§ 15-72-1001 - Tax incentives -- Increased volume by enhanced recovery.
15-72-1001. Tax incentives -- Increased volume by enhanced recovery.
An oil producer who initiates a program for the enhanced recovery of crude oil pursuant to a plan first approved by the Oil and Gas Commission for purposes of recovering the incremental oil from a well or group of wells which results in the production of a volume of crude oil in excess of the volume produced prior to the commencement of the project shall be granted a fifty percent (50%) reduction in the severance tax which would otherwise be required to be paid, as provided for in 26-58-111(6), on the total quantity of the incremental increase in crude oil produced as a result of the approved enhanced recovery project.