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52 OK Stat § 52-62 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-62. Commission may extend time for filing plats.

|Upon a sworn statement of the necessities which would justify a judicial continuance, the Corporation Commission is authorized to extend the time for the filing of the said plats, not, however, to exceed sixty (60) days. |R.L. 1910, § 4314.
52 OK Stat § 52-63 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-63. Penalty for violations.

|Any person, co-partnership, or corporation, its agent or employee, violating any of the provisions of this article, or any order of the competent courts of this state, or the Corporation Commission, pursuant to the jurisdiction conferred by this article, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined a sum of not less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), nor more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or imprisonment for not less than six (6) months, nor more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment for each and every violation of this article; but in case the monthly runs or takings or transportations of oil shall average so as to be without discrimination, as herein provided, the transactions of any particular day, week, or portion of a month shall be disregarded; and the competent court of the county in which the omission or commission which is a violation of this article, has occurred, shall have jurisdiction of an action under the penal code for the punishment thereof; and said penalties shall not be exclusive of civil liability. |R.L. 1910, § 4315.
52 OK Stat § 52-64 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-64. Suspension of penalty, when.

|Whenever the operation of a valid order of a competent court or the Corporation Commission is duly suspended, according to law, the punitive provisions of this article shall likewise be suspended in their operation as to the transactions adjudicated in said court; and, further, any court having jurisdiction of an action brought by the state to punish for a violation under the terms of this article, shall not impose a punishment therefor greater than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) against any person or corporation, if it finds from the evidence that the violation was made solely with the object of testing according to law the validity of any of the provisions of this article, or of the order of any competent court or of the Corporation Commission, in any proceeding to carry out the provisions hereof. |R.L. 1910, § 4316.
52 OK Stat § 52-65 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-65. Certified transcript shall be evidence.

|A properly certified transcript of the report of any such corporation, association or person shall, as against the maker thereof, be prima facie evidence of the truth of any matter therein contained. |R.L. 1910, § 4317.
52 OK Stat § 52-67 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-67. Authorization for construction, siting, expansion or operation of crude oil or refined petroleum product pipeline facilities – Schedule of approval.

|A. The Corporation Commission shall cooperate with and comply with deadlines established by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in regards to authorization for the construction, siting, expansion, or operation of crude oil or refined petroleum product pipeline facilities. |B. The Corporation Commission shall have the authority to establish a schedule for all state pipeline authorizations with respect to crude oil or refined petroleum product pipeline facilities. In establishing the schedule, the Commission shall:1. Ensure expeditious completion of all proceedings; and2. Accommodate the applicable schedules established by state law for such proceedings.C. Any judicial appeal of the actions of the Commission shall be to an Oklahoma court of competent jurisdiction as provided for by the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma.D. Upon application by a qualified applicant, the Commission shall issue an order authorizing, in whole or in part, the siting, construction, expansion, or operation of a crude oil or refined petroleum product pipeline facility which is located in either interstate or intrastate commerce.E. If the holder of a Commission order issued pursuant to this section cannot acquire by contract, or is unable to agree with the owner of the property on the amount of compensation to be paid for:1. The necessary right-of-way to site, construct, operate, and maintain a pipeline or pipelines for the transportation of crude oil or refined petroleum products; and2. The necessary land or other property for the location of compressor stations, pressure apparatus, or other stations or equipment necessary to the proper operation of such pipeline or pipelines,the holder of the order may acquire the property through the exercise of the right of eminent domain in an Oklahoma court of competent jurisdiction as allowed under the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma.Added by Laws 2006, c. 261, § 8, eff. July 1, 2006.
52 OK Stat § 52-86.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-86.1. Definitions.

