Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-86.1: Definitions

For the purposes of this act:

1. "Commission" means the Corporation Commission;

2. “Person” includes any individual, copartnership,

corporation, common law or statutory trust or association of

whatever character;

3. “Common source of supply" comprises and includes that area

which is underlaid or which, from geological or other scientific

data, or from drilling operations, or other evidence, appears to be

underlaid, by a common accumulation of oil or gas or both. If any

such area is underlaid, or appears from geological or other

scientific data, or from drilling operations, or other evidence, to

be underlaid by more than one common accumulation of oil or gas or

both, separated from each other by a strata of earth and not

connected with each other, then such area, as to each said common

accumulation of oil or gas or both, shall be deemed a separate

common source of supply;

4. “Owner” means a person who has the right to drill into and

to produce from any common source of supply and to appropriate the

production, either for that person or for that person and others;

5. “Oil” means crude petroleum oil, and any other hydrocarbons,

regardless of gravity, which are produced at the well in liquid form

by ordinary production methods;

6. “Gas” means all natural gas, including casinghead gas, and

all other hydrocarbons not defined as oil in paragraph 5 of this

section;

7. “Producer” means any person who, along or in association

with another person or persons, shall have the right to drill into

and produce from, or who has any interest in production from, any

common source of supply in this state;

8. “Operator” means any producer of oil or gas who has drilled

a well or wells into a common source of supply and is engaged in

operating the well or wells for the purpose of producing oil or gas

therefrom;

9. “Taker” includes any person, who, acting alone, or jointly

with any person or persons, is directly or indirectly purchasing or

transporting by any means whatsoever or otherwise removing oil or

gas from any common source of supply in this state; and

10. “Hearing” means any proceeding before an Administrative Law

Judge, Appellate Referee or the Corporation Commission en banc,

after notice and opportunity to be heard, by which the Commission

may exercise its authority under Chapter 3 of this title and as set

forth in the Rules of Practice of the Commission. Any evidence as

defined, authorized, and permitted by the Oklahoma Constitution, the

laws of the State of Oklahoma, and rules of the Commission in

support of an application for Commission action or relief shall be

received as evidence.