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AR Code § 15-72-318 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 72 - Oil and Gas Production and Conservation|Subchapter 3 - Pools and Drilling Units|§ 15-72-318. Order requiring salt water disposal unit operation — Contents

 The order requiring salt water disposal unit operation shall be fair and reasonable under all circumstances and shall include:   (1) A description of the salt water disposal unit area;  (2) An allocation, whereby the portion of production allocated to the owner of each tract included in the unit operating agreement shall be a basis for such charges to be made against each tract for the disposal of salt water produced by the operation of the unit as a whole and shall be considered as expenses of unit operation for the disposal of salt water;  (3) The time at which the salt water disposal unit operation shall commence; and  (4) Those additional provisions, not in conflict with or inconsistent with the salt water disposal unit operating agreement, which the Oil and Gas Commission determines to be appropriate for the prevention of waste, water pollution, and the protection of all interested parties.
AR Code § 15-72-319 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 72 - Oil and Gas Production and Conservation|Subchapter 3 - Pools and Drilling Units|§ 15-72-319. Salt water disposal unit operation — Expenses

 The obligation or liability of each owner in the several separately owned tracts for the payment of salt water disposal unit expense shall at all times be several and not joint or collective. In no event shall an owner of the oil and gas rights in the separately owned tract be chargeable with, obligated, or directly or indirectly liable for more than the amount apportioned, assessed, or otherwise charged to his or her interest in the separately owned tract pursuant to the plan of unitization.
AR Code § 15-72-320 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 72 - Oil and Gas Production and Conservation|Subchapter 3 - Pools and Drilling Units|§ 15-72-320. Salt water disposal unit — Operator's lien

 (a) The operator may have a lien on all of the property owned by each owner within the salt water disposal unit area to secure the payment of his or her proportionate part of the expenses of salt water disposal unit operation.  (b) The lien may be established by filing an affidavit with the circuit clerk of the county in which the property involved, or any part thereof, is located. This affidavit shall set forth an itemized statement of the amount due and the interest of the owner in the unit and may be enforced in the manner as now provided for the enforcement of laborers' liens.
AR Code § 15-72-321 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 72 - Oil and Gas Production and Conservation|Subchapter 3 - Pools and Drilling Units|§ 15-72-321. Enlarged operation of salt water disposal unit established by previous order

 (a) The Oil and Gas Commission, upon the filing of a petition in a form complying with the requirements of § 15-72-316, may, after notice and hearing, require salt water disposal unit operation of a pool.  (b) In each case, the petition shall be accompanied by a copy of the proposed salt water disposal unit operating agreement with respect to the operation of the unit as so enlarged, in the form meeting the requirements of § 15-72-316(b)(3).  (c) In each instance, the unit operating agreement shall be executed by persons owning interests in oil and gas in the entire unitized area so enlarged in sufficient numbers to comply with the requirements of § 15-72-317(a)(1). However, if the unit operating agreement then in effect with respect to the unit area to which an additional portion of a pool is to be added contains provisions under the terms of which additions to the unit area may be made, the application for enlargement of the unitized area need only be accompanied by an agreement, executed by persons owning interests in oil and gas under the area to be added to the unit area in numbers sufficient to comply with the requirements of § 15-72-317(a)(1), for the inclusion, in accordance with the plan provided in the unit operating agreement involved, of the additional area to the unit area then existing.  (d) In either case, the new order, in providing for allocation of unit production from the enlarged unit area, shall first treat the unit area previously established as a single tract. The portion of unit production so allocated thereto shall then be allocated among the separately owned tracts included in the previously established unit area in the same proportion as those specified therefor in the previous order. In no event shall the new order alter the relative values of tract factors of the previously established unit area, except by consent of all parties owning interests in the tract affected.  (e) An order of the commission entered under this section shall be effective as to the enlarged salt water disposal unit area and to all persons owning interest in oil and gas therein to the same extent as an order entered under § 15-72-317, and it shall contain provisions with respect to the enlarged unit area to meet the requirements of § 15-72-318. The provisions of §§ 15-72-319 and 15-72-320 shall be applicable to obligations incurred in the operation of the enlarged salt water disposal unit area.
AR Code § 15-72-322 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 72 - Oil and Gas Production and Conservation|Subchapter 3 - Pools and Drilling Units|§ 15-72-322. Oil and gas from salt water disposal unit — Product of tract

