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; and 10. “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.
Notes of Decisions
Pitco Prod. Co. v. Chaparral Energy, Inc., 2003 OK 5 (Okla. 2003).
· cites it 2× “” The text states: " ’ ⅜ *(h) The term "operator” shall mean any producer of oil or gas who has drilled a well or wells into a common source of supply and is engaged in operating such well or wells for the purpose of producing oil or gas therefrom; * ⅞ * • (Textual alteration…”
O'NEILL v. Am. Quasar Petroleum Co., 617 P.2d 181 (Okla. 1980).
· cites it 4× “The definition of the term “Owner” is set forth in 52 O.S.1971, § 86.1(d) as follows: “The term ‘Owner’ shall mean 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 himself or for himself and…”
Fleet v. Sanguine, Ltd., 854 P.2d 892 (Okla. 1993).
“See 52 O.S.1981 §§ 86.1 et seq. The Commission’s objective is to (1) encourage development, (2) secure the greatest ultimate recovery from the pool, (3) prevent waste and (4) protect correlative rights.”
Anderson v. Dyco Petroleum Corp., 782 P.2d 1367 (Okla. 1989).
“A common source of supply is defined by statute as follows: (c) The term “Common Source of Supply” shall comprise and include that area which is underlaid or which, from geological or other scientific data, or from drilling operations, or other evidence, appears to be underlaid,…”
Vastar Resources, Inc. v. Oklahoma Corp. Comm'n, 917 P.2d 480 (Okla. Civ. App. 1996).
· cites it 2× ““Common source of supply” is defined by 52 O.S.1991 § 86.1 to comprise and include 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…”
Marlin Oil Corp. v. Corp. Comm'n, 569 P.2d 961 (Okla. 1977).
“Here the new knowledge evidences two common sources of supply as defined in 52 O.S.1971 § 86.1(c). The other orders finding the Morrow is composed of more than one common source of supply, also indicate the 1957 order contemplated the type of modification sought here by Marlin.”
Grace Petroleum Corp. v. Corp. Comm'n, 841 P.2d 1172 (Okla. Civ. App. 1992).
“1980) (citing 52 O.S.1971, § 86.1(d) and § 87.1(d). “The owner of an overriding royalty interest has no assertable right in the oil and gas leasehold prior to the time when hydrocarbons are reduced to possession.”
U.S. Energy Dev. Corp. v. Stephens Energy Grp., LLC, 662 F. App'x 556 (10th Cir. 2016).
“As evidence of industry “custom and usage,” the district court cited Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 86.1 (h), a provision of Oklahoma’s Oil and Gas Conservation Act defining the term “Operator.”
Calvert Drilling Co. v. Corp. Comm'n, 589 P.2d 1064 (Okla. 1979).
“52 O.S.1971 § 86.1(c) states: “The term ‘Common Source of Supply’ shall comprise and include 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…”
Samson Resources Co. v. Corp. Comm'n, 831 P.2d 663 (Okla. Civ. App. 1992).
“Samson contends the Rule is unconstitutional, in that it constitutes an impermissible exercise of the police power, fails to follow the legislative charge to the Commission to maximize production and protect correlative rights pursuant to 52 O.S.Supp. 1969 § 86.1 et seq., and…”
Youngblood v. Seewald, 194 F. Supp. 417 (W.D. Okla. 1961).
“” The applicable provisions of the Oklahoma Oil and Gas Conservation Act are as follows: 52 O.S.1951 § 86.1(h), provides; “The term ‘Operator’ shall mean any producer of oil or gas who has drilled a well or wells into a common source of supply and is engaged in operating such…”
— Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 86.1(c) — 4 cases
Anderson v. Dyco Petroleum Corp., 782 P.2d 1367 (Okla. 1989).
“A common source of supply is defined by statute as follows: (c) The term “Common Source of Supply” shall comprise and include that area which is underlaid or which, from geological or other scientific data, or from drilling operations, or other evidence, appears to be underlaid,…”
Marlin Oil Corp. v. Corp. Comm'n, 569 P.2d 961 (Okla. 1977).
“Here the new knowledge evidences two common sources of supply as defined in 52 O.S.1971 § 86.1(c). The other orders finding the Morrow is composed of more than one common source of supply, also indicate the 1957 order contemplated the type of modification sought here by Marlin.”
Vastar Resources, Inc. v. Oklahoma Corp. Comm'n, 917 P.2d 480 (Okla. Civ. App. 1996).
““Common source of supply” is defined by 52 O.S.1991 § 86.1 to comprise and include 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…”
Calvert Drilling Co. v. Corp. Comm'n, 589 P.2d 1064 (Okla. 1979).
“52 O.S.1971 § 86.1(c) states: “The term ‘Common Source of Supply’ shall comprise and include 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…”
— Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 86.1(d) — 2 cases
O'NEILL v. Am. Quasar Petroleum Co., 617 P.2d 181 (Okla. 1980).
“The definition of the term “Owner” is set forth in 52 O.S.1971, § 86.1(d) as follows: “The term ‘Owner’ shall mean 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 himself or for himself and…”
Grace Petroleum Corp. v. Corp. Comm'n, 841 P.2d 1172 (Okla. Civ. App. 1992).
“1980) (citing 52 O.S.1971, § 86.1(d) and § 87.1(d). “The owner of an overriding royalty interest has no assertable right in the oil and gas leasehold prior to the time when hydrocarbons are reduced to possession.”
— Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 86.1(h) — 1 case
Youngblood v. Seewald, 194 F. Supp. 417 (W.D. Okla. 1961).
“” The applicable provisions of the Oklahoma Oil and Gas Conservation Act are as follows: 52 O.S.1951 § 86.1(h), provides; “The term ‘Operator’ shall mean any producer of oil or gas who has drilled a well or wells into a common source of supply and is engaged in operating such…”
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