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AR Code § 15-72-504 (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|§ 15-72-504. Agreements to use secondary recovery methods not in restraint of trade

 If the persons owning and operating any oil pool or portion thereof enter into an agreement among themselves for the employment of any secondary recovery method or methods for the production of oil from a pool or portion thereof, and the Oil and Gas Commission finds that operating the pool or portion thereof in accordance with the agreement will result in the prevention of waste, the performance of the agreement by the persons shall not be a violation of any statute of this state relating to trusts, monopolies, or contracts, or combinations in restraint of trade.
AR Code § 15-72-601 (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 6 - Underground Storage of Gas|§ 15-72-601. Title

 This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Underground Storage of Gas Law”.
AR Code § 15-72-602 (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 6 - Underground Storage of Gas|§ 15-72-602. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   (1) “Commission” means the Oil and Gas Commission.  (2) “Native gas” means gas which has not been previously withdrawn from the earth;  (3) “Natural gas” means gas either while in its original state or after the gas has been processed by removal therefrom of component parts not essential to its use for light and fuel;  (4) “Natural gas public utility” means any person, firm, or corporation authorized to do business in this state and engaged in the business of producing, transporting, or distributing natural gas by means of pipelines into, within, or through this state for ultimate public consumption; and  (5) “Underground storage” means storage in a subsurface stratum or formation of the earth;
AR Code § 15-72-603 (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 6 - Underground Storage of Gas|§ 15-72-603. Public interest and welfare — Authority of commission

 (a) The underground storage of natural gas which promotes conservation thereof, which permits the building of reserves for orderly withdrawal in periods of peak demand, which makes more readily available and economical our natural gas resources to the domestic, commercial, and industrial consumers of this state, and which provides a better year-round market to the various gas fields, and promotes the public interest and welfare of this state.  (b) Therefore, in the manner hereinafter provided, the Oil and Gas Commission may find and determine that the underground storage of natural gas as hereinbefore defined is in the public interest.
AR Code § 15-72-605 (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 6 - Underground Storage of Gas|§ 15-72-605. Prerequisite to eminent domain — Certificate

 Any natural gas public utility desiring to exercise the right of eminent domain as to any property for use for underground storage of natural gas, as a condition precedent to the filing of its petition in the circuit court, shall obtain from the Oil and Gas Commission a certificate setting out findings of the commission as to the following:   (1) That the underground stratum or formation sought to be acquired is suitable for the underground storage of natural gas and that its use for such purposes is in the public interest; and  (2) The amount of recoverable oil and native gas, if any, remaining therein. However, the commission shall issue no certificate until after public hearing is had on the application, pursuant to notice served in compliance with notice in civil actions in the circuit court, together with notice published at least once each week for two (2) successive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation in the county or counties where the gas is proposed to be stored. The first publication of the notice must be at least ten (10) days prior to the date of the hearing.
AR Code § 15-72-606 (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 6 - Underground Storage of Gas|§ 15-72-606. Petition for eminent domain — Subsequent proceedings

 (a) Any natural gas public utility having first obtained a certificate from the Oil and Gas Commission as provided in § 15-72-605 desiring to exercise the right of eminent domain for the purpose of acquiring property for the underground storage of natural gas shall do so in the manner provided in this section.  (b) The natural gas public utility shall present to the circuit court of the county wherein the land is situated, or to the judge thereof, a petition setting forth the purpose for which the property is sought to be acquired, a description of the property sought to be appropriated, and the names of the owners thereof as shown by the records of the county.  (c) The petitioner shall file the certificate of the commission as a part of its petition and no order by the court granting the petition shall be entered without the certificate being filed therewith.  (d) The court or the judge thereof shall examine the petition and determine whether the property is necessary to its lawful purposes, and if found in the affirmative, the finding shall be entered of record and subsequent proceedings shall follow the procedure by law for the exercise of the right of eminent domain for rights-of-way for railroads as provided by § 18-15-1201 et seq.
AR Code § 15-72-607 (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 6 - Underground Storage of Gas|§ 15-72-607. Ownership of gas

