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52 OK Stat § 52-149.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-149.1. Oil and gas referees.

|The Commission is hereby authorized to employ three oil and gas referees who shall be in the unclassified service. Any person filling the position of oil and gas referee shall be a graduate of an accredited college or university with a degree in law, geology, petroleum engineering or similar fields related to hydrocarbon extraction, or possesses significant experience in the practice of law or the exploration, production or supervision of oil or gas operations. Each oil and gas referee shall also be familiar with state statutes and Commission rules and regulations governing oil and gas operations. The oil and gas referees shall hear such cases and exercise such powers as the Commission shall direct. The Commission may establish such rules and regulations as are necessary to implement this section. The referees shall be subject to the overall supervision and direction of the General Administrator. |Added by Laws 1982, c. 354, § 9, operative July 1, 1982.
52 OK Stat § 52-149.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-149.2. Oil and Gas Appellate Referees.

|The Corporation Commission is authorized to employ Oil and Gas Appellate Referees. Any person filling the position of Oil and Gas Appellate Referee shall be a duly licensed attorney in the State of Oklahoma and shall be familiar with the statutes and rules governing oil and gas operations in Oklahoma. The Oil and Gas Appellate Referees shall hear all exceptions and appeals from recommendations of an Administrative Law Judge for cases on the conservation docket, except for exceptions and appeals from Administrative Law Judge recommendations of conservation docket cases which the Commission determines it will hear en banc without intermediate review. The Oil and Gas Appellate Referees shall file a report and make recommendations to the Commission for the disposition of such exceptions and appeals. The Commission shall promulgate such rules as may be necessary to implement this section. |Added by Laws 1994, c. 315, § 3, eff. July 1, 1994. Amended by Laws 1995, c. 328, § 7, eff. July 1, 1995.
52 OK Stat § 52-149.3 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-149.3. Teleconference hearings.

|The Corporation Commission shall establish and maintain a system providing telephonic capability for hearing of matters assigned to the conservation docket so that testimony at unprotested hearings may be offered by telephone and parties and witnesses need not be present in the courtroom. Where hearings are protested, testimony may also be offered by telephone with the consent of all parties and the administrative law judge assigned to hear the case. The cost of telephonic communication shall be paid by the person or persons requesting its use. The Commission shall promulgate rules implementing the provisions of this section. |Added by Laws 1994, c. 315, § 4, eff. July 1, 1994.
52 OK Stat § 52-152 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-152. Salaries, costs and expenses - Payment.

|Subject to the traveling and subsistence limitations applicable to state employees generally, and to the extent approved by the Corporation Commission, employees of the Oil and Gas Conservation Division shall be paid all necessary traveling and subsistence expenses incurred in the performance of their duties and functions. The Commission is further authorized to incur such other costs and expenses for equipment, facilities, supplies, services and other operating costs as determined by the Commission to be reasonably necessary and proper for the functioning of the Oil and Gas Conservation Division and the administration and enforcement by the Commission of its powers, duties and functions with respect to oil and gas conservation and the prevention of pollution. All salaries and authorized expenses of the employees of the Oil and Gas Conservation Division and all other authorized cost and expense incurred for or on account of the Oil and Gas Conservation Division or for the administration and enforcement by the Commission of its powers, duties and functions with respect to oil and gas conservation and the prevention of pollution, may be paid out of funds appropriated to the Commission for such purpose. |Added by Laws 1967, c. 207, § 4, emerg. eff. May 1, 1967. Amended by Laws 1987, c. 208, § 61, operative July 1, 1987; Laws 1987, c. 236, § 83, emerg. eff. July 20, 1987; Laws 1997, c. 275, § 7, eff. July 1, 1997.
52 OK Stat § 52-153 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-153. Persons having authority to make investigations, serve orders, etc.

|The Commission shall have the authority to designate those employees in the Oil and Gas Conservation Division who shall each possess the authority to make investigations, serve orders, issue field citations, subpoenas or notices issued by the Commission or the Conservation Division, to any operator, employee or agent of said operator, and to enter upon any oil or gas lease or property where necessary in the performance of their duties. |Added by Laws 1967, c 207, § 5, emerg. eff. May 1, 1967. Amended by Laws 1985, c. 325, § 13, emerg. eff. July 29, 1985; Laws 1995, c. 328, § 8, eff. July 1, 1995.
52 OK Stat § 52-201 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-201. Compacts with other states authorized - Objectives - Fact finding agency - Uniform conservation and tax laws.

