2005 Idaho Code - 47-318 — DEFINITIONS

                                  TITLE  47
                               MINES AND MINING
                                  CHAPTER 3
                        OIL AND GAS WELLS -- GEOLOGIC
                     INFORMATION, AND PREVENTION OF WASTE
    47-318.  DEFINITIONS. Unless the context otherwise requires, the terms
defined in this section shall have the following meaning when used in this
act:
    (a)  The word "Commission" shall mean the oil and gas conservation
commission.
    (b)  "Waste" as applied to oil means and includes underground waste;
inefficient, excessive or improper use or dissipation of reservoir energy,
including gas energy and water drive; surface waste, open-pit storage, and
waste incident to the production of oil in excess of the producer's
above-ground storage facilities and lease and contractural requirements, but
excluding storage (other than open-pit storage) reasonably necessary for
building up and maintaining crude stocks and products thereof for consumption,
use and sale; the locating, drilling, equipping, operating, or producing of
any well in a manner that causes, or tends to cause, reduction of the quantity
of oil or gas ultimately recoverable from a pool under prudent and proper
operations.
    (c)  "Waste" as applied to gas shall include the escape, blowing or
releasing, directly or indirectly, into the open air of gas from wells
productive of gas only, or gas in an excessive or unreasonable amount from
wells producing oil or both oil and gas; and the production of gas in
quantities or in such manner as will unreasonably reduce reservoir pressure or
unreasonably diminish the quantity of oil or gas that might ultimately be
produced; excepting gas that is reasonably necessary in the drilling,
completing and testing of wells and in furnishing power for the production of
wells.
    (d)  "Person" means any natural person, corporation, association,
partnership, receiver, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, fiduciary,
or other representatives of any kind, and includes any government or any
political subdivision of any agency thereof. The masculine gender, in
referring to a person, includes the feminine and the neuter genders.
    (e)  "Oil" means crude petroleum oil and all other hydrocarbons,
regardless of gravity, that are produced in liquid form by ordinary production
methods, but does not include liquid hydrocarbons that were originally in a
gaseous phase in the reservoir.
    (f)  "Gas" means all natural gas and all other fluid hydrocarbons not
hereinabove defined as oil, including condensate because it originally was in
the gaseous phase in the reservoir.
    (g)  "Condensate" means liquid hydrocarbons that were originally in the
gaseous phase in the reservoir.
    (h)  "Pool" means an underground reservoir containing a common
accumulation of oil or gas or both; each zone of a structure that is
completely separated from any other zone in the same structure is a pool.
    (i)  "Field" means the general area underlaid by one or more pools.
    (j)  "Owner" means the person who has the right to drill into and produce
from a pool and to appropriate the oil or gas that he produces therefrom,
either for himself or for himself and others.
    (k)  "Producer" means the owner of a well or wells capable of producing
oil or gas or both.
    (l)  "Just and equitable share of the production" means, as to each
person, that part of the production from the pool that is substantially in the
proportion that the amount of recoverable oil or gas or both in the developed
area of his tract or tracts in the pool bears to the recoverable oil or gas or
both in the total of the developed areas in the pool.
    (m)  "Developed area" means a spacing unit on which a well has been
completed that is capable of producing oil or gas, or the acreage that is
otherwise attributed to a well by the commission.
    (n)  "Correlative rights" means the owners' or producers' just and
equitable share in a pool.
    (o)  "Oil and gas" means oil or gas or both.
    (p)  The use of the plural includes the singular, and the use of the
singular includes the plural.