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NV Rev Stat § 522.033 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 522 - Oil and Gas|NRS 522.033 - "Person" defined.

Person includes any department, agency or instrumentality of the State or any governmental subdivision thereof.  (Added to NRS by 1983, 2071)
NV Rev Stat § 522.035 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 522 - Oil and Gas|NRS 522.035 - "Pool" defined.

Pool means an underground reservoir containing, or appearing to contain, a common accumulation of oil or gas. Each zone of a general structure which is completely separated from any other zone in the structure is included in the term "pool."  (Added to NRS by 1983, 2071)
NV Rev Stat § 522.037 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 522 - Oil and Gas|NRS 522.037 - "Producer" defined.

Producer means the owner of a well or wells capable of producing oil or gas, or both.  (Added to NRS by 1983, 2071)
NV Rev Stat § 522.038 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 522 - Oil and Gas|NRS 522.038 - "Royalty" defined.

Royalty means the mineral owner’s share of production.  (Added to NRS by 1991, 960)
NV Rev Stat § 522.039 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 522 - Oil and Gas|NRS 522.039 - "Waste" defined.

Waste includes:  1. The inefficient, excessive or improper use of or unnecessary dissipation of reservoir energy.  2. The locating, spacing, drilling, equipping, operating or producing of any oil or gas well in a manner which results or tends to result in reducing the quantity of oil or gas to be recovered from any pool in this state under operations conducted in accordance with good engineering practices in an oil field.  3. The inefficient aboveground storage of oil.  4. The locating, spacing, drilling, equipping, operating or producing of any oil or gas well in a manner causing or tending to cause unnecessary or excessive surface loss or destruction of oil or gas.  5. Producing oil or gas in such manner as to cause unnecessary water channeling or coning.  6. The operation of an oil well with an inefficient ratio of gas to oil.  7. The drowning with water of any pool or part thereof capable of producing oil or gas, except insofar as and to the extent authorized by the Commission under this chapter.  8. Underground waste.  9. The creation of unnecessary fire hazards.  10. The escape into the open air, from a well producing oil or gas, of gas in excess of the amount which is reasonably necessary in the efficient production of the well.  11. The use of gas for the manufacture of carbon black, except as provided for in this chapter.  (Added to NRS by 1983, 2071)
NV Rev Stat § 522.0395 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 522 - Oil and Gas|NRS 522.0395 - "Working interest" defined.

Working interest means the interest granted under an oil and gas lease, giving the lessee the right to work on the leased property to search for, develop and produce oil and gas.  (Added to NRS by 1991, 960)
NV Rev Stat § 522.040 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 522 - Oil and Gas|NRS 522.040 - Powers and duties of Division.

Except as otherwise provided in NRS 522.119:  1. The Division has jurisdiction and authority over all persons and property, public and private, necessary to effectuate the purposes and intent of this chapter.  2. The Division shall make investigation to determine whether waste exists or is imminent, or whether other facts exist which justify or require action by it.  3. The Division shall adopt regulations, make orders and take other appropriate action to effectuate the purposes of this chapter.  4. The Division may:  (a) Require:  (1) Identification of ownership of wells, producing leases, tanks, plants and drilling structures.  (2) The making and filing of reports, well logs and directional surveys. Logs of exploratory or "wildcat" wells marked "confidential" must be kept confidential for 6 months after the filing thereof, unless the owner gives written permission to release those logs at an earlier date.  (3) The drilling, casing and plugging of wells in such a manner as to prevent the escape of oil or gas out of one stratum into another, the intrusion of water into an oil or gas stratum, the pollution of fresh water supplies by oil, gas or salt water, and to prevent blowouts, cavings, seepages and fires.  (4) The furnishing of a reasonable bond with good and sufficient surety conditioned for the performance of the duty to plug each dry or abandoned well or the repair of wells causing waste.  (5) The operation of wells with efficient gas-oil and water-oil ratios, and to fix these ratios.  (6) The gauging or other measuring of oil and gas to determine the quality and quantity thereof.  (7) That every person who produces oil or gas in this State keep and maintain for a period of 5 years within this State complete and accurate record of the quantities thereof, which must be available for examination by the Division or its agents at all reasonable times.  (b) Regulate, for conservation purposes:  (1) The drilling, producing and plugging of wells.  (2) The shooting and chemical treatment of wells.  (3) The spacing of wells.  (4) The disposal of salt water, nonpotable water and oil field wastes.  (5) The contamination or waste of underground water.  (c) Classify wells as oil or gas wells for purposes material to the interpretation or enforcement of this chapter.  [4:202:1953] — (NRS A 1977, 1151; 1981, 86; 1983, 2079; 1993, 1689; 2013, 2776)
NV Rev Stat § 522.050 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 522 - Oil and Gas|NRS 522.050 - Application for issuance of permit or for change in terms of existing permit; fees established by regulation; deposit of fees.

