Oklahoma § 42-144 - Oil and gas well liens

§ 42-144. Oil and gas well liens

Any person, corporation, or copartnership who shall, under

contract, expressed or implied, with the owner of any leasehold for

oil and gas purposes, or the owner of any gas pipeline or oil

pipeline, or with the trustee or agent of such owner, perform labor

or services, including written contracts for the services of a

geologist or petroleum engineer, or furnish material, machinery, and

oil well supplies used in the digging, drilling, torpedoing,

completing, operating, or repairing of any oil or gas well, or who

shall furnish any oil or gas well supplies, or perform any labor in

constructing or putting together any of the machinery used in

drilling, torpedoing, operating, completing, or repairing of any gas

well, or perform any labor upon any oil well supplies, tools, and

other articles used in digging, drilling, torpedoing, operating,

completing, or repairing any oil or gas well, shall have a lien upon

the whole of such leasehold or oil pipeline, or gas pipeline, or

lease for oil and gas purposes, the buildings and appurtenances, the

proceeds from the sale of oil or gas produced therefrom inuring to

the working interest, exempting, however, any valid, bona fide

reservations of oil or gas payments or overriding royalty interests

executed in good faith and payable out of such working interest, and

upon the material and supplies so furnished, and upon any oil well

supplies, tools, and other articles used in digging, drilling,

torpedoing, operating, completing, or repairing any oil or gas well,

and upon the oil or gas well for which they were furnished, and upon

all the other oil or gas well fixtures and appliances used in the

operating for oil and gas purposes upon the leasehold for which said

material and supplies were furnished or labor or services performed.

Such lien shall be preferred to all other liens or encumbrances

which may attach to or upon said leasehold for gas and oil purposes

and upon any oil or gas pipeline, or such oil and gas wells and the

material and machinery so furnished and the leasehold for oil and

gas purposes and the fixtures and appliances thereon subsequent to

the commencement of or the furnishing or putting up of any such

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 42. Liens

machinery or supplies; and such lien shall follow said property and

each and every part thereof, and be enforceable against the said

property wherever the same may be found; and compliance with the

provisions of this article shall constitute constructive notice of

the lien claimant's lien to all purchasers and encumbrancers of said

property or any part thereof, subsequent to the date of the

furnishing of the first item of material or the date of the

performance of the first labor or services.

R.L. 1910, § 3865; Laws 1919, c. 258, p. 367, § 2; Laws 1927, c. 42,

p. 64, § 1; Laws 1963, c. 226, § 1.