Chapter 018 - Oil and Gas Production - City of Brenham

Well: Any hole or holes, bore or bores, to any sand, formation, strata or depth, which is or are drilled,
bored, sunk, drug or put down for the purpose of either exploring for or ascertaining the existence of any oil,
gas, liquid hydrocarbon, or any of them, or for the purpose of producing and recovering any oil, gas, liquid
hydrocarbon, or any of them.
(Ord. of 2-10-69, § 3)
Sec. 18-3. Well spacing.
(A)
(1) In order that the purpose and intent of this chapter, as stated in section 18-1, shall be carried
out and future drilling for oil and gas within the city may proceed in an orderly manner, and for
convenience and clarity in identifying the location of approved or proposed drilling locations, the
city has been divided into blocks containing approximately six hundred forty (640) acres. Each
such block is shown and identified in Roman numerals on the map attached to the ordinance
from which this chapter is derived, marked Exhibit "A" and made a part hereof for all purposes.
The boundary lines of each block shall be contiguous with all adjacent blocks, as shown on said
Exhibit "A".
(2) A drilling unit for oil within the city shall contain approximately one hundred sixty (160) acres.
Each oil drilling unit shall be wholly within one of the blocks shown on said Exhibit "A" and the
four (4) boundary lines of each oil drilling unit shall be contiguous to all adjacent oil drilling
units. Each of the blocks, as described in said Exhibit "A", shall contain four (4) oil drilling units
and each oil drilling unit shall be identified by reference to the block number followed by the
letter A, B, C, or D, starting with the northwest corner oil drilling unit of each block and reading
from left to right for two (2) rows, as shown and illustrated on said Exhibit "A".
(3) A drilling unit for gas within the city shall contain approximately six hundred forty (640) acres
and the boundary lines of each such gas drilling unit shall be congruent with the boundary lines
of one of the blocks described in said Exhibit "A".
(B) Each applicant is required by section 18-4 to file with the city his application to drill which
includes a metes and bounds description of the drilling block proposed to be covered by the permit. Such metes
and bounds description shall be prepared by a surveyor licensed by the state, and shall conform to the extent
reasonably possible to the outlines of drilling blocks shown on Exhibit "A". No such metes and bounds
description shall be approved unless its outside boundaries substantially conform to the general pattern shown
on Exhibit "A". When so approved, such description shall become the official legal description of the drilling
block therein for all purposes hereunder. The metes and bounds description of all previously approved drilling
blocks shall be taken into consideration in determining the property of the description furnished in connection
with any permit application in order to obtain ultimate conformity to the pattern shown on Exhibit "A".
(C)
(1) Not more than one oil well shall be permitted to be drilled, completed and operated in each
oil drilling unit; and it shall be unlawful and a violation of this chapter to drill, complete and
operate more than one oil well in each oil drilling unit.
(2) Anything in subparagraph (C)(1) above to the contrary, if on the effective date of the ordinance
from which this chapter is derived, there existed on any oil drilling unit one or more producing
oil wells, one additional oil well may be drilled, completed and produced on the same oil drilling