11 AAC 83.1049. Definitions

In 11 AAC 83.1000 - 11 AAC 83.1049, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning:

(1) "commissioner" means the commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources or the commissioner's designee;

(2) "Cook Inlet" means the area bounded by

(A) the north boundary of Township 18 North, Seward Meridian;

(B) the Seward Meridian;

(D) the west boundary of Range 19 West, Seward Meridian;

(3) "date of discovery" means the date that the first acceptable evidence of a discovery is acquired by the lessee;

(4) "discovery" means the first acceptable evidence, as determined by the commissioner, of the existence of a previously undiscovered oil or gas pool by a well;

(5) "discovery lease" means the state oil and gas lease on which the discovery is made;

(6) "discovery well" means the well in which the discovery is made;

(7) "discovery well completion date" means, as applied to a discovery well, the earliest of "well abandonment date," "well completion date," or "well suspension date," as those terms are defined in 20 AAC 25.570;

(8) "division" means the state division of oil and gas in the Department of Natural Resources;

(9) "interested party" means the lessee or owner of the subsurface rights of any tract adjoining the lease for which a leasee applies for a discovery well certification, or any lessee or owner of the subsurface rights who claims to have previously discovered the pool;

(10) "paying quantities" has the meaning given that term by 11 AAC 83.395;

(11) "pool" means an accumulation of oil or gas in a single and separate reservoir that has been discovered by drilling, is characterized by a single natural pressure system, and has a trapping mechanism which is structural, stratigraphic, or both.

History: Eff. 2/21/98, Register 145

Authority: AS 38.05.020

AS 38.05.134

AS 38.05.135

AS 38.05.145

AS 38.05.180 (f)

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