43 CFR § 3137.50 - What optional terms may I include in a unit agreement?

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t43/s3137.50"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "43 CFR § 3137.50 - What optional terms may I include in a unit agreement?"
title_number: 43
title_name: "Public Lands: Interior"
section_number: "3137.50"
section_name: "What optional terms may I include in a unit agreement?"
chapter_name: "BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR"
subchapter_number: "C"
subchapter_name: "MINERALS MANAGEMENT (3000)"
part_number: "3130"
part_name: "OIL AND GAS LEASING: NATIONAL PETROLEUM RESERVE, ALASKA"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "42 U.S.C. 6508, 43 U.S.C. 1733 and 1740."
regulatory_source: "46 FR 55497, Nov. 9, 1981, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "3130"
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# 3137.50 What optional terms may I include in a unit agreement?

BLM may approve the following optional terms for a unit agreement if they promote additional development or enhanced production potential—

(a) Limiting the unit agreement to certain formations and their intervals;

(b) Multiple unit operators (see § 3137.51 of this subpart);

(c) Allowing modification of the unit agreement terms if less than 100 percent of the parties to the unit agreement (see § 3137.52 of this subpart) agree to the modification; or

(d) Other terms that BLM determines will promote the greatest economic recovery of oil and gas consistent with applicable law.