Article 6 - OFFICE OF OIL AND GAS; OIL AND GAS WELLS
- Section 22-6-1 - Definitions
- Section 22-6-2 - Secretary - powers and duties generally; department records open to public; inspectors
- Section 22-6-2a - Oil and gas inspectors qualifications and salary
- Section 22-6-3 - Findings and orders of inspectors concerning violations; determination of reasonable time for abatement; extensions of time for abatement; special inspections; notice of findings and orders
- Section 22-6-4 - Review of findings and orders by director; special inspection; annulment, revision, etc., of order; notice
- Section 22-6-5 - Requirements for findings, orders and notices; posting of findings and orders; judicial review of final orders of director
- Section 22-6-6 - Permit required for well work; permit fee; application; soil erosion control plan
- Section 22-6-7 - Water pollution control permits; powers and duties of the director; penalties
- Section 22-6-8 - Permits not to be on flat well royalty leases; legislative findings and declarations; permit requirements
- Section 22-6-9 - Notice to property owners
- Section 22-6-10 - Procedure for filing comments; certification of notice
- Section 22-6-11 - Review of application; issuance of permit in the absence of objections; copy of permits to county assessor
- Section 22-6-12 - Plats prerequisite to drilling or fracturing wells; preparation and contents; notice and information furnished to coal operators, owners or lessees; issuance of permits; performance bonds or securities in lieu thereof; bond forfeiture
- Section 22-6-13 - Notice to coal operators, owners or lessees and director of intention to fracture certain other wells; contents of such notice; bond; permit required
- Section 22-6-14 - Plats prerequisite to introducing liquids or waste into wells; preparation and contents; notice and information furnished to coal operators, owners or lessees and director; issuance of permits; performance bonds or security in lieu thereof
- Section 22-6-15 - Objections to proposed drilling of deep wells and oil wells; objections to fracturing; notices and hearings; agreed locations or conditions; indication of changes on plats, etc.; issuance of permits
- Section 22-6-16 - Objections to proposed drilling or converting for introducing liquids or waste into wells; notices and hearings; agreed location or conditions; indication of changes on plats, etc.; issuance of permits; docket of proceeding
- Section 22-6-17 - Objections to proposed drilling of shallow gas wells; notice to chair of review board; indication of changes on plats; issuance of permits
- Section 22-6-18 - Protective devices - When well penetrates workable coal bed; when gas is found beneath or between workable coal beds
- Section 22-6-19 - Same - Continuance during life of well; dry or abandoned wells
- Section 22-6-20 - Same - When well is drilled through horizon of coalbed from which coal has been removed
- Section 22-6-21 - Same - Installation of fresh water casings
- Section 22-6-22 - Well report, logs, core samples, and cuttings to be filed; confidentiality and permitted use; authority to promulgate rules; reporting of production data for horizontal wells
- Section 22-6-23 - Plugging, abandonment and reclamation of well; notice of intention; bonds; affidavit showing time and manner
- Section 22-6-24 - Methods of plugging well
- Section 22-6-25 - Introducing liquid pressure into producing strata to recover oil contained therein
- Section 22-6-26 - Performance bonds; corporate surety or other security
- Section 22-6-27 - Cause of action for damages caused by explosions
- Section 22-6-28 - Supervision by director over drilling and reclamation operations; complaints; hearings; appeals
- Section 22-6-29 - Operating permit and processing fund; special reclamation fund; fees
- Section 22-6-29a - Oil and Gas Abandoned Well Plugging Fund
- Section 22-6-30 - Reclamation requirements
- Section 22-6-31 - Preventing waste of gas; plan of operation required for wasting gas in process of producing oil; rejection thereof
- Section 22-6-32 - Right of adjacent owner or operator to prevent waste of gas; recovery of cost
- Section 22-6-33 - Restraining waste
- Section 22-6-34 - Offenses; penalties
- Section 22-6-35 - Civil action for contamination or deprivation of fresh water source or supply; presumption
- Section 22-6-36 - Declaration of oil and gas notice by owners and lessees of coal seams
- Section 22-6-37 - Rules, orders and permits remain in effect
- Section 22-6-38 - Application of article; exclusions
- Section 22-6-39 - Injunctive relief
- Section 22-6-40 - Appeal from order of issuance or refusal of permit to drill or fracture; procedure
- Section 22-6-41 - Appeal from order of issuance or refusal of permit for drilling location for introduction of liquids or waste or from conditions of converting procedure