CHAPTER 10 ADAPTING FEDERAL UNITS AND UNIT OPERATING AGREEMENTS TO ACCOUNT FOR HORIZONTAL DEVELOPMENT
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(Nov 2012)
ADAPTING FEDERAL UNITS AND UNIT OPERATING AGREEMENTS TO ACCOUNT FOR HORIZONTAL DEVELOPMENT
Bureau of Land Management, Reservoir Management Group
Casper, WY
Gregory J. Nibert
Hinkle, Hensley, Shanor & Martin, L.L.P.
Roswell, NM
Jared A. Hembree
Hinkle, Hensley, Shanor & Martin, L.L.P.
Roswell, NM
Paul S. Conner
UnitSource Incorporated
Denver, CO
DAVID CHASE is the chief of the Reservoir Management Group (RMG) for the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Casper, Wyoming. He is responsible for the following BLM programs in Wyoming: unitization and communitization, drainage, gas storage, Indian diligence and reasonable foreseeable development scenarios for NEPA documents. After receiving a B.S. degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Wyoming in December 1983, he started his BLM career in Lander in February 1984 as a drilling and production engineer. He transferred to Rock Springs in June 1987 to work with the BLM as a reservoir engineer. In August 1993, when the RMG was formed, Dave moved to Casper to work as a reservoir engineer before becoming the chief in July 2008. Dave has a wide range of knowledge working with all aspects of unitization agreements, including lease suspensions and unavoidable delay requests, paying well determinations and establishment and revision of participating areas.
GREGORY J. NIBERT is a resident partner in the Roswell, New Mexico, office of Hinkle, Hensley, Shanor & Martin, L.L.P., and is assigned to the firm's Oil and Gas Department. Mr. Nibert's practice is primarily limited to oil and gas law, including title examination, financing, contract preparation, acquisitions and divestitures, division orders, oil and gas administrative...
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTORY REMARKS: WHY ARE WE HERE?
- CHAPTER 1 TECHNICAL OVERVIEW OF HORIZONTAL DEVELOPMENT
- CHAPTER 2 STATE CONSERVATION REGULATION AND OVERVIEW OF STANDARD SPACING AND POOLING
- CHAPTER 3 AMENDING AND REVISING LEASES FOR HORIZONTAL DEVELOPMENT
- CHAPTER 4 CONFLICTING AGREEMENTS IN THE DRILLING OF HORIZONTAL WELLS
- CHAPTER 5 HORIZONTAL DRILLING AND TRESPASS: A CHALLENGE TO THE NORMS OF PROPERTY AND TORT LAW
- CHAPTER 6 SPACING AND POOLING ISSUES FOR HORIZONTAL DEVELOPMENT
- SPACING AND POOLING ISSUES FOR HORIZONTAL DEVELOPMENT: NORTH DAKOTA
- POOLING ISSUES FOR HORIZONTAL DEVELOPMENT IN TEXAS
- HORIZONTAL DRILLING IN APPALACHIA: THE CURRENT STATE OF STATUTES, REGULATIONS, AND CASES1
- CHAPTER 7 IMPLIED COVENANT LAW AND HORIZONTAL DEVELOPMENT
- CHAPTER 8 SUGGESTED CHANGES TO THE 1989 AAPL FORM OPERATING AGREEMENT TO ADDRESS HORIZONTAL DEVELOPMENT1
- CHAPTER 9 OWNERSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT CONFLICTS BETWEEN OIL & GAS AND OTHER MINERALS
- CHAPTER 10 ADAPTING FEDERAL UNITS AND UNIT OPERATING AGREEMENTS TO ACCOUNT FOR HORIZONTAL DEVELOPMENT
- OIL AND GAS AGREEMENTS
- ADAPTING FEDERAL UNITS AND UNIT OPERATING AGREEMENTS TO ACCOUNT FOR HORIZONTAL DEVELOPMENT
- CHAPTER 11 MAKING SURE YOUR WELL IS THE ONLY THING GOING SIDEWAYS: PERMITTING ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH HORIZONTAL DEVELOPMENT ON FEDERAL LANDS AND MINERALS
- CHAPTER 12 ENVIRONMENTAL AND LIABILITY ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH HORIZONTAL DEVELOPMENT
- ROYALTY PAYMENTS AND OTHER CURRENT ISSUES FROM HORIZONTAL WELLS
- FEDERAL AND INDIAN ROYALTY PAYMENTS ON HORIZONTAL WELLS
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