  1. A person shall not drill or operate an oil or gas well unless he or she first obtains a permit from the Division pursuant to this section.  2. Every person desiring to drill and operate an oil or gas well or requesting a change in the terms of an existing permit to drill and operate an oil or gas well must:  (a) Submit an application for a permit or for a request to change the terms of an existing permit, as applicable, to the Division on the form prescribed by the Division; and  (b) Pay the applicable fee prescribed pursuant to subsection 3.  3. The Commission on Mineral Resources shall prescribe by regulation the fees for a permit to drill and operate an oil or gas well and for a request to change the terms of an existing permit. The amount of each fee prescribed by the Commission may include the reasonable administrative costs of the Division relating to the filing and examination of applications for such permits or for requests for changes in the terms of such existing permits, as applicable, but the amount of the fee must not exceed:  (a) For a permit to drill and operate an oil or gas well that is not intended to be hydraulically fractured, $2,000.  (b) For a permit to drill and operate an oil or gas well that is intended to be hydraulically fractured, $5,000.  (c) For a request to change the terms of an existing permit to drill and operate an oil or gas well, $400.  4. The Division shall, as soon as practicable after receiving the proper application and fee, issue to the person a permit or change the terms of an existing permit, as applicable, unless the drilling or operation of the well is prohibited by any law or regulation or order of the Division.  5. The Division shall deposit with the State Treasurer, for credit to the Account for the Division of Minerals created pursuant to NRS 513.103, all money received pursuant to subsection 2.  [5:202:1953] — (NRS A 1977, 1151; 1983, 2080; 1993, 1689; 1999, 892, 3632; 2001, 66; 2015, 173)
NV Rev Stat § 522.080 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 522 - Oil and Gas|NRS 522.080 - Use of gas from well to manufacture carbon products without permit is prima facie waste.

The use of gas from a well producing gas only, or from a well which is primarily a gas well, for the manufacture of carbon black or similar products predominantly carbon, is declared to constitute waste prima facie, and the gas well must not be used for any such purpose unless it is clearly shown at a public hearing to be held by the Division, on application of the person desiring to use the gas, that waste would not take place by the use of the gas for the purpose applied for, and that gas which would otherwise be lost is now available for that purpose, and that the gas to be used cannot be used for a more beneficial purpose, such as for light or fuel, except at prohibitive cost, and that it would be in the public interest to grant the permit. If the Division finds that the applicant has clearly shown a right to use the gas for the purpose applied for, it shall issue a permit upon such terms and conditions as may be found necessary in order to permit the use of the gas and at the same time require compliance with the intent of this section.  [8:202:1953] — (NRS A 1977, 1159; 1983, 2082; 1993, 1691)
NV Rev Stat § 522.082 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 522 - Oil and Gas|NRS 522.082 - "Unit production" defined.

