The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-06-22
LEGAL NOTICE

LEGAL NOTICE
Corporation Commission of Oklahoma
Order No. 900. Cause No. 22s7
S Ardmore oil Producers Association. Com.
, plainant,
5 w. &. F. oil Company, ct A., similarly
situated Defendants
2 APPEARANCES:
, For the Complainant: Chas Won Weise,
j. W. Harreld, and Writ Franklin.
; For the Defendant, w. Il f. oil Com
! pany, c. c. Herndon, and G. J. Wrghts-
! man. e..
For the 1871 and Bayou Company. L. S.
} For the Corsicana Petroleum CO.. Geo.
c. Greer.
For the Ardmore Refining Co, Hubert
l.. Mason.
THE ORDER
The Commission considers, orders and
IadJudgeS that in order to prevent waste
and to regulate the taking of oil from the
common source OF supply, to prevent the
iinequitable and unfair taking of oil from
the common source of supply in the
Healdton field the following rules and
regulations are hereby made and estab
lished:
% The practice, plan or device of
placing or holding crude oil in earthen
reservoirs, sometimes called pond stor
| agel heretofore in use in the Healdton
field is hereby discontinued and pro
| hibited.
C2) The use of wooden or steel stor-
age is permitted under the limitations,
restrictions and qualifications hereinafter
| found.
go No operator person, firm or cor
poration, having the right to drill into
| and produce oil from the common source
| of supply shall take fom the potential
production of the HealdtOn field more
| than his fair and equitable proportion
| thereof and in order that the potential
production Of said field may be determined
! for the purpose of establishing a basis
for the fair and equitable taking of oil
! from the common source ii is ordered
that A L. Walker, heretofore appointed
as agent for the Commission or his sue
CeSsor in office make a gauge of each
oil well in said field and as its rules and
regulations for the taking or making of
such gauge, the Commission authorizes
its agent to use and uniformly apply the
method and plan now recognized and in
common use.
90 That upon ascertainng the po-
tentfal production of the field, the agent |
of the commission shall thereupon as |
certain the transportation or market IA |
cilities and ascertain the amount of oil |
necessary to meet the daily market de-
mands.
Cj) That the daily actual production |
of the oil field shall be restricted and CON |
fined to such a quantity as is necessary |
to supply the probable daily market de- |
mand with the exception hereinafter pro- |
Vided that is to say, the raising of the |
oil from the sand or the production from
the common source of supply shall be |
done by the operators in said field only |
TO the extent of the amount necessary to !
meet the ascertained daily market de- |
mands and under the conditions set forth /
in the rules and regulations of the COM
mission.
90 The capacity or potential produc-
tion of each well in said field shall be
ascertained in the manner and by the
means above outlined and thereupon the
owner in the operation thereof shall be
restricted in raising oil from the under
ground to the surface to the following
extent that is to say the agent of the |
Commission in said field shall in accord
ance with these rules ascertain the ratio
of the daily market demand to the pO-
tential production and then the actual
production shall be limited to the market
demand, and i'm supplying the market de-
mand, the operators shall be permitted
to produce ratably, that is to say, only
such per cent. of the possible produc-
ton of each well as is necessary to make
up upon the whole the daily market de-
mand.
90 In order to guard against unfore-
seen casualties and contingencies, and to,
the end that the market may not at any |
tme be deprived OF an adequate supply, |
the use of wooden or steel storage per |
mitted as aforesaid is hereby authorized
for the storage of the whole or potential
production of any well or number of
wells on any one lease or property for
A period of ten days but i'm running the
III 81 pIpuuttls II Slldll bt run dCCtIhlDB
% the fair and equitable pro-rata OF the
operator according to the plan hereby
established, or in other words, if an Oper
ltor chooses to accumulate his whole pos
lble production for a period of ten days, l
hen upon the sale of the same he shall I
,e wholly precluded and prohibited from
aisng any other oil from the sand to the )
urface until he is due another run upon /
he pro-rata basis.
90 The Commission i'm avoidance Of 3
my controversy pertinent to the legal sta
us of common carrier and common pur-
haser runs, applies the rules and regula-
ions wholly, and therefore both directly
nd indirectly, TO the production Of oil 2
nd not to the marketing of the same
r rather to the raising of the oil from
he sands to the surface, and hereby
uthorizes its agent in the regulation Of g,
air and equitable production as afore- v
aid to prohibit the raising OF oil from =,
he sands to the surface except such as
an be marketed under these rules and y
equations.
(9) The storage OF oil by any common ID
urchaser or purchasers bought ratably
n open market bona fide to be held as
took under the usual custom Of the trade
Or the purpose of refining or for sale to z
he consumer is not prohibited by the
1les hereinbefore prescribed.
(lO) These rules shall not be inter
reted so as to require the oil to be pro-
uced ratabIy each day. but the amour
reduced from any one well within {
eriod Of thirty days shall not exceed the
ro rata permissible daily production.
This order shall be in full force and ef-
ect on and after its publication as re-
uired by law.
CORPORATION COMMISSION
GEO. A HENSHAW, Commissioner
W. u. HUMPHREY, Commissioner. II
L. F. MCKAY. 4
seal Of Corporation Commissiom
oklahoma City. June 3. 1915.
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