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AR Code § 15-72-214 (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 2 - Wells and Drilling Generally|§ 15-72-214. Surface owner's claim for damages caused by operator neglect

 (a) Each operator shall remain liable under the proof of financial responsibility as filed with the Oil and Gas Commission until released by the Director of Production and Conservation.  (b) Any surface owner seeking to recover thereunder for damages caused by the neglect of the operator must file written notice of claim therefor with the commission within one (1) year of the date of issuance of the permit for such drilling operations. However, that claim shall be subordinate to the rights of the commission under the proof of financial responsibility to secure compliance by the operator with the provisions of §§ 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 amended, and the rules of the commission promulgated thereunder.
AR Code § 15-72-216 (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 2 - Wells and Drilling Generally|§ 15-72-216. Requirement that dry or abandoned wells be plugged — Notice of abandonment

 (a) Each abandoned well and each dry hole promptly shall be plugged in the manner and within the time required by rules to be prescribed by the Oil and Gas Commission. The owner of the well shall give notice upon a form the commission may prescribe of the drilling of each dry hole and of the owner's intention to abandon.  (b) No well shall be abandoned until the notice has been given and no fee shall be required to be paid with this notice.
AR Code § 15-72-218 (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 2 - Wells and Drilling Generally|§ 15-72-218. Plugging dry or abandoned well by another

 Whenever any person is injured or threatened with injury by neglect to comply with the provisions of § 15-72-217, it shall be lawful for that person, after notice to the owner, lessee, or caretaker of the premises upon which the well is located, to:   (1) Enter upon the premises;  (2) Fill and plug the well in the manner provided in § 15-72-217; and  (3) Recover the expense thereof from the person, whose duty it was to fill up or plug the well in like manner. Debts of such amounts are recoverable, and the person shall have a lien upon the fixtures, machinery, and leasehold interest of the owner or operator of the well for all sums expended in filling and plugging the well, and for the costs of the suit, including a reasonable attorney's fee, to be fixed by the court.
AR Code § 15-72-219 (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 2 - Wells and Drilling Generally|§ 15-72-219. Compensation of surface owners and surface tenants for damages — Restoration of land

 (a) A surface owner or surface tenant is entitled to reasonable compensation where a spill of crude oil or produced water has occurred and has caused damages to real property, growing crops, trees, shrubs, fences, roads, structures, improvements, livestock, personal property or measurable damage to the productive capacity of the soil.  (b) In addition to any compensation or damages paid by the operator under subsection (a) of this section, the operator shall restore the damaged land in accordance with all applicable rules of the:  (1) Division of Environmental Quality; or  (2) Oil and Gas Commission.    (c) Any rules adopted by the division or the commission pertaining to spills of crude oil or produced water shall:  (1) Provide, as nearly as practicable, for remediation of any spill of crude oil or produced water to the condition of the real property before the spill; and  (2) Specify a reasonable time frame for commencing and completing remediation of any spill of crude oil or produced water to the condition of the real property before the spill.    (d) If the party responsible for damage to real property caused by a spill of crude oil or produced water fails to restore the real property in accordance with applicable rules, then the surface owner or surface tenant may bring an action for restoration or remediation:  (1) In that action, if the surface owner or surface tenant proves by a preponderance of the evidence that the party responsible for the damage has failed to restore and remediate the real property, then the surface owner or surface tenant is entitled to an order requiring restoration or remediation to appropriate standards of the applicable agency; and  (2) In addition to the relief provided in subdivision (d)(1) of this section, the surface owner or surface tenant may be allowed a reasonable attorney's fee together with costs associated with maintaining an action for restoration or remediation.    (e) This section shall become effective on September 17, 2007, and will apply to spills of crude oil and spills of produced water that occur after that date.  (f) Nothing contained in this section is intended to limit or restrict the rights of any surface owner or surface tenant to maintain a cause of action for any damage to real property that is not addressed by the rules adopted by the division or the commission pertaining to spills of crude oil or produced water.  (g) Nothing contained in this section shall alter, affect, or modify the terms of any oil or gas lease pertaining to restoration or remediation of damaged real property that are more stringent than the provisions of this section.  (h) The provisions of this section are remedial in nature.
AR Code § 15-72-301 (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|§ 15-72-301. Applicability of §§ 15-72-307 — 15-72-314

 The provisions of §§ 15-72-307 — 15-72-314 shall be applicable to each pool or any portion thereof in the State of Arkansas.
AR Code § 15-72-303 (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|§ 15-72-303. Authority to integrate production in drilling units