 The portion of oil and gas produced from the salt water disposal unit and allocated to a separately owned tract shall be deemed, for all purposes, to have been actually produced from the tract. Operations for the production of oil and gas from any part of the unit area, conducted pursuant to the order of the Oil and Gas Commission, shall be deemed, for all purposes, to be operations for the production of oil and gas from each separately owned tract in the unit area.
AR Code § 15-72-323 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 72 - Oil and Gas Production and Conservation|Subchapter 3 - Pools and Drilling Units|§ 15-72-323. Notice of public hearings

 If public hearings are required, notice of public hearings before the Oil and Gas Commission as provided for in this subchapter shall be given as follows:   (1) An applicant shall give notice of the public hearing to be held upon an application by one (1) publication at least ten (10) days before the date of the public hearing, but not more than thirty (30) days before the public hearing, in a legal newspaper having a general circulation in the county, or in each county, if there are more than one (1), in which the lands embraced within the application are situated, except that, as to any public hearing pertaining to a matter of general application throughout the State of Arkansas, the notice shall be published in a legal newspaper having statewide circulation; and  (2) The cost of publication shall be paid for by the applicant.
AR Code § 15-72-324 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 72 - Oil and Gas Production and Conservation|Subchapter 3 - Pools and Drilling Units|§ 15-72-324. Limitation on production

 (a) Whenever the Oil and Gas Commission limits the total amount of oil or gas which may be produced in this state, the limit so fixed shall not be less than the aggregate of the allowables fixed for each separate pool in this state for the prevention of waste in accordance with the foregoing definition of waste, plus the production from unrestricted pools. It shall allocate or distribute the allowable so fixed among the separate pools. The allocation or distribution among the pools of the state shall be made on a reasonable basis, giving to each pool with small wells of settled production an allowable production which will not accelerate or encourage a general premature abandonment of the wells in the pool.  (b) Whenever the commission limits the total amount of oil or gas which may be produced in any pool in this state to an amount less than that amount which the pool could produce if no restriction were imposed, which limitation may be imposed either incidentally to, or without, a limitation of the total amount of oil or gas which may be produced in the state, the commission shall prorate or distribute the allowable production among the producers in the pool on a reasonable basis so as to prevent or minimize reasonably avoidable drainage from each developed unit which is not equalized by counter drainage and so that each producer will have the opportunity to produce or receive his or her just and equitable share, as above set forth, subject to the reasonable requirements for the prevention of waste.  (c) After the effective date of any rule or order of the commission fixing the allowable production of oil or gas, or both, for any pool, no person shall produce from any well, lease, or property more than the allowable production which is applicable, nor shall such amount be produced in a different manner than that which may be authorized.
AR Code § 15-72-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 72 - Oil and Gas Production and Conservation|Subchapter 4 - Illegal Oil and Gas|§ 15-72-401. Prohibition on dealing in illegal oil and gas

 (a) The sale, purchase, or acquisition or the transportation, refining, processing, or handling in any other way of illegal oil, illegal gas, or illegal product is prohibited.  (b)  (1) Unless and until the Oil and Gas Commission provides for certificates of clearance or tenders, or some other method, so that any person may have an opportunity to determine whether any contemplated transaction of sale, purchase, or acquisition or of transportation, refining, processing, or handling in any other way involves illegal oil, illegal gas, or illegal product, no penalty shall be imposed for the sale, purchase, or acquisition or the transportation, refining, processing, or handling in any other way of illegal oil, illegal gas, or illegal product, except under circumstances hereinafter stated.  (2) Penalties shall be imposed for the commission of each transaction prohibited in this section when the person committing the transaction knows that illegal oil, illegal gas, or illegal product is involved in the transaction or when the person could have known or determined the fact by the exercise of reasonable diligence or from facts within his or her knowledge. However, regardless of lack of actual notice or knowledge, penalties as provided in this act shall apply to any sale, purchase, or acquisition and to the transportation, refining, processing, or handling in any other way of illegal oil, illegal gas, or illegal product where administrative provision is made for identifying the character of the commodity as to its legality.  (3) It shall likewise be a violation for which penalties shall be imposed for any person to sell, purchase, or acquire or to transport, refine, process, or handle in any other way any oil, gas, or any product without complying with any rule or order of the commission relating thereto.
AR Code § 15-72-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 72 - Oil and Gas Production and Conservation|Subchapter 4 - Illegal Oil and Gas|§ 15-72-402. Finding oil and gas to be contraband — Bringing action for seizure and sale

