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Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 287.1 (2026)

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The Legislature finds and determines that it is desirable and necessary, under the circumstances and for the purposes hereinafter set out, to authorize and provide for unitized management, operation and further development of the oil and gas properties to which this act is applicable, to the end that a greater ultimate recovery of oil and gas may be had therefrom, waste prevented, and the correlative rights of the owners in a fuller and more beneficial enjoyment of the oil and gas rights, protected. Added by Laws 1951, p. 136, § 1, emerg. eff. May 26, 1951.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 19 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1954–2026 · leading case: Harry R. Carlile Trust v. Cotton Petroleum Corp., 732 P.2d 438 (Okla. 1986).
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Harry R. Carlile Trust v. Cotton Petroleum Corp., 732 P.2d 438 (Okla. 1986). “1 and 52 O.S.1981 §§ 287.1 et seq. A spacing order creates the unit, pools royalty interests within the unit, directs that only one well be drilled in the unit within a specific location and prohibits the drilling of a well at another location or operating a well drilled in…”
Fleet v. Sanguine, Ltd., 854 P.2d 892 (Okla. 1993). “1 and 52 O.S.1981 §§ 287.1 et seq. A spacing order (1) creates the unit, (2) pools royalty interests within the unit, (3) directs that only one well shall be drilled in the unit within a specific location and (4) prohibits the drilling of a well at another location or the…”
Union Texas Petroleum Corp. v. Jackson, 909 P.2d 131 (Okla. Civ. App. 1995). “In 1970 the involved lands were unitized under 52 O.S.1991, § 287.1 et seq. to conduct secondary recovery operations.”
NBI Servs., Inc. v. Ward, 2006 OK CIV APP 20 (Okla. Civ. App. 2005). “The Unit was created by a Plan of Unitization (Unit Plan), pursuant to 52 O.S.1971, §§ 287.1 through 287.15, unitizing management, operation, and further development of the Gil-crease Formation underlying Sections 25 and 26 in Seminole County.”
Kerr v. Hillenberg, 373 P.2d 66 (Okla. 1962). “Under the evidence in this case, we cannot say that any proposed unit to be created by the Corporation Commission including the lands here concerned, under the provisions of 52 O.S.1961 § 287.1 et seq., would be so limited in size that the written consent of Mrs.”
Tenneco Oil Co. v. Allen, 515 P.2d 1391 (Okla. 1973). “LAVENDER, Justice: This appeal, by the Sac and Fox Prue Sand Unit (a body politic and corporate organized, and created, under the 1951 statutes now appearing as 52 O.S.1971, §§ 287.1 through 287.15) and Tenneco Oil Company, involves a jury verdict, and judgment based thereon,…”
Branch v. Mobil Oil Corp., 788 F. Supp. 531 (W.D. Okla. 1991). “See Okla.Stat. tit. 52, § 287.1 et seq.; Plan of Unitization (Exhibit “27” to Plaintiffs’ Brief).”
Holt v. Sw. Antioch Sand Unit, Fifth Enlarged, 292 P.2d 998 (Okla. 1955). “The defendant, an entity existing under the provisions of 52 O.S.1951 § 287.1 et seq., stood in the position of an operating lessee of said minerals.”
Chenoweth v. Pan Am. Petroleum Corp., 382 P.2d 743 (Okla. 1963). “The proceeding was pursuant to 52 O.S.1961 § 287.1 et seq. A prior order of the Commission had divided the area into well spacing and drilling units of 40 acres each.”
Colpitt v. Skelly Oil Co., 499 P.2d 415 (Okla. 1972). “The Sporn Unit was organized, and was created by order of the Corporation Commission of the State of Oklahoma, in September of 1958, pursuant to the statutes now appearing as 52 O.S.1961, §§ 287.1 through 287.15, for the unitized management, operation and further development, by…”
Woody v. State Corp. Comm'n, 265 P.2d 1102 (Okla. 1954). “■ The law as applied to unitized management of common sources of supply is governed by Senate Bill 203 of the 1951 Legislature, Title 52 O.S.1951 §§ 287.1 to 287.-15 to the applicable provisions of which we shall advert, infra.”
Texola Drilling Co. v. Oklahoma Corp. Com'n, 281 P.2d 405 (Okla. 1955). “52 O.S.1951 § 287.1, et seq., for an order creating unitized management, operation and further development of an area of said field overlying the Prue Sand in order to conduct water flooding operations therein.”
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