Alaska Statutes Title 41. Public Resources § 41.06.060. Definitions

(1) “commercial use” means the sale of heat or power to a third party;

(2) “commission” means the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission created under AS 31.05.005;

(3) “correlative rights” means the right of an owner of each property in a geothermal system to produce without waste the owner's just and equitable share of the geothermal resources in the geothermal system; a just and reasonable share is an amount, so far as can be practically determined and so far as can be practically produced without waste, that is substantially in proportion to the quantity of recoverable geothermal resources under the owner's property relative to the total recoverable geothermal resources in the geothermal system;

(4) “geothermal fluid” means liquids and steam at temperatures greater than 120 degrees Celsius or any commercial use of liquids and steam naturally present in a geothermal system at temperatures less than 120 degrees Celsius;

(5) “geothermal resources”

(6) “geothermal system” means a stratum, pool, reservoir, or other geologic formation containing geothermal resources;

(7) “operator” means a person drilling, maintaining, operating, producing, or in control of a well;

(8) “owner” means the person who has the right to drill into or produce from a geothermal system and to appropriate the geothermal resources produced from a geothermal system for that person and others;

(9) “waste” means, in addition to its ordinary meaning, physical waste, and includes an inefficient, excessive, or improper production, use, or dissipation of geothermal resources, including

(10) “well” means a well drilled, converted, or reactivated for the discovery, testing, production, or subsurface injection of geothermal resources.