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9-17-1
Section 9-17-1 Definitions. Unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms
shall have the following meanings: (1) BOARD. The State Oil and Gas Board created by this
article. (2) DEVELOPED AREA or DEVELOPED UNIT. A drainage unit having a well completed thereon
which is capable of producing oil or gas in paying quantities; however, in the event it is
shown and the board finds that a part of any unit is nonproductive, then the developed part
of the unit shall include only that part found to be productive. (3) DRAINAGE OR PRODUCTION
UNIT. The area in a pool which may be drained efficiently and economically by one well. (4)
DRILLING UNIT. An administrative unit established by the board to provide and allow for the
drilling of a well. Prior to establishment of a field and drainage or production unit within
the field, the board may establish a drilling unit to allow for the drilling of a well in
search of oil and gas. (5) FIELD. The general area which is underlain or appears to be...
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9-17-12
Section 9-17-12 Limitations on regulations; drilling or production units; producers'
shares. (a) Whether or not the total production from a pool is limited or prorated, no rule,
regulation, or order of the board shall be such in terms or effect that it will do the following:
(1) That it shall be necessary at any time for the producer from or the owner of, a tract
of land in the pool, or an interest associated therewith or derived therefrom, in order that
he or she may obtain the tract's just and equitable share or the just and equitable share
of the interest of the production of such pool, as the share is set forth in this section,
to drill and operate any well or wells on such tract in addition to the well or wells as can
without waste produce the share. (2) As to occasion net drainage from a tract or any interest
associated therewith or derived therefrom, unless there is drilled and operated upon the tract
a well or wells in addition to such well or wells thereon as can without waste...
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40-20-1
Section 40-20-1 Definitions. For the purpose of this article, the following terms shall
have the respective meanings ascribed by this section: (1) DEPARTMENT. The state Department
of Revenue. (2) ANNUAL. The calendar year or the taxpayer's fiscal year, when permission is
obtained from the department to use a fiscal year as a tax period in lieu of a calendar year.
(3) VALUE. The sale price or market value at the mouth of the well. If the oil or gas is exchanged
for something other than cash, if there is no sale at the time of severance or if the relation
between the buyer and the seller is such that the consideration paid, if any, is not indicative
of the true value or market price, then the department shall determine the value of the oil
or gas subject to the tax hereinafter provided for, considering the sale price for cash of
oil or gas of like quality. (4) OIL. Crude petroleum oil and other hydrocarbons regardless
of gravity which are produced at the well in liquid form by ordinary...
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9-17-6
Section 9-17-6 Oil and Gas Board - Powers and duties generally. (a) The board shall
have jurisdiction and authority over all persons and property necessary to administer and
enforce effectively the provisions of this article and all other articles relating to the
conservation of oil and gas. (b) The board shall have the authority and it shall be its duty
to make such inquiries as it may think proper to determine whether or not waste, over which
it has jurisdiction, exists or is imminent. In the exercise of such power the board shall
have the authority to perform the following: (1) Collect data. (2) Make investigation and
inspection. (3) Examine properties, leases, papers, books, and records, including drilling
records, logs, and other geological and geophysical data. (4) Examine, check, test, and gauge
oil and gas wells, tanks, plants, processing facilities, structures, natural gas pipelines
and gathering lines, and storage and transportation equipment and facilities, and other modes...
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9-17-13
Section 9-17-13 Integration of interests; cycling operations; orders of board; procedures.
(a) When any mineral or other related interests deriving from two or more separately owned
tracts of land are embraced within an established or a proposed drilling or production unit,
or when there are separately owned interests in all or a part of an established or proposed
drilling or production unit, or any combination of such, the persons owning the interests
therein may validly agree to integrate or pool the interests and to develop the interests
and associated lands as a drilling or production unit. Where, however, the owners have not
agreed to so integrate or pool the interests, the board shall, for the prevention of waste
or to avoid the drilling of unnecessary wells, require the persons owning such interests to
do so and to develop their interests and the associated lands as a drilling or production
unit. (b) The board, in order to prevent waste and avoid the drilling of unnecessary...
