Tex. Natural Resources Code § 32.202
This is the official text of Tex. Natural Resources Code § 32.202, part of Texas’s Natural Resources Code — governs land, minerals, and natural resource management.
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§ 32.202. POOLING.
Official statutory text
Any oil and gas lease offered under Sec. 32.201 of this code shall provide:
(1) authority for pooling all of the leased area into units of no more than 160 acres for an oil well or 640 acres for a gas well plus a 10 percent tolerance or of a unit size allowed under or prescribed by rules of the Railroad Commission of Texas;
(2) that the production allocable to the state lease shall be based upon the surface acreage of the state lease included in the unit;
(3) that the unit operations, production from any portion of the unit or payment of shut-in gas well royalty on a lease or unit well shall be considered for all purposes to be the conduct of operations and production on the state lease; and
(4) that neither unit production of oil or gas, nor unit operations, nor payment of shut-in royalties from a unit gas well, shall serve to hold the lease in force as to any area outside the unit, regardless of whether the production, maintenance of a shut-in gas well, or operations are actually located on the state tract or not.
(1) authority for pooling all of the leased area into units of no more than 160 acres for an oil well or 640 acres for a gas well plus a 10 percent tolerance or of a unit size allowed under or prescribed by rules of the Railroad Commission of Texas;
(2) that the production allocable to the state lease shall be based upon the surface acreage of the state lease included in the unit;
(3) that the unit operations, production from any portion of the unit or payment of shut-in gas well royalty on a lease or unit well shall be considered for all purposes to be the conduct of operations and production on the state lease; and
(4) that neither unit production of oil or gas, nor unit operations, nor payment of shut-in royalties from a unit gas well, shall serve to hold the lease in force as to any area outside the unit, regardless of whether the production, maintenance of a shut-in gas well, or operations are actually located on the state tract or not.
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