Corporation Commission Jurisdiction. The Corporation Commission shall have jurisdiction, upon the filing of a proper application therefor, to permit the drilling, completing and producing of a multiunit horizontal well in conformity with Section 87.8 of this title, or to create a horizontal well unitization in conformity with Section 87.9 of this title, if the Commission finds that the multiunit horizontal well or the horizontal well unitization will prevent waste and will protect the correlative rights of the owners of oil and gas rights.
Added by Laws 2011, c. 54, § 3, emerg. eff. April 13, 2011. Amended by Laws 2017, c. 372, § 4.