 All natural gas which has been reduced to possession and which is subsequently injected into underground storage fields, sands, reservoirs, and facilities shall at all times be deemed the property of the injector, his or her heirs, successors, or assigns. In no event shall the gas be subject to the right of the owner of the surface of the lands or the owner of any mineral interest therein under which the gas storage fields, sands, reservoirs, and facilities lie or subject to the right of any person, other than the injector, his or her heirs, successors, and assigns, to produce, take, reduce to possession, waste, or otherwise interfere with or exercise any control thereover. However, the injector, his or her heirs, successors, and assigns shall have no right to gas in any stratum, or portion thereof, which has not been condemned under the provisions of this subchapter or otherwise purchased.
AR Code § 15-72-608 (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 6 - Underground Storage of Gas|§ 15-72-608. Rules

 (a) The Oil and Gas Commission shall have authority to make reasonable rules and exercise such powers as are granted to it by §§ 15-71-101 — 15-71-112, 15-72-101 — 15-72-110, 15-72-205, 15-72-212, 15-72-216, 15-72-301 — 15-72-324, and 15-72-401 — 15-72-407 as may be necessary in the administration of this subchapter.  (b) The Secretary of the Department of Finance and Administration shall have authority to make reasonable rules for the collection of the taxes and allowance of credit as provided in this subchapter.
AR Code § 15-72-701 (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 7 - Exploration|§ 15-72-701. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   (1) “Commercial oil pool” means a pool which appears to contain sufficient quantities of recoverable oil, in the opinion of the commission, to justify the economical development thereof.  (2) “Commission” means the Oil and Gas Commission;  (3) “Conservation Act” means §§ 15-71-101 — 15-71-112, 15-72-101 — 15-72-110, 15-72-205, 15-72-212, 15-72-216, 15-72-301 — 15-72-324, and 15-72-401 — 15-72-407; and  (4) “Field” means the general area which is underlaid or appears to be underlaid by at least one (1) pool. “Field” includes the underground reservoir or reservoirs containing crude petroleum oil, natural gas, or both. The words “field” and “pool” mean the same thing when only one (1) underground reservoir is involved. However, “field”, unlike “pool”, may relate to two (2) or more pools;  (5) “Oil” means crude petroleum oil, and other hydrocarbons, regardless of gravity, which are produced at the well in liquid form by ordinary production methods and which are not the result of condensation of gas after it leaves the reservoir;  (6) “Owner” means the person who has the right to drill and produce oil and to appropriate the production either for himself or herself or for himself or herself and another or others;  (7) “Participating area” means the land surface area within a radius of two (2) miles from the discovery well;  (8) “Person” means any natural person, corporation, association, partnership, receiver, trustee, guardian, executor, administrator, fiduciary, or representative of any kind, or the heirs, successors, or assigns of any of the foregoing;  (9) “Pool” means an underground reservoir containing a common accumulation of crude petroleum oil or natural gas, or both. Each zone of a general structure which is completely separated from any other zone in the structure is covered by the term “pool” as used herein;
AR Code § 15-72-702 (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 7 - Exploration|§ 15-72-702. Bonus for discovery of oil pool

 Any person who discovers a commercial oil pool in this state not heretofore discovered shall be entitled to the bonus herein provided upon compliance with the provisions hereof.
AR Code § 15-72-703 (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 7 - Exploration|§ 15-72-703. Application for permit to drill discovery well

 To become entitled to the benefits provided in this subchapter, a person shall make application therefor to the Oil and Gas Commission at or before the issuance of the permit to drill the discovery well in the pool upon a form approved by the commission in which the applicant shall, among other things, state under oath:   (1) The location of the proposed discovery well; and  (2) A legal description of the land within the participating area as to which the applicant is the owner at that date.
AR Code § 15-72-704 (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 7 - Exploration|§ 15-72-704. Approval of application

