Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-287.1: Legislative finding

The Legislature finds and determines that it is desirable and

necessary, under the circumstances and for the purposes hereinafter

set out, to authorize and provide for unitized management, operation

and further development of the oil and gas properties to which this

act is applicable, to the end that a greater ultimate recovery of

oil and gas may be had therefrom, waste prevented, and the

correlative rights of the owners in a fuller and more beneficial

enjoyment of the oil and gas rights, protected.