{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-27a-27a-3-5-102","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 27A, § 27A-3-5-102","heading":"Definitions","body":"As used in the Oklahoma Carbon Capture and Geologic\n\nSequestration Act:\n\n1. “Approved reservoir” means a reservoir that is determined by\n\nthe Corporation Commission to be suitable for the receipt, storage\n\nor sequestration of injected carbon dioxide therein;\n\n2. “Capture” means capturing:\n\na. CO2 emissions at their source, including power plants,\n\nindustrial facilities, or other emissions sites before\n\nthe emissions are released into the atmosphere, and\n\nb. CO2 from the atmosphere through the process of direct\n\nair capture;\n\n3. “Carbon dioxide” or “CO2” means an inorganic compound\n\ncontaining one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms, and that exists as\n\na gas at standard temperature and pressure. Carbon dioxide is an\n\ninert, stable, colorless, odorless, nontoxic, incombustible,\n\ninorganic gas that is dissolvable in water and is naturally present,\n\nsuch as in underground locations and in the atmosphere as a trace\n\ngas;\n\n4. “Carbon sequestration” means underground storage or\n\nsequestration of carbon dioxide in one or more reservoirs;\n\n5. “Class VI CO2 injection well” means an artificial excavation\n\nor opening in the ground made by digging, boring, drilling, jetting,\n\ndriving, or another method and is used to inject or transmit carbon\n\ndioxide into one or more reservoirs for long-term storage;\n\n6. “Class VI CO2 capture and compression equipment” means the\n\nequipment, separation units, processing units, processing plants,\n\npipe, buildings, pumps, compressors, meters, facilities, motors,\n\nfixtures, materials, and machinery, and all other improvements used\n\nin the operation of any of them, and property, real or personal,\n\nintangible or tangible, either attributable to or relating to, or\n\nlocated thereon, used for the purpose of:\n\na. capturing carbon dioxide from a source that produces\n\ncarbon dioxide, and/or\n\nb. compressing or otherwise increasing the pressure of\n\ncarbon dioxide;\n\n7. “CO2 pipeline” means any pipeline, compressors, pumps,\n\nmeters, facilities, valves, fittings, right-of-way markers, cathodic\n\nprotection ground beds, anodes, rectifiers, and any other cathodic\n\nprotection devices, and other associated equipment, appurtenances\n\nand fixtures located on, attributable to or used in connection with\n\nthe same, and used for the purpose of transporting carbon dioxide\n\nfor carbon sequestration in this state or another state, excluding:\n\na. CO2 capture and compression equipment at the source of\n\nthe carbon dioxide, and\n\nb. pipelines that are part of a CO2 sequestration\n\nfacility;\n\n8. “CO2 stream” means CO2 that has been captured from an\n\nemissions source, including any incidental associated substances\n\nderived from the source materials and the capture process, and any\n\nsubstance added to the stream to enable or improve the injection\n\nprocess;\n\n9. “CO2 sequestration facility” means the approved\n\nreservoir(s), and all associated underground equipment and\n\npipelines, all associated surface buildings and equipment, and all\n\nassociated Class VI CO2 injection wells, utilized for carbon\n\nsequestration in a defined geographic boundary established by the\n\nCorporation Commission, excluding any:\n\na. CO2 capture and compression equipment at the source of\n\nthe carbon dioxide, and\n\nb. CO2 pipeline transporting carbon dioxide to the\n\nfacility from a source located outside the geographic\n\nboundaries of the surface of the facility;\n\n10. “CO2 storage unit” means a unit created pursuant to this\n\nact as part of a CO2 sequestration facility under which the pore\n\nspace of an approved reservoir is aggregated and communitized for\n\nthe purpose of injection and storage of CO2;\n\n11. “Commission” means the Corporation Commission as\n\nestablished by Section 15 of Article IX of the Oklahoma\n\nConstitution;\n\n12. “Common source of supply” shall have the same meaning as in\nunit created pursuant to this\n\nact as part of a CO2 sequestration facility under which the pore\n\nspace of an approved reservoir is aggregated and communitized for\n\nthe purpose of injection and storage of CO2;\n\n11. “Commission” means the Corporation Commission as\n\nestablished by Section 15 of Article IX of the Oklahoma\n\nConstitution;\n\n12. “Common source of supply” shall have the same meaning as in\n\nSection 86.1 of Title 52 of the Oklahoma Statutes;\n\n13. “Department” means the Department of Environmental Quality\n\nas established by Section 2-3-101 et seq. of this title;\n\n14. “Enhanced oil or gas recovery” means the increased recovery\n\nof hydrocarbons, including oil and gas, from a common source of\n\nsupply achieved by artificial means or by the application of energy\n\nextrinsic to the common source of supply, such as pressuring,\n\ncycling, pressure maintenance or injection of a substance or form of\n\nenergy, such as injection of water and/or carbon dioxide, including\n\nimmiscible and miscible floods; provided, that enhanced oil or gas\n\nrecovery shall not include injection of a substance or form of\n\nenergy for the sole purpose of either:\n\na. aiding in the lifting of fluids in the well, or\n\nb. stimulation of the reservoir at or near the well by\n\nmechanical, chemical, thermal or explosive means;\n\n15. “Facility operator” means any person authorized by the\n\nCorporation Commission to operate a CO2 sequestration facility,\n\nincluding any person designated by the Commission to operate a CO2\n\nstorage unit as part of a CO2 sequestration facility authorized\n\nunder this act;\n\n16. “Facility owner” means the person who owns the CO2\n\nsequestration facility, and any cost-bearing owners in a CO2 storage\n\nunit as part of a CO2 sequestration facility authorized under this\n\nact;\n\n17. “Gas” shall have the same meaning as in Section 86.1 of\n\nTitle 52 of the Oklahoma Statutes;\n\n18. “Governmental entity” means any department, commission,\n\nauthority, council, board, bureau, committee, legislative body,\n\nagency, beneficial public trust, or other establishment of the\n\nexecutive, legislative or judicial branch of the United States, the\n\nState of Oklahoma, any other state in the United States, the\n\nDistrict of Columbia, the territories of the United States, and any\n\nsimilar entity of any foreign country;\n\n19. “Oil” shall have the same meaning as in Section 86.1 of\n\nTitle 52 of the Oklahoma Statutes;\n\n20. “Person” means any individual, proprietorship, association,\n\nfirm, corporation, company, partnership, limited partnership,\n\nlimited liability company, joint venture, joint stock company,\n\nsyndicate, trust, organization, committee, club, governmental\n\nentity, or other type of legal entity, or any group or combination\n\nthereof either acting in concert or as a unit;\n\n21. “Pore space” shall have the same meaning as in Section 6 of\n\nTitle 60 of the Oklahoma Statutes;\n\n22. “Private operator” means any person that is either a\n\nfacility operator or an operator of a CO2 pipeline, but that is\n\nneither a public utility nor a common carrier as such terms are\n\ndefined by the Oklahoma Statutes; and\n\n23. “Reservoir” means any portion of a separate and distinct\n\ngeologic or subsurface sedimentary stratum, formation, aquifer,\n\ncavity or void, whether naturally occurring or artificially created,\n\nincluding an oil or gas formation, saline formation, or coal seam.","path":["OK Code","Title 27A"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os27A.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"4c4e383185bd060c9f972c90ca06363150ff91c606a541e297569d040d9b8082","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-27a-27a-3-5-101","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-27a-27a-3-5-103"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. 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