|The Governor, or such representative as he may appoint, is authorized to meet with representatives of the Governors of other petroleum-producing states, and of the United States, for the purpose of agreeing upon a compact among such states effecting the following objectives: |(a). Establishment of a joint state and federal fact-finding agency to consist of one representative appointed by the Governor of each compacting state, and one representative of the United States as Congress or the President shall direct. Said agency shall make periodic findings, subject to the approval and modification by the President, of the demand for petroleum to be produced within the United States, for withdrawals from storage, and for petroleum and products thereof to be imported. It shall thereupon, subject to concurrence of representatives of compacting states capable of together producing two-thirds (2/3) of the demand for domestic production so found, and approval and modification by the President, determine the part thereof allowable as production within each petroleum-producing state.(b). Voluntary regulation of production by each compacting state within its own borders in accordance with said determination of the joint fact-finding agency, to the extent that and in such manner as the laws of each state may authorize.(c). Formulation by the joint agency of uniform conservation measures and tax laws which it shall recommend to the compacting states, and exercise by said agency of such incidental powers as may be agreed upon.Added by Laws 1935, p. 240, § 1, emerg. eff. Jan. 30, 1935.
52 OK Stat § 52-202 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-202. Interstate compacts - When binding.

|No compact made under the authority of this act shall bind this state unless and until: |(a). Said compact shall be ratified by the Legislatures of two of the States of Texas, California, Kansas and New Mexico, and the Legislature of this state, and Congress shall consent thereto.(b). Congress shall make provision for the control and limitation of importations in accordance with the findings referred to in Section 1.(c). Congress shall provide for the control of interstate movements of petroleum produced or withdrawn from storage in violation of the laws and valid regulations of the several states, and products of such petroleum.(d). Congress shall provide for the control of interstate movements of petroleum produced in any state in excess of the determination, referred to in Section 1, of allowable production within said state as approved by the President, and products of such petroleum.Added by Laws 1935, p. 240, § 2., emerg. eff. Jan. 30, 1935.
52 OK Stat § 52-203 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-203. Interstate Compact ratified and confirmed.

|The "Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas" entered into by the Governor of this state and the representatives of certain other oil-producing states at Dallas, Texas, on the 16th day of February, 1935, is hereby ratified, approved and confirmed by the State of Oklahoma. |Added by Laws 1935, p. 242, § 1, emerg. eff. March 6, 1935.
52 OK Stat § 52-205 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-205. Governor as official representative of state - Powers and duties - Assistant representatives.

|The Governor is hereby designated as the official representative of the State of Oklahoma on "The Interstate Oil Compact Commission" provided for in the Compact herein authorized to be extended. The Governor shall exercise and perform for the State of Oklahoma all the powers and duties imposed by the aforesaid Compact upon a representative to "The Interstate Oil Compact Commission"; provided, that he shall have the authority to appoint an assistant representative who shall act as the official representative of the State of Oklahoma on "The Interstate Oil Compact Commission" when the authority to so act is delegated to him by the Governor. In addition said assistant representative shall perform such other duties as the Governor may designate which are necessary to enable the State of Oklahoma to fully cooperate in accomplishing the objects of said Compact. Said assistant representative shall take the oath of office prescribed by the Constitution which shall be filed with the Secretary of State. |Added by Laws 1935, p. 244, § 3, emerg. eff. March 6, 1935. Amended by Laws 1935, p. 241, § 1, emerg. eff. April 19, 1935; Laws 1939, p. 349, § 5, emerg. eff. Jan. 27, 1939; Laws 1941, p. 214, § 5, emerg. eff. Feb 19, 1941; Laws 1985, c. 178, § 23, operative July 1, 1985.
52 OK Stat § 52-206 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-206. Clerical, technical and legal assistants - Expenses - Office.

|The assistant representative referred to in Section 205 of this title is hereby authorized with the consent of the Governor to employ such clerical, technical and legal assistants as may be necessary for him to properly perform the duties assigned him, and to incur such other expenses as may be necessary to enable the State of Oklahoma to fully cooperate in accomplishing the objects of "The Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas." Said assistant representative and his assistants, and the Governor when acting in his capacity as official representative of the State of Oklahoma on "The Interstate Oil Compact Commission," shall receive their actual and necessary traveling expenses when away from the State Capitol in the performance of their duties, which shall be paid from the special fund hereinafter created. The Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall provide and furnish an office in the State Capitol for said assistant representative. |Added by 1935, p. 241, § 2, emerg. eff. April 19, 1935. Amended by Laws 1939, p. 349, § 6, emerg. eff. Jan. 27, 1939; Laws 1941, p. 214, § 6, emerg. eff. Feb. 19, 1941; Laws 2012, c. 304, § 213.
52 OK Stat § 52-207 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-207. Interstate Oil Compact Fund - Purpose for which used - Disposition of unexpended balance.