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9-17-33
Section 9-17-33 Disposition of proceeds from sale of oil or gas production. (a) As used
in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) CHECK STUB.
The financial record attached to a check, included with a check, or mailed separately at or
near the time the check is mailed. (2) DIVISION ORDER. A contract between the interest owner
and the purchaser, operator, or the owner of the right to drill and to produce, directing
the distribution of the value from the sale of the oil, gas, and other liquid hydrocarbons
in the proportions set out in the division order, which division order is prepared by the
purchaser, operator, and/or the owner of the right to drill and to produce on the basis of
the ownership shown in a title opinion prepared after examination of abstracts or based on
other generally acceptable legal ownership documentation and which is executed by the interest
owners or others having an interest in the production. (3) INTEREST OWNER. A person owning...
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9-17-14
Section 9-17-14 Limitations upon rules, regulations or orders establishing limits on
production allowable within state or from separate pools; production of more than established
allowable production or production in unauthorized manner. (a) Whenever the board limits the
total amount of oil or gas which may be produced in this state, the limit so fixed shall not
be less than the aggregate of the allowables fixed for each separate pool in this state for
the prevention of waste in accordance with the foregoing definition of waste, plus the production
from unrestricted pools, and it shall allocate or distribute the allowable so fixed among
the separate pools. Such allocation or distribution among the pools of the state shall be
made on a reasonable basis, giving to each pool with small wells of settled production an
allowable production which will not accelerate or encourage a general premature abandonment
of the wells in the pool. (b) Whenever the board limits the total amount of oil or...
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9-17-152
Section 9-17-152 Board approval; recordation of order; certificate of effectiveness;
dissolution of fields and units; determination of commercial reserves; creation of cavities.
(a) The use of an underground reservoir as a storage facility for gas is hereby authorized,
provided that the board shall first enter an order, after notice and hearing pursuant to the
provisions of Sections 9-17-3 to 9-17-8, inclusive, approving such proposed underground storage
of gas and designating the horizontal and vertical boundaries of the storage facility, such
boundaries to include within them any necessary or reasonable buffer zone for the purpose
of insuring the safe operation of the storage facility and to protect the storage facility
against pollution, invasion, and escape or migration of gas therefrom, upon finding as follows:
(1) That the storage facility is suitable and feasible for the injection, storage and withdrawal
of gas and has a greater value or utility for the storage of gas than for...
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8-17-80
Section 8-17-80 Definitions. (a) The following words and phrases, when used in this
article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the
context clearly indicates a different meaning: (1) AVIATION GASOLINE. Motor fuel designed
for use in the operation of aircraft other than jet aircraft, and sold or used for that purpose.
(2) BIODIESEL FUEL. Any motor fuel or mixture of motor fuels that is derived, in whole or
in part, from agricultural products or animal fats, or the wastes of such products or fats,
and is advertised as, offered for sale as, suitable for use as, or used as motor fuel in a
diesel engine. (3) BLENDED FUEL. A mixture composed of gasoline or diesel fuel and any other
liquid that can be used as a motor fuel in a highway vehicle. (4) BOARD. The Alabama Board
of Agriculture and Industries. (5) BRAND. The trade name or other designation under which
a particular petroleum product is sold, offered for sale, or otherwise identified. (6) BULK...
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22-27-2
Section 22-27-2 Definitions. For the purpose of this article, the following terms shall
have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) AGENCY. Any controlling
agency, public or private, elected, appointed, or volunteer utilizing methods approved by
the health department or the department for the purpose of controlling and supervising the
collection or management of solid wastes or recyclable materials. (2) ALTERNATIVE COVER. Material
other than earth used to cover a landfill or sanitary landfill. An alternative cover shall
be approved by the Department of Environmental Management in compliance with federal law and
United States Environmental Protection Agency rules or guidance to achieve a level of performance
equal to or greater than earthen cover material. (3) ASHES. The solid residue from burning
of wood, coal, coke, or other combustible material used for heating, from incineration of
solid wastes, or for the production of electricity at electric generating...
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