The director recognizes the following as properties:

1. A unit.

2. A spacing unit.

3. Contiguous tracts within a lease.

4. A single well drilled and completed prior to July 1, 2013, is considered a single well stripper well property. A single well drilled and completed after June 30, 2013, is considered a single well stripper well.

Any well or portion of a property previously qualified as a stripper well property may not be redesignated to be included in another property unless approved by the commission after notice and hearing or unless such property lies within a unitized common source of supply.

All wells on the property must have been completed prior to July 1, 2013. A well completed after July 1, 2013, may not be added to an existing property.

History: Effective September 1, 1987; amended effective May 1, 1992; May 1, 2004; April 1, 2014; October 1, 2016; April 1, 2024.

General Authority: NDCC 38-08-04(1)(e)

Law Implemented: NDCC 38-08-04(1)(d), 57-51.1-01