Oklahoma § 52-239 - Common source of supply - Apportionment and regulation to

§ 52-239. Common source of supply - Apportionment and regulation to

prevent waste.

Any person, firm or corporation, having the right to drill into

and produce gas from any common source of supply, may take therefrom

only such proportion of the natural gas that may be marketed without

waste, as the natural flow of the well or wells owned or controlled

by the person, firm or corporation bears to the total natural flow

of such common source of supply having due regard to the acreage

drained by each well, so as to prevent the person, firm or

corporation securing any unfair proportion of the gas from the

common source of supply. Except as otherwise provided in this

section, the Corporation Commission is authorized and directed to

prescribe rules for the determination of the natural flow of any

well or wells, and to promulgate field rules to regulate the taking

of natural gas from any or all common sources of supply within the

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 52. Oil and Gas

state, so as to prevent waste as the same is defined in Section 86.3

of this title, protect the interests of the public, and the

correlative rights of all those having a right to produce from the

common source of supply, and to prevent unreasonable discrimination

in favor of any one common source of supply as against another.

Except for the common source of supply referred to as the GuymonHugoton, the Commission shall have no authority to prescribe or

enforce rules under this section for the taking of natural gas from

any other common source of supply when the average pressure of such

other common source of supply declines to below one hundred (100)

pounds per square inch gauge or the average production per well in

the common source of supply declines below two hundred thousand

(200,000) standard cubic feet per day for each day of the last

calendar year.

Added by Laws 1915, c. 197, § 4, emerg. eff. March 30, 1915.

Amended by Laws 1992, c. 14, § 4, eff. April 1, 1992; Laws 1995, c.

345, § 1, emerg. eff. June 9, 1995.