 (a)  (1) Apart from, and in addition to, any other remedy or procedure which may be available to the Oil and Gas Commission, or any penalty which may be sought against or imposed upon any person with respect to violations relating to illegal oil, illegal gas, or illegal product, all illegal oil, illegal gas, and illegal product shall, except under such circumstances as are stated herein, be contraband and shall be seized and sold, and the proceeds applied as provided in § 15-72-406.  (2) Sale shall not take place unless the circuit court shall find, in the proceeding provided for in this subchapter, that the commodity involved is contraband.    (b)  (1) Whenever the commission believes that illegal oil, illegal gas, or illegal product is subject to seizure and sale, as provided in this subchapter, it shall, through its attorney or the Attorney General, bring a civil action in rem for that purpose in the circuit court of the county where the commodity is found, or the action may be maintained in connection with any suit or cross-action for injunction or for penalty relating to any prohibited transaction involving the illegal oil, illegal gas, or illegal product.  (2) Any interested person who may show himself or herself to be adversely affected by the seizure and sale shall have the right to intervene in the suit to protect his or her rights.  (3) This action referred to shall be strictly in rem and shall proceed in the name of the state as plaintiff against the illegal oil, illegal gas, or illegal product mentioned in the complaint, as defendant. No bond shall be required of the plaintiff in connection therewith.
AR Code § 15-72-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 72 - Oil and Gas Production and Conservation|Subchapter 4 - Illegal Oil and Gas|§ 15-72-403. Summons

 (a) Upon the filing of the complaint, the clerk of the court shall issue a summons directed to the sheriff of the county, or to other officers or persons the court may authorize to serve process, requiring them to summon any and all persons, without undertaking to name them, who may be interested in the illegal oil, illegal gas, or illegal product mentioned in the complaint to appear and answer within thirty (30) days after the issuance and service of the summons.  (b) The summons shall contain the style and number of the suit and a very brief statement of the nature of the cause of action.  (c) Notice shall be served by posting one (1) copy at the courthouse door of the county where the commodity involved in the suit is alleged to be located and by posting another copy near the place where the commodity is alleged to be located.  (d) One (1) copy of the summons shall be posted at least five (5) days before the return day stated therein, and the posting of the copy shall constitute constructive possession of the commodity by the state.  (e) A copy of the summons shall also be published once each week for four (4) weeks in some newspaper published in the county where the suit is pending and having a bona fide circulation therein.  (f) No judgment shall be pronounced by any circuit court condemning the commodity as contraband until after the lapse of five (5) days from the last publication of the summons. Proof of service of the summons, and the manner thereof, shall be provided by general law.
AR Code § 15-72-404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 72 - Oil and Gas Production and Conservation|Subchapter 4 - Illegal Oil and Gas|§ 15-72-404. Order of seizure

 (a) Where it appears by a verified pleading on the part of the plaintiff, by affidavit, or by oral testimony that grounds for the seizure and sale exist, the clerk, in addition to the summons or warning order, shall issue an order of seizure. This order shall be signed by the clerk and bear the seal of the court.  (b) The order of seizure shall specifically describe the illegal oil, illegal gas, or illegal product, so that it may be identified with reasonable certainty.  (c) The order shall direct the sheriff to whom it is addressed to take into his or her custody, actual or constructive, the illegal oil, illegal gas, or illegal product, described therein, and to hold the same subject to the orders of the court.  (d) The order of seizure shall be executed as a writ of attachment is executed.  (e) No bond shall be required before the issuance of the order of seizure, and the sheriff shall be responsible upon his or her official bond for the proper execution thereof.
AR Code § 15-72-405 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 72 - Oil and Gas Production and Conservation|Subchapter 4 - Illegal Oil and Gas|§ 15-72-405. Conservator

 In a proper case, the circuit court may direct the sheriff to deliver the custody of any illegal oil, illegal gas, or illegal product seized by him or her under an order of seizure, to a conservator to be appointed by the court, which conservator shall act as the agent of the court and shall give bond with an approved surety as the court may direct, conditioned that the conservator will faithfully conserve any illegal oil, illegal gas, or illegal product which may come into his or her custody and possession in accordance with the orders of the court. However, the court may in its discretion appoint any member of the commission or any agent of the commission as the conservator.
AR Code § 15-72-406 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 72 - Oil and Gas Production and Conservation|Subchapter 4 - Illegal Oil and Gas|§ 15-72-406. Sale — Application of proceeds

