§ 78.52.001 Declaration of purpose
§ 78.52.010 Definitions
§ 78.52.025 Hearings and meetings of department
§ 78.52.030 Employment of personnel
§ 78.52.031 Conduct of hearings — Evidence
§ 78.52.032 Hearing examiners
§ 78.52.033 Failure of witness to attend or testify — Contempt
§ 78.52.035 Attorney for department
§ 78.52.037 State oil and gas supervisor — Deputy supervisors — Employment of personnel
§ 78.52.040 Duty and powers of department — In general
§ 78.52.050 Rules, regulations, and orders — Time and place of hearing — Notices
§ 78.52.070 Hearing upon petition — Time for action
§ 78.52.100 Records — Copies as evidence — Copies to be furnished
§ 78.52.120 Drilling permit required — Notice
§ 78.52.125 Environmental impact statement required when drilling affects surface waters of the state — Drilling may be denied, when
§ 78.52.130 Waste prohibited
§ 78.52.140 Carbon black and carbon products — Permit required
§ 78.52.150 Investigations authorized
§ 78.52.155 Investigations — Powers and duties
§ 78.52.200 Development units authorized for known pools
§ 78.52.205 Development units to be prescribed for pool after discovery — Temporary development units
§ 78.52.210 Development units — Size and shape
§ 78.52.220 Development units — Location of well
§ 78.52.230 Development units — Order must cover entire pool — Modifications
§ 78.52.240 Development units — Pooling of interests
§ 78.52.245 Pooling order — Allocation of production
§ 78.52.250 Pooled interests in well in development unit — Allocation of costs — Rights of owners
§ 78.52.253 Pooling agreement, offer to pool, pooling order — Fairness to nonconsenting, unleased owners
§ 78.52.255 Operations on development unit deemed operations on each tract — Production allocated to tract deemed produced from each tract — Shut-in well considered on each tract — Lease on part of tract excluded from unit
§ 78.52.257 Dissolution of pooling order — Interests covered by terminated lease — Modification or termination of pooling order — Extension of dissolution of pooling order
§ 78.52.260 “Wildcat” or “exploratory” well data confidential
§ 78.52.270 Limitation of production to “oil allowable” — Proration
§ 78.52.280 Determining market demand — No undue discrimination in proration of “allowable.”
§ 78.52.290 Limitation of production to “gas allowable” — Proration
§ 78.52.300 Limitation of gas production from one pool
§ 78.52.310 Proration of allowable production in pool — Publication of orders — Emergency orders
§ 78.52.320 Compliance with limitation or proration required
§ 78.52.330 Unit operation of separately owned tracts
§ 78.52.335 Unit operation of pools
§ 78.52.345 Ratable purchase of oil from owners or operators of pool required
§ 78.52.355 Ratable purchase of gas from owners or operators of pool required
§ 78.52.365 Enforcement of RCW 78.52.345 and 78.52.355
§ 78.52.450 Participation of public lands in unit plan
§ 78.52.460 Unit plan not deemed monopolistic
§ 78.52.463 Suspension of operations for violation — Notice — Order — Hearing — Stay of order
§ 78.52.467 Illegal oil, gas, or product — Sale, purchase, etc., prohibited — Seizure and sale — Deposit of proceeds
§ 78.52.470 Objections to order — Hearing required — Modification of order
§ 78.52.480 Appeal from order or decision — Rights of department
§ 78.52.490 Appeal — How taken
§ 78.52.530 Violations — Injunctions
§ 78.52.540 Violations — Injunctions by private party
§ 78.52.550 Violations — Penalty
§ 78.52.560 Hydraulic fracturing — Prohibited for the exploration and production of oil and natural gas
§ 78.52.900 Short title
§ 78.52.910 Construction — 1951 c 146
§ 78.52.920 Severability — 1951 c 146
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Terms Used In Washington Code > Chapter 78.52 - Oil and gas conservation

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • basic royalty: means the royalty reserved in a lease. See Washington Code 78.52.010
  • Certificate of clearance: means a permit prescribed by the department for the transportation or the delivery of oil, gas, or product. See Washington Code 78.52.010
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Department: means the department of natural resources. See Washington Code 78.52.010
  • Development unit: means the maximum area of a pool which may be drained efficiently and economically by one well. See Washington Code 78.52.010
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Division order: means an instrument showing percentage of royalty or rental divisions among royalty owners. See Washington Code 78.52.010
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Field: means the general area which is underlaid by at least one pool and includes the underground reservoir or reservoirs containing oil or gas, or both. See Washington Code 78.52.010
  • Gas: means all natural gas, all gaseous substances, and all other fluid or gaseous hydrocarbons not defined as oil in subsection (12) of this section, including but not limited to wet gas, dry gas, residue gas, condensate, and distillate, as those terms are generally understood in the petroleum industry. See Washington Code 78.52.010
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • illegal gas: means oil or gas that has been produced from any well within the state in violation of this chapter or any rule or order of the department. See Washington Code 78.52.010
  • Illegal product: means any product derived in whole or part from illegal oil or illegal gas. See Washington Code 78.52.010
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Interested person: means a person with an ownership, basic royalty, or leasehold interest in oil or gas within an existing or proposed development unit or unitized pool. See Washington Code 78.52.010
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Lessee: means the lessee under an oil and gas lease, or the owner of any land or mineral rights who has the right to conduct or carry on any oil and gas development, exploration and operation thereon, or any person so operating for himself, herself, or others. See Washington Code 78.52.010
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Oil: means crude petroleum, oil, and all hydrocarbons, regardless of gravity, that are in the liquid phase in the original reservoir conditions and are produced and recovered at the wellhead in liquid form. See Washington Code 78.52.010
  • Operator: means the person who operates a well or unit or who has been designated or accepted by the owners to operate the well or unit, and who is responsible for compliance with the department's rules and policies. See Washington Code 78.52.010
  • Owner: means the person who has the right to develop, operate, drill into, and produce from a pool and to appropriate the oil or gas that he or she produces therefrom, either for that person or for that person and others. See Washington Code 78.52.010
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Person: means any natural person, corporation, association, partnership, receiver, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, fiduciary, or representative of any kind and includes any governmental or political subdivision or any agency thereof. See Washington Code 78.52.010
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Pool: means an underground reservoir containing a common accumulation of oil or gas, or both. See Washington Code 78.52.010
  • Pooling: means the integration or combination of two or more tracts into an area sufficient to constitute a development unit of the size for one well as prescribed by the department. See Washington Code 78.52.010
  • Product: means any commodity made from oil or gas. See Washington Code 78.52.010
  • Protect correlative rights: means that the action or regulation by the department should afford a reasonable opportunity to each person entitled thereto to recover or receive without causing waste his or her fair and reasonable share of the oil and gas in this tract or tracts or its equivalent. See Washington Code 78.52.010
  • Royalty: means a right to or interest in oil or gas or the value from or attributable to production, other than the right or interest of a lessee, owner, or operator, as defined herein. See Washington Code 78.52.010
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Supervisor: means the state oil and gas supervisor. See Washington Code 78.52.010
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Unitization: means the operation of all or part of a field or reservoir as a single entity for operating purposes. See Washington Code 78.52.010
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.