 (a) When two (2) or more separately owned tracts are embraced within an established drilling unit, when there are separately owned interests in all or part of the drilling unit, or when there are separately owned tracts and separately owned interests in all or part of such a drilling unit, the owners thereof may voluntarily pool, combine, and integrate their tracts or interests for the development or operation of that drilling unit.  (b) When the owners fail or refuse voluntarily to integrate their interests, upon the application of any such owner or operator, the commission, for the prevention of waste or to avoid the drilling of unnecessary wells, shall enter its order integrating all tracts and interests in the drilling unit for the development or operation of the drilling unit and the sharing of production from the drilling unit.
AR Code § 15-72-306 (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|§ 15-72-306. Limitation on production if no integration

 Should the owners of separate tracts embraced within a drilling unit fail to agree upon the integration of the tracts and the drilling of a well on the unit and should it be established that the commission is without authority to require integration as provided by §§ 15-72-303 — 15-72-305, then subject to all other applicable provisions of this act, the owner of each tract embraced within the drilling unit may drill on his or her tract. However, the allowable production from the tract shall be the proportion of the allowable for the full drilling unit as the area of the separately owned tract bears to the full drilling unit.
AR Code § 15-72-307 (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|§ 15-72-307. Formation of units not in restraint of trade

 The formation of any drilling unit or salt water disposal unit as provided in this subchapter and the operation of that unit under order of the Oil and Gas Commission shall not be a violation of any statute of this state relating to trusts, monopolies, contracts, or combinations in restraint of trade.
AR Code § 15-72-308 (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|§ 15-72-308. Petition for unit operation — Hearing

 (a) Upon the filing of a petition as provided in this section, the Oil and Gas Commission after notice shall hold a public hearing to consider the need for the operation as a unit of an entire pool or any portion thereof to prevent waste, to increase ultimate recovery of oil and gas, and to protect correlative rights.  (b) The petition shall contain the following:  (1) A description of the proposed unit area;  (2) A statement of the nature of the proposed unit operation; and  (3) A conformed copy of the proposed unit operating agreement, which may be a composite of executed counterparts of the agreement.    (c) The petition may be filed by one (1) or more persons authorized in the unit operating agreement to file it with the commission.
AR Code § 15-72-309 (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|§ 15-72-309. Findings to support order requiring unit operation — Issuance

 (a) If after hearing and considering the petition and evidence offered in support thereof the Oil and Gas Commission makes the following findings, it shall issue an order requiring unit operation in accordance with the terms of the proposed unit operating agreement:  (1) The proposed unit agreement has, or counterparts thereof have, been executed by persons who at the time of filing of the petition owned of record legal title to at least an undivided seventy-five percent (75%) interest in the right to drill into and produce oil or gas from the total proposed unit area and by persons who at that time owned of record legal title to seventy-five percent (75%) of royalty and overriding royalty payable with respect to oil or gas produced from the entire unit area;  (2) Unit operation of the pool or any portion thereof proposed to be unitized is reasonably necessary to prevent waste, to increase ultimate recovery of oil or gas, and to protect correlative rights; and  (3) The value of the additional oil or gas to be recovered from the proposed unit area as a result of the proposed unit operation will exceed the additional cost incident to conducting the operation.    (b) Thereafter, the order and the provisions of the unit operating agreement shall be effective as to and binding upon each person owning an interest in the unit area or in oil or gas produced therefrom or the proceeds thereof.  (c) With respect to an interest which is encumbered of record with a mortgage or deed of trust both the grantor and grantee therein shall for the purposes of subdivision (a)(1) of this section be considered as the record owner of legal title thereto. However, when the instrument gives the grantor in the mortgage or deed of trust the right to execute the unit agreement, the grantor shall for that purpose be deemed the record owner.
AR Code § 15-72-310 (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|§ 15-72-310. Order requiring unit operation — Contents

 The order requiring unit operation shall be fair and reasonable under all circumstances and shall include:   (1) A description of the unit area;  (2) An allocation upon the basis agreed upon by the provisions of the unit operating agreement to each separately owned tract that for all purposes of this section and §§ 15-72-308, 15-72-309, and 15-72-311 — 15-72-322 may be a previously established drilling unit if the unit operating agreement so provides in the unit area its fair share of all of the oil and gas produced from the unit area and not required or consumed in the conduct of the operation of the unit area or unavoidably lost. No allocation formula shall be adopted by the Oil and Gas Commission and put into effect unless it is based on the relative contribution to the unit operation, other than physical equipment, made by each separately owned tract or previously established drilling unit;  (3) A provision for the credits and charges to be made in the adjustment among the owners of the unit area for their respective investments in wells, tanks, pumps, machinery, materials, and equipment contributed to the unit operation. The net amount charged against the owner or owners of a separately owned tract shall be considered expenses of unit operation chargeable against the tract;  (4) A provision that a part of the expenses of unit operation, including capital investments, be charged to each separately owned tract in the same proportion that the tract shares in the unit production. The expenses chargeable to a tract shall be paid by the person or persons who in the absence of unit operation would be responsible for the expense of developing and operating the tract;  (5) The time at which the unit operation shall commence; and  (6) Those additional provisions, not in conflict with or inconsistent with the unit operating agreement, which the commission determines to be appropriate for the prevention of waste and the protection of all interested parties.
AR Code § 15-72-311 (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|§ 15-72-311. Obligation or liability of owners for expenses

