The commission may adjust the boundaries of existing leases to encompass all of a field partially contained within the existing lease subject to both of the following conditions:
(a) The commission makes all of the following findings:
- (1) The adjustment will permit more efficient utilization of state resources.
- (2) The number and size of existing offshore platforms will not be increased, except that modifications to a platform within the existing boundaries of a lease shall be permitted where the modifications are reasonably necessary for development of all of the resources within the reconfigured lease.
- (3) The boundary adjustment will not require the construction or major modification of a refinery in this state to permit development of any increased production resulting from the boundary adjustment, unless that construction or major modification is to a field production facility servicing the lease.
- (4) The boundary adjustment represents the environmentally least damaging feasible alternative for the extraction and production of affected resources.
- (b) Those parts of the field within areas added to the existing lease may not be developed except from upland sites or from existing offshore facilities within the original lease boundaries.