Drainage Unit definition

Drainage Unit or "Drilling Unit" shall mean the maximum area in a pool which may be drained efficiently by one (1) well so as to produce the reasonable maximum recoverable oil or gas in such area.
Drainage Unit or "drilling unit" shall mean the maximum area in a pool which may be assigned to one (1) well so as to produce the reasonably recoverable oil or gas in such area, shall be established by statewide rules or by special field rules of the board, and shall be of such size and configuration as will
Drainage Unit means the area allocated to one or more wells for the purpose of drilling for and producing oil or gas, and includes subsurface areas bounded by the vertical planes in which the surface boundaries lie;

Examples of Drainage Unit in a sentence

  • Where feasible and practicable, mitigation will be performed within the same Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) 8 or adjacent HUC 8 as the project impacts and within the same Ecological Drainage Unit (EDU) and HUC 6.


More Definitions of Drainage Unit

Drainage Unit means the S ½ of Section 33 Township XX Range YY W4M for the Carpet formation.
Drainage Unit means the area established for a drainage unit pursuant to Part III of The Oil and Gas Conservation Act respecting the zone of an oil well or gas well;
Drainage Unit means an area, determined by the director in accordance with this regulation, that
Drainage Unit means a drainage unit as defined in the Crown Royalty and Incentives Regulation;
Drainage Unit or "drilling unit" shall mean the maximum area in a pool which may be assigned to one (1) well so as to produce the reasonably recoverable oil or gas in such area, shall be established by statewide rules or by special field rules of the board, and shall be of such size and configuration as will foster, encourage and promote the development, production and utilization of the natural resource of oil and gas.

Related to Drainage Unit

  • Drainage area means a geographic area within which stormwater, sediments, or dissolved materials drain to a particular receiving waterbody or to a particular point along a receiving waterbody.

  • Drainage means the removal of surface water or groundwater

  • Mine drainage means any drainage, and any water pumped or siphoned, from an active mining area or a post-mining area. The abbreviation “ml/l” means milliliters per liter.

  • drainage work means any watercourse and includes any land which is expected to provide flood storage capacity for any watercourse and any bank, wall, embankment or other structure, or any appliance, constructed or used for land drainage or flood defence;

  • Basement means any area of the building having its floor subgrade (below ground level) on all sides.