HERE IS THE PART OF THE COLORADO STATE STATUTE 36-60-116 I FOUND THAT PERTAINS TO THIS QUESTION. HAPPY READING!!!
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(7) (a) Each such pooling order shall make provision for the drilling of a well on the drilling unit, if not already drilled, for the operation thereof, and for the payment of the reasonable actual cost thereof, including a reasonable charge for supervision and storage. Except as provided in paragraph (c) of this subsection (7), as to each nonconsenting owner who refuses to agree to bear his proportionate share of the costs and risks of drilling and operating the well, the order shall provide for reimbursement to the consenting owners who pay for the drilling and operation of the well of the nonconsenting owner's share of the costs and risks of such drilling and operating out of, and only out of, production from the unit representing his interest, excluding royalty or other interest not obligated to pay any part of the cost thereof. In the event of any dispute as to such costs, the commission shall determine the proper costs as specified in paragraph (b) of this subsection (7). The order shall determine the interest of each owner in the unit and shall provide that each consenting owner is entitled to receive, subject to royalty or similar obligations, the share of the production of the well applicable to his interest in the drilling unit and, unless he has agreed otherwise, his proportionate part of the nonconsenting owner's share of such production until costs are recovered and that each nonconsenting owner is entitled to own and to receive the share of the production applicable to his interest in the unit after the consenting owners have recovered the nonconsenting owner's share out of production.
(b) Upon the determination of the commission, proper costs recovered by the consenting owners of a drilling unit from the nonconsenting owner's share of production from such a unit shall be as follows
(I) One hundred percent of the nonconsenting owner's share of the cost of surface equipment beyond the wellhead connections (including, but not limited to, stock tanks, separators, treaters, pumping equipment, and piping) plus one hundred percent of the nonconsenting owner's share of the cost of operation of the well commencing with first production and continuing until the consenting owners have recovered such costs. It is the intent that the nonconsenting owner's share of these costs of equipment and operation will be that interest which would have been chargeable to the nonconsenting owner had he initially agreed to pay his share of the costs of the well from the beginning of the operation
(II) Two hundred percent of that portion of the costs and expenses of staking, well site preparation, obtaining rights-of-way, rigging up, drilling, reworking, deepening or plugging back, testing, and completing the well, after deducting any cash contributions received by the consenting owners, and two hundred percent of that portion of the cost of equipment in the well, including the wellhead connections.
(c) A nonconsenting owner of a tract in a drilling unit which is not subject to any lease or other contract for the development thereof for oil and gas shall be deemed to have a landowner's proportionate royalty of TWELVE AND ONE-HALF percent until such time as the consenting owners recover, only out of the nonconsenting owner's proportionate SEVEN-EIGHTHS share of production, the costs specified in paragraph (b) of this subsection (7). After recovery of such costs, the nonconsenting owner shall then own his proportionate EIGHT-EIGHTHS share of the well, surface facilities, and production and then be liable for further costs as if he had originally agreed to drilling of the well.
(d) No order pooling an unleased nonconsenting mineral owner shall be entered by the commission under the provisions of subsection (6) of this section over protest of such owner until the commission shall have received evidence that such unleased mineral owner shall have been tendered a reasonable offer to lease upon terms no less favorable than those currently prevailing in the area at the time application for such order is made and that such unleased mineral owner shall have been furnished in writing such owner's share of the estimated drilling and completion cost of the well, the location and objective depth of the well, and the estimated spud date for the well or range of time within which spudding is to occur. During the period of cost recovery provided in this subsection (7), the commission shall retain jurisdiction to determine the reasonableness of costs of operation of the well attributable to the interest of such nonconsenting owner.
(8) The operator of a well under a pooling order in which there is a nonconsenting owner shall furnish the nonconsenting owner with a monthly statement of all costs incurred, together with the quantity of oil or gas produced, and the amount of proceeds realized from the sale of production during the preceding month. If the consenting owners recover the costs specified in subsection (7) of this section, the nonconsenting owner shall own the same interest in the well and the production therefrom, and be liable for the further costs of the operation, as if he had participated in the initial drilling operation.
OOPS!! KINDA LONG! I'LL TRY TO LINK IT NEXT TIME.