|A. There is hereby created in the Office of the State Treasurer a special fund to be known as "The Interstate Oil Compact Fund of Oklahoma". All monies accruing to the fund are hereby appropriated for the purpose of paying the compensation of the assistant representative referred to in Section 205 of this title, the compensation of such clerical, technical, and legal assistants as he or she, with the consent of the Governor, may employ, the actual and necessary traveling expenses of the assistant representative and his or her employees and of the Governor when traveling in his or her capacity as official representative of this state on "The Interstate Oil Compact Commission", all items of office expense including the cost of office supplies and equipment, such contributions as the Governor shall deem proper to pay to The Interstate Oil Compact Commission to defray its expenses, such other necessary expenses as may be incurred in enabling this state to fully cooperate in accomplishing the objects of "The Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas". |B. The maintenance of the Oklahoma Energy Initiative as created in the Oklahoma Energy Initiative Act is hereby declared to be a part of the accomplishment of the objects of The Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas and the Governor is hereby authorized to contract with appropriate entities for such purposes and to pay the obligations thereof from the fund created by this section.C. The fund shall be disbursed upon warrants issued by the State Treasurer upon sworn itemized claims approved by the assistant representative and the Governor. If at the end of any fiscal year any part of the special fund shall remain unexpended or unobligated, such balance shall be transferred by the State Treasurer to and become a part of the General Revenue Fund of the state for the ensuing fiscal year.Added by Laws 1935, p. 241, § 3, emerg. eff. April 19, 1935. Amended by Laws 1939, p. 350, § 7, emerg. eff. Jan. 27, 1939; Laws 1941, p. 214, § 7, emerg. eff. Feb. 19, 1941; Laws 1979, c. 47, § 18, emerg. eff. April 9, 1979; Laws 1983, c. 263, § 14, operative July 1, 1983; Laws 1985, c. 203, § 112, operative July 1, 1985; Laws 1997, c. 275, § 8, eff. July 1, 1997; Laws 2012, c. 248, § 1.
52 OK Stat § 52-208 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-208. Duration of Act - Withdrawal from Compact - Credit of funds to General Revenue Fund.

|The provisions of this act, Section 201 et seq, of this title, shall be in force and effect so long as the State of Oklahoma shall be and remain a party to "The Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas." In the event the State of Oklahoma withdraws from said Compact, the provisions of this act shall cease to operate and any unencumbered monies in "The Interstate Oil Compact Fund of Oklahoma" shall be credited to the General Revenue Fund of the State of Oklahoma. |Added by Laws 1935, p. 242, § 4, emerg. eff. April 19, 1935. Amended by Laws 1939, p. 350, § 8, emerg. eff. Jan. 27, 1939; Laws 1941, p. 215, § 8, emerg. eff. Feb. 19, 1941; Laws 1997, c. 275, § 9, eff. July 1, 1997.
52 OK Stat § 52-211 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-211. Further extensions - Withdrawal from Compact - Determination and necessary steps.

|The Governor of Oklahoma is further authorized and empowered for and in the name of the State of Oklahoma to execute agreements for the further extension of the expiration date of the said The Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas and to determine if and when it shall be for the best interest of the State of Oklahoma to withdraw from said Compact upon sixty (60) days' notice as provided by the terms of the Compact. In the event he shall determine that this state should withdraw from said Compact he shall have full power and authority to give necessary notice and to take any and all steps necessary and proper to effect the withdrawal of the State of Oklahoma from said Compact. |Added by Laws 1935, p. 244, § 6, emerg. eff. March 6, 1935. Amended by Laws 1939, p. 349, § 4; Laws 1941, p. 214, § 4.
52 OK Stat § 52-231 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-231. Ownership of gas.

|All natural gas under the surface of any land in this state is hereby declared to be and is the property of the owners, or gas lessees, of the surface under which gas is located in its original state. |Added by Laws 1913, c. 198, p. 439, § 1.
52 OK Stat § 52-232 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-232. Drilling rights.

|Subject to the provisions of Sections 29 and 239 of this title any owner, producer, or oil and gas lessee of the surface, having the right to drill for natural gas, shall have the right to sink a well to the natural gas underneath the same and to take gas therefrom until the gas under such surface is exhausted. The drilling of a gas well or wells by any owner or lessee of the surface shall be regarded as reducing to possession his share of such gas as is shown by his well. |Added by Laws 1913, c. 198, p. 440, § 2. Amended by Laws 1981, c. 22, § 2, eff. Oct. 1, 1981; Laws 1992, c. 14, § 3, eff. April 1, 1992.
52 OK Stat § 52-233 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-233. Sale of gas - Prices and amounts of gas to be taken - Delivery.

