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California Code, Public Resources Code - PRC § 3644

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

A tract of land's fair, equitable, and reasonable share of the unit production shall be measured by the value of such tract for oil and gas purposes and its contributing value to the unit in relation to like values of other tracts in the unit area, taking into account, among other things, the following:

(a) The primary tract value based upon the projected future value of hydrocarbon substances that would be produced by primary means from such tract after the date of unitization, if no secondary recovery operation were undertaken.

(b) The secondary tract value based upon consideration of the following factors:

(1) The volume in acre-feet of porous, permeable sand originally saturated with hydrocarbon substances within a zone to be unitized, and underlying such tract.

(2) The hydrocarbon substances per acre-foot of such zone recoverable by means of secondary recovery operations.

(3) The value of the hydrocarbon substances so recoverable from such tract from such zones to be unitized.

(4) In the event the necessary data is not available as listed in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3), the value may be assigned using a prudent engineering method, depending on the data available.

(c) All other factors which significantly bear upon the value of the committed properties for primary and secondary recovery.

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