California Laws: Public Resources Code Sections 3315-3347
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3315
It is hereby found and determined: (a) That the people of the State of California have a direct and primary interest in arresting and ameliorating...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3316
Unless the context otherwise requires, the general provisions and definitions contained in this chapter govern the construction of this article. ...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3316.1
As used in this article, "person" means any natural person, corporation, association, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, receiver, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, fiduciary or...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3316.2
"Pool" means an underground reservoir containing, or appearing at the time of determination to contain, a common accumulation of crude petroleum oil or natural gas...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3316.3
"Field" means the same general surface area which is underlaid or reasonably appears to be underlaid by one or more pools. ...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3316.4
"Repressuring operations" means gas injection operations, water injection operations, water flooding operations, or any combination thereof, or any other operations intended primarily to arrest or...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3316.5
"Subsidence" means sinking, lowering, collapsing, compaction or other movement of the land whether covered by water or not. ...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3316.6
"Unit area" means all or part of a pool or pools included within the area embraced by a unit created pursuant to an order of...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3316.7
"Unit production" means all oil, gas and other hydrocarbon substances produced from a unit area from the effective date of the order of the supervisor...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3316.8
"Fieldwide repressuring plan" means a plan based upon a competent engineering study or studies, prepared by a petroleum engineer licensed by the State, of all...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3316.9
"Unit agreement" means and includes, in addition to the unit agreement, any unit operating agreement, consent agreement and other agreement entered into in connection with...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3316.10
"Increased production" means that portion of the oil or gas produced from all wells bottomed within a unit area, or within any other area where...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3316.11
"Working interest" means an interest held in lands by virtue of fee title, including lands held in trust, a lease, operating agreement or otherwise, under...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3316.12
"Working interest owner" means a person owning a working interest. ...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3316.13
"Royalty interest" means a right to or interest in oil and gas produced from any lands or in the proceeds of the first sale thereof...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3316.14
"Royalty interest owner" means a person owning a royalty interest. ...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3316.15
"Unit operator" means the person or persons designated by the unit agreement or in accordance with subdivisions (g) and (j) of Section 3322 as operator...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3316.16
"Land" means both surface and mineral rights. ...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3317
This article applies only to lands, referred to in Section 3315, overlying or immediately adjacent to a producing pool or pools, when such lands are...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3318
An order of the supervisor which involves tide or submerged lands which may have been granted to any city, county, or city and county, or...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3319
(a) The supervisor, upon the supervisor's own motion, may, or shall, upon the application of any city, county, or city and county, any part of...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3319.1
Prior to the adoption of a fieldwide repressuring plan and general specifications of the work to be done thereunder, as provided in Section 3319, the...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3320
(a) The policy of conducting voluntary repressuring operations in a pool or pools, or portions thereof, in order to arrest or ameliorate subsidence, or for...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3320.1
(a) An agreement for the management, development and operation of two or more tracts in a pool or pools, or portions thereof, in a field...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3320.2
If the supervisor determines that sufficient of the working interest owners and royalty interest owners to make repressuring operations feasible in any pool or pools,...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3320.3
In determining, as required by Section 3320.2, whether the estimated cost of initiating and conducting such repressuring operations will exceed the estimated value of the...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3320.4
In order to encourage the initiation and conduct of repressuring operations with the greatest possible speed in a subsidence area, the State, or any city,...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3320.5
No working or royalty interest owner shall be liable for any loss or damage resulting from repressuring or other operations connected with the production of...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3321
(a) Subject to the limitations specified in this article, the supervisor shall have the power to issue a compulsory unit order upon the petition of...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3322
An order of the supervisor requiring unit operation, pursuant to Section 3321, may include lands owned by any person as defined in Section 3316.1, and...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3322.1
No order of the supervisor creating a unit and prescribing the plan of unitization applicable thereto shall become effective unless and until the plan of...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3323
Notice of the time and place of any hearing to be held by the supervisor shall be given by publication in a newspaper of general...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3324
At hearings all persons interested are entitled to be heard and present evidence, both oral and written. All such persons shall be sworn, and a...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3325
The supervisor shall make and enforce all rules and regulations necessary or proper to accomplish the purposes of this article or to administer or enforce...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3326
An order requiring unit operation may be amended for good cause by a subsequent order entered by the supervisor, except that no such order or...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3327
Subject to the limitations in this article governing the creation of the unit previously established, the supervisor, by entry of a new order after a...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3328
(a) The portion of unit production allocated to a separately owned tract shall be deemed, for all purposes, to have been actually produced from such...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3329
The unit operator shall be authorized on behalf of and for the account of all the respective owners or possessors of the mineral rights within...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3330
When unit expenses incurred by a unit operator on behalf of the unit have not been paid, the unit operator may, in order to secure...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3331
Any order issued by the supervisor pursuant to this article, from its effective date, shall be binding upon each person owning or claiming any legal...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3332
Within 30 days after the written notice of the entry of a final order of the supervisor, or within such further time as the supervisor...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3333
(a) A final order of the supervisor shall be subject to judicial review by filing a petition for a writ of mandate in accordance with...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3334
The pendency of actions before the superior court or proceedings for review before any other court of competent jurisdiction of itself shall not stay or...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3335
If an action for judicial review has not been commenced within the time prescribed for such action, or, if filed, the time within which to...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3336
The supervisor upon his own motion may, or shall upon the application of any interested person, hold a public hearing for the purpose of determining...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3337
The division shall exercise surveillance over all repressuring operations in the state. ...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3341
At the termination of oil and gas production from a unit area established or approved pursuant to this article and the abandonment of attempts to...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3342
To the extent necessary to conform to the provisions and requirements of this article, and to any order of unitization or other order, rule or...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3343
(a) Any person who willfully violates any provision of this article or any rule, regulation or order of the supervisor, shall be subject to a...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3344
(a) Whenever it appears that any person is violating or threatening to violate any provision of this article, or any rule, regulation or order of...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3345
No finding or determination made by the supervisor under the provisions of this article or by any court in proceedings involving the enforcement or review...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3346
The provisions of this article shall supersede any conflicting provisions contained in any legislative grant of tide and submerged lands, or in any law amendatory...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3347
If any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence or clause of this article is adjudged to be unconstitutional or invalid, such adjudication shall not affect the validity...
