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FEDERAL · 43 CFR

Part 3130 — Oil and Gas Leasing: National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska

112 sections · Title 43: Public Lands: Interior

§ 3130.0-1Purpose.
§ 3130.0-2Policy.
§ 3130.0-3Authority.
§ 3130.0-5Definitions.
§ 3130.0-7§ 3130.0-7 Cross references. [Reserved]
§ 3130.1Attorney General review.
§ 3130.2Limitation on time to institute suit to contest a Secretary's decision.
§ 3130.3Drainage.
§ 3130.4Leasing: General.
§ 3130.4-1Tract size.
§ 3130.4-2Lease term.
§ 3130.5<em>Bona fide</em> purchasers.
§ 3130.6Leasing maps and land descriptions.
§ 3130.6-1Leasing maps.
§ 3130.6-2Land descriptions.
§ 3131.1Receipt and consideration of nominations; public notice and participation.
§ 3131.2Tentative tract selection.
§ 3131.3Special stipulations.
§ 3131.4Lease sales.
§ 3131.4-1Notice of sale.
§ 3132.1Who may hold a lease.
§ 3132.2Submission of bids.
§ 3132.3Payments.
§ 3132.4Qualifications.
§ 3132.5Award of leases.
§ 3132.5-1Forms.
§ 3132.5-2Dating of leases.
§ 3133.1Rentals.
§ 3133.2Royalties.
§ 3133.2-1Minimum royalties.
§ 3133.3Under what circumstances will BLM waive, suspend, or reduce the rental, royalty, or minimum royalty on my NPR-A lease?
§ 3133.4How do I apply for a waiver, suspension or reduction of rental, royalty or minimum royalty for my NPR-A lease?
§ 3134.1Bonding.
§ 3134.1-1Form of bond.
§ 3134.1-2Additional bonds.
§ 3135.1Transfers and extensions, general.
§ 3135.1-1Transfers.
§ 3135.1-2Requirements for filing of transfers.
§ 3135.1-3Separate filing for transfers.
§ 3135.1-4Effect of transfer of a tract.
§ 3135.1-5Extension of lease.
§ 3135.1-6Lease renewal.
§ 3135.1-7Consolidation of leases.
§ 3135.1-8Termination of administration for conveyed lands and segregation.
§ 3135.2Under 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?
§ 3135.3How do I apply for a suspension of operations and production?
§ 3135.4When is a suspension of operations and production effective?
§ 3135.5When should I stop paying rental or royalty after BLM requires or approves a suspension of operations and production ?
§ 3135.6When will my suspension terminate?
§ 3135.7What effect does a suspension of operations and production have on the term of my lease?
§ 3135.8If 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?
§ 3136.1Relinquishment of leases or parts of leases.
§ 3136.2Terminations.
§ 3136.3Cancellation of leases.
§ 3137.5What terms do I need to know to understand this subpart?
§ 3137.10What benefits do I receive for entering into a unit agreement?
§ 3137.11What consultation must the BLM perform if lands in the unit area are owned by a regional corporation or the State of Alaska?
§ 3137.15If 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?
§ 3137.20Is there a standard unit agreement form?
§ 3137.21What must I include in an NPR-A unit agreement?
§ 3137.22What are the size and shape requirements for a unit area?
§ 3137.23NPR-A unitization application.
§ 3137.24Why would BLM reject a unit agreement application?
§ 3137.25How will the parties to the unit know if BLM approves the unit agreement?
§ 3137.26When is a unit agreement effective?
§ 3137.27What effect do subsequent contracts or obligations have on the unit agreement?
§ 3137.28What oil and gas resources of committed tracts does the unit agreement include?
§ 3137.40What initial development obligations must I define in a unit agreement?
§ 3137.41What continuing development obligations must I define in a unit agreement?
§ 3137.50What optional terms may I include in a unit agreement?
§ 3137.51Under what conditions does BLM permit multiple unit operators?
§ 3137.52How may I modify the unit agreement?
§ 3137.60As the unit operator, what are my obligations?
§ 3137.61Change in unit operators.
§ 3137.62What are my liabilities as a former unit operator?
§ 3137.63What are my liabilities after BLM approves me as the new unit operator?
§ 3137.64As a unit operator, what must I do to prevent or compensate for drainage?
§ 3137.70What must I do to meet initial development obligations?
§ 3137.71What must I do to meet continuing development obligations?
§ 3137.72What if reasons beyond my control prevent me from meeting the initial or a continuing development obligation by the time the unit agreement specifies?
§ 3137.73What will BLM do after I submit a plan to meet continuing development obligations?
§ 3137.74What must I do after BLM approves my continuing development obligations plan?
§ 3137.75May I perform additional development outside established participating areas to fulfill continuing development obligations?
§ 3137.76What happens if I do not meet a continuing development obligation?
§ 3137.80What are participating areas and how do they relate to the unit agreement?
§ 3137.81What is the function of a participating area?
§ 3137.82What are productivity criteria?
§ 3137.83What establishes a participating area?
§ 3137.84What must I submit to BLM to establish a new participating area, or modify an existing participating area?
§ 3137.85What is the effective date of a participating area?
§ 3137.86What happens to a participating area when I obtain new information demonstrating that the participating area should be larger or smaller than previously determined?
§ 3137.87What must I do if there are unleased Federal tracts in a participating area?
§ 3137.88What happens when a well outside a participating area does not meet the productivity criteria?
§ 3137.89How does production allocation occur from wells that do not meet the productivity criteria?
§ 3137.90Who must operate wells that do not meet the productivity criteria?
§ 3137.91When will BLM allow a well previously determined to be a non-unit well to be used in establishing or modifying a PA?
§ 3137.92When does a participating area terminate?
§ 3137.100How must I allocate production to the United States when a participating area includes unleased Federal lands?
§ 3137.110Do the terms and conditions of a unit agreement modify Federal lease stipulations?
§ 3137.111When will BLM extend the primary term of all leases committed to a unit agreement or renew all leases committed to a unit agreement?
§ 3137.112What happens if I am prevented from performing actual or constructive drilling or reworking operations?
§ 3137.120As a transferee of an interest in a unitized NPR-A lease, am I subject to the terms and conditions of the unit agreement?
§ 3137.130Under what circumstances will BLM approve a voluntary termination of the unit?
§ 3137.131What happens if the unit terminated before the unit operator met the initial development obligations?
§ 3137.132What if I do not meet a continuing development obligation before I establish any participating area in the unit?
§ 3137.133After participating areas are established, when does the unit terminate?
§ 3137.134What happens to committed leases if the unit terminates?
§ 3137.135What are the unit operator's obligations after unit termination?
§ 3137.150How do I appeal a decision that BLM issues under this subpart?
§ 3138.10When will BLM enter into a subsurface storage agreement in NPR-A covering federally-owned lands?
§ 3138.11Applications for a subsurface storage agreement.
§ 3138.12What must I pay for storage?