|For the purposes of this act: |1. "Commission" means the Corporation Commission;2. “Person” includes any individual, copartnership, corporation, common law or statutory trust or association of whatever character;3. “Common source of supply" comprises and includes that area which is underlaid or which, from geological or other scientific data, or from drilling operations, or other evidence, appears to be underlaid, by a common accumulation of oil or gas or both. If any such area is underlaid, or appears from geological or other scientific data, or from drilling operations, or other evidence, to be underlaid by more than one common accumulation of oil or gas or both, separated from each other by a strata of earth and not connected with each other, then such area, as to each said common accumulation of oil or gas or both, shall be deemed a separate common source of supply;4. “Owner” means a person who has the right to drill into and to produce from any common source of supply and to appropriate the production, either for that person or for that person and others;5. “Oil” means crude petroleum oil, and any other hydrocarbons, regardless of gravity, which are produced at the well in liquid form by ordinary production methods;6. “Gas” means all natural gas, including casinghead gas, and all other hydrocarbons not defined as oil in paragraph 5 of this section;7. “Producer” means any person who, along or in association with another person or persons, shall have the right to drill into and produce from, or who has any interest in production from, any common source of supply in this state;8. “Operator” means any producer of oil or gas who has drilled a well or wells into a common source of supply and is engaged in operating the well or wells for the purpose of producing oil or gas therefrom;9. “Taker” includes any person, who, acting alone, or jointly with any person or persons, is directly or indirectly purchasing or transporting by any means whatsoever or otherwise removing oil or gas from any common source of supply in this state; and10. “Hearing” means any proceeding before an Administrative Law Judge, Appellate Referee or the Corporation Commission en banc, after notice and opportunity to be heard, by which the Commission may exercise its authority under Chapter 3 of this title and as set forth in the Rules of Practice of the Commission. Any evidence as defined, authorized, and permitted by the Oklahoma Constitution, the laws of the State of Oklahoma, and rules of the Commission in support of an application for Commission action or relief shall be received as evidence.Added by Laws 1947, p. 326, § 1, emerg. eff. April 29, 1947. Amended by Laws 2006, c. 190, § 1, emerg. eff. May 26, 2006.
52 OK Stat § 52-86.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-86.2. Waste in production of oil - industrial use of water produced

|A. The term "waste", as applied to the production of oil, in addition to its ordinary meaning, shall include economic waste, underground waste, including water encroachment in the oil or gas bearing strata; the use of reservoir energy for oil producing purposes by means or methods that unreasonably interfere with obtaining from the common source of supply the largest ultimate recovery of oil; surface waste and waste incident to the production of oil in excess of transportation or marketing facilities or reasonable market demands. The production of oil in the State of Oklahoma in such manner and under such conditions as to constitute waste, as in Sections 86.1 et seq. of this title defined, is hereby prohibited, and the Corporation Commission shall have authority, and is charged with the duty, to make rules, regulations and orders for the prevention of such waste, and for the protection of all fresh water strata and oil or gas bearing strata encountered in any well drilled for oil or gas. |B. Provided, the Commission shall work in conjunction with the Secretary of Energy and Environment, the Oklahoma Water Resources Board and the Department of Environmental Quality to encourage industrial use of water produced in oil and natural gas operations.Added by Laws 1947, p. 326, § 2, emerg. eff. April 29, 1947. Amended by Laws 2016, c. 124, § 1.
52 OK Stat § 52-86.3 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-86.3. Waste of gas - Meaning - Prevention - Prohibition - Protection of fresh water and oil or gas bearing strata.

|The term "waste", as applied to gas, in addition to its ordinary meaning, shall include the inefficient or wasteful utilization of gas in the operation of oil wells drilled to and producing from a common source of supply; the inefficient or wasteful utilization of gas from gas wells drilled to and producing from a common source of supply; the production of gas in such quantities or in such manner as unreasonably to reduce reservoir pressure or unreasonably to diminish the quantity of oil or gas that might be recovered from a common source of supply; the escape, directly or indirectly, of gas from oil wells producing from a common source of supply into the open air in excess of the amount necessary in the efficient drilling, completion or operation thereof; waste incident to the production of natural gas in excess of transportation and marketing facilities or reasonable market demand; the escape, blowing or releasing, directly or indirectly, into the open air, of gas from wells productive of gas only, drilled into any common source of supply, save only such as is necessary in the efficient drilling and completion thereof; and the unnecessary depletion or inefficient utilization of gas energy contained in a common source of supply. In order to prevent the waste or to reduce the dissipation of gas energy contained in a common source of supply, in addition to its other powers in respect thereof, the Commission shall have the authority to limit the production of gas from wells producing gas only to a percentage of the capacity of such wells to produce. The production of gas in the State of Oklahoma in such manner and under such conditions as to constitute waste as in this act defined is hereby prohibited, and the Commission shall have authority and is charged with the duty to make rules, regulations, and orders for the prevention of such waste and for the protection of all freshwater strata and oil- or gas-bearing strata encountered in any well drilled for gas. |Added by Laws 1947, p. 327, § 3, emerg. eff. April 29, 1947.
52 OK Stat § 52-86.4 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-86.4. Common source of supply - Orders, rules and regulations.

