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ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor
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Ch. 399
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(B) "COALBED METHANE" MEANS METHANE AND ANY OTHER GASEOUS
SUBSTANCE OCCURRING IN OR PRODUCED FROM A COAL SEAM OR RELATED,
ASSOCIATED, OR ADJACENT ROCK MATERIALS.
[(b)] (C) "County" includes Baltimore City unless otherwise indicated.
[(c)] (D) "Department" means Department of the Environment.
[(d)] (E) "Field" means the general area underlaid by one or more pools.
[(e)] (F) "Gas" means all natural gas and other fluid hydrocarbons, not
defined as oil, which are produced from a natural reservoir.
[(f)] (G) "Oil" means crude petroleum oil and other hydrocarbons, regardless
of gravity, which are produced at the wellhead in liquid form, except liquid
hydrocarbons known as distillate or condensate recovered or extracted from gas.
[(g)] (H) "Owner" means the person who has the right to drill into and produce
from a pool, or to store in a pool, and appropriate the oil or gas the person produces or
stores either for the person or others.
[(h)] (I) "Person" means any individual, corporation, association, partnership,
receiver, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, fiduciary, or other representative
of any kind.
[(i)] (J) "Pool" means an underground reservoir containing a common
accumulation of oil, gas, or both.
[(j)] (K) "Producer" means the owner of a well capable of producing oil, gas, or
both.
[(k)] (L) "Product" means any commodity produced in its natural state by an
oil or gas well.
[(1)] (M) (1) "Underground storage" means the storing of gas or oil in a
geological stratum beneath the surface of the earth.
(2) "Underground storage" includes the injection of gas or oil into and
withdrawal from an underground storage reservoir and any other operation
necessary for or convenient to the storage of gas or of oil.
[(m)] (N) "Underground storage reservoir" means the stratum and subsurface
area that are used or are to be used for or in connection with the underground storage
of gas or of oil.
14-112.
(a) (1) [A] EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH (2) OF THIS SUBSECTION,
A well for the production or underground storage of gas or oil may not be drilled on
any property nearer than 1,000 feet to the boundary of the property except by
agreement with the owners of the gas and oil on adjacent lands.
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