43 C.F.R. PART 3130--OIL AND GAS LEASING: NATIONAL PETROLEUM RESERVE, ALASKA
TITLE 43--Public Lands: Interior
Subtitle B--REGULATIONS RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
SUBCHAPTER C--MINERALS MANAGEMENT (3000)
PART 3130--OIL AND GAS LEASING: NATIONAL PETROLEUM RESERVE, ALASKA
Subpart 3130--OIL AND GAS LEASING, NATIONAL PETROLEUM RESERVE, ALASKA: GENERAL
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| Cross references.--[Reserved]
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| Limitation on time to institute suit to contest a Secretary's decision.
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| Leasing maps and land descriptions.
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Subpart 3131--LEASING PROGRAM
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| Receipt and consideration of nominations; public notice and participation.
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| Tentative tract selection.
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Subpart 3132--ISSUANCE OF LEASES
Subpart 3133--RENTALS AND ROYALTIES
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| Under what circumstances will BLM waive, suspend, or reduce the rental, royalty, or minimum royalty on my NPR-A lease?
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| How do I apply for a waiver, suspension or reduction of rental, royalty or minimum royalty for my NPR-A lease?
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Subpart 3134--BONDING: GENERAL
Subpart 3135--TRANSFERS, EXTENSIONS, CONSOLIDATIONS, AND SUSPENSIONS
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| Transfers and extensions, general.
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| Requirements for filing of transfers.
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| Separate filing for transfers.
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| Effect of transfer of a tract.
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| Under what circumstances will BLM require a suspension of operations and production or approve my request for a suspension of operations and production for my lease?
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| How do I apply for a suspension of operations and production?
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| When is a suspension of operations and production effective?
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| When should I stop paying rental or royalty after BLM requires or approves a suspension of operations and production ?
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| When will my suspension terminate?
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| What effect does a suspension of operations and production have on the term of my lease?
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| If BLM requires a suspension or grants my request for a suspension of operations and production for my lease, when must I next pay advance annual rental, royalty, or minimum royalty?
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Subpart 3136--RELINQUISHMENTS, TERMINATIONS AND CANCELLATIONS OF LEASES
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| Relinquishment of leases or parts of leases.
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Subpart 3137--UNITIZATION AGREEMENTS--NATIONAL PETROLEUM RESERVE-ALASKA
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| What terms do I need to know to understand this subpart?
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| What benefits do I receive for entering into a unit agreement?
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| If the Federal lands constitute less than 10 percent of the lands in the proposed unit area, is the unit agreement subject to Federal regulations or approval?
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| Is there a standard unit agreement form?
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| What must I include in an NPR-A unit agreement?
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| What are the size and shape requirements for a unit area?
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| What must I include in my NPR-A unitization application?
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| Why would BLM reject a unit agreement application?
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| How will the parties to the unit know if BLM approves the unit agreement?
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| When is a unit agreement effective?
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| What effect do subsequent contracts or obligations have on the unit agreement?
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| What oil and gas resources of committed tracts does the unit agreement include?
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| What initial development obligations must I define in a unit agreement?
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| What continuing development obligations must I define in a unit agreement?
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| What optional terms may I include in a unit agreement?
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| Under what conditions does BLM permit multiple unit operators?
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| How may I modify the unit agreement?
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| As the unit operator, what are my obligations?
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| How do I change unit operators?
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| What are my liabilities as a former unit operator?
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| What are my liabilities after BLM approves me as the new unit operator?
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| As a unit operator, what must I do to prevent or compensate for drainage?
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| What must I do to meet initial development obligations?
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| What must I do to meet continuing development obligations?
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| What if reasons beyond my control prevent me from meeting the initial or a continuing development obligation by the time the unit agreement specifies?
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| What will BLM do after I submit a plan to meet continuing development obligations?
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| What must I do after BLM approves my continuing development obligations plan?
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| May I perform additional development outside established participating areas to fulfill continuing development obligations?
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| What happens if I do not meet a continuing development obligation?
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| What are participating areas and how do they relate to the unit agreement?
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| What is the function of a participating area?
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| What are productivity criteria?
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| What establishes a participating area?
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| What must I submit to BLM to establish a new participating area, or modify an existing participating area?
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| What is the effective date of a participating area?
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| What happens to a participating area when I obtain new information demonstrating that the participating area should be larger or smaller than previously determined?
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| What must I do if there are unleased Federal tracts in a participating area?
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| What happens when a well outside a participating area does not meet the productivity criteria?
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| How does production allocation occur from wells that do not meet the productivity criteria?
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| Who must operate wells that do not meet the productivity criteria?
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| When will BLM allow a well previously determined to be a non-unit well to be used in establishing or modifying a PA?
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| When does a participating area terminate?
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| How must I allocate production to the United States when a participating area includes unleased Federal lands?
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| Do the terms and conditions of a unit agreement modify Federal lease stipulations?
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| When will BLM extend the primary term of all leases committed to a unit agreement?
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| What happens if I am prevented from performing actual or constructive drilling or reworking operations?
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| As a transferee of an interest in a unitized NPR-A lease, am I subject to the terms and conditions of the unit agreement?
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| Under what circumstances will BLM approve a voluntary termination of the unit?
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| What happens if the unit terminated before the unit operator met the initial development obligations?
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| What if I do not meet a continuing development obligation before I establish any participating area in the unit?
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| After participating areas are established, when does the unit terminate?
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| What happens to committed leases if the unit terminates?
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| What are the unit operator's obligations after unit termination?
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| How do I appeal a decision that BLM issues under this subpart?
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Subpart 3138--SUBSURFACE STORAGE AGREEMENTS IN THE NATIONAL PETROLEUM RESERVE-ALASKA (NPR-A)
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| When will BLM enter into a subsurface storage agreement in NPR-A covering federally-owned lands?
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| How do I apply for a subsurface storage agreement?
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| What must I pay for storage?
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