|The Commission is hereby empowered after notice of hearing to make all such orders, rules and regulations applicable to each common source of supply as it may find to be necessary or proper and to make general orders, rules and regulations applicable alike to all common sources of supply in the state. It shall not be necessary to publish such order, rule or regulation, after its adoption or promulgation by the Commission, before it shall go into effect, nor shall it be necessary to publish any such order, rule or regulation in each subsequent annual report of the Commission. Provided, that the Corporation Commission shall not under the provisions of this act make any order establishing a well spacing or drilling unit. |Added by Laws 1947, p. 327, § 4, emerg. eff. April 29, 1947.
52 OK Stat § 52-86.5 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-86.5. Procedural requirements.

|This act shall be subject to all of the procedural requirements contained in Sections 84 to 135, inclusive, Title 52, Oklahoma Statutes, 1951, including the right of appeal to the Supreme Court of the state on the part of any person aggrieved by any action of the Commission under and pursuant to this act. |Added by Laws 1947, p. 327, § 5, emerg. eff. April 29, 1947.
52 OK Stat § 52-86.6 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-86.6. Short title - Oil and Gas Produced Water and Waste Recycling and Reuse Act.

|This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Oil and Gas Produced Water and Waste Recycling and Reuse Act". |Added by Laws 2020, c. 77, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2020.
52 OK Stat § 52-86.8 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-86.8. Compliance with the Oklahoma Brine Development Act.

|Notwithstanding any other provision in this act, if oil and gas produced water and waste is utilized for the purpose of processing the produced water and waste by mechanical or chemical processes for the extraction of constituent elements for commercial purposes, the oil and gas produced water and waste shall be considered brine under the Oklahoma Brine Development Act. The operating activity and the ownership of the oil and gas produced water, including the constituent elements contained therein, including the entitlement to and sharing of proceeds from the extraction and sale of the constituent elements or effluent, shall be subject to the Oklahoma Brine Development Act and the operator or other person extracting or utilizing the oil and gas produced water and waste shall comply with the provisions of the act. The Oklahoma Brine Development Act shall not apply to oil and gas produced water and waste that is reused or recycled solely for the purpose of use in oil and gas operations. |Added by Laws 2020, c. 77, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2020.
52 OK Stat § 52-87.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-87.2. Protest of applications relating to spacing units - Proper parties - Intervention - Report by Corporation Commission.

|A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section, only those persons, or the duly authorized agent, representative or attorney of those persons, who are mineral owners or owners of the right to drill a well for oil and gas on the lands embraced within the subject area of an application or the owners of correlative rights within the common source of supply or supplies embraced within an application to the extent such owners are directly affected by such application, shall be proper parties to: |1. protest any application to establish, reestablish, or reform a spacing unit,2. protest any application requesting authority for an additional well or wells within an established spacing unit brought pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (a) or (d) of Section 87.1 of Title 52 of the Oklahoma Statutes, or3. present testimony or evidence at any hearing arising thereunder or relating thereto.B. No other person shall be entitled to notice of such proceeding or shall be entitled to appear as a party of record therein, except that the Corporation Commission may permit persons other than those specified in subsection A of this section leave to intervene in a proceeding upon a finding, based upon clear and convincing evidence, that such person has a substantial right intended to be protected by Section 87.1 of Title 52 of the Oklahoma Statutes which may adversely be affected by the outcome of such proceeding. Any finding required by this section shall be made by the Corporation Commission, sitting en banc, within ten (10) days of the filing of a motion to intervene by such person and such proceeding shall be stayed during such ten-day period.C. At the end of each calendar quarter the Corporation Commission shall file a written report with the Office of the Governor, the Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, and the President Pro Tempore of the Oklahoma State Senate describing all such findings made by the Corporation Commission pursuant to this section during such period.Added by Laws 1988, c. 95, § 1, emerg. eff. April 1, 1988.
52 OK Stat § 52-87.3 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-87.3. Application or petition for location exception - Notice of hearing.

|A. When any petition or application is filed with the Corporation Commission for a location exception from any spacing or drilling unit, the Commission shall give notice of the hearing to be held upon such petition or application, as provided in Section 87.1 of Title 52 of the Oklahoma Statutes. Such notice shall specifically identify the proposed well location, by legal description, in order to give proper notice to owners of land adjacent to the proposed well location whether within or without the same spacing or drilling unit as such proposed well location. |B. If the location exception allows a proposed well location to be placed closer than one thousand three hundred twenty (1,320) feet to a section line for a gas well or closer than three hundred thirty (330) feet to a section line for an oil well, the notice specified in subsection A of this section shall identify, by legal description, the land sections adjacent to the area within the location exception.Added by Laws 1990, c. 310, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1990.
52 OK Stat § 52-87.4 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-87.4. Affidavit of election for drilling well under pooling order.

