Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-86.3: Waste of gas - Meaning - Prevention - Prohibition -

Protection of fresh water and oil or gas bearing strata.

The term "waste", as applied to gas, in addition to its ordinary

meaning, shall include the inefficient or wasteful utilization of

gas in the operation of oil wells drilled to and producing from a

common source of supply; the inefficient or wasteful utilization of

gas from gas wells drilled to and producing from a common source of

supply; the production of gas in such quantities or in such manner

as unreasonably to reduce reservoir pressure or unreasonably to

diminish the quantity of oil or gas that might be recovered from a

common source of supply; the escape, directly or indirectly, of gas

from oil wells producing from a common source of supply into the

open air in excess of the amount necessary in the efficient

drilling, completion or operation thereof; waste incident to the

production of natural gas in excess of transportation and marketing

facilities or reasonable market demand; the escape, blowing or

releasing, directly or indirectly, into the open air, of gas from

wells productive of gas only, drilled into any common source of

supply, save only such as is necessary in the efficient drilling and

completion thereof; and the unnecessary depletion or inefficient

utilization of gas energy contained in a common source of supply.

In order to prevent the waste or to reduce the dissipation of gas

energy contained in a common source of supply, in addition to its

other powers in respect thereof, the Commission shall have the

authority to limit the production of gas from wells producing gas

only to a percentage of the capacity of such wells to produce. The

production of gas in the State of Oklahoma in such manner and under

such conditions as to constitute waste as in this act defined is

hereby prohibited, and the Commission shall have authority and is

charged with the duty to make rules, regulations, and orders for the

prevention of such waste and for the protection of all freshwater

strata and oil- or gas-bearing strata encountered in any well

drilled for gas.