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OR Rev Stat § 520.230 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources|Chapter 520 - Conservation of Gas and Oil|Section 520.230 - Approved agreement for cooperative or unit development of pool not to be construed as violating certain regulatory laws.

(1) An agreement for the unit or cooperative development and operation of a field or pool in connection with the conduct of repressuring or pressure maintenance operations, cycling or recycling operations, including the extraction and separation of liquid hydrocarbons from natural gas in connection therewith, or any other method of operation, including water floods, is authorized and may be performed and shall not be held or construed to violate ORS 59.005 to 59.505, 59.710 to 59.830, 59.991 and 59.995 or any of the statutes of this state relative to trusts, monopolies or contracts and combinations in restraint of trade, if such agreement is approved by the governing board of the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries as being in the public interest, for the protection of correlative rights and reasonably necessary to increase ultimate recovery or prevent waste of oil or gas. The failure to submit such an agreement to the board for approval does not, for that reason, imply or constitute evidence that the agreement or operations conducted pursuant thereto violate ORS 59.005 to 59.505, 59.710 to 59.830, 59.991 and 59.995 or any statute of this state now or hereafter in effect relating to trusts and monopolies. (2) An agreement for the unit or cooperative development or operation of a field, pool or part thereof may be submitted to the board for approval as being in the public interest or reasonably necessary to prevent waste or protect correlative rights. Approval by the board constitutes a complete defense to any proceeding charging violation of ORS 59.005 to 59.505, 59.710 to 59.830, 59.991 and 59.995 or of any statute of this state now or hereafter in effect relating to trusts and monopolies on account thereof or on account of operations conducted pursuant thereto. The failure to submit such an agreement to the board for approval does not, for that reason, imply or constitute evidence that the agreement or operations conducted pursuant thereto violate ORS 59.005 to 59.505, 59.710 to 59.830, 59.991 and 59.995 or any statute of this state now or hereafter in effect relating to trusts and monopolies. [Formerly 520.085; subsection (2) enacted as 1961 c.671 §13; 1963 c.69 §1]
OR Rev Stat § 520.240 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources|Chapter 520 - Conservation of Gas and Oil|Section 520.240 - Voluntary unitization of operations by lessees of tidal or submersible lands; Department of State Lands’ function.

(1) For the purpose of properly conserving the natural resources of any single oil or gas pool or field, lessees under ORS 274.705 to 274.860 and their representatives may unite with each other jointly or separately, or jointly or separately with others owning or operating lands not belonging to the state, in collectively adopting and operating under a cooperative or unit plan of development or operation of the pool or field, whenever it is determined by the Department of State Lands to be necessary or advisable in the public interest. (2) The Department of State Lands may, with the consent of the holders of the leases involved, establish, alter, change and revoke any drilling and production requirements of such leases, and make such regulations with reference to such leases, with like consent on the part of the lessees, in connection with the institution and operation of any such cooperative or unit plan, as the Department of State Lands deems necessary or proper to secure the proper protection of the interests of the state. [1961 c.619 §33]
OR Rev Stat § 520.260 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources|Chapter 520 - Conservation of Gas and Oil|Section 520.260 - Hearing to determine need for unitization of operations; required findings; order.

(1) The governing board of the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries upon its own motion may, and upon the application of any interested person shall, hold a hearing to consider the need for the operation as a unit of one or more pools or parts thereof in a field. (2) The board shall make an order providing for the unit operation of a pool or part thereof if it finds that: (a) Unit operation is reasonably necessary to effectively carry on pressure control, pressure maintenance or repressuring operations, cycling operations, water flooding operations, injection operations, or any combination thereof, or any other method of recovery designed to substantially increase the ultimate recovery of oil from the pool or pools; and (b) The value of the estimated additional recovery of oil or gas exceeds the estimated additional cost incident to conducting unit operations. [1961 c.671 §2; 2007 c.672 §19]
OR Rev Stat § 520.270 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources|Chapter 520 - Conservation of Gas and Oil|Section 520.270 - Plan for unit operations.

