§ 87.6. Short title--Extended Horizontal Well Development Act--Definitions
Oklahoma Statutes AnnotatedTitle 52. Oil and Gas
52 Okl.St.Ann. § 87.6
§ 87.6. Short title--Extended Horizontal Well Development Act--Definitions
1. “Adjacent common source of supply” means a common source of supply which is immediately adjacent to and adjoining the targeted reservoir or targeted reservoirs in a multiunit horizontal well being drilled pursuant to Section 87.8 of this title or a well being drilled in a horizontal well unitization pursuant to Section 87.9 of this title and which is inadvertently encountered in the drilling of the lateral of a multiunit horizontal well or a well pursuant to a horizontal well unitization when such well is drilled out of or exits, whether on one or multiple occasions, the targeted reservoir or targeted reservoirs, and which is not the primary target of the subject well and shall not be included in the relinquished rights pursuant to subsection (h) of Section 87.1 of this title. In the event that an adjacent common source of supply may be inadvertently encountered in the drilling of the lateral of a multiunit horizontal well or a well pursuant to a horizontal well unitization when such well is drilled out of or exits, whether on one or multiple occasions, the targeted reservoir or targeted reservoirs, then said inadvertently entered adjacent common source of supply shall be included as part of the targeted reservoir only for the purpose of the inadvertent penetrations, and any subsequent completion, commingling and production of said adjacent common source of supply with the targeted reservoir or targeted reservoirs, but not for future development of said adjacent common source of supply;
6. “Horizontal well” means a well drilled, completed, or recompleted with one or more laterals which, for at least one lateral, the horizontal component of the completion interval exceeds the vertical component of the completion interval and the horizontal component extends a minimum of one hundred fifty (150) feet in the formation;
10. “Multiunit horizontal well” means a horizontal well in a targeted reservoir or targeted reservoirs wherein the completion interval of the well is located in more than one unit formed for the same targeted reservoir, with the well being completed in and producing from such targeted reservoir in two or more of such units;
a. a map or maps indicating the location of each existing well in the proposed unit and the anticipated location of each horizontal well proposed to be drilled in the proposed unit that is anticipated to be necessary, based upon the information and knowledge then available to the applicant, for the full and efficient development and operation of the proposed unit for the recovery of oil and gas from the targeted reservoir within the proposed unit,
13. “PRSA” means the Production Revenue Standards Act;1
14. “Targeted reservoir” means one or more common sources of supply which will be encountered by the horizontal lateral portion of a horizontal well, and which has been designated by the Commission as part of an order, rule or emergency rule as potentially suited for development for the applied for multiunit horizontal well pursuant to Section 87.8 of this title or a horizontal well unitization pursuant to Section 87.9 of this title. Provided, however, that more than one common source of supply may only be granted by the Commission and included in the targeted reservoir upon a showing of reasonable cause by the applicant requesting the multiunit well in the application requesting authority for the multiunit well prior to the drilling of said multiunit well that the inclusion of the additional common source(s) of supply shall prevent waste and protect the correlative rights of all of the owners of the oil and gas rights;
Credits
Laws 2011, c. 54, § 2, emerg. eff. April 13, 2011; Laws 2012, c. 264, § 1, emerg. eff. May 16, 2012; Laws 2014, c. 400, § 1, emerg. eff. June 3, 2014; Laws 2017, c. 372, § 3.
Footnotes
Title 52, § 570.1 et seq.
52 Okl. St. Ann. § 87.6, OK ST T. 52 § 87.6
Current with emergency effective legislation through Chapter 3 of the Second Regular Session of the 59th Legislature (2024). Some sections may be more current, see credits for details.
End of Document |