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unitiˈzation
[f. next + -ation.]
1. The joint development of a petroleum source which straddles territory controlled by several companies.
1930Handbk. Unitization of Oil Pools (Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Assoc.) i. 15 The term ‘Unitization’ refers to the practice of unifying the ownership and control of an actual or prospective oil or gas pool by the issuance or assignment of units or undivided interests in the entire area with provision for development and operation by an agent, trustee or committee representing all holders of undivided interests therein. 1938D. Hager Practical Oil Geol. (ed. 5) ix. 263 The ideal is for one oil concern to own a whole field and to unitize the leases so that property owners are allowed a royalty on all the oil produced in proportion to their property holdings. Ibid., Unitization as an ideal is fine for the oil producer. 1952South Western Reporter (U.S.) CCXLIX. 917/1 Respondents suggest that the conclusion we have reached will discourage the making of unitization agreements. 1977Internat. & Compar. Law Q. XXVI. 353 Discussions are already under way between Norway and the United Kingdom on the unitisation of the Statfjord oil and gas field.
2. The packaging of cargo into unit loads (see unit n. (and a.) 3 c); = palletization.
1953Times 20 Jan. 2/5 Addresses will be given on..‘Packaging and air freight’, and ‘Packaging and unitization’. 1967D. Wilson Use of Expendable Pallets 1 Since most modern handling systems of unit loads are based around the fork-lift truck there has to be a common denominator of any method of unitisation i.e. that it is capable of being lifted and moved by fork-lift truck. 1981E. Corlett Revolution Merchant Shipping 12/1 Militating against the spread of container unitisation was the lack of infra-structure.
3. Conversion of an investment trust to a unit trust (see unit n. (and a.) 3 c).
1974Daily Tel. 10 Aug. 17/4 The cost of unitisation ‘would be high’. 1982Observer 7 Feb. 20/1 Fleming..may well find that unitisation cannot be avoided in respect of some of the trusts. |