Washington Statutes
§ 78.52.245 — Pooling order—Allocation of production.
Washington § 78.52.245
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Wash. Rev. Code § 78.52.245 (2026).
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A pooling order shall be upon terms and conditions that are fair and reasonable and that afford to each owner and royalty owner his or her fair and reasonable share of production. Production shall be allocated as follows:
(1)For the purpose of determining the portions of production owned by the persons owning interests in the pooled unit, the production shall be allocated to the respective tracts within the unit in the proportion that the surface acres in each tract bear to the number of surface acres included in the entire unit.
(2)Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, if the department finds that allocation on a surface acreage basis does not allocate to each tract its fair share, the department shall allocate the production so that each tract will receive its fair share.
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Legislative History
[1994 sp.s. c 9 s 832;1983 c 253 s 18.]
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