Title 52, Oil and Gas

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…

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.

A. As used in the Oil and Gas Produced Water and Waste Recycling and Reuse Act: 1. “Commission” means the Oklahoma Corporation Commission; 2. “Constituent elements” means salts, metals, elements and other mineralized substances that are naturally occurring and dissolved, entraine…

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 …

Whenever the production from any common source of supply of oil or natural gas in this state can be obtained only under conditions constituting waste or drainage not compensated by counterdrainage, then any person having the right to drill into and produce from such common source…

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 …

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 Ok…

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…

A. When any application is filed with the Corporation Commission for approval of an increased density well in any drilling and spacing unit, notice of the hearing to be held upon such application shall be given by the applicant to: 1. Those persons, including government entities,…

A. Sections 87.6 through 87.9 of this title shall be known and may be cited as the "Extended Horizontal Well Development Act". B. As used in the Extended Horizontal Well Development Act: 1. "Adjacent common source of supply" means a common source of supply which is immediately ad…

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…

A. Under the conditions contained in this section, the Corporation Commission is authorized to allow multiunit horizontal wells in any targeted reservoir or in more than one targeted reservoir, or in a targeted reservoir and an adjacent common source of supply, upon an appropriat…

A. Horizontal Well Unitization for Targeted Reservoirs. Under limited circumstances and conditions contained in this section, the Corporation Commission is authorized to unitize a targeted reservoir for the drilling of horizontal wells to the end that a greater ultimate recovery …

All domestic gas pipeline corporations in this state are hereby authorized to build and operate, and for that purpose to acquire, whether by purchase or the exercise of eminent domain, sites for the erection of pumping stations in this state wherever the same may be necessary, du…

Sections 1 through 3 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "Energy Litigation Reform Act". Added by Laws 2012, c. 201, § 1, emerg. eff. May 8, 2012.

The sanctity of private agreements, and the consistent and predictable application and interpretation of statutes, governmental orders and common law, being essential to the oil and gas industry, the following are declared to be paramount rules of construction to be applied by th…

Except for the right to enforce lien rights under private agreement or under Sections 548 through 549.12 of Title 52 of the Oklahoma Statutes and except where specific remedies are provided by private agreement, and as long as paragraph 1 of subsection D of Section 570.10 of Titl…

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…

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…

Every operator in any prorated common source of supply shall, when required by any rule, order, or regulation of the Commission, keep books showing accurately (a) the amount of oil produced daily from each lease or property operated by him or it and, if the Commission shall order…

The Commission may require any and all operators in any prorated common source of supply to file with it maps or drawings which shall show the location of all pipelines, connections, pumps and tanks, the size and capacities thereof used for producing or transporting oil from each…

The Commission shall by order require every operator in each prorated common source of supply to file periodically with it when and as often as required, and upon forms approved by it, reports which shall show (a) the quantity of oil produced, and the quantity of oil removed by e…

When by an order, rule or regulation of the Commission made in pursuance of this act, any report, statement, map or drawing duly verified, is required to be filed with the Commission or any other officer, by any firm, trust, association or corporation, such report, statement, map…

The Commission upon its own motion, or upon the petition of the Attorney General, or of the Conservation Attorney, or of the Director of Conservation, on behalf of the state, or of any operator, producer, or taker of oil from any common source of supply, to be affected by any suc…

In all matters pertaining to the making, issuing and enforcement of its orders, rules and regulations made under the provisions of this act, the Commission shall have and exercise all of the following powers and authority; to wit (1) Of visitation and of a court of record; (2) To…

When under any provision of this act or of any order, rule or regulation made in pursuance of this act, any petition, motion, return, pleading, report, statement, map or drawing is required to be filed with the Commission, the same shall be deemed to be filed when filed with the …