{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-52-52-287.9","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-287.9","heading":"Modification of property rights, leases and contracts -","body":"Title to property - Distribution of proceeds - Delivery in kind -\n\nEffect of operations - Matters not affected.\n\nProperty rights, leases, contracts, and all other rights and\n\nobligations shall be regarded as amended and modified to the extent\n\nnecessary to conform to the provisions and requirements of this act\n\nand to any valid and applicable plan of unitization or order of the\n\nCommission made and adopted pursuant hereto, but otherwise to remain\n\nin full force and effect.\n\nNothing contained in this act shall be construed to require a\n\ntransfer to or vesting in the unit of title to the separately-owned\n\ntracts or leases thereon within the unit area, other than the right\n\nto use and operate the same to the extent set out in the plan of\n\nunitization; nor shall the unit be regarded as owning the unit\n\nproduction. The unit production and the proceeds from the sale\n\nthereof shall be owned by the several persons to whom the same is\n\nallocated under the plan of unitization. All property, whether real\n\nor personal, which the unit may in any way acquire, hold or possess\n\nshall not be acquired, held or possessed by the unit for its own\n\naccount but shall be so acquired, held and possessed by the unit for\n\nthe account and as agent of the several lessees and shall be the\n\nproperty of such lessees as their interests may appear under the\n\nplan of unitization, subject, however, to the right of the unit to\n\nthe possession, management, use or disposal of the same in the\n\nproper conduct of its affairs, and subject to any lien the unit may\n\nhave thereon to secure the payment of unit expense.\n\nThe amount of the unit production allocated to each separately-\n\nowned tract within the unit, and only that amount, regardless of the\n\nwell or wells in the unit area from which it may be produced, and\n\nregardless of whether it be more or less than the amount of the\n\nproduction from the well or wells, if any, on any such separately-\n\nowned tract, shall for all intents, uses and purposes be regarded\n\nand considered as production from such separately-owned tract, and,\n\nexcept as may be otherwise authorized in this act, or in the plan of\n\nunitization approved by the Commission, shall be distributed among\n\nor the proceeds thereof paid to the several persons entitled to\n\nshare in the production from such separately-owned tract in the same\n\nmanner, in the same proportions, and upon the same conditions that\n\nthey would have participated and shared in the production or\n\nproceeds thereof from such separately-owned tract had not said unit\n\nbeen organized, and with the same legal force and effect. If\n\nadequate provisions are made for the receipt thereof, the share of\n\nthe unit production allocated to each separately-owned tract shall\n\nbe delivered in kind to the persons entitled thereto by virtue of\n\nownership of oil and gas rights therein or by purchase from such\n\nowners subject to the rights of the unit to withhold and sell the\n\nsame in payment of unit expense pursuant to the plan of unitization,\n\nand subject further to the call of the unit on such portions of the\n\ngas for operating purposes as may be provided in the plan of\n\nunitization.\n\nOperations carried on under and in accordance with the plan of\n\nunitization shall be regarded and considered as a fulfillment of and\n\ncompliance with all of the provisions, covenants, and conditions,\n\nexpress or implied, of the several oil and gas mining leases upon\n\nlands included within the unit area, or other contracts pertaining\n\nto the development thereof, insofar as said leases or other\n\ncontracts may relate to the common source of supply or portion\n\nthereof included in the unit area. Wells drilled or operated on any\n\npart of the unit area no matter where located shall for all purposes\n\nbe regarded as wells drilled on each separately-owned tract within\n\nsuch unit area.\nwithin the unit area, or other contracts pertaining\n\nto the development thereof, insofar as said leases or other\n\ncontracts may relate to the common source of supply or portion\n\nthereof included in the unit area. Wells drilled or operated on any\n\npart of the unit area no matter where located shall for all purposes\n\nbe regarded as wells drilled on each separately-owned tract within\n\nsuch unit area.\n\nNothing herein or in any plan of unitization shall be construed\n\nas increasing or decreasing the implied covenants of a lease in\n\nrespect to a common source of supply or lands not included within\n\nthe unit area of a unit.","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":"dc06d57bbcf739db33393b44ed1c2865c21b22abceeeb79b43cac0593d9d28f2","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-52-52-287.8","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-52-52-288.1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}