As used in NRS 522.082 to 522.0878, inclusive, "unit production" includes all oil and gas produced from a unit area from and after the effective date of the order of the Division creating the unit regardless of the well or tract within the unit area from which it is produced.  (Added to NRS by 1983, 2071; A 1993, 1691)
NV Rev Stat § 522.0824 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 522 - Oil and Gas|NRS 522.0824 - Voluntary unitization; petition for compulsory unitization.

  1. To prevent, or to assist in preventing waste, as prohibited by this chapter, to ensure a greater ultimate recovery of oil and gas, and to protect the correlative rights of persons owning interests in the tracts of land affected, those persons may validly integrate their interests to provide for the unitized management, development and operation of those tracts of land as a unit. Where those persons have not agreed so to integrate their interests, the Division, upon proper petition, after notice and hearing, shall make and enforce such orders and do such things as may be necessary or proper to carry out the purposes of NRS 522.0828 to 522.0878, inclusive.  2. The petition must set forth a description of the proposed unit area with a map or plat thereof attached, must allege the existence of the facts required to be found by the Division as provided in NRS 522.0828 and must have attached thereto a recommended plan of unitization applicable to the proposed unit area and which the petitioner considers to be fair, reasonable and equitable.  (Added to NRS by 1983, 2072; A 1993, 1692)
NV Rev Stat § 522.0828 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 522 - Oil and Gas|NRS 522.0828 - Order for compulsory unitization: Findings required before issuance.

If upon the filing of a petition and after notice and hearing, the Division finds that:  1. The unitized management, operation and further development of a pool or portion thereof is reasonably necessary in order effectively to carry on pressure control, pressure-maintenance or repressuring operations, cycling operations, waterflooding operations, or any combination thereof, or any other form of joint effort calculated to substantially increase the ultimate recovery of oil and gas from the pool;  2. One or more of the unitized methods of operation as applied to the pool or portion thereof are feasible, will prevent waste and will, with reasonable probability, result in the increased recovery of substantially more oil and gas from the pool than would otherwise be recovered;  3. The estimated additional cost, if any, of conducting those operations will not exceed the value of the additional oil and gas so recovered; and  4. The unitization and adoption of one or more of the unitized methods of operation is for the common good and will result in the general advantage of the owners of the oil and gas rights within the pool or the portion thereof directly affected,  it shall make a finding to that effect and make an order creating the unit and providing for the unitization and unitized operation of the pool or portion thereof described in the order, all upon such terms and conditions, as may be shown by the evidence to be fair, reasonable, equitable, and which are necessary or proper to protect, safeguard and adjust the respective rights and obligations of the several persons affected, including royalty owner, owners of overriding royalties, oil and gas payments, carried interests, mortgages, lien claimants and others, as well as the lessees.  (Added to NRS by 1983, 2072; A 1993, 1692)
NV Rev Stat § 522.083 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 522 - Oil and Gas|NRS 522.083 - Order for compulsory unitization: Limitations on area of pool to be included in plan.

  1. The order of the Division must define the area of the pool or portion thereof to be included within the unit area and prescribe with reasonable detail the plan of unitization applicable thereto.  2. Each unit and unit area must be limited to all or a portion of a single pool. Only so much of a pool as has been defined and determined to be productive of oil and gas by actual drilling operations may be so included within the unit area. A unit may be created to embrace less than the whole of a pool only where it is shown by the evidence that the area to be so included within the unit area is of such size and shape as may be reasonably required for the successful and efficient conduct of the unitized method of operation for which the unit is created, and that the conduct thereof will have no material adverse effect upon the remainder of the pool.  (Added to NRS by 1983, 2073; A 1993, 1692)
NV Rev Stat § 522.0834 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 522 - Oil and Gas|NRS 522.0834 - Order for compulsory unitization: Consent of certain percentage of owners required; hearings; revocation of order.