|An affidavit evidencing any election for the drilling of a well under a pooling order issued pursuant to the proceedings set out in subsection (e) of Section 87.1 of Title 52 of the Oklahoma Statutes shall constitute constructive notice of the rights under the election claimed by the affiant when the affidavit is filed of record in the office of the county clerk for the county in which the lands described in the pooling order are located. The affidavit shall set out the name, address, if known, and election or deemed election for each pooled respondent included in the affidavit and shall have a copy of the pooling order attached. The affidavit may be filed by the operator designated in the pooling order or by any other interested party with knowledge of any election made. Filing of the affidavit shall not affect notice provided by virtue of pooling proceedings conducted by the Commission. |Added by Laws 1993, c. 337, § 1, eff. July 1, 1993.
52 OK Stat § 52-87.7 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-87.7. Corporation Commission jurisdiction.

|Corporation Commission Jurisdiction. The Corporation Commission shall have jurisdiction, upon the filing of a proper application therefor, to permit the drilling, completing and producing of a multiunit horizontal well in conformity with Section 87.8 of this title, or to create a horizontal well unitization in conformity with Section 87.9 of this title, if the Commission finds that the multiunit horizontal well or the horizontal well unitization will prevent waste and will protect the correlative rights of the owners of oil and gas rights. |Added by Laws 2011, c. 54, § 3, emerg. eff. April 13, 2011. Amended by Laws 2017, c. 372, § 4.
52 OK Stat § 52-91 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-91. Meters on pipelines - Commission to designate type - Inspection - Cost of operation.

|The Commission is hereby empowered and authorized by its orders, rules, and regulations, to require that meters be installed (a) upon any pipeline used in purchasing and/or transporting oil in or out of any prorated common source of supply and/or from storage adjacent thereto and (b) upon any pipeline used in gathering and/or transporting oil from leases or storage in such common source of supply, to refineries, loading racks, and field or other storage, and/or to deliver such oil to other transportation lines in or near such fields. All meters installed pursuant to any order, rule or regulation of the Commission made or issued by it under the provisions of this section shall be of a type or types approved by it and the Proration Umpire shall be in mechanical construction and accuracy in operation, sufficient to register the oil transported through the pipeline or pipelines upon which such meters are installed with a degree of accuracy of not more than two percent (2%) from accurate. Said meters shall be installed and maintained at the cost and expense of the owner and/or operators of the pipelines on which the same are required to be installed. No owner or operator of any such pipeline upon which a meter or meters shall have been installed and/or is being maintained pursuant to orders, rules and regulations of the Commission made hereunder, shall operate such pipeline or pipelines at any time when the meter or meters thereon are not properly registering the flow of oil to the knowledge of such owner or operator or when by the exercise of reasonable diligence he or it should have known thereof, except or unless permission to do so by order of the Commission shall have been granted. Said meters shall at all times be subject to inspection and reading by the Proration Umpire, his deputies, or any person authorized and ordered by the Commission to inspect or read the same. The provisions of this section shall be applied and enforced by the Commission only when it finds and holds that the installation of such meter or meters is necessary to the enforcement of this act, and the installation of meters shall not be required generally, and for other purposes as a means of measuring oil. |Added by Laws 1933, c. 131, p. 281, § 8, emerg. eff. April 10, 1933.
52 OK Stat § 52-92 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-92. Reports - Oil purchased or transported - Forms - Verification.

|The Commission is hereby authorized and empowered by orders, rules or regulations issued by it to require all takers of oil in or out of any prorated common source of supply to make and file periodically with the Commission, at such time or times, as often as the Commission shall in such orders, rules, and regulations provide, reports of all oil purchased and/or transported by such takers within or from such prorated fields, and that duplicate copies thereof shall be filed with the Proration Umpire. Said reports shall be upon forms prescribed by the Commission and shall describe the leases and properties, and, if ordered by the Commission, the wells from which crude oil has been taken by any such taker, and the amount thereof, and shall contain such other information as will enable or assist the Commission in enforcing the provisions of this act, which may be required by the orders, rules and regulations of the Commission; and shall be verified by the maker thereof upon oath. |Added by Laws 1933, c. 131, p. 281, § 8, emerg. eff. April 10, 1933.