with reasonable probability result in the recovery of substantially more oil or gas, or both, from the unit so formed than would otherwise be recovered; and   The plan of unitization and the agreements effectuating same are fair and reasonable under all of the circumstances and protect the rights of all interested parties; and   The correlative rights of interested parties will be protected; and   The estimated additional cost incident to conducting such operation will not exceed the value of the estimated additional recovery of oil and gas and such cost of unit operation shall not be borne by the royalty owners.   The operators of such unit shall have drilled a sufficient number of wells to a sufficient depth and at such locations as may be necessary for the board to approve the boundaries of the unit and determine that the field, pool or pools have been reasonably developed according to a spacing pattern approved by the board. No field unitization shall be approved by the board until each drilling unit of the field has been drilled; however, the board is hereby authorized to waive the requirement that each and every drilling unit be drilled upon a finding of fact that it is not economically feasible for a specific drilling unit to be drilled.
MS Code § 53-3-107 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|Unitization of Oil and Gas Fields and Pools|§ 53-3-107. When order becomes effective

 An order requiring unit operations pursuant to Section 53-3-103, Mississippi Code of 1972, shall not be effective unless and until the plan of unitization and the agreements incorporating the provisions of Section 53-3-105 have been signed or, in writing, ratified, adopted or approved by the owners or lessees of at least seventy-five percent (75%) interest on the basis of and in proportion to the surface acreage content of the unit area under the terms of the order and the agreement incorporating the provisions of Section 53-3-105 has been signed or, in writing, ratified, adopted or approved by at least seventy-five percent (75%) (exclusive of royalty interests owned by lessees or by subsidiaries or successors in title of any lessee) in interest of the royalty owners on the basis of and in proportion to the surface acreage content of the unit area and the board has made a finding to that effect, either in the order or in a supplemental order. In the event the required percentages have not signed, ratified or approved the respective agreements within twelve (12) months from and after the date of such order, it shall be automatically revoked.
MS Code § 53-3-111 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|Unitization of Oil and Gas Fields and Pools|§ 53-3-111. How production allocated

 The portion of unit production allocated to a separately owned tract within the unit area shall be deemed, for all purposes, to have been actually produced from such tract, and operations with respect to any tract within the unit area shall be deemed for all purposes to be the conduct of operations for the production of oil or gas, or both, from each separately owned tract in the unit area. However, when an oil, gas and mineral lease contains land partially within and partially without said unit area, the unit agreement and production from the unit shall have no force and effect on lands lying outside of such unit area and failure of the lessee or lessees thereof to drill and develop such lands lying outside said unit area within one (1) year or during the term of the lease, whichever is a longer period of time, from the date of determination of the unit area by the state oil and gas board shall render such lease or leases on lands lying outside said unit area void and of no force and effect, unless otherwise held by production other than from unit production.
MS Code § 53-3-113 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|Unitization of Oil and Gas Fields and Pools|§ 53-3-113. Authority of unit operator; production by others prohibited

 From and after the effective date of an order of the board entered under the provisions of Sections 53-3-101 through 53-3-119, the operation of any well producing from the unit area defined in the order by persons other than the unit operator or persons acting under the unit operator's authority, or except in the manner and to the extent provided in such plan of unitization, shall be unlawful and is hereby prohibited.
MS Code § 53-3-115 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|Unitization of Oil and Gas Fields and Pools|§ 53-3-115. Time and manner of giving notice

 The notice provided for in Sections 53-3-101 through 53-3-119 shall be given in the time and manner as required by law and the rules and regulations of the oil and gas board for hearings by said board and shall be completed at least thirty days before the date set for the hearing.   The secretary of the board shall, in addition thereto, mail a notice not less than thirty days prior to the date set for the hearing to all persons owning the interests in the land within the unit area which said secretary by due diligence can ascertain. The failure of said secretary, however, to mail said notice to any such owner shall not affect the validity of any hearing held pursuant to the notice published in accordance with the preceding paragraph, or any rule, regulation, or order issued pursuant to such hearing.
MS Code § 53-3-117 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|Unitization of Oil and Gas Fields and Pools|§ 53-3-117. Administration of Sections 53-3-101 through 53-3-119

