{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-52-52-105","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-105","heading":"Power to close wells - Orders regulating flow and","body":"production - Motion or petition for order - Temporary orders.\n\nThe Commission shall have the power to order closed, and by the\n\nProration Umpire, his assistant and deputies, to close any well or\n\nwells which have been overproduced or which are being overproduced\n\nin violation of this act and/or of the orders, rules and regulations\n\nof the Commission and/or to order that the production of oil from\n\nsuch well or wells shall be reduced, until such condition of\n\noverproduction of any such well or wells has been equalized so that\n\nthe operator of such well or wells shall not be permitted to take\n\ntherefrom a greater amount of oil than is permitted under the\n\nprovisions of this act and/or the orders, rules and regulations of\n\nthe Commission, made in pursuance of the provisions of this act; and\n\nmay issue and enforce other orders to regulate the flow and\n\nproduction of oil and gas in such common source of supply for the\n\npurpose of preventing or stopping violations of its orders, rules or\n\nregulations, prescribing proration of production or ratable taking\n\nof oil in any common source of supply. Said orders of enforcement\n\nmay be issued by the Commission upon its own motion, or upon written\n\npetition filed by (a) the Attorney General, or (b) the Proration\n\nAttorney, or (c) the Proration Umpire, in the name of the state; or\n\nby any person interested in the proration or ratable taking of oil\n\nfrom any common source of supply where any such violation of the\n\norders, rules or regulations of the Commission is alleged to have\n\noccurred. Said motion or petition for such orders of enforcement\n\nshall be filed with the Secretary of the Commission and shall state\n\nthe name of the violator or violators and the provision of the\n\nstatute, or the order, rule or regulation which it is charged are\n\nbeing violated, and briefly in general language the act or acts,\n\nomission or omissions, done or being done by the alleged violator or\n\nviolators which constitute the violation of statute or of the order,\n\nrule or regulation of the Commission complained of. Any such\n\npetition, other than motions by the Commission for such enforcement\n\norders, shall be verified by the officer or person filing the same,\n\nbut such verification may be made upon affiant's best information\n\nand belief. Whenever any such motion or petition for an order of\n\nenforcement shall charge that the violation or violations by the\n\ndefendant therein of the provisions of this act or of orders, rules\n\nand regulations of the Commission complained of, is that defendant\n\nhas produced or is producing oil from any well or wells in any\n\ncommon source of supply at a rate in excess of that allowed by the\n\norders, rules and regulations of the Commission applicable thereto,\n\nthe Commission, in its discretion, may, at the time of the filing of\n\nany such motion or petition, or at any time thereafter prior to its\n\nfinal hearing thereon and issuance of final or permanent order in\n\nsuch proceeding, make or issue a temporary order or orders, ordering\n\nand directing the defendant or defendants in any such proceeding to\n\nshut down and discontinue immediately, or to curtail the production\n\nof oil from any well or wells alleged to be involved in the\n\nviolations complained of so as to comply with the orders, rules and\n\nregulations of the Commission; and said temporary order may further\n\nprovide and require that if the defendant or defendants shall fail\n\nto shut down or curtail the production from any such well or wells\n\nso ordered in the manner required by such order of the Commission\n\nwithin twenty-four (24) hours from the time of service of said\n\norder, the Proration Umpire, his assistant or deputies shall\n\nthereupon go upon the premises upon which said well or wells are\n\nlocated, and shut down the production of oil from said well or wells\n\nuntil the hearing provided in said temporary order of the Commission\ns\n\nso ordered in the manner required by such order of the Commission\n\nwithin twenty-four (24) hours from the time of service of said\n\norder, the Proration Umpire, his assistant or deputies shall\n\nthereupon go upon the premises upon which said well or wells are\n\nlocated, and shut down the production of oil from said well or wells\n\nuntil the hearing provided in said temporary order of the Commission\n\nshall have been held, and/or until the Commission shall otherwise\n\norder. The defendant or defendants against whom any such temporary\n\norder has been issued shall have the right to appear before the\n\nCommission at any time prior to the date for hearing in said\n\nproceeding and move that such temporary order be dissolved or\n\nmodified, and show cause to the Commission why same should be done.\n\nThe Commission upon hearing any such motion, which shall be promptly\n\nheard, and may be had with or without notice thereof to the\n\npetitioner, may in its discretion dissolve or modify such temporary\n\norder or continue the same until final hearing in said cause shall\n\nhave been held. Provided, however, that if upon final hearing\n\nbefore the Commission in such proceeding, or upon appeal to the\n\nSupreme Court, if an appeal from the decision of the Commission in\n\nsuch proceeding shall be taken, it shall be determined that any such\n\ntemporary order was wrongfully issued by the Commission, the\n\ndefendant or defendants shall be permitted to produce their well or\n\nwells, shut down, or the production from which was reduced by such\n\ntemporary order of the Commission, so as to recover or make up the\n\noil such defendant or defendants could have lawfully produced from\n\nsuch well or wells during the period such well or wells were shut\n\ndown or the production thereof was reduced, if such temporary order\n\nof the Commission requiring such well or wells to be shut down, or\n\nthe production therefrom to be reduced, had not been made by the\n\nCommission.","path":["OK Code","Title 52"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os52.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"ac793df6eb43b5b3a908fa530cafab1f987b5341630831edd4bcc775bb533427","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-52-52-104","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-52-52-106"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}