  1. No order of the Division creating a unit and prescribing the plan of unitization applicable thereto becomes effective unless:  (a) The plan of unitization has been signed or in writing ratified, or approved by the lessees of record of not less than 62.5 percent of the unit area affected thereby and by the owners of record or not less than 62.5 percent (exclusive of royalty interests owned by lessees or by subsidiaries of any lessee) of the normal one-eighth landowners’ royalty interest in and to the unit area; and  (b) The Division has made a finding either in the order creating the unit or in a supplemental order that the plan of unitization has been so signed, ratified or approved by lessees and royalty owners owning the required percentage interest in and to the unit area.  2. Where the plan of unitization has not been so signed, ratified or approved by the lessees and royalty owners owning the required percentage interest in and to the unit area at the time the order creating the unit is made, the Division shall, upon petition and notice, hold such additional and supplemental hearings as may be requested or required to determine if and when the plan of unitization has been so signed, ratified or approved by lessees and royalty owners owning the required percentage interest in and to the unit area and shall, in respect to the hearing, make and enter a finding of its determination in that regard. If lessees and royalty owners, or either, owning the required percentage interest in and to the unit area have not so signed, ratified or approved the plan of unitization within a period of 6 months after the date on which the order creating the unit is made, the order creating the unit ceases to be of further effect and must be revoked by the Division.  (Added to NRS by 1983, 2074; A 1993, 1693)
NV Rev Stat § 522.084 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 522 - Oil and Gas|NRS 522.084 - Plan of unitization: Modification; approval of owners not required in certain circumstances.

The unit area of a unit may be enlarged to include adjoining portions of the same pool, including the unit area of another unit, and a new unit created for the unitized management, operation and further development of the enlarged unit area, or the plan of unitization may be otherwise amended, all in the same manner, upon the same conditions and subject to the same limitations as provided in NRS 522.082 to 522.0878, inclusive, with respect to the creation of a unit in the first instance, except that where the amendment to the plan of unitization relates only to the rights and obligations as between lessees the requirement that it be signed, ratified and approved by royalty owners of record of not less than 62.5 percent of the unit area does not apply.  (Added to NRS by 1983, 2077)
NV Rev Stat § 522.0844 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 522 - Oil and Gas|NRS 522.0844 - Property acquired by unit is owned by lessees subject to management by unit.

All property, whether real or personal, which the unit may in any way acquire, hold or possess, may not be acquired, held or possessed by the unit for its own account but must be so acquired, held and possessed by the unit for the account and as agent of the several lessees and is the property of the lessees as their interests may appear under the plan of unitization, subject to the right of the unit to the possession, management, use or disposal of the property in the proper conduct of its affairs, and subject to any lien the unit may have on it to secure the payment of unit expense.  (Added to NRS by 1983, 2077)
NV Rev Stat § 522.0848 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 522 - Oil and Gas|NRS 522.0848 - Transfer of title to tracts and leases not required; proceeds and production are income of owners.

  1. This chapter does not require a transfer to or vesting in the unit of title to the separately owned tracts or leases within the unit area, other than the right to use and operate them to the extent set out in the plan of unitization; nor may the unit be regarded as owning the unit production. The unit production and the proceeds from the sale thereof are owned by the several persons to whom they are allocated under the plan of unitization.  2. Neither the unit production or proceeds from the sale thereof, nor the other receipts may be treated or taxed as income or profits of the unit; but instead, all such receipts are the income of the several persons to whom or to whose credit they are payable under the plan of unitization. To the extent the unit may receive or disburse the receipts it shall only do so as a common administrative agent of the persons to whom they are payable.  (Added to NRS by 1983, 2076)
NV Rev Stat § 522.085 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 522 - Oil and Gas|NRS 522.085 - Distribution of production; distribution in kind under certain circumstances.