 In administering Sections 53-3-101 through 53-3-119, the oil and gas board shall be governed and controlled by the declaration of policy set out in Section 53-1-1 et seq., and except as otherwise herein expressly provided, all proceedings held under Sections 53-3-101 through 53-3-119, including the filing of petitions, the giving of notices, the conduct of hearings and the entry of orders and appeals therefrom, shall be governed and controlled by the procedure provided for by Sections 53-1-1 through 53-1-47, inclusive, and Sections 53-3-1 through 53-3-21, inclusive, and the rules and regulations promulgated by the oil and gas board pursuant to said sections. The definition of the terms used in Sections 53-3-101 through 53-3-119 shall be controlled by definitions contained in Section 53-1-3, and the rules and regulations promulgated by the oil and gas board pursuant to Sections 53-1-1 through 53-1-47, inclusive, and Sections 53-3-1 through 53-3-21, inclusive, unless a definition appearing in Section 53-1-3 is entirely inconsistent with the meaning and purpose of the term as used in Sections 53-3-101 through 53-3-119, in which event such term shall be given that meaning that is harmonious with and tends to effectuate the purposes of Sections 53-3-101 through 53-3-119.
MS Code § 53-3-119 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|Unitization of Oil and Gas Fields and Pools|§ 53-3-119. Court review of order of oil and gas board by appeal to the chancery court

 Any interested person adversely affected by any provision of Sections 53-3-101 through 53-3-119 or by any rule, regulation or order made by the state oil and gas board thereunder, or by any act done or threatened thereunder, may obtain court review and seek relief by appeal, which appeal shall be to the chancery court of the county wherein the land involved, or any part thereof, is situated. The term "interested person" as used herein shall be interpreted broadly and liberally and shall include all mineral and royalty owners. Any interested party may appeal to the chancery court of the county wherein the land involved or any part thereof is situated, if appeal be demanded within thirty (30) days from the date that such rule, regulation or order of the board is filed for record in the office of the board.   Such appeal may be taken by filing notice of the appeal with the state oil and gas board, whereupon the board shall, under its certificate, transmit to the court appealed to all documents and papers on file in the matter, together with a transcript of the record, which documents and papers together with said transcript of the record shall be transmitted to the clerk of the chancery court of the county to which the appeal is taken.   Except as hereinabove provided, such appeal shall be made in accordance with the provisions of Sections 53-1-39 and 53-1-41.
MS Code § 53-3-151 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|Underground Storage of Natural Gas or Compressed Air|§ 53-3-151. Definitions

 As used in Sections 53-3-151 through 53-3-165: (a) "underground storage" shall mean storage in an underground reservoir, stratum or formation of the earth; (b) "natural gas" shall mean gas of sufficient purity to be capable of use for residential purposes; (c) "native gas" shall mean gas which previously has not been withdrawn from the earth, or which, having been withdrawn, is injected into a reservoir for purposes other than underground storage; (d) "compressed air" shall mean any nonhydrocarbon gas; and (e) "State Oil and Gas Board" or "board" shall mean the State Oil and Gas Board of Mississippi.
MS Code § 53-3-153 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|Underground Storage of Natural Gas or Compressed Air|§ 53-3-153. Legislative declaration

 The underground storage of natural gas or compressed air which promotes the conservation thereof, which permits the building of large quantities of natural gas or compressed air in reserve for orderly withdrawal in periods of peak demand, making natural gas or compressed air more readily available to the consumer, or which provides more uniform withdrawal from various gas or oil fields, is in the public interest and welfare of this state and is for a public purpose.
MS Code § 53-3-155 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|Underground Storage of Natural Gas or Compressed Air|§ 53-3-155. Underground storage authorized pursuant to board's order

 The use of an underground reservoir, stratum or formation as a reservoir for the storage of natural gas or compressed air as an appliance or appurtenance in connection with the conveying, transmission or distribution of natural gas or compressed air is hereby authorized, provided that the State Oil and Gas Board shall first enter an order, after notice and hearing pursuant to the provisions of Sections 53-1-19 through 53-1-31, inclusive, approving any such proposed underground storage of natural gas or compressed air upon finding as follows:   That the underground stratum or formation sought to be used as a reservoir for the injection, storage and withdrawal of natural gas or compressed air is suitable and feasible for such use and in the public interest, and is not an oil reservoir capable of commercial production;   That a majority interest of all rights of the surface interest and a majority interest of all interests in the underground stratum or formation have consented to such use in writing;   That the use of the underground stratum as a reservoir for the storage of natural gas or compressed air will not contaminate other formations containing fresh water, oil, gas or other commercial mineral deposits; and   That the proposed storage will not endanger lives or property.