ARTICLE 5.5. Subsidence [3315. - 3347.]

Article 5.5 added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 73.

§§ 3315–3347 · 53 sections

§ 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 the…
§ 3316 Unless the context otherwise requires, the general provisions and definitions contained in this chapter govern the construction of this article.
§ 3316.1 As used in this article, “person” means any natural person, corporation, association, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, receiver, trustee,…
§ 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…
§ 3316.3 “Field” means the same general surface area which is underlaid or reasonably appears to be underlaid by one or more pools.
§ 3316.4 “Repressuring operations” means gas injection operations, water injection operations, water flooding operations, or any combination thereof, or any other…
§ 3316.5 “Subsidence” means sinking, lowering, collapsing, compaction or other movement of the land whether covered by water or not.
§ 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 the supervisor as provided in…
§ 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 creating…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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 the supervisor…
§ 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…
§ 3316.12 “Working interest owner” means a person owning a working interest.
§ 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 other than a working…
§ 3316.14 “Royalty interest owner” means a person owning a royalty interest.
§ 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 or…
§ 3316.16 “Land” means both surface and mineral rights.
§ 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 subsiding,…
§ 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 district, shall…
§ 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 which is in a…
§ 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…
§ 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 any…
§ 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 as a unit without…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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, or…
§ 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…
§ 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 a city,…
§ 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 shall…
§ 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…
§ 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 circulation printed and…
§ 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 transcript of…
§ 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 any…
§ 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 amendment shall…
§ 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 public…
§ 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 tract, and…
§ 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 the unit area to…
§ 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 payment of the amount due…
§ 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 or…
§ 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 may grant for good cause…
§ 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 the provisions of Chapter…
§ 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…
§ 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 process an appeal by…
§ 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 and…
§ 3337 The division shall exercise surveillance over all repressuring operations in the state.
§ 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 obtain…
§ 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 regulation of…
§ 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 penalty of one…
§ 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 the…
§ 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 of…
§ 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…
§ 3347 If any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence or clause of this article is adjudged to be unconstitutional or invalid, such adjudication shall not affect…