An order issued pursuant to ORS 520.260 shall be upon terms and conditions that are just and reasonable, and shall prescribe a plan for unit operations that includes the following: (1) A description of the pool or pools or parts thereof to be so operated. (2) A statement of the nature of the operations contemplated. (3) An allocation to the separately owned tracts in the unit area of all the oil and gas that is produced from the unit area and is saved, being the production that is not used in the conduct of operations on the unit area or not unavoidably lost. (4) A provision for the credits and charges to be made in the adjustment among the owners in the unit area for their respective investments in wells, tanks, pumps, machinery, materials and equipment contributed to the unit operations. (5) A provision stating how the costs of unit operations, including capital investments, shall be determined and charged to the separately owned tracts and how these costs shall be paid, including a provision stating when, how and by whom the unit production allocated to an owner who does not pay the share of the cost of unit operations charged to such owner, or the interest of such owner, may be sold and the proceeds applied to the payment of such costs. (6) A provision, if necessary, for carrying or otherwise financing any person who elects to be carried or otherwise financed, allowing a reasonable interest charge for such service payable out of that person’s share of the production. (7) A provision for the supervision and conduct of the unit operations, in respect to which each person shall have a vote with a value corresponding to the percentage of the costs of unit operations chargeable against the interest of that person. (8) The time when the unit operations shall commence, and the manner in which, and the circumstances under which, the unit operations shall terminate. (9) Additional provisions that are found appropriate for carrying on the unit operations, and for the protection of correlative rights. [1961 c.671 §3]
OR Rev Stat § 520.280 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources|Chapter 520 - Conservation of Gas and Oil|Section 520.280 - Allocation of production under plan; ownership.

(1) The allocation described in ORS 520.270 (3) shall be in accord with the agreement, if any, of the interested parties. If there is no such agreement, the governing board of the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries shall determine the relative value, from evidence introduced at the hearing, of the separately owned tracts in the unit area, exclusive of physical equipment, for development of oil and gas by unit operations. The production allocated to each tract shall be the proportion that the relative value of each tract so determined bears to the relative value of all tracts in the unit area. (2) That portion of the unit production allocated to any tract, and the proceeds from the sale thereof, are the property and income of the several persons to whom, or to whose credit, they are allocated or payable under the order providing for unit operations. [1961 c.671 §§4,10]
OR Rev Stat § 520.290 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources|Chapter 520 - Conservation of Gas and Oil|Section 520.290 - When unitization order to become effective; supplemental hearings.

(1) No order of the governing board of the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries providing for unit operations is effective until: (a) The plan for unit operations prescribed by the board under ORS 520.270 has been approved in writing by (A) those owners who, under the board’s order, will be required to pay at least 75 percent of the costs of the unit operation, and (B) those persons who, at the time of the order of the board, owned of record legal title to 75 percent of royalty and overriding royalty payable with respect to oil and gas produced from the pool or part thereof over the entire unit area; and (b) The board has made a finding, either in the order providing for unit operations or in a supplemental order, that the plan for unit operations has been so approved. (2) If the plan for unit operations has not been approved pursuant to subsection (1) of this section at the time the order providing for unit operations is made, the board shall upon application and notice hold such supplemental hearings as are required to determine if and when the plan for unit operations has been approved. If the persons owning the percentage of interest in the unit area required by subsection (1) of this section do not approve the plan for unit operations within a period of six months after the date on which the order providing for unit operations is made, the order is ineffective and shall be revoked by the board unless the board, for good cause shown, extends the time for approval. [1961 c.671 §5]
OR Rev Stat § 520.300 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources|Chapter 520 - Conservation of Gas and Oil|Section 520.300 - Amending unitization order.

An order providing for unit operations may be amended by an order made by the governing board of the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as an original order providing for unit operations. However: (1) If the amendment affects only the rights and interests of the owners, the approval of the amendment by the royalty owners is not required. (2) The order of amendment may not change the percentage for the allocation of: (a) Oil and gas as established for any separately owned tract by the original order, except with the consent of all persons owning oil and gas rights in the tract; or (b) Cost as established for any separately owned tract by the original order, except with the consent of all owners in the tract. [1961 c.671 §6; 2007 c.672 §20]
OR Rev Stat § 520.310 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources|Chapter 520 - Conservation of Gas and Oil|Section 520.310 - Unitization of area including area previously unitized; partial unitization of pool.

(1) The governing board of the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries by order may provide for the unit operation of a pool or pools or parts thereof that embrace a unit area established by a previous order of the board. The order, in providing for the allocation of unit production, shall first treat as a single tract the unit area previously established, and the portion of the unit production so allocated thereto shall then be allocated among the separately owned tracts included in the previously established unit area in the same proportions as those specified in the previous order. (2) An order may provide for unit operations on less than the whole of a pool where the unit area is of such size and shape as may reasonably be required for that purpose, and the conduct thereof will have no adverse effect upon other portions of the pool. [1961 c.671 §§7,8; 2007 c.672 §21]
OR Rev Stat § 520.320 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources|Chapter 520 - Conservation of Gas and Oil|Section 520.320 - Unitization order does not terminate prior agreements or affect oil and gas rights; acquisition of property during unit operations.

