You must prevent uncompensated drainage of oil and gas from unit land by wells on land not subject to the unit agreement. Permissible means of satisfying the obligation include—
- (a) Drilling a protective well if it is economically feasible. For this subpart, economically feasible means producing a sufficient quantity of oil or gas from a protective well in the unit for a reasonable profit above the cost of drilling, completing and operating the protective well;
- (b) Paying compensatory royalty;
- (c) Forming other agreements, or modifying existing agreements, that allow the tracts committed to the unit agreement to share in production after the effective date of the new or modified agreement; or
- (d) BLM may require additional measures to prevent uncompensated drainage.