 The obligation or liability of each owner in the several separately owned tracts for the payment of unit expenses shall at all times be several and not joint or collective. In no event shall an owner of the oil or 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 such separately owned tract pursuant to the plan of unitization.
AR Code § 15-72-312 (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|§ 15-72-312. Operator's lien

 (a) The operator may have a lien on all of the property owned by each owner within the unit area to secure the payment of his or her proportionate part of the expenses of 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 § 15-72-313 (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|§ 15-72-313. New unit operation order in pool established by previous order

 (a) The Oil and Gas Commission, upon the filing of a petition in a form complying with the requirements of § 15-72-308, may after notice and hearing require unit operation of a pool or portion thereof when the unit area newly established embraces a unit area within the same pool established by a previous order of the commission.  (b) In each case the petition shall be accompanied by a copy of the proposed unit operating agreement with respect to the operation of the unit as so enlarged in the form meeting the requirements of § 15-72-308(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 § 15-72-309(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 § 15-72-309(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 unit area and to all persons owning interest in oil and gas therein to the same extent as an order entered under § 15-72-309. It shall contain provisions with respect to the enlarged unit area to meet the requirements of § 15-72-310, and the provisions of §§ 15-72-311 and 15-72-312 shall be applicable to obligations incurred in the operation of the enlarged unit area.
AR Code § 15-72-314 (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|§ 15-72-314. Unit area oil and gas — Product of tract

 The portion of oil or gas produced from the unit area 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 or 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 or gas from each separately owned tract in the unit area.
AR Code § 15-72-315 (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|§ 15-72-315. Unitization of entire pool as one operating unit

 (a) Where the Oil and Gas Commission has received a proper petition praying an order for the operation of an entire pool as a unit and after proper hearing and evidence has issued its order unitizing the pool, then the following procedure may be instituted by one (1) or more persons authorized in the unit operating agreement to file with it a petition praying for an order setting up a salt water disposal unit within the production unit of the entire pool.  (b) The unitization of the entire pool as an operating unit must be ordered by the commission as a condition precedent before the petition praying a salt water disposal unit may be filed.
AR Code § 15-72-316 (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|§ 15-72-316. Salt water disposal unit operation of a pool — Petition

 (a) Upon the filing of a petition as hereinafter provided, the Oil and Gas Commission after notice shall hold a public hearing to consider the need to establish a salt water disposal unit for an entire pool.  (b) The petition shall contain the following:  (1) A description of the proposed unit area;  (2) A statement of the nature of the proposed salt water disposal unit operation; and  (3) A conformed copy of the proposed salt water disposal unit operating agreement which may be a composite of executed counterparts of the agreement.    (c) The petition may be filed by one (1) or more persons authorized in the salt water disposal unit agreement to file it with the commission.
AR Code § 15-72-317 (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|§ 15-72-317. Findings to support order requiring salt water disposal unit operation

 (a) If, after hearing and considering the petition and evidence offered in support thereof, the Oil and Gas Commission makes the following findings, it shall issue an order requiring salt water disposal unit operation in accordance with the terms of the proposed unit operating agreement:  (1) The proposed salt water disposal unit agreement has, or counterparts thereof have, been executed by persons who at the time of filing of the petition, owned of record legal title to at least an undivided seventy-five percent (75%) interest in the right to drill into and produce oil and gas from the total proposed unit area and by persons who at that time, owned of record legal title to seventy-five percent (75%) of royalty and overriding royalty payable with respect to oil and gas produced from the entire unit area;  (2) Salt water disposal unit operation of the pool proposed to be unitized is reasonably necessary to prevent waste, to increase ultimate recovery of oil or gas, and to protect correlative rights; and  (3) The value of the additional oil and gas to be recovered from the proposed unit area as a result of the proposed salt water disposal unit operation will exceed the additional cost incident to conducting the operation.    (b) The order and the provisions of the salt water disposal unit operating agreement shall, thereafter, be effective as to and binding upon each person owning an interest in the unit area, or in oil or gas produced therefrom or the proceeds thereof.  (c) With respect to an interest which is encumbered of record with a mortgage or deed of trust, both the grantor and grantee therein shall, for the purposes of subdivision (a)(1) of this section be considered as the record owner of legal title thereto. However, when the instrument gives the grantor in mortgage or deed of trust the right to execute such a unit agreement, the grantor shall for this purpose be deemed the record owner.