Code of Alabama

Ala. Code § 9-17-82 (2026)

Order Requiring Unit Operation - When Issued.

✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026

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The board shall issue an order requiring such unit operation if it finds that:

(1) Unit operation of the field or of any pool or pools or of any portion of a pool or combinations thereof within the field is reasonably necessary to prevent waste, to increase the ultimate recovery of oil or gas, to avoid the drilling of unnecessary wells, to allow the drilling of wells at optimum geologic locations, and to protect the correlative rights of interested parties.

(2) The proposed plan for unit operations will increase the ultimate recovery of oil or gas by enhanced recovery methods or any other method of cooperative development and operation calculated to increase the ultimate recovery of oil or gas.

(3) The estimated additional cost incident to conduction of such operation will not exceed the value of the estimated additional recovery of oil or gas.

(Acts 1957, No. 352, p. 461, §2; Act 2000-714, p. 1517, §1.)

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1981–1981 · leading case: Ivy Ellis Mize & Wife, Voncile Mize v. Exxon Corp., 640 F.2d 637 (5th Cir. 1981).

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Ivy Ellis Mize & Wife, Voncile Mize v. Exxon Corp., 640 F.2d 637 (5th Cir. 1981). “See Ala. Code § 9-17-82 (1975). The essential question before us is whether the implied covenant of reasonable development, which would otherwise pervade the performance of an OGM lease, is somehow muted or abated by the presence of a unitization order.”

Ancora Corp. v. Miller Oil Purchasing Co., 396 So. 2d 672 (Ala. 1981). “§ 9-17-82, Code 1975. We are unable to conclude that the procedures heretofore pronounced failed to provide Ancora (as well as all other interested parties) with minimum due process guarantees; nor does the unitization per se, including the vesting of the unit operator with…”

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