|Any person, firm or corporation, taking gas from a gas field, except for purposes of developing a gas or oil field, and operating oil wells, and for the purpose of his own domestic use, shall take ratably from each owner of the gas in proportion to his interest in said gas, upon such terms as may be agreed upon between said owners and the party taking such, or in case they cannot agree at such a price and upon such terms as may be fixed by the Corporation Commission after notice and hearing; provided, that each owner shall be required to deliver his gas to a common point of delivery on or adjacent to the surface overlying such gas. |Added by Laws 1913, c. 198, p. 440, § 3.
52 OK Stat § 52-234 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-234. Misappropriation of gas - Liability for damages and penalties.

|Any person, firm or corporation, taking more than his or its proportionate share of such gas, in violation of the provisions of this act, shall be liable to any adjoining well owner for all damages sustained thereby and subject to a penalty for each violation not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), and each day such violation is continued shall be a separate offense. |Added by Laws 1913, c. 198, p. 441, § 4.
52 OK Stat § 52-235 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-235. Misappropriation of gas - Felony of grand larceny.

|Any person or agent of a corporation, who takes gas, or aids or abets in the taking of gas, except as herein provided, either directly or indirectly, as an individual, officer, agent, or employee of any corporation, shall be guilty of the felony of grand larceny, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to the State Penitentiary not to exceed five (5) years. |Added by Laws 1913, c. 198, p. 441, § 5. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 496, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 361, eff. July 1, 1999.NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 496 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
52 OK Stat § 52-236 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-236. Waste prohibited.

|The production of natural gas in the State of Oklahoma, in such manner, and under such conditions as to constitute waste, shall be unlawful. |Added by Laws 1915, c. 197, § 1, emerg. eff. March 30, 1915.
52 OK Stat § 52-237 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-237. Waste defined.

|The term waste, as used herein in addition to its ordinary meaning, shall include escape of natural gas in commercial quantities into the open air, the intentional drowning with water of a gas stratum capable of producing gas in commercial quantities, underground waste, the permitting of any natural gas well to wastefully burn and the wasteful utilization of such gas. |Added by Laws 1915, c. 197, § 2, emerg. eff. March 30, 1915.
52 OK Stat § 52-238 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-238. Conservation of gas.

|Whenever natural gas in commercial quantities, or a gas-bearing stratum, known to contain natural gas in such quantity, is encountered in any well drilled for oil or gas in this state, such gas shall be confined to its original stratum until such time as the same can be produced and utilized without waste, and all such strata shall be adequately protected from infiltrating waters. Any unrestricted flow of natural gas in excess of two million (2,000,000) cubic feet per twenty-four (24) hours shall be considered a commercial quantity thereof; provided, that if in the opinion of the Corporation Commission, gas of a lesser quantity shall be of commercial value, said Commission shall have authority to require the conservation of said gas in accordance with the provisions of this act; and provided, further, the gauge of the capacity of any gas well shall not be taken until such well has been allowed an open flow for the period of three (3) days. |Laws 1915, c. 197, § 3, emerg. eff. March 30, 1915.
52 OK Stat § 52-239 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-239. Common source of supply - Apportionment and regulation to prevent waste.

|Any person, firm or corporation, having the right to drill into and produce gas from any common source of supply, may take therefrom only such proportion of the natural gas that may be marketed without waste, as the natural flow of the well or wells owned or controlled by the person, firm or corporation bears to the total natural flow of such common source of supply having due regard to the acreage drained by each well, so as to prevent the person, firm or corporation securing any unfair proportion of the gas from the common source of supply. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the Corporation Commission is authorized and directed to prescribe rules for the determination of the natural flow of any well or wells, and to promulgate field rules to regulate the taking of natural gas from any or all common sources of supply within the state, so as to prevent waste as the same is defined in Section 86.3 of this title, protect the interests of the public, and the correlative rights of all those having a right to produce from the common source of supply, and to prevent unreasonable discrimination in favor of any one common source of supply as against another. Except for the common source of supply referred to as the Guymon-Hugoton, the Commission shall have no authority to prescribe or enforce rules under this section for the taking of natural gas from any other common source of supply when the average pressure of such other common source of supply declines to below one hundred (100) pounds per square inch gauge or the average production per well in the common source of supply declines below two hundred thousand (200,000) standard cubic feet per day for each day of the last calendar year. |Added by Laws 1915, c. 197, § 4, emerg. eff. March 30, 1915. Amended by Laws 1992, c. 14, § 4, eff. April 1, 1992; Laws 1995, c. 345, § 1, emerg. eff. June 9, 1995.