 The application shall be approved by the Oil and Gas Commission if it determines from the application and such investigation as it may deem proper:   (1) That the location of the proposed discovery well is not within the geographical confines of a known producing oil field; and  (2) That the application has complied with the provisions of this subchapter and all rules of the commission in respect thereto.
AR Code § 15-72-705 (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 7 - Exploration|§ 15-72-705. Certificate of discovery of commercial pool

 Upon receipt by the Oil and Gas Commission, within one (1) year from the date of the approval of the application, of evidence from which the commission finds that a commercial oil pool has been discovered by that person in the drilling of the discovery well and that compliance has been had with this subchapter and the rules of the commission, it shall issue to that person a certificate to that effect. This certificate shall entitle the person to the benefits of this subchapter. However, not more than one (1) certificate shall be issued for each field, nor more than one (1) pool in any field.
AR Code § 15-72-706 (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 7 - Exploration|§ 15-72-706. Credit against severance tax

 From and after the effective date of the certificate, the person shall be entitled to receive from the Revenue Division of the Department of Finance and Administration a credit against the taxes thereafter otherwise due by the person on account of oil produced from the pool from wells located on any land as to which the person was the owner, and so designated, in the application filed with the Oil and Gas Commission, as follows:   (1) Seventy-five percent (75%) of the severance tax otherwise due during a period of five (5) years from the date of the certificate if the pool is located above the base of the deepest producing oil formation in the county where the discovery well is located at the date of the application;  (2) Seventy-five percent (75%) of the severance tax otherwise due during a period of ten (10) years from the date of the certificate if the pool is located below the base of the deepest producing oil formation in the county or if there was no oil production in the county at the date of the application; and  (3) The certificate shall designate whether the person named therein is entitled thereunder to the benefits of subdivisions (1) and (2) of this section, and the name of the field and pool covered thereby.
AR Code § 15-72-801 (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 8 - Emergency Petroleum Set-Aside Act|§ 15-72-801. Policy and purpose

 The General Assembly finds and declares that:   (1) Adequate supplies of petroleum products are essential to the health, welfare, and safety of the people of the State of Arkansas;  (2) Any severe disruption in the supply of petroleum products for use within the state would cause grave hardship and pose a threat to the health and economic well-being of the people of this state;  (3) The state set-aside program has benefited all sectors of Arkansas' economy by allocating petroleum products on a short-term basis to those persons experiencing hardship or emergency conditions caused by insufficient supplies of fuel; and  (4) It is in the public interest for Arkansas to continue to administer a state set-aside program during those times that federal law does not preempt such a state-authorized program. A set-aside program should be an emergency standby, established as a preparedness measure. It should not operate on a permanent basis or in a period of normal supply.
AR Code § 15-72-802 (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 8 - Emergency Petroleum Set-Aside Act|§ 15-72-802. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   (1) “Assignment” means an action taken by the Arkansas Energy Office of the Division of Environmental Quality, designating that a prime supplier of petroleum products supply them to an authorized consumer, wholesale purchaser-consumer, or wholesale purchaser-reseller to facilitate relief of emergency or hardship needs, pursuant to § 15-72-804;  (2) “Broker” means a marketer of petroleum products who performs none of the basic marketing functions but normally brings buyer and seller together and receives a fee or commission for his or her services;  (3) “Consumer” means any individual, trustee, agency, partnership, association, corporation, company, municipality, political subdivision, or other legal entity which purchases petroleum products for ultimate consumption in Arkansas;  (4) “Director” means the Director of the Arkansas Energy Office;  (5) “Firm” means any association, company, corporation, estate, individual, joint venture, partnership, or sole proprietorship or any entity however organized, including charitable or educational institutions and the United States Government, including federal corporations, departments, and agencies and state and local governments;  (6) “Petroleum products” means propane, motor gasoline, blended fuels, kerosene, #2 heating oil, diesel fuel, kerosene-base jet fuel, naphtha-base jet fuel, and aviation gasoline;  (7) “Prime supplier” means the supplier which makes the first sale of any petroleum product subject to the state set-aside into the state distribution system for consumption within the state. Notwithstanding the above, “prime supplier” shall not include any firm, or any part or subsidiary of any firm which supplies, sells, transfers, or otherwise furnishes any allocated product exclusively to utilities for generation of electric energy;  (8) “Purchaser” means a wholesale purchaser or consumer, or both;  (9) “Set-aside” means, with respect to a particular prime supplier, the amount of a petroleum product which is made available from the total supply of a prime supplier, pursuant to the provisions of § 15-72-804, for utilization by the office to resolve emergencies and hardships due to shortages or other dislocations in petroleum products distribution systems; and  (10)  (A) “Supplier” means any firm or any part or subsidiary of any firm, other than the United States Department of Defense, which supplies, sells, transfers, or otherwise furnishes any allocated product to wholesale purchasers or end users, including, but not limited to, refiners, importers, resellers, brokers, jobbers, and retailers.  (B) Notwithstanding subdivision (10)(A) of this section, “supplier” shall not include any firm, or any part or subsidiary of any firm which supplies, sells, transfers, or otherwise furnishes any allocated product exclusively to utilities for generation of electric energy.
AR Code § 15-72-803 (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 8 - Emergency Petroleum Set-Aside Act|§ 15-72-803. Penalties