 (a)  (1) Sales of illegal oil, illegal gas, or illegal product seized under the authority of this act, and notices of those sales, shall be in accordance with the laws of this state relating to the sale and disposition of attached property.  (2) However, where the property is in the custody of a conservator, the sale shall be held by the conservator and not by the sheriff.  (3) For his or her services hereunder, the conservator shall receive a reasonable fee to be paid out of the proceeds of the sale, to be fixed by the court ordering the sale.    (b) The court may order that the commodity be sold in specified lots or portions, and at specified intervals, instead of being sold at one time.  (c) Title to the amount sold shall pass as of the date of the act which is found by the court to make the commodity contraband.  (d) The judgment shall provide for payment of the proceeds of the sale into the Oil and Gas Commission Fund, after first deducting the costs in connection with the proceedings and the sale.  (e) The amount sold shall be treated as legal oil, legal gas, or legal product, as the case may be, in the hands of the purchaser, but the purchaser and the commodity shall be subject to all applicable laws, and rules, regulations, and orders with respect to further sale or purchase or acquisition, and with respect to the transportation, refining, processing, or handling in any other way, of the commodity purchased.  (f) No oil, gas, or illegal product shall be sold for less than the average market value at the time of sale of similar products of like grade and character.
AR Code § 15-72-407 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 72 - Oil and Gas Production and Conservation|Subchapter 4 - Illegal Oil and Gas|§ 15-72-407. Other causes of action

 Nothing in this subchapter shall deny or abridge any cause of action a royalty owner, a lien holder, or any other claimant may have because of the forfeiture of the illegal oil, illegal gas, or illegal product, against the person whose act resulted in the forfeiture.
AR Code § 15-72-501 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 72 - Oil and Gas Production and Conservation|Subchapter 5 - Secondary Recovery|§ 15-72-501. Definitions

 (a) As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:  (1) “Cycling” means an operation in which condensate-bearing gas is displaced from a gas zone by injection of dry gas; and  (2) “Gas condensate” means the liquid produced by the condensation of a vapor or gas either after it leaves the reservoir or while still in the reservoir. Condensate is often called distillate, drips, white oil, etc.  (3)  (A) “Gas drive” means the process wherein energy for the recovery of oil is derived from gas under pressure in the formation. There may be:  (i) An injected gas drive; or  (ii) A gas-cap drive, which is the displacement of oil by the growth or expansion of a gas zone in an oil reservoir; or  (iii) A solution-gas drive, which is the displacement of oil by the expansion of the gas dissolved in it, depending upon the source of the compressed gas.    (B) In this manner, gas drive may apply to either primary or secondary recovery;    (4) “Gas injection” means the introduction of any gas into a subsurface reservoir;  (5) “Pressure maintenance” means a primary recovery or secondary recovery operation so conducted as to afford some degree of control over reservoir-pressure decline. This is preferably accomplished by gas injection in the early life of a pool;  (6) “Primary recovery” means the oil, gas, or oil and gas, recovered by natural flow, artificial lift, or any other method that may be employed to produce them through a single well bore, and the fluid enters the well bore by the action of native reservoir energy, or gravity;  (7) “Recycling” means a continuous reinjection of produced gas;  (8) “Repressuring” means the introduction of fluid, either gas or liquid, into a producing formation for the purpose of increasing the reservoir pressure;  (9) “Secondary recovery” means the oil, gas, or oil and gas recovered by any artificial flowing, pumping, or any other method that may be employed to produce them through the joint use of two (2) or more well bores. Secondary recovery is generally recognized as being that recovery which may be obtained by the injection of liquids or gases into the reservoir for the purpose of augmenting reservoir energy. Usually, but not necessarily, this is done after the primary recovery phase has passed;  (10) “Water drive” means any process whereby energy for the recovery of oil is derived principally from the movement of water in the formation. The water may be either native or introduced artificially into the formation;  (11) “Water flooding” means the introduction of water into an oil-bearing formation for the purpose of increasing the oil recovery, i.e., a secondary recovery operation employing water injection;  (12) “Water injection” means the introduction of water into a subsurface reservoir;    (b) In addition, the definitions found in § 15-72-102 shall also apply.
AR Code § 15-72-502 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 72 - Oil and Gas Production and Conservation|Subchapter 5 - Secondary Recovery|§ 15-72-502. Investigation and research — Personnel

 The Oil and Gas Commission is authorized and directed to make investigations and to research, as in the judgment of the commission is appropriate, to ascertain the advisability of the employment of a secondary recovery method or methods in any pool within the State of Arkansas containing oil and gas, and to this end is authorized to employ the personnel who in its judgment are necessary for the performance of the work.
AR Code § 15-72-503 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 72 - Oil and Gas Production and Conservation|Subchapter 5 - Secondary Recovery|§ 15-72-503. Submission of findings to landowners

 The findings of the Oil and Gas Commission are to be printed and submitted to the landowners, royalty owners, producers, and all parties in interest, in any oil or gas-condensate field or pool, or part thereof, where the employment of secondary recovery methods is found to be advisable.