Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 26 - Oil and Gas › Part 2 - WIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS (Order No. 201-51) › Chapter 1 › Rule 26-2-1.2 - DEFINITIONS

Current through June 25, 2024
Unless the context otherwise requires, the words hereinafter defined shall have the following meaning when found in these rules, to-wit:
(a) "Board" shall mean the
				State Oil & Gas Board created by Chapter 256 of the Laws of 1948.
(b) "Person" shall mean any individual,
				corporation, partnership, association, or any state, municipality, political
				subdivision of any state, or any agency, department, or instrumentality of the
				United States, or any other entity, or any officer, agent, or employee of any
				of the above.
(c) "Oil" shall mean
				crude petroleum oil and all other hydrocarbons, regardless of gravity, which
				are produced at the well in liquid form by ordinary production methods and
				which are not the result of condensation of gas.
(d) "Gas" shall mean all natural gas,
				including casing head gas, and all other hydrocarbons not defined as oil in
				subsection (c) above, or as condensate in subsection (f) below.
(e) "Casinghead Gas" shall mean any gas or
				vapor, or both gas and vapor, indigenous to an oil pool and produced from such
				pool with oil.
(f) "Condensate"
				shall mean liquid hydrocarbons which, at the time of discovery, existed in the
				gaseous state in the reservoir.
(g)
				"Barrel of Oil" shall mean forty-two (42) United States gallons of oil,
				computed at sixty (60) degrees Fahrenheit, with deductions for the full amount
				of basic sediment, water, and other impurities, present, ascertained by
				centrifugal or other recognized and customary test.
(h) For the purpose of reporting, a "Cubic
				Foot of Gas" shall mean volume of gas expressed in cubic feet and computed at a
				base pressure of ten (10) ounces per square inch above the average barometric
				pressure of 14.4 pounds per square inch (15.025 psia), at a standard base
				temperature of sixty (60) degrees Fahrenheit.
(i) "Gas Well" shall mean any well the
				production from which is predominantly gas or condensate, or both.
(j) "Oil Well" shall mean any well capable of
				producing oil and which is not a gas well as defined herein.
(k) "Bottom Hole Pressure" shall mean the
				pressure in pounds per square inch at or near the face of the producing pool
				which is measured by means of a pressure recording instrument or any other
				scientific instrument, recognized by the oil and gas industry, with readings
				corrected to a predetermined datum plane.
(l) "Day" shall mean a period of twenty-four
				(24) consecutive hours from 7 A.M. one day to 7 A.M. the following
				day.
(m) "Month and Calendar Month"
				shall mean the period of interval of time from 7 A.M. on the first day of any
				month of the calendar to 7 A.M. on the first day of the next succeeding month
				of the calendar.
(n) "Pool" shall
				mean an underground reservoir containing a common accumulation of oil or gas or
				both. Each zone of a general structure which is completely separated from any
				other zone in the structure is included in the term "pool" as used
				herein.
(o) "Field" shall mean the
				general area which is underlain or appears to be underlain by at least one
				pool; and "field" shall include the underground reservoir or reservoirs
				containing oil or gas or both. The words "field" and "pool" mean the same thing
				when only one underground reservoir is involved; however, "field," unlike
				"pool," may relate to two (2) or more pools.
(p) "Owner" shall mean the person who has the
				right to drill into and produce from any pool, and to appropriate the
				production either for himself or for himself and another or others. "Royalty
				Owner" shall mean any person who possesses an interest in the production but
				who is not an "owner" as herein defined.
(q) "Producer" shall mean the owner of a well
				or wells capable of producing oil or gas or both.
(r) "Operator" shall mean any person who,
				duly authorized, is in charge of the development of a lease or the operation of
				a producing well.
(s) "Transporter"
				shall mean any person except a railroad company who transports oil or
				gas.
(t) "Pressure Maintenance"
				shall mean the introduction of gas or liquid for the purpose of maintaining the
				pressure of the reservoir.
(u)
				"Supervisor" shall mean the State Oil and Gas Supervisor of
				Mississippi.
(v) "Product" shall
				mean any commodity made from oil or gas and shall include refined crude oil,
				processed crude petroleum, residuum from crude petroleum, cracking stock,
				uncracked fuel oil, fuel oil, treated crude oil, residuum, casing head
				gasoline, natural gas gasoline, naphtha, distillate, gasoline, kerosene, waste
				oil, blended gasoline, lubricating oil, blends or mixtures of oil with one or
				more liquid products or by-products derived from oil or gas, and blends or
				mixtures of two (2) or more liquid products or by-products derived from oil,
				condensate, gas or petroleum hydrocarbons, whether hereinabove enumerated or
				not.
(w) "Illegal Oil and Illegal
				Gas" shall mean oil or gas which has been produced within the State of
				Mississippi from any well during any time that the well has produced in excess
				of the amount allowed by law or any rule, regulation or order of the Board.
				"Illegal Product" shall mean any product derived, in whole or part, from
				illegal oil or illegal gas.
(x)
				"Waste" shall mean and include the following:
(1) The inefficient, excessive, or improper
				use of dissipation of reservoir energy; and the locating, spacing, drilling,
				equipping, operating or producing of any oil or gas well or wells in a manner
				which results or tends to result in reducing the quantity of oil or gas
				ultimately to be recovered from any pool in this state.
(2) The inefficient storing of oil; and the
				locating, spacing, drilling, equipping, operating or producing of any oil or
				gas well or wells in a manner causing or tending to cause unnecessary or
				excessive surface loss or destruction of oil or gas.
(3) Abuse of the correlative rights and
				opportunities of each owner of oil or gas in a pool due to non-uniform,
				disproportionate, or unratable withdrawals causing undue drainage between
				tracts of land or resulting in one or more owners in such pool producing more
				than his just and equitable share of the production from such pool.
(4) Producing oil or gas in such manner as to
				cause unnecessary channeling of water or gas or both or coning of
				water.
(5) The operation of any oil
				well or wells with an inefficient gas-oil ratio.
(6) The drowning with water of any stratum or
				part thereof capable of producing oil or gas.
(7) The creation of unnecessary fire
				hazards.
(8) The escape into the
				open air, from a well producing both oil and gas, for gas in excess of the
				amount which is necessary in the efficient drilling or operation of the
				well.
(9) Permitting gas produced
				from a gas well to escape into open air.
(10) The use of gas from gas wells, except
				sour gas, for the manufacture of carbon black, except and unless the Board
				shall find that there are no adequate pipeline connections to otherwise market
				the gas.