Whenever, to prevent waste, the division limits the total amount of crude petroleum oil to be produced in this state, it shall allocate or distribute the allowable productions among the fields of the state. Such allocation or distribution among the fields of the state shall be made on a reasonable basis, giving, if reasonable under all circumstances, to each pool with small wells of settled production, an allowable production which will prevent a general premature abandonment of the wells in the field.
History: Laws 1935, ch. 72, § 11; 1941 Comp., § 69-212; Laws 1949, ch. 168, § 11; 1953 Comp., § 65-3-12; Laws 1977, ch. 255, § 49.
Law reviews. — For comment on geothermal energy and water law, see 19 Nat. Res. J. 445 (1979).
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 38 Am. Jur. 2d Gas and Oil §§ 161, 164 to 173.
Validity of compulsory pooling or unitization statute or ordinance requiring owners or lessees of oil and gas lands to develop their holdings as a single drilling unit and the like, 37 A.L.R.2d 434.
58 C.J.S. Mines and Minerals § 240.
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