Members shall be qualified as follows:

(1) one member shall be a petroleum engineer who

Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 31.05.009

  • and: includes "or" and "or" includes "and". See Alaska Statutes 31.05.170
  • commission: means the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. See Alaska Statutes 31.05.170
  • field: means a general area which is underlain or appears to be underlain by at least one pool, and includes the underground reservoir containing oil or gas. See Alaska Statutes 31.05.170
  • gas: includes all natural gas and all hydrocarbons produced at the wellhead not defined as oil. See Alaska Statutes 31.05.170
  • oil: includes crude petroleum oil and other hydrocarbons regardless of gravity which are produced at the wellhead in liquid form and the liquid hydrocarbons known as distillate or condensate recovered or extracted from gas, other than gas produced in association with oil and commonly known as casinghead gas. See Alaska Statutes 31.05.170
  • person: includes a natural person, corporation, association, partnership, receiver, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, fiduciary or other representative of any kind, and includes a department, agency or instrumentality of the state or a governmental subdivision of the state. See Alaska Statutes 31.05.170
  • state: means the State of Alaska unless applied to the different parts of the United States and in the latter case it includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
(A) holds a certificate of registration as an engineer under Alaska Stat. Chapter 08.48 and, under regulations adopted to implement that chapter, has qualified as a petroleum engineer; or
(B) has earned a degree from a university in the field of engineering and has at least 10 years of professional subsurface experience in the oil and gas industry in drilling, well operations, production process operations, reservoir engineering, or a combination thereof; for the purposes of this subparagraph, a person meets the requirement of earning a degree in the field of engineering if the person obtains an undergraduate or graduate degree in engineering that meets the requirements for program accreditation by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology and the person completes university or industry training specific to petroleum engineering that illustrates application of engineering principles to the problems encountered and methods used in the petroleum industry, including drilling, production, reservoir engineering, fluid flow through subsurface formations, and hydrocarbon transportation;
(2) one member shall be a geologist who

(A) holds a certification as a professional geologist under Alaska Stat. § 08.02.011 and has professional experience in the field of petroleum geology; or
(B) has earned a degree in the field of geology from a university accredited in the field of geology and has a minimum of 10 years professional experience in the field of petroleum geology; and
(3) one member who shall have training or experience that gives the person a fundamental understanding of the oil and gas industry in the state.
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