The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-06-15
LEGAL NOTICE

LEGAL NOTICE
CORPORATION Commission OF Oklahoma
Order No. e2o. Cause No. 2257
Ardmore oil Producers Association, Com
plainont,
w. &. F. on Company. ct al, similarly
situated, Defendants
/ APPEARANCES:
For the Complainant: Chas. Won W,sc.
. j. w. Harreld. and Writ Franklin.
/ For the Defendant, W. " +. oil Com
pany, c. c. Herndon, and G. ). Wriehts-
For the 1871 and Bayou Company, L. ).
Iolmau.
For the Cors!cana Petroleum Co.,, Geo
Z. Greer.
/ For the Ardmore Refining Co, Hubert
/ L. Mason.
THE ORDER
The Commission considers. orders and
| adjudges that I'm order TO prevent waste
and to regulate the taking of oil from the
common source of supply. to prevent the
| inequitable 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-
ase) heretofore in use in the HealdtOn
field is hereby discontinued and pro-
hibted.
(2) The use of wooden or steel stor-
age is permitted under the limitations.
restrictions and qualifications hereinafter
found
/ 60 No operator tperson. firm or cor
poration, having the right to drill into
and produce oil from the common source
of Supply shall take from the puteutial
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 emitable taking of oil
from the common source il is ordered
that A. /. Walker. heretofore appointed
as agent for the Commission. or his sue
cessor i'm office make "A gauge of each
oil well in said field and as lis rules and
regulations for the taking or making of
such gauge. the Commission authorizes
it's agent to use and uniformly apply the
method and plan now re,opni2ed and i'm
common use
CD That tuon ascertaiuinp the no
tential production of the field. the agent
of the commission shall thcreupon as
certain the trDusunrtatfnn ar market fa
ciIities ana asre,tain tba a,nn,rt nr oil
necessary to meet the daily market de-
mands
(D That the daily actual uroduction
of tbe oil fold shall he restricted and CON
fned ia sucb a ouantitv as is NECESSARY
tn sunnly the nrnLahIe daily market de-
mand With fine rXcpution berainaftar uro-
yided that is 10 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 10
meet the ascertaned 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-
ton of each well in said field shall be
ascertained in the manner and by the
means above outlined ana 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, ana IN supplying the market De
mand, the operators shall be permitted
TO produce ratably, that is to say, onl'
such per cent. of the possible produc-
tuh OF each Wen as Is necessary 10 MAKE
up upon the whole the daily market de-
mand
ca In order to guard against unfore-
seen casualties and contingencies, and to
the end that the market may not at any
time he deprived OF an adequate supply
the use OF wooden or steel storage per
mitted as aforesaid is hereby authorize
for the storage of the whole or potential
production OF any well or number oi
wells on any one lease or property for
a period of ten days. but in running the
oil so produced it shall be run according
to the fair and equitable pro-rata of the
operator according to the plan hereby
or in other words if an oper-
ator chooses to accumulate his whole pos |
sible nroduction for a neriod of fen days
then upon the sale of the same he shall |
he wholly Drecluded and prohibited from
raising any other oil from the sand to the |
eurface un+iI he ie dne another run uinn |
the nro-rata basis
'hS M, "'', ,,,ii,, In ,.oilo,,, Of
any controversy nertinent TO the legal sta |
tus of common carrier and common pur- |
chaser runs. applies the rules and regula- |
tions wholly, and therefore both directly |