Oklahoma § 52-87.5 - Applications for approval of increased density wells –

§ 52-87.5. Applications for approval of increased density wells –

Notice and hearing.

A. When any application is filed with the Corporation

Commission for approval of an increased density well in any drilling

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and spacing unit, notice of the hearing to be held upon such

application shall be given by the applicant to:

1. Those persons, including government entities, entitled to

oil or gas or the proceeds of oil or gas produced from the common

source of supply in the drilling and spacing unit for which the

application for an increased density well has been filed; and

2. The operator, as shown by the records of the Commission, of

each well which is commencing or currently producing from the same

common source of supply in the drilling and spacing unit or any

separate tract of land immediately surrounding the drilling and

spacing unit for such an increased density well.

B. If the applicant is seeking approval of an increased density

well to be completed in a common source of supply for which the

Commission has established field rules, and for which no application

for an increased density well in such common source of supply has

been approved by the Commission subsequent to January 1, 1998, and

prior to the effective date of this act, notice shall also be given

to the operator, as shown by the records of the Commission, of each

well commencing or currently producing from that same common source

of supply governed by the field rules.

C. If the applicant is the operator of a well commencing or

currently producing from the same common source of supply applicable

to the increased density well in a drilling and spacing unit or a

separate tract of land immediately surrounding the drilling and

spacing unit for such increased density well, notice shall also be

given to each owner, as shown by the records of the operator, with a

working interest in such well in such common source of supply.

D. The notices required by subsections A, B and C of this

section shall be given by mailing by regular mail no less than

fifteen (15) days prior to the date of the hearing.

E. No person except for those persons provided for in this

section shall be entitled to notice of the hearing on an application

for approval of an increased density well in any drilling and

spacing unit.

F. The Commission shall require that notice of the hearing be

published one time at least fifteen (15) days prior to the hearing

in a newspaper of general circulation published in each county in

which the lands embraced in the application are located. If the

increased density well is to be completed in a common source of

supply for which the Commission has established field rules and for

which no application for an increased density well in such common

source of supply has been approved by the Commission subsequent to

January 1, 1998, and prior to the effective date of this act, notice

of the hearing shall also be published one time at least fifteen

(15) days prior to the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation

published in each county in which the lands subject to the field

rules are located.

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Added by Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 3, § 1, emerg. eff. June 21,

1999.