Oklahoma § 52-87.2 - Protest of applications relating to spacing units Proper parties - Intervention - Report by Corporation Commission

§ 52-87.2. Protest of applications relating to spacing units Proper parties - Intervention - Report by Corporation Commission

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 application or the owners of correlative

rights within the common source of supply or supplies embraced

within an application to the extent such owners are directly

affected by such application, shall be proper parties to:

1. protest any application to establish, reestablish, or reform

a spacing unit,

2. protest any application requesting authority for an

additional well or wells within an established spacing unit brought

pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (a) or (d) of Section 87.1

of Title 52 of the Oklahoma Statutes, or

3. present testimony or evidence at any hearing arising

thereunder or relating thereto.

B. No other person shall be entitled to notice of such

proceeding or shall be entitled to appear as a party of record

therein, except that the Corporation Commission may permit persons

other than those specified in subsection A of this section leave to

intervene in a proceeding upon a finding, based upon clear and

convincing evidence, that such person has a substantial right

intended to be protected by Section 87.1 of Title 52 of the Oklahoma

Statutes which may adversely be affected by the outcome of such

proceeding. Any finding required by this section shall be made by

the Corporation Commission, sitting en banc, within ten (10) days of

the filing of a motion to intervene by such person and such

proceeding shall be stayed during such ten-day period.

C. At the end of each calendar quarter the Corporation

Commission shall file a written report with the Office of the

Governor, the Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, and

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the President Pro Tempore of the Oklahoma State Senate describing

all such findings made by the Corporation Commission pursuant to

this section during such period.

Added by Laws 1988, c. 95, § 1, emerg. eff. April 1, 1988.