{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-17-17-509","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 17, § 17-509","heading":"Amendment and modification of property rights and","body":"obligations - Distribution of production.\n\nProperty rights, leases, contracts and all other obligations\n\nshall be regarded as amended and modified to the extent necessary to\n\nconform to the provisions and requirements of this act and to any\n\nvalid and applicable plan of unitization of the Commission made and\n\nadopted pursuant hereto, but not otherwise.\n\nNothing contained in this act shall be construed to require a\n\ntransfer to, or to cause a vesting in, the unit of title to the\n\nseparately owned tracts or leases within the unit area other than\n\nthe right to use and operate the same to the extent set out in the\n\nplan of unitization. All property, whether real or personal, which\n\nthe unit may in any way acquire or possess shall be held or\n\npossessed by the operator for the account and as agent of the\n\nseveral owners of the right to drill for and produce brine and shall\n\nbe the property of such owners, subject, however, to the right of\n\nthe operator to the possession, management, use or disposal of the\n\nsame in the proper conduct of its affairs, and subject to any lien\n\nthe operator may have thereon to secure the payment of unit\n\nexpenses.\n\nThe production allocated to each separately owned tract within\n\nthe unit, and only that amount, regardless of the well or wells in\n\nthe unit area from which it may be produced and regardless of\n\nwhether it be more or less than the amount of production from the\n\nwell or wells, if any, on any such separately owned tract, shall for\n\nall intents, uses and purposes be regarded and considered as\n\nproduction from such separately owned tract.\n\nExcept as may be otherwise authorized in this act, or in the\n\nplan of unitization approved by the Commission, such production\n\nshall be distributed among or the proceeds thereof paid to the\n\nseveral persons entitled to share in production from such separately\n\nowned tract in the same manner that they would have participated in\n\nthe production or proceeds thereof from such separately owned tract\n\nhad not said unit been organized.\n\nOperations carried on under the plan of unitization shall be\n\nregarded as a fulfillment of and compliance with all of the\n\nprovisions of the brine or solution gas leases or other contracts\n\nupon lands included within the unit area insofar as said leases or\n\ncontracts may relate to the common source of supply or portion\n\nthereof included within the unit. Wells drilled on or operated on\n\nany part of the unit area, no matter where located, shall be\n\nregarded as wells drilled on each separately owned tract within the\n\nunit area.","path":["OK Code","Title 17"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os17.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"6037f1ea23a153edc39c864dd757a591bf5b44e29bb40426dd348dbe1644f409","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-17-17-508","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-17-17-51"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}