Oklahoma Statutes
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 231 (2026)
Ownership of gas
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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.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1955–1963 · leading case: Panhandle E. Pipe Line Co. v. Corp. Comm'n, 285 P.2d 847 (Okla. 1955).
Panhandle E. Pipe Line Co. v. Corp. Comm'n, 285 P.2d 847 (Okla. 1955). “52 O.S.1951 § 231, supra, gas may be exclusive-' ly owned in place' of “in its original state” *853 so that forcing an owner of a leasehold estate to divide gas in or under it with his neighbor is depriving him of property which is exclusively his own.”
Sinclair Oil & Gas Co. v. Corp. Comm'n, 378 P.2d 847 (Okla. 1963). “Nor does the Choctaw Gas Company case stand for the proposition that a valid allowable formula must include a factor representing gas in place, whose ownership is declared, by Tit.”
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