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Ark. Code Ann. § 15-73-201

Lease extended by production — Scope

Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Davis v. Ross Production Co. (1995)

Most recently applied in Southwestern Energy Production Co. v. Elkins (December 2010)

Acts 1983, No. 330, §§ 1-3; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 53-321 — 53-323; Acts 2011, No. 857, § 1.

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(1) The term of an oil and gas, or oil or gas, lease extended by activities on lands in one (1) section or pooling unit, whether established by rule or by order of the Oil and Gas Commission or the lease, shall not be extended to sections or pooling units under the lease where there has been no activity.

(2) This subsection does not prevent the parties to the lease from agreeing to a continuous drilling provision in order to extend the lease term to additional lands drilled or included in another section or unit if the lessor's waiver of the right to terminate the lease to the additional lands, sections, or units where no activity has occurred before the expiration of the lease is fully set forth in the lease or another agreement in bold, enlarged, or other distinctive print.

(3) After the primary term of a lease in an uncontrolled oil field with no spacing requirements, a producing well shall contain a maximum of one (1) governmental quarter-quarter section as a production unit.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.