(1) No division order or other contract relating to the sale or purchase of production from a separately owned tract may be terminated by the order providing for unit operations, but remains in force and applies to oil and gas allocated to that tract until terminated in accordance with the provisions thereof. (2) Except to the extent that the parties affected so agree, no order providing for unit operations results in a transfer of all or any part of the title of any person to the oil and gas rights in any tract in the unit area. (3) All property, whether real or personal, that may be acquired in the conduct of unit operations under ORS 520.260 to 520.330 and 520.230 (2) shall be acquired for the account of the owners within the unit area, and is the property of such owners in the proportion that the expenses of unit operations are charged. [1961 c.671 §§11,12]
OR Rev Stat § 520.330 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources|Chapter 520 - Conservation of Gas and Oil|Section 520.330 - Effect of operations in unit area.

All operations, including but not limited to the commencement, drilling or operation of a well, upon any portion of the unit area, are considered for all purposes the conduct of such operations upon each separately owned tract in the unit area by the several owners thereof. The portion of the unit production allocated to a separately owned tract in a unit area, when produced, is considered for all purposes to have been actually produced from that tract by a well drilled thereon. Operations conducted pursuant to an order of the governing board of the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries providing for unit operations constitute a fulfillment of all the express or implied obligations of each lease or contract covering lands in the unit area to the extent that compliance with such obligations cannot be had because of the order of the board. [1961 c.671 §9; 2007 c.672 §22]
OR Rev Stat § 520.340 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources|Chapter 520 - Conservation of Gas and Oil|Section 520.340 - Legislative findings.

The underground storage of natural gas in Oregon is found by the Legislative Assembly to be in the public interest in that the establishment of underground reservoirs of natural gas will help insure the continued, uninterrupted availability of natural gas supplies to residential, commercial and industrial consumers in Oregon during periods of peak demand and during interruptions in the normal flow of natural gas supplies. [1977 c.296 §5]
OR Rev Stat § 520.350 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources|Chapter 520 - Conservation of Gas and Oil|Section 520.350 - Property rights in underground reservoirs for natural gas storage.

(1) All natural gas in an underground reservoir utilized for underground storage, whether acquired by eminent domain or otherwise, shall at all times be the property of the natural gas company utilizing said underground storage, its heirs, successors, or assigns. In no event shall such gas be subject to the rights of the owner of the surface of the land under which said underground reservoir lies or of the owner of any mineral interest therein or of any person other than said natural gas company, its heirs, successors and assigns to release, produce, take, reduce to possessions, or otherwise interfere with or exercise any control thereof. (2) Any right of condemnation granted for the purposes of ORS 520.340, 772.610 to 772.625 and this section shall be without prejudice to the rights of the owner of the condemned lands or of the rights and interest therein to drill or bore through the underground reservoir in such a manner as shall protect the underground reservoir against pollution and against the escape of natural gas in a manner which complies with the orders and rules of the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. Such condemnation shall be without prejudice to the owners of such lands or other rights or interests therein as to all other uses thereof. The additional costs of complying with rules or orders to protect the underground shall be paid by the condemnor. [1977 c.296 §6]
OR Rev Stat § 520.991 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources|Chapter 520 - Conservation of Gas and Oil|Section 520.991 - Penalties.

Subject to ORS 153.022, violation of any provision of this chapter, any rule adopted by the governing board of the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries under this chapter or any order issued by the board or the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries under this chapter is a Class B misdemeanor. [1953 c.667 §19; 1999 c.1051 §315; 2007 c.672 §23; 2011 c.597 §221]
OR Rev Stat § 522.015 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources|Chapter 522 - Geothermal Resources|Section 522.015 - Policy.