 (a) Any person who knowingly violates any provisions of this subchapter or any rules promulgated thereunder shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be subject to a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, or both. In the event of a violation by a corporation or other entity organized for a common business purpose, this penalty shall extend to any officer, director, or employee who knowingly participated in the violation.  (b) Any prime supplier or broker who refuses to provide products pursuant to an assignment under this subchapter shall be liable for a penalty of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) which may be recovered in a civil action, and the prime supplier or broker may be enjoined from continuing such violation.
AR Code § 15-72-805 (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 8 - Emergency Petroleum Set-Aside Act|§ 15-72-805. Confidential treatment

 (a) Information furnished pursuant to this subchapter and designated as confidential shall be maintained as confidential by the Director of the Arkansas Energy Office and any person who obtains information that he or she knows to be confidential under this subchapter.  (b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit the use of confidential information to prepare statistics or other general data for publication, so presented as to prevent identification of particular persons.
AR Code § 15-72-901 (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 9 - Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas|§ 15-72-901. Governor authorized to execute agreement — Two-year extension of compact

 The Governor is authorized and directed, for and in the name of the State of Arkansas, to join with other states in the Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas, which was heretofore executed in the City of Dallas, Texas, on February 16, 1935, and now deposited with the Department of State of the United States, and which has been twice extended for a two-year period, and to enter into and execute an agreement with other states now parties or which may hereafter become parties, whereby said compact shall be extended for a period of two (2) years from September 1, 1941, subject to the approval of Congress.
AR Code § 15-72-903 (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 9 - Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas|§ 15-72-903. Extension or termination of compact by Governor

 The Governor of Arkansas is further authorized and empowered, for and in the name of the State of Arkansas, to execute agreements for the further extension of the expiration date of the Interstate Oil Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas, and to determine if and when it shall be for the best interest of the State of Arkansas to withdraw from said compact upon sixty (60) days' notice as provided by its terms. In the event he or she shall determine that the state should withdraw from said compact, he or she shall have full power and authority to give necessary notice and to take any and all steps necessary and proper to effect the withdrawal of the State of Arkansas from said compact.
AR Code § 15-72-904 (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 9 - Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas|§ 15-72-904. Governor official representative of state on commission — Assistant representative

 The Governor shall be the official representative of the State of Arkansas on the Interstate Oil Compact Commission, provided for in the Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas, and shall exercise and perform for the State of Arkansas all the powers and duties as a member of the Interstate Oil Compact Commission; provided that he or she shall have the authority to appoint an assistant representative of the State of Arkansas as a member of said commission. Said assistant representative shall take the oath of office prescribed by the Arkansas Constitution, which shall be filed with the Secretary of State.