Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES
Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations
Subpart 17 - Procedures for Hearings and Unit and Survey Plat Requirements
Chapter 39 - Hearings
Section XIX-3903 - Definitions

A. The words defined herein shall have the following meanings when used in these rules. All other words so used and not herein defined shall have their usual meanings unless specially defined in Title 30 of Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.

Date- the postmarked date of a letter or the transmittal date of a telegraphic or wireless communication.

District Manager- the manager of any one of the districts of the state of Louisiana under the Office of Conservation, and, as used, refers specifically to the manager within whose district the field or fields affected by the subject matter of the proposed hearing are located.

Interest- shall not mean the rights of a top lessee or any other reversionary right.

Interested Owner- any owner as owner is defined in Title 30 of Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, who is known to the applicant after reasonable search to presently own an interest within the area of, or proximate to, the tracts directly affected by the application.

Interested Party- any person as person is defined in Title 30 of Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, other than an interested owner or a represented party as defined herein, who presently owns an interest within the area of, or proximate to, the tracts directly affected by the application.

Pertinent Data- with respect to any unit proceedings, all basic factual information available from wells drilled or drilling which can reasonably be utilized in determining the unit configuration, including but not limited to:

a. electric logs, porosity logs and dipmeter logs;

b. tests, completion and production data; and

c. core data. All data that will be employed at a hearing shall be considered pertinent data.