(1) The Legislative Assembly hereby finds and declares that: (a) The people of the State of Oregon have a direct and primary interest in the development of geothermal resources situated in this state. (b) The State of Oregon, through the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, shall control the drilling, redrilling and deepening of wells for the discovery and production of geothermal resources so that such wells will be constructed, operated, maintained, plugged and decommissioned in the manner necessary to safeguard the life, health, property and welfare of the people of this state, to safeguard the air, water and other natural resources of this state, and to encourage the maximum economic recovery of geothermal resources therefrom. (2) It is the policy of the Legislative Assembly that this chapter be administered: (a) To prevent damage to and waste of geothermal resources; (b) To prevent interference with or damage to waters used or to be used for beneficial purposes that may result from improper drilling, operation, maintenance, plugging or decommissioning of geothermal or prospect wells; (c) To supervise the drilling, operation, maintenance, plugging and decommissioning of geothermal or prospect wells in a manner permitting the operator to utilize all methods known to the industry for the purpose of increasing the ultimate economic recovery of geothermal resources, that are suitable, and consistent with protection of the air, water and other natural resources of the state; and (d) To provide for the development, management and production of geothermal resources in a manner that minimizes state involvement, enhances resource recovery, prevents waste, maximizes economic development and protects correlative rights of the resource owners. [Formerly 522.050; 1981 c.588 §4; 2009 c.794 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 522.019 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources|Chapter 522 - Geothermal Resources|Section 522.019 - Injection of geothermal fluids; rules; water quality permit.

(1)(a) In order to accomplish the policy of ORS 522.015 all geothermal fluids derived from geothermal resources shall be reinjected into the same reservoir from which withdrawn unless it is determined by the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries that these policies and the public interest require other disposal of the fluids. (b) Subject to the determination in paragraph (a) of this subsection, injection into other reservoirs or disposal by other means may be allowed by the department in specific instances where it is shown that such action is consistent with the policies cited in this section. Disposal by other means may include any secondary use of geothermal fluid after the primary use of such fluid for electrical power generation or for other direct application of the heat or other associated energy contained in such fluids or for by-product extraction. Secondary uses may include, but shall not be limited to, use of condensate resulting from electrical power plant operations for plant-cooling purposes, or use of such geothermal fluid for agricultural, commercial or industrial purposes. (2) The State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries shall adopt rules governing the disposal by reinjection or other means of geothermal fluids derived from geothermal resources from wells of 250 or more degrees Fahrenheit bottom hole temperature or wells 2,000 or more feet deep. The rules shall include standards whereby contamination may be determined, construction standards for reinjection wells, testing procedures for identifying aquifers, standards and procedures for determining whether adjacent aquifers are being degraded by the reinjection process, guidelines for conservation of the resource, criteria for evaluating reservoirs or zones for geothermal fluid disposal and requirements for prior approval of all geothermal fluid reinjection proposals. (3) In addition to the permit required by ORS 522.115, an operator of a geothermal well must obtain a water quality permit from the Department of Environmental Quality under ORS 468B.050 or under rules authorized by ORS 468B.195 before injection of any fluid, except well drilling fluids. Nothing in this chapter limits the authority of the Department of Environmental Quality to regulate the subsurface injection of fluids pursuant to ORS 468B.195, 468B.196 and 468B.197. [1979 c.163 §4; 1979 c.547 §1; 2009 c.794 §3]
OR Rev Stat § 522.025 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources|Chapter 522 - Geothermal Resources|Section 522.025 - Application.

(1) The provisions of this chapter relating to the location and drilling of any well for the production of geothermal resources do not apply to any wells producing geothermal resources on July 1, 1975, or wells, other than prospect wells, where: (a) The geothermal fluids produced are of less than 250 degrees Fahrenheit bottom hole temperature; or (b) Such fluids have been appropriated pursuant to ORS 537.505 to 537.795 and 537.992. (2) The provisions of this chapter relating to regulation of production of geothermal resources from a geothermal reservoir apply only to wells with a bottom hole temperature of at least 250 degrees Fahrenheit. (3) If the bottom hole temperature of a well that was initially at least 250 degrees Fahrenheit falls below 250 degrees Fahrenheit, the State Geologist and the Water Resources Director, after consulting with the well owner, shall determine the agency with regulatory responsibility for that specific well. This determination shall be documented in writing and shall supersede a determination made under subsection (1) or (2) of this section. This chapter does not limit the authority of the Water Resources Department to regulate the appropriation of water pursuant to ORS 537.505 to 537.795 and 537.992. [1975 c.552 §4; 1981 c.589 §1; 2009 c.794 §4]
OR Rev Stat § 522.035 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources|Chapter 522 - Geothermal Resources|Section 522.035 - Ownership rights.

Ownership rights to geothermal resources shall be in the owner of the surface property underlain by the geothermal resources unless such rights have been otherwise reserved or conveyed. However, nothing in this section shall divest the people or the state of any rights, title or interest they may have in geothermal resources. [1975 c.552 §21]