Basic Information for The Oklahoma Royalty Owner

Prepared by:

Oil and Gas Public Assistance Department

Oil and Gas Conservation Division

Oklahoma Corporation Commission

405.521.2613

Basic Information for

The Oklahoma Royalty Owner

Last Revision – November 2020

Basic Information for the Oklahoma Royalty Owner

This information was prepared by the Oil & Gas Public Assistance

Department in the Oil & Gas Conservation Division of the Oklahoma Corporation

Commission. The information is general in nature and does not specifically relate

to any particular case or hearing conducted at the Commission. Any subsequent

rule change or legislative change after the effective date of this booklet, June 2019,

could alter the information included. We suggest that you consult your own

attorney for specific answers if you have a particular legal question or any pending

litigation rather than relying on the general information included in this booklet.

Table of Contents

Basic Information

Frequently Asked Questions about Horizontal

Drilling

Helpful Telephone Numbers

OCC County Codes

County Contacts

Section Plat with Footages

United States Land Survey

System

OCC Database Instructions and Case Processing

Instructions

Basic Information

Hearings at the Corporation Commission:

The State Office of the Corporation Commission is located in

Oklahoma City and is the Western Regional Service Office for the

Commission. The Commission Eastern Regional Service Office is located in

Tulsa.

Court Rooms at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission are located on the

first and third floors of the Jim Thorpe Building, southwest of the Capitol at 2101

North Lincoln Boulevard in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The Court Rooms at the

Corporation Commission in Tulsa are located on the first floor of the Kerr State

Office Building, 440 South Houston.

Hearings at the Corporation Commission are posted on the first floor of the

Jim Thorpe Building on a bulletin board and on the OCC website at

www.occeweb.com. The weekly docket is posted on Wednesday for the following

Monday through Friday. The daily docket is posted the day before the hearing.

Usually there are over 100 hearings posted with courtroom assignments, so it is

important that you know which one involves your land. The cases are posted

according to the case number, applicant and county; therefore, it is important that

you bring that notice with you in order to find your case and courtroom.

Courtroom Locations:

Six courtrooms are located on the first floor of the Jim Thorpe Building and

Courtroom 301, where Commission en banc hearings are conducted, is located on

the third floor. There are two court rooms located on the first floor of the Kerr State

Office Building in Tulsa. It is important that you arrive at the Commission well

before 8:30 a.m. to find the courtroom to which your case has been assigned.

Calling the Docket:

An Administrative Law Judge (ALJ), at 8:30 a.m., will call the cases for that

day in the assigned courtroom. The ALJ will call the case number, the applicant,

the type of case and the county. Each ALJ will have many cases assigned to hear

that day. When your case is called, announce your presence in the courtroom and

let the ALJ know if you have an attorney or are representing yourself and if you are

opposed to the application or not. Due to the large number of uncontested cases,

protested cases usually must be scheduled on days that are specifically set aside

to hear protested cases. Parties involved in a protested case must complete a

pre-hearing conference agreement setting forth issues and establishing the trial

date. If the parties cannot agree upon a date, the ALJ will select a date.

Notice for Emergency Hearings:

OAC 165:5-9-3, which was recently amended, states that “notice of hearing

on an emergency application shall be served on all parties otherwise entitled to

notice under the base application not less than five (5) business days prior to the

emergency hearing.” A business day is a day that is not a Saturday, Sunday, or a

legal holiday. Other types of notice are also counted in business days.

Spacing Defined:

A drilling and spacing order issued by the Corporation Commission

establishes a geographical area in which only one oil and/ or gas well can be

initially drilled and produced from the geological formation listed in the order. The

spacing unit communitizes all royalty interest owners for the purpose of sharing in

production from oil and/or gas wells in the unit. A spacing order establishes the

size of the unit; names the formations included in the unit; divides the ownership

of the unit for the formations into the “royalty interest” (1/8) and the “working

interest” (7/8); puts all the owners of royalty interests into one community;

establishes that each unleased “working interest” owner has the right to drill within

the unit; and establishes an area within the unit where the well may be drilled.

Unit Well(s):

Only one well can be drilled and completed in each common source of

supply. The spacing order will also specify the permitted location where the unit

well may be drilled. Under certain circumstances, additional wells may be drilled,

but only after an application is filed, a hearing conducted, and an Increased Density

Order is issued by the Commission.

Drilling and Spacing Units:

Below is a list of the standard sizes for drilling and spacing units and the

permitted well locations within the unit.

The well can be located no closer to the unit boundaries than this:

Square Units: Rectangular Units:

640 acres 1320 feet 320 acres 660 feet

160 acres 660 feet 80 acres 330 feet

40 acres 330 feet 20 acres 165 feet

10 acres 165 feet

Horizontal Spacing:

A horizontally drilled well has a different footage setback requirement for

the Well’s location but still often requires a Location Exception Order from the

Commission. Horizontal wells are sometimes designated by an “H” in the well

name, such as Smith #1H-10 or Smith #1-10H.

Below is a list of the standard sizes for drilling and spacing units for

horizontal wells and the permitted well locations within the unit.

The well can be located no closer to the unit boundaries than this:

Square Units: Rectangular Units:

640 acres 660 feet 1280 acres 660 feet

160 acres 330 feet 320 acres 660 feet

40 acres 165 feet 80 acres 330 feet

10 acres 165 feet 20 acres 165 feet

Increased Density:

Normally, only one well is allowed to a common source of supply within a

spacing unit. An increased density order of the Commission allows one or more

additional wells to the same common source of supply within the unit. Standard

spacing units and horizontal spacing units can co-exist with one well allowed per

unit without the need for an increased density order. If an additional well is needed

to an already developed common source of supply within either the standard or

horizontal spacing unit, an increased density order is required for the additional

well within that particular unit.

Pooling Order:

The drilling and spacing order determines the size and boundaries of the

unit and the common sources of supply involved. Any person or company owning

the right to drill a well within the unit may propose the drilling of a well. The

company will try to reach agreement with all the other owners within the unit (does

the owner want to lease to the company proposing the well or does the owner want

to join in sharing the cost of drilling the well and thereby own a working interest in

the well?).

If an agreement to develop the unit cannot be made with all the owners in

the unit, the company can file a forced pooling application at the Commission.

Under Oklahoma law, forced pooling provides a process under which the

Commission sets the options for participation when owners cannot agree on unit

development.

Fair Market Value:

At the pooling hearing, evidence will be taken to establish the terms that

have been paid for leases within the subject unit and the eight offsetting units. The

nine-unit area is the area the Commission usually considers in determining the

value of leases. The purpose is to establish the fair market value of the land

involved. Often the best evidence of fair market value is the highest amount paid,

but sometimes it is not. Each case must be judged on the individual facts

presented.

Cash Bonus Election under a Pooling Order:

After the pooling order issues, parties named in the pooling order have

twenty (20) days to elect to participate in the proposed well or to elect bonus and

royalty option. The pooling election must be made in writing within the allotted

time. If an owner elects a cash bonus and royalty option, the order will state how

many days the company has to pay the cash bonus. The cash bonus must be paid

to those who elect it even if the well is never drilled or if it is drilled and the well is

a dry hole. The Commission has no jurisdiction to force the company to pay a cash

bonus. An unpaid cash bonus is considered a debt to be collected under the

jurisdiction of Oklahoma district courts.

Elections to Participate in the Drilling of a Well under a Pooling Order:

Anyone electing to participate and join in the costs of drilling a well will be

given a certain number of days to submit that person’s share of the estimated

drilling costs or to make satisfactory financial arrangements for payment. The

pooling election must be made in writing within the allotted time. Letters of credit

are often accepted rather than up-front cash payment but the arrangements are

different for each situation and the party involved depending on the party’s financial

position and experience.

Deemed Elections:

If a party fails to make a timely election under a pooling order, the order will

provide that such party is deemed to have made a certain election. Normally, if a

party fails to elect or elects out of time, the order will provide that a party is deemed

to have elected a certain cash bonus and royalty.

If any party elects to participate, but fails to submit the party’s share of the

drilling costs or make timely financial arrangements with the company, the pooling

order will also state that party’s election is rescinded or voided and the party usually

will be deemed to have taken a specific cash bonus and royalty.

Leasing under a Pooling Order:

Generally, with rare exception, a person who is listed as a party in a pooling

application and order may still lease his or her interest until the twenty-day election

period provided in the pooling order has run.

Term of Pooling Order:

A pooling order often provides for 180 days to commence a well but may

also provide for 365 days, if the extended time is provided in the notice of hearing.

If the operator of the well does not commence operations within the specified time

of the pooling order, the pooling order expires. It is not mandatory that the well be

drilled; however, cash bonuses are due to those electing a cash bonus regardless

of whether a well is drilled. In some cases, the Commission may grant an

extension of time under the pooling order; however, the applicant is generally

required to pay all or some percentage of the original cash bonus. No new election

is usually provided, but a party may appear at the hearing to request a new election

or protest the extension.

Lease Disputes:

The Commission has no jurisdiction or authority over lease disputes. Any

problems or questions with regard to a leasing problem should be discussed with

the person or company you leased to or with an attorney.

Lawyer Referral Service:

Lawyer referral service is no longer available from the Oklahoma Bar

Association; however, you can find a listing of attorneys by category on the Bar

Association website at www.okbar.org. Also, refer to your yellow pages directory

for “Attorney Referral Services.”

Oil & Gas Public Assistance:

The Commission has an Oil & Gas Public Information Department located

on the second floor of the Jim Thorpe Building. Additional questions and concerns

can be sent by mail to:

Oklahoma Corporation Commission

Oil & Gas Conservation Division

P.O. Box 52000

Oklahoma City, OK 73152-2000

Or by calling (405) 521-2613.

Saltwater Disposal or Injection Wells:

An application for a saltwater injection or disposal well is filed with the

Commission Underground Injection Control Department. A copy of the application

must be sent by regular mail to the owner of the surface of the land on which the

well is to be located, and notice published in newspapers in Oklahoma County and

each county in which land embraced in the application is located.

If you have a factual basis to support a claim that the well would be unfit to

be used as an injection or disposal well or would constitute a danger to fresh water

supplies or oil or gas bearing formations, you may file a formal protest with the

Underground Injection Control Department within fifteen (15) days after the

applicant’s publication of its notice.

Additionally, due to seismicity, administrative approval of applications for

disposal wells is not available within the seismicity area of interest.

Seismicity:

In Oklahoma, seismologists and geologists generally agree that saltwater

disposal wells and, to a limited extent, hydraulic fracturing contribute to the

increased frequency of earthquakes in the last few years.

Beginning in 2013, to address this concern, the OCC took action by shutting

down one disposal well and preventing another. Since then, injection volumes

and pressures have been decreased in hundreds of disposal wells in the state and

new reporting and permitting requirements for disposal wells have been

implemented.

For more information regarding the Commission’s response to seismicity,

please visit the “Hot Topics” section on our homepage at www.occeweb.com.

Closure of Earthen Pits and Plugging of Abandoned Wells:

Commission Rule165:10-7-16 defines each pit category and the time frame

for the closure of each pit category. The appropriate District Office can make a

determination.

Under Rule 165:10-11-3, any well which has production casing in place

shall be plugged within one year after cessation of production, unless there is at

least one producing well on the same lease. This rule does not apply to a shut-in

gas well. A newly drilled well, in which surface casing has been properly set, must

be plugged within ninety (90) days after the cessation of drilling or testing. The

plugging rule has been amended recently; it is lengthy and complex, and should

be read carefully. If a well should be plugged or a pit emptied and leveled, the field

representative of the Commission should be called and a Complaint Notice issued

to the operator. Should the operator fail to comply with the requirements of the

Complaint Notice, then a formal application may be filed and set for hearing on the

Pollution and Enforcement Docket to require compliance. The Pollution and

Enforcement Docket is held every Wednesday and Friday at 8:30 a.m. in

Oklahoma City and each Tuesday in Tulsa.

Deciphering Royalty Statements:

The Oklahoma Tax Commission [(405) 521-3674] is responsible for

collecting state production taxes on oil and gas produced in Oklahoma, and has

the records on gross production, including volumes and values, from individual

wells. The figures given to you by the oil company should match those reported to

the Oklahoma Tax Commission. The Oklahoma Tax Commission can provide

information regarding volumes and values of production sold.

Gas volumes can be found on the OCC website at www.occeweb.com. Oil

volumes for wells that are classified as oil wells are only available by accessing

the actual production reports in our Document Image Access database. To do this

you must know the Production Unit Number that was assigned to the lease by the

Oklahoma Tax Commission, and the purchaser number. Oil Production volumes

are not available on the OCC website.

All sales of oil, gas, natural gas liquids, and reclaimed oil for the last twelve

months can be found on the Oklahoma Tax Commission website at

www.ok.gov/tax. Please refer to the OTC section in the attached OCC database

instructions in this booklet.

Statutory “Pugh” Clause:

Oklahoma has enacted a statutory “Pugh” Clause*, Title 52 O.S. Section

87.1(b), which provides that “in case of a spacing unit of one hundred sixty (160)

acres or more, no oil and/or gas leasehold interest outside the spacing unit

involved may be held by production from the spacing unit more than ninety (90)

days beyond expiration of the primary term of the lease.”

This law became effective May 27, 1977 and may or may not apply in your

case depending on the date of your lease. It would be advisable to check with

your attorney for an interpretation of this law as it relates to your particular facts

and situation. The Commission has no jurisdiction to release any portion of your

lease. [* Named after a Louisiana lawyer, Lawrence G. Pugh, who drafted an oil

and gas lease clause calculated to prevent the holding of non-pooled acreage.]

Determining Mineral Ownership:

The Corporation Commission does not determine the ownership of

minerals. This should be a matter of record in the courthouse of the county where

the land is located. Tax Commission records may also help. You may need an

attorney to research this for you. The Commission may be able to advise regarding

the existence of a well on a particular tract.

Surface Rights:

Title 52 O.S. Sections 318.2 through 318.9, requires certain negotiations

between the oil company and the surface owner with regard to surface damages.

You should contact your attorney to ascertain if the oil company is complying with

the Surface Damages Act. The Corporation Commission has no jurisdiction or

authority over surface damages or any direct relationship with this law.

Well Placement on Unspaced Lands:

Commission Rule 165:10-1-21 addresses well locations on unspaced

lands. As long as the well complies with these limits, the only other restriction

would be any private agreement such as a lease that states how many feet from

structures such as homes or barns, the well must be located.

“Any well drilled for oil or gas to an unspaced common source of supply

2,500 feet or more in depth shall be located not less than 330 feet from any

property line or lease line, and shall be located not less than 600 feet from any

other producible or drilling oil or gas well when drilling to the same common source

of supply; provided and except that in drilling to an unspaced common source of

supply that is less than 2,500 feet in depth, the well shall be located not less than

165 feet from any property line or lease line, and not less than 300 feet from any

other producible or drilling oil or gas well in the same common source of supply;

provided, however, that the completed depth of the discovery well shall be

recognized as the depth of the common source of supply for the purpose of this

rule; provided further, when an exception to this rule is granted, the Commission

may adjust the allowable or take such other action as it deems necessary for the

prevention of waste and protection of correlative rights.”

Abandoned Equipment and Trash and Debris:

Under Rule 165:10-3-17 the well operator must remove all surface trash

and debris from the premises. Equipment and material that may be useable and

related to the operations of the property are not considered trash, debris, and junk.

With the surface owner’s permission the operator may bury non-hazardous

material including cement bases.

Under Rule 165:10-3-17 after a well is plugged and abandoned, the well

site shall be cleared of all equipment, trash, and debris within 90 days. The location

site and the oil and gas lease road are to be restored to as near to the natural state

as reasonably possible, and a bona fide effort must be made to restore the

vegetative cover within 180 days after abandonment of the property.

Drilling Near Structures:

Commission rules have no restrictions concerning distances of oil and gas

wells from a residence. The oil and gas lease, however, may stipulate to how close

a well may be located to a house or barn. If you live within the limits of a city, there

may be an applicable ordinance.

Title 52 O.S. Section 320.1 provides that it is unlawful to locate a habitable

structure within one hundred twenty-five feet of an active well or within fifty feet of

any surface equipment without a written agreement between the surface owner

and the well operator specifying different distances.

Payment of Proceeds of Oil or Gas Production:

Payment of proceeds of oil or gas production is covered under the

Production Revenue Standards Act, Title 52 O. S. Section 570.1, et. seq. which

calls for first payment to be made within six months from the date of first sale, and

indicates that if not, interest is due. The Production Revenue Standards Act also

provides various guidelines for the timely payment of royalties after the initial

payment. The Commission has no power or function over payment of proceeds.

District Court has jurisdiction.

Permit to Drill:

Rule 165:10-1-7(b) requires a well operator to file a Notice of Intention to

Drill Application before any oil, gas, injection, disposal, service well or stratigraphic

test hole is drilled, recompleted, re-entered or deepened. The notice must include

the name and address of the surface owner of the land upon which the well is to

be located. The Commission will process the application and mail a copy of the

permit to drill to the surface owner.

The Corporation Commission has no jurisdiction to determine the validity of

an oil and gas lease. Approval of the Intent to Drill is based only on the items

appearing on the intent which are within the jurisdiction of the Commission.

Division Orders:

A division order stipulates the percentage of royalty that one owns, and is

the instrument by which the oil company makes payment of proceeds. The royalty

owner should ascertain that his or her percentage is correct before signing. If

uncertain, they should contact their attorney, banker, or some knowledgeable

source. The Corporation Commission has no authority over division orders.

Calculating your Payment Decimal

To calculate your division of interest (DOI), or payment decimal, in any well

other than a multi-unit horizontal well you must know how many net mineral acres

(nma) you own in the spacing unit, your royalty percentage, and the total number

of acres in the spacing unit.

For example, if you own 40 nma at 3/16 (.1875) royalty in a 640-acre

spacing unit, your DOI would be calculated as follows:

40 x .1875 = .011719

640

Your Royalty Paystub

The Production Revenue Standards Act contains a list of ten pieces of information

that must be included with every royalty payment. They are:

1. Lease or well identification;

2. Month and year of sales included in the payment;

3. Total barrels or MCF attributed to such payment;

4. Price per barrel or MCF, including British Thermal Unit adjustment of gas

sold;

5. Total amount attributed to such payment of severance and other production

taxes, with the exception of windfall profit taxes;

6. Net value of total sales attributed to such payment after taxes are deducted;

7. Owner’s interest, expressed as a decimal, in production from the property,

must be carried out at least six spaces to the right of the decimal;

8. Owner’s share of the total value of sales attributed to such payment prior to

any deductions;

9. Owner’s share of the sales value attributed to such payment less owner’s

share of the production and severance taxes; and

10. A specific listing of the amount and purpose of any other deductions from

the proceeds attributed to such payment due to the owner upon request by

the owner.

Release of Abandoned Oil and Gas Leases:

The Corporation Commission has no authority regarding oil and gas leases.

To obtain a release of an oil and gas lease you should contact the operator of the

well. Title 41 O.S. Section 40 relates to the release of leases.

The Commission can issue a Certificate of Records Search under certain

circumstances, which may be filed for record in the county where the land lies.

Often, this instrument can help in obtaining a release of a lease. At this time, the

cost for such a certificate is ten dollars per quarter section or section thereof.

Well Information:

Basic well information is available on the OCC website at

www.occeweb.com. Database instructions are provided on pages 34 - 37 of this

booklet. There are also private internet resources you can access for a fee.

Claiming Royalties that Have Been Deposited with the State:

Contact the Unclaimed Property Department at the State Treasurer’s Office

in the Oklahoma State Capitol Building at 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd., Room 217,

Oklahoma City, OK 73105, (405) 521-4273.

The Mineral Owners Escrow Account Department in the Finance Division

of the OCC might be able to help you. Commission rules require that pooling

bonuses and any subsequent oil and gas royalties belonging to parties who were

listed as unlocatable in a pooling order be reported to, and remitted to, the Mineral

Owner Escrow Account Department. You can reach that department at (405) 521-

4499 to inquire or access their MOEA Owner Search database on the

Commission’s website at www.occeweb.com.

There are several websites you can search for unclaimed property in all

states.

Frequently Asked Questions about Horizontal Drilling

Horizontal Drilling Defined:

Oklahoma Corporation Commission rules define a horizontal well as

follows: "Horizontal well shall mean a well drilled, completed, or recompleted in a

manner in which the horizontal component of the completion interval in the

geological formation exceeds the vertical component thereof and which horizontal

component extends a minimum of 150 feet in the formation.”

More simply, a horizontal well is one in which the lower part of the wellbore

runs parallel through the producing formation rather than perpendicular to it as in

conventional vertical drilling.

A horizontal well begins by being drilled vertically, then, at a certain depth

a curve is built using a steerable drill bit that results in a horizontal wellbore in the

target formation.

The Purpose of Horizontal Drilling:

Greater recovery of oil and gas can be achieved by drilling a mile

horizontally through a formation than by drilling vertically through it. Generally

speaking, it is less expensive to drill one horizontal well than several vertical wells.

Formations with low porosity and permeability are candidates for horizontal

drilling; for example, the Woodford Shale in Oklahoma. Horizontal drilling is also

becoming more common in conventional reservoirs.

Horizontal Laterals:

There is no limit to the number of laterals that one horizontal well can have.

To be classified as a horizontal well, a lateral must be at least 150’ but can be any

length as long as the lateral does not extend beyond the legal location of the

spacing unit.

Multiple Laterals and Increased Density Orders:

Multiple laterals extending from a single wellbore at the same surface

location are considered one well and do not require an increased density order.

Laterals extending from a different surface location and/or a different well

bore into the same horizontal spacing unit in which there is already a producing

horizontal well requires an increased density order. Likewise, a horizontal well

drilled into a regular spacing unit in which there is already a producing well in the

same common source of supply requires an increased density order.

Location of Horizontal Wellbores:

The well operator is required to submit a directional survey with the well

completion report to the OCC for any horizontally drilled well showing the location

of any point of the wellbore as it relates to the surveyed surface location from the

surface to the terminus of each lateral.

Many royalty owners ask how we, and they, know that the horizontal well

bore goes where the oil company says it does. The directional survey is conducted

by an independent company, not the well operator. When the survey is received

at the OCC, engineers in the Technical Department use various software to

calculate the location of the wellbore to ensure that it agrees with information

provided on the well’s permit to drill and completion report. The directional surveys

can also be checked using pencil and paper.

Horizontal Well Laterals and Allowables:

One allowable is assigned to a horizontal well with multiple laterals in the

same spacing unit; however, each multiple horizontal gas well in the same unit has

an allowable.

Horizontal Well Spacing Compared to Conventional Spacing:

Horizontal well spacing is different from conventional spacing in that the

setbacks, or legal well locations, are different for horizontal wells than for vertical

wells. For example, in a regular 640-acre square spacing unit, the legal well

location must be 1320’ from the section line. For a horizontal 640-acre spacing

unit, the legal well location may be 660’ from the unit boundary.

Commission rules also specify setbacks for different size units and for

distance between wells in the same formation. Certain geographical areas within

the state have special field rules for closer setbacks for horizontal wells.

Normally, there cannot be more than one well located within a spacing unit

to the same common source of supply without an increased density order allowing

the second well, however, because horizontal spacing units and standard spacing

units are two separate spacing units that can co-exist, one well can be drilled to

the same common source of supply in each spacing unit without increased density.

Horizontal Spacing Size and Irregular Units:

In Oklahoma, horizontal well spacing can be the same size as any other

spacing unit from 10 to 640 acres in a square or rectangular shape. Irregular 640-

acre horizontal units have been created by stacking two 320-acre units, creating a

rectangular 640-acre unit that is one-half mile wide and two miles long.

In May of 2017, Senate Bill 867 was passed to amend 52 O.S. 87.1 (f) to

increase the maximum size of horizontal spacing units from 640 acres to 1280

acres. The lateral length of the initial unit well must be at least 7,500’ unless

reasonable cause is shown. Multi unit horizontal wells may be created including

1280 acre spacings as long as the proposed completed lateral is at least 10,560’.

Irregularly shaped, non-square or rectangular, spacing units could be

created to include “orphaned” acreage, but may not be done if not shown to be

geologically feasible or productive. It might not be fair to the mineral owners in a

producing unit to include non-producing acreage into the unit and, therefore,

diminish their percentage interest in the total unit.

Typically, a horizontal well does not drain from as great a distance from the

wellbore as a vertical well does so horizontal wells are allowed to be closer to each

other and to the section line than are conventional vertical wells. Every effort is

made to protect correlative rights of the mineral owners and to prevent a well from

draining an adjoining unit.

Many horizontal wells have a surface hole location (SHL) in one section and

one or more bottom hole locations (BHL) in another section. The interest owners

in the spacing unit from which the well drains receive the royalty from a horizontal

well. If you own the land on which the drilling rig is placed, the oil company must

negotiate and compensate you for surface damages before drilling.

Safety of Hydraulic Fracturing:

In Oklahoma, hydraulic fracturing usually occurs more than one mile below

the surface of the earth, far below the depth of the fresh water tables. There have

been no cases of surface water contamination or earthquakes that have been

proved to have been caused by fracing in Oklahoma.

Chemicals used in Hydraulic Fracturing:

The FracFocus database for reporting the contents of hydraulic fracturing

fluids was created in 2011 as a joint project of the Ground Water Protection Council

and the Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission, of which Oklahoma is a

member. Initially, participation in the database by the oil companies was done on

a voluntary database and many companies operating in Oklahoma submitted

information regarding their fracing fluids to the website. The Oklahoma

Corporation Commission and regulatory agencies of other oil and gas producing

states have incorporated a requirement for reporting to FracFocus in their agency

rules.

OCC rule 165:10-3-10 goes into effect on January 1, 2013 for horizontally

drilled wells in Oklahoma and on January 1, 2014 for other wells, and states that

“within 60 days after the conclusion of hydraulic fracturing operations on an oil,

gas, injection, disposal, or service well that is hydraulically fractured, the operator

must submit information on the chemicals used in the fracturing operation to the

FracFocus Chemical Disclosure Registry or, alternatively, submit the information

directly to the Commission.” If the chemical disclosure information is submitted

directly to the Commission, the Commission will post the information on the

FracFocus Chemical Disclosure Registry.

An example of a FracFocus Disclosure Registry submission:

Extended Horizontal Well Development Act:

The Extended Horizontal Well Development Act provides for horizontal well

unitizations and horizontal wells to be drilled across unit boundaries in two or more

existing units, a “Multiunit Horizontal Well.”

Horizontal well unitizations include two sections but may be expanded up

to four sections if good cause is shown for the prevention of waste and pollution,

and the protection of correlative rights. The interest of each owner in the unit is

defined as the percentage of interest owned in each separate tract by the owner,

multiplied by the proportion that the acreage in each separately owned tract bears

to the acreage of the entire unit. A plat designating the boundaries of the unit, and

the proposed tract allocation factors are included in the Plan of Development that

is submitted with the application for unitization. The order authorizing the unit will

establish the drilling pattern and setbacks for the unit, including permitted well

location tolerances for the permitted wells within the unit.

Once an order of the Commission authorizing the unit is signed, the unit still

cannot become effective until the applicant receives written consent from 63% of

the working interest owners in the unit and 63% of the royalty owners in the unit.

If consent is not obtained within six months of the date of the order creating the

unit, the order shall cease to be of further force and effect and shall be revoked by

the Commission. Unleased interest owners within the unit may be subject to a

pooling order of the Commission.

A multiunit horizontal well is a horizontal well wherein the completion

interval of the well is located in more than one spacing unit formed for the same

reservoir, with the well being completed in and producing from such reservoir in

two or more of such units. In other words, a multiunit horizontal well is one well

that extends through, and produces from, more than one spacing unit.

The allocation factor for each affected unit is determined by dividing the

length of the completion interval located within the affected unit by the entire length

of the completion interval in the subject multiunit horizontal well. The royalty

proceeds for a multiunit horizontal well are allocated to each affected unit by

multiplying the royalty contribution factor of the unit by the wellbore royalty

proceeds, with the resulting production being the royalty proceeds for that unit.

Each royalty interest owner in an affected unit shall be entitled to receive the

owner’s proportionate royalty share of the allocated royalty proceeds for that unit.

The application for a multiunit horizontal well shall include the anticipated

location of the well or wells, a map indicating the location of each currently existing

well in each affected unit which is the subject of the application and the anticipated

location of each multiunit horizontal well currently proposed to be drilled, and any

other horizontal well not included in the current application, but anticipated to be

necessary, based upon the information and knowledge then available to the

applicant, for the full and efficient development and operations of the reservoir

within the affected units if the well or wells are approved by the Commission upon

the filing of a proper application at a future date. The application shall also include

any applicably proposed allocation factor for allocating the costs, production and

proceeds from each proposed multiunit horizontal well under the application.

After the well is completed, a final multi-unit horizontal order is issued

showing the percentage of the well that belongs to each spacing unit in the well.

This information is necessary in calculating your division of interest (DOI), or

payment decimal.

To calculate your DOI in a multi-unit horizontal well you must know how

many net mineral acres (nma) you own in the spacing unit, your royalty

percentage, the total number of acres in the spacing unit, and the percentage of

the well attributed to your spacing unit as described in the final multi-unit well order.

For example, if you have 40 nma at 3/16 (.1875) royalty in a 640-acre

spacing unit and the percentage of the multi-unit well in your unit is 43%, you would

calculate your decimal as follows:

40 x .1875 = .011719 x 43% = .00503917

640

Helpful Telephone Numbers

Certificate of Records Search/Non-development

(405) 521-2275

Gross Production Tax Department/Oklahoma Tax Commission

(405) 522-1764

Liquid Propane Gas Administration

(405) 521-2458

National Association of Royalty Owners

(918) 794-1660

OCC Administrative Law Judges

(405) 521-4457

OCC Court Clerk

(405) 521-2351

OCC Field Operations

(405) 521-3088

OCC Petroleum Storage Tank Division

(405) 521-4683

OCC Intent-to-Drill Applications

(405) 521-3070

OCC Office of General Counsel

(405) 521-2255

OCC Oil & Gas Complaints & Information

(405) 521-2613

OCC Oil & Gas Division

(405) 522-0577

OCC Pipeline Safety

(405) 521-2258

OCC Public Utility Complaints

(405) 521-2331

(800) 522-8154

OCC Transportation Division

(405) 521-2251

OCC Well Records Department

(405) 521-2271

Oil-Law Records

(405) 840-1631

Okie One-Call

(800) 522-6543

Oklahoma Attorney General (Consumer Complaints)

(405) 521-4274

Oklahoma City Geological Society

(405) 236-8086

Oklahoma City Geological Society Library

(405) 235-3648

Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality Complaints

(800) 522-0206

Oklahoma Energy Resources Board

(405) 942-5323

Oklahoma Securities Commission

(405) 280-7700

Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation

(405) 848-6724

Oklahoma State Treasurer’s Office/Unclaimed Property

(405) 521-4273

Oklahoma Tax Commission Oil & Gas Research

(405) 522-1764

OU Log Library

(405) 325-1119

Pangaea

(405) 341-0474

TGS – Nopec - Electric Logs

(713) 860-2100

SOER – Formally the Marginal Wells Commission

(405) 604-0460

Southwestern Manly Legal Forms

(405) 525-9411

Oklahoma Corporation Commission District Field Offices:

The Oklahoma Corporation Commission Oil and Gas Conservation Division

has four District Offices. Oil and gas field inspectors are dispatched through the

District Offices depending upon the counties which are covered within the territory

of the District Office. The field inspector responsibilities include investigation of

pollution complaints, ensuring that well operators are in compliance with OCC

rules, and witnessing well pluggings.

OCC District Offices - Counties

District I – Bristow, (918) 367-3396

Adair

Cherokee

Craig

Creek

Delaware

Kay

Lincoln

Mayes

Muskogee

Noble

Nowata

Osage

Ottawa

Pawnee

Payne

Rogers

Tulsa

Wagoner

Washington

District II – Kingfisher, (405) 375-5570

Alfalfa

Beaver

Blaine

Canadian

Cimarron

Custer

Dewey

Ellis

Garfield

Grant

Harper

Kingfisher

Logan

Major

Oklahoma

Roger Mills

Texas

Woods

Woodward

District III – Duncan, (580) 255-0103

Beckham

Caddo

Carter

Cleveland

Comanche

Cotton

Garvin

Grady

Greer

Harmon

Jackson

Jefferson

Kiowa

Love

McClain

Murray

Stephens

Tillman

Washita

District IV – Ada, (580) 332-3441

Atoka

Bryan

Choctaw

Coal

Haskell

Hughes

Johnston

Latimer

LeFlore

McCurtain

McIntosh

Marshall

Okfuskee

Okmulgee

Pittsburg

Pontotoc

Pottawatomie

Pushmataha

Seminole

Sequoyah

OCC County Codes

County

Code

County Name

County

Code

County Name

001

Adair

079

LeFlore

003

Alfalfa

081

Lincoln

005

Atoka

083

Logan

007

Beaver

085

Love

009

Beckham

087

McClain

011

Blaine

089

McCurtain

013

Bryan

091

McIntosh

015

Caddo

093

Major

017

Canadian

095

Marshall

019

Carter

097

Mayes

021

Cherokee

099

Murray

023

Choctaw

101

Muskogee

025

Cimarron

103

Noble

027

Cleveland

105

Nowata

029

Coal

107

Okfuskee

031

Comanche

109

Oklahoma

033

Cotton

111

Okmulgee

035

Craig

113

Osage

037

Creek

115

Ottawa

039

Custer

117

Pawnee

041

Delaware

119

Payne

043

Dewey

121

Pittsburg

045

Ellis

123

Pontotoc

047

Garfield

125

Pottawatomie

049

Garvin

127

Pushmataha

051

Grady

129

Roger Mills

053

Grant

131

Rogers

055

Greer

133

Seminole

057

Harmon

135

Sequoyah

059

Harper

137

Stephens

061

Haskell

139

Texas

063

Hughes

141

Tillman

065

Jackson

143

Tulsa

067

Jefferson

145

Wagoner

069

Johnston

147

Washington

071

Kay

149

Washita

073

Kingfisher

151

Woods

075

Kiowa

153

Woodward

077

Latimer

County Contacts

COUNTY

PHONE NUMBER

WEBSITE

WHAT IS AVAILABLE?

Adair

(918) 696-7198

okcountyrecords.com

Alfalfa

(580) 596-3158

okcountyrecords.com

Can research by name from 1982 forward.

Atoka

(580) 889-5157

okcountyrecords.com

Public can search records by name on in-house database. Staff

will assist by telephone.

Beaver

(580) 625-3141

beaver.okcounties.org

okcountyrecords.com

Search by name from 1998 forward.

Beckham

(580) 928-3383

okcountyrecords.com

Staff will check alpha database back to 1989. Grantor/grantee

alpha indices are available prior to 1989.

Blaine

(580) 623-5890

okcountyrecords.com

Grantor/grantee indices available only in office.

Bryan

(580) 924-2202

okcountyrecords.com

In-house database available back to 1995. Grantor/grantee

indices available prior to 1995.

Caddo

(405) 247-6609

None

Public can search by name on in-house database after July

1993. Grantor/grantee indices available prior to 1993.

Canadian

(405) 262-1070,

ext. 6124

www.canadiancounty.org

Can search for records by name online back to 1987. No other

alphabetical records available.

Carter

(580) 223-8162

okcountyrecords.com

Can search by name on in-house database from 1989 forward.

Staff will assist by phone.

Cherokee

(918) 456-3171

okcountyrecords.com

Can search by name on in-house database back to 1998. Can

search miscellaneous indices alphabetically prior to 1998. Staff

will assist by telephone.

Choctaw

(580) 326-3778

okcountyrecords.com

Can search grantor/grantee indices alphabetically.

Cimarron

(580) 544-2251

okcountyrecords.com

Public can search grantor/grantee indices alphabetically.

Cleveland

(405) 366-0240

clevelandcountyok.com

Land records by name, legal description, document number

back to 1994. Staff will look up computerized records for callers.

Coal

(580) 927-2103

www.coal.okcounties.org

okcountyrecords.com

Public can search in-house database by name back to 1993.

Staff will assist by telephone. Public can search grantor/grantee

indices.

Comanche

(580) 355-5214

okcountyrecords.com

Public can search in-house database by name back to 1988.

Staff will assist by phone. Public can search grantor/grantee

indices in person.

Cotton

(580) 875-3026

okcountyrecords.com

Public can search in-house database by name back to mid

1980s. Staff will look up a name by telephone. Grantor/grantee

indices available for public to search.

Craig

(918) 256-2507

okcountyrecords.com

Public can search inhouse database back to the late 1960s.

Creek

(918) 224-4084

creekcountyclerk.org

Records available from 1991 forward by name and from

statehood by book and page.

Custer

(580) 323-1221

okcountyrecords.com

Late 1990s forward available online. Public can search

grantor/grantee indices in house.

Delaware

(918) 253-4520

delaware.okcounties.org

okcountyrecords.com

Can search records by name on in-house database back to

1987. Prior to that, can search books by name. Staff will assist

by phone with simple inquiries.

Dewey

(580) 328-5361

okcountyrecords.com

In-house database back to 2000. Staff will assist callers by

looking up names.

Ellis

(580) 885-7301

okcountyrecords.com

Can only search grantor/grantee books by name. Staff will not

do research.

Garfield

(580) 237-0225

None (coming soon)

Records are available on a database by name in-house back to

1990.

Garvin

(405) 238-2772

okcountyrecords.com

Records available by name on in-house database back to 1990.

Staff will assist with simple inquiries by phone. Grantor/grantee

books available back to 1907. Staff will not conduct research of

books.

Grady

(405)224-7388

idockmarket.com/sites

In-house database available back to 1989; grantor/grantee

books prior to that. Staff will conduct simple database searches

by phone but will not research books.

Grant

(580) 395-2274

okcountyrecords.com

In-house database back to 1998. No public terminals. Staff will

assist with simple searches.

Greer

(580) 782-3664

greer.okcounties.org

okcountyrecords.com

Have miscellaneous index cross-referenced with grantor/grantee

books that can be searched alphabetically. Staff will do

research for a fee.

Harmon

(580) 688-3658

okcountyrecords.com

Staff will not conduct research.

Harper

(580) 735-2012

okcountyrecords.com

Grantor/grantee books.

Haskell

(918) 967-2884

okcountyrecords.com

Grantor/grantee books.

Hughes

(405) 379-5487

okcountyrecords.com

In-house terminal available to search database back to July

1990. Grantor/grantee books available prior to that.

Jackson

(580) 482-4070

okcountyrecords.com

Grantor/grantee books available in house. Staff will not do

research.

Jefferson

(580) 228-2029

okcountyrecords.com

Public terminal available in house.

Johnston

(580) 371-3184

okcountyrecords.com

In-house database back to 1993. Staff will assist with simple

inquiries. Grantor/grantee books available prior to database.

Kay

(580) 362-2537

okcountyrecords.com

In-house database with public terminals back to 1997.

Grantor/grantee books prior to that. Staff will not do research.

Kingfisher

(405) 375-3887

okcountyrecords.com

Grantor/grantee books and public terminal available.

Kiowa

(580) 726-5286

okcountyrecords.com

Tract index and reception records available. Can give research

referral.

Latimer

(918) 465-4002

okcountyrecords.com

In-house terminals available to search database by name back

to 1967. Tract index and reception records available in their

office. Staff can assist callers if time allows. Can give research

referral.

LeFlore

(918) 647-5738

okcountyrecords.com

Terminals available to search in-house database by name back

1983. Tract index and reception records available in their office.

Staff can assist callers with computer records only. Can give

research referral.

Lincoln

(405) 258-1264

okcountyrecords.com

Tract index and reception records available in their office. Staff

can assist callers with records for a fee. Can give research

referral.

Logan

(405) 282-0266

okcountyrecords.com

In-house terminals available to search by name back to 1994.

Tract index and reception records available in office. Staff can

assist callers with computer records only.

Love

(580) 276-3059

love.okcounties.org

okcountyrecords.com

Land records are on their office computer back to 1993. Two

terminals available for public use. Tract index and reception

records available in office. Staff can assist callers with computer

records only. Can give research referral.

McClain

(405) 527-3360

okcountyrecords.com

Terminal available to search in-house database by name back to

1994. Tract index and reception records available in office. Can

give research referral.

McCurtain

(580) 286-2370

okcountyrecords.com

Terminal available to search in-house database by name back to

2001. Tract index and reception records available in office. Staff

can assist callers with computer records only.

McIntosh

(918) 689-2741

okcountyrecords.com

Land records available on in-house database by name back to

1996. Tract index and reception records available in office. Staff

can assist callers with computer records only if they have the

time. Can give research referral.

Major

(580) 227-4732

okcountyrecords.com

Tract index and reception records available in their office. Staff

can assist callers if the caller has a legal description.

Marshall

(580) 795-3220

Marshall.okcounties.org

okcountyrecords.com

Land records available on in-house database by name back to

1998. Three terminals available for public use. Tract index and

reception records available in office.

Mayes

(918) 825-2426

okcountyrecords.com

Terminals available to search in-house database by name back

to 1985. Staff can assist callers. Tract index and reception

records available in office. Can give research referral.

Murray

(580) 622-3920

okcountyrecords.com

Land records available on in-house database back to 1989. One

terminal for public use. Tract index and reception records

available in their office. Staff can assist callers with computer

records only.

Muskogee

(918) 682-7781

okcountyrecords.com

Terminals available to search in-house database by name back

to 1998.Tract index and reception records available in their

office. Staff can assist callers with computer records if time

allows. Can give research referral.

Noble

(580) 336-2141

Noblecountyok.com

okcountyrecords.com

Viewing stations available in house. Tract index and reception

records available in their office. Can give research referral.

Nowata

(918) 273-2480

okcountyrecords.com

Land records available on in-house database by name back to

1998. Terminals available for public use. Tract index and

reception records available in office. Staff can assist callers with

computer records only.

Okfuskee

(918) 623-1724

okcountyrecords.com

Terminals available to search in-house database by name back

to 1995. Tract index and reception records available in their

office. Staff can assist callers with computer records.

Oklahoma

(405) 713-1538

okcc.online

Some land records are available by name back to 1991. Staff

will assist callers if not too busy.

Okmulgee

(918) 756-0788

okcountyrecords.com

Land records available on in-house database by name back to

1995. One terminal for public use. Tract index and reception

records available in their office. Staff can assist callers. Can give

research referral.

Osage

(918) 287-3136

okcountyrecords.com

Terminals available to search in-house database by name

(surface records) back to 1998. Tract index and reception

records available in their office. Staff can assist callers. THE

OSAGE TRIBE OWNS ALL MINERALS.

Ottawa

(918) 542-3332

ottawa.okcounties.org

okcountyrecords.com

Terminals available to search in-house database by name back

to 1995. Staff can assist callers with computer records only.

Can give research referral.

Pawnee

(918) 762-2732

okcountyrecords.com

Land records available on in-house database by name back to

2000. No terminals for public use. Tract index and reception

records available in their office. Staff can assist callers with

computer records only. Can give research referral.

Payne

(405) 747-8310

countyclerk.paynecounty.org

Terminals available to search in-house database by name back

to 1995 and by legal description back to statehood. Tract index

and reception records available in their office. There is no fee

associated with their database.

Pittsburg

(918) 423-6865

pittsburg.okcounties.org

okcountyrecords.com

Terminals available to search in-house database by name back

to 1993. Tract index and reception records available in office.

Pontotoc

(580) 332-1425

okcountyrecords.com

Land records available on in-house database by name back to

1992. One terminals for public use. Tract index and reception

records available in their office. Staff can assist callers with

computer records only.

Pottawatomie

(405) 273-8222

uslandrecords.com

Land records by name on in-house database back to 1985.

Staff will look up a name for callers.

Pushmataha

(580) 298-3626

okcountyrecords.com

Tract index and reception records available in office. Can give

research referral.

Roger Mills

(580) 497-3395

okcountyrecords.com

Two terminals available for public use. Tract index and reception

records available in office. Staff can assist callers with computer

records only.

Rogers

(918) 923-4796

okcountyrecords.com

Terminals are available to search in-house database by name

back to 1986. Tract index and reception records available in their

office. Staff can assist callers with computer records if time

allows. Can give research referrals.

Seminole

(405) 257-2501

okcountyrecords.com

Terminals available for public to search by name on in-house

database back to 1994. Tract index and reception records

available in their office. Staff usually can’t assist callers with

computer records but can give research referrals.

Sequoyah

(918) 775-4516

okcountyrecords.com

Terminal available to search in-house database by name back to

1970. Tract index and reception records available in their office.

Staff will assist callers with computer records if time allows.

Stephens

(580) 255-0977

okcountyrecords.com

Some land records are available on in-house database by name

back to 1992. Tract index and reception records available in their

office. Staff will assist callers with computer records if time

allows. Can give research referrals.

Texas

(580) 338-3141

www.texas.okcounties.org

okcountyrecords.com

Some land records available on in-house database by name

back to 1987. Tract index and reception records available in their

office. Staff will assist callers with simple inquiries if time allows.

Tillman

(580) 335-3421

Tillman.okcounties.org

okcountyrecords.com

Some land records available on in-house database by name

back to 1980. No public terminals. Tract index and reception

records available in office. Staff will assist callers if time allows.

Tulsa

(918) 596-5801

Option 3

countyclerk.tulsacounty.org

Accessible only by

subscription or at Tulsa

County Libraries.

Some land records are available on database by name back to

1920s. Tract index and reception records available in office.

Blank forms also

Wagoner

(918) 485-2216

wagonercounty.ok.gov

Some land records are available by computer in office by name

back to 1988. Tract index and reception records available in

office. Staff will assist callers if not too busy.

Washington

(918) 337-2840

Main number

(918) 337-2834

land records

www.countycourthouse.org

Some land records available on the website by name back to

1993. Tract index and reception records available in office. Staff

will assist callers if time allows.

Washita

(580) 832-3548

okcountyrecords.com.

Terminals available for public use. Tract index and reception

records available in office. Staff will assist callers if time allows.

Woods

(580) 327-0998

None

Terminals available for public use. Tract index and reception

records available in office.

Woodward

(580) 256-3625

woodwardcounty.org

okcountyrecords.com

One terminal for public use. Tract index and reception records

available in the office.

Updated February 2018 – this information may have changed or been updated.

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Oklahoma Corporation Commission

Welcome to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission website. All of our online

databases can be accessed through our home page at oklahoma.gov/occ.html.

Prepared by:

Oil and Gas Public Assistance Department

Oil and Gas Conservation Division

Oklahoma Corporation Commission

November 2020

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Active Oil and Gas Operator Directory 37

Well Browse Database 40

Oil and Gas Data Mining 46

Case Processing 52

OCC Imaged Records 56

Oil and Gas Well Records 58

OAP Orders and Case Files 60

Oil and Gas Production 61

Mineral Owner Escrow Account 64

Oklahoma Tax Commission 67

ACTIVE OIL AND GAS OPERATOR DIRECTORY

Use this database to look up an operator’s contact information. You can also look up

their operator number by name so you can use it to browse other databases.

When you get to our home page, hold your cursor over the “Divisions” button at the top

of the screen. Move your cursor down the menu to “Oil and Gas Conservation” and then

click.

Once you click on “Oil and Gas Conservation”, scroll down the page until you see “Oil

and Gas Data Files” and click.

Look through the list until you find the file titled “Operator Directory” and click.

The operator directory is updated around the middle of each month and lists all oil and

gas well operators in Oklahoma that have current surety on file with the Oil & Gas

Division. Even though the company may still be operating wells, if their surety has lapsed

or their annual update is late, they will not be listed.

You can activate a find feature on this database by using the “control f” function.

OCC OIL AND GAS WELL BROWSE DATABASE INSTRUCTIONS

This database is used to look up all wells, old