  1. The amount of the unit production allocated to each separately owned tract within the unit, and only that amount, regardless of the well or wells in the unit area from which it may be produced and regardless of whether it be more or less than the amount of the production from the well or wells, if any, on any such separately owned tract, must be considered as production from the separately owned tract, and, except as may be otherwise authorized in this chapter, or in the plan of unitization approved by the Division, must be distributed among or the proceeds thereof paid to the several persons entitled to share in the production from the separately owned tract in the same manner, in the same proportions, and upon the same condition that they would have participated and shared in the production or proceeds thereof from such separately owned tract had not the unit been organized, and with the same legal effect.  2. If adequate provisions are made for the receipt thereof, the share of the unit production allocated to each separately owned tract must be delivered in kind to the persons entitled thereto by virtue of ownership of oil and gas rights therein or by purchase from the owners subject to the rights of the unit to withhold and sell it in payment of unit expense pursuant to the plan of unitization, and subject further to the call of the unit on such portions of the gas for operating purposes as may be provided in the plan of unitization.  (Added to NRS by 1983, 2076; A 1993, 1695)
NV Rev Stat § 522.0854 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 522 - Oil and Gas|NRS 522.0854 - Expenses of unit: Liability of owners is several and limited to amount charged.

The obligation or liability of the lessees or other owners of the oil and gas rights in the several separately owned tracts for the payment of unit expense is at all times several and not joint or collective and in no event is a lessee or other owner of the oil and gas rights in the separately owned tract chargeable with, obligated or liable, directly or indirectly, for more than the amount apportioned, assessed or otherwise charged to his or her interest in such separately owned tract pursuant to the plan of unitization and then only to the extent of the lien provided for in NRS 522.0858.  (Added to NRS by 1983, 2075)
NV Rev Stat § 522.0858 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 522 - Oil and Gas|NRS 522.0858 - Expenses of unit: Lien for amount assessed; persons primarily responsible for payment; payment by persons not responsible; payment to royalty owners free of lien and expenses.

  1. Subject to such reasonable limitations as may be set out in the plan of unitization, the unit has a first and prior lien upon the leasehold estate and all other oil and gas rights (exclusive of a one-eighth landowners’ royalty interest) in and to each separately owned tract, the interest of the owners thereof in and to the unit production and all equipment in the possession of the unit, to secure the payment of the amount of the unit expense charged to and assessed against the separately owned tract.  2. The interest of the lessee or other persons who by lease, contract or otherwise are obligated or responsible for the cost and expense of developing and operating a separately owned tract for oil and gas in the absence of unitization, is primarily responsible for and charged with any assessment for unit expense made against the tract and resort may be had to overriding royalties, oil and gas payments, royalty interests in excess of one-eighth of the production, or other interests which otherwise are not chargeable with that cost, only if the owner of interest primarily responsible fails to pay the assessment of the production to the credit thereof, or production is insufficient for that purpose.  3. If the owner of any royalty interest, overriding royalty, oil or gas payment, or any other interest which under the plan of unitization is not primarily responsible therefor pays in whole or in part the amount of an assessment for unit expense for the purpose of protecting that interest, or the amount of the assessment in whole or in part is deducted from the unit production to the credit of that interest, the owner thereof is to the extent of the payment or deduction subrogated to all the rights of the unit with respect to the interest or interests primarily responsible for the assessment.  4. A one-eighth part of the unit production allocated to each separately owned tract must in all events be regarded as royalty to be distributed to and among, or the proceeds thereof paid to, the royalty owners free and clear of all unit expense and free of any lien therefor.  (Added to NRS by 1983, 2075)
NV Rev Stat § 522.086 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 522 - Oil and Gas|NRS 522.086 - Operations under plan are considered fulfillment of provisions in contracts relating to pool in unit.

Operations carried on under and in accordance with the plan of unitization must be considered as a fulfillment of a compliance with all of the provisions, covenants and conditions, express or implied, of the several oil and gas leases upon lands included with the unit area, or other contracts pertaining to the development thereof insofar as those leases or other contracts may relate to the pool or portion thereof included in the unit area. Wells drilled or operated on any part of the unit area, no matter where located, must for all purposes be regarded as wells drilled on each separately owned tract within the unit area.  (Added to NRS by 1983, 2077)