EXCEPTIONS TO SPACING RULES

EXCEPTIONS TO SPACING RULES. The Board may grant an exception to any spacing rule whenever the Board shall determine, after notice and hearing, and the facts clearly support the determination, that the unit is partly outside the pool, or, for some other reason, a well so located on the unit would be non-productive or topographical conditions are such as to make the drilling at such location unduly burdensome. Application for an exception on Form 2 shall be accompanied by a plat or sketch drawn to the scale of not smaller than one (1) inch equaling 1000 feet, accurately showing to scale the property on which the permit is sought, all other completed, drilling and permitted wells on this property, and all adjoining surrounding properties and wells. The application shall be verified by some person acquainted with the facts. Whenever an exception is granted, the Board shall take such action as will offset any advantage which the person securing the exception may have over any other producers by reason of the drilling of the well as an exception, and so that drainage from developed units to the tract with respect to which the exception is granted will be prevented or minimized and the producer of the well drilled as an exception will be allowed to produce no more than his just and equitable share of the oil and gas in the pool. If the drilling unit is of less acreage than that prescribed by the applicable spacing rule as a regular drilling unit, such special unit shall be allowed to produce only in the proportion that the acreage content of such special unit bears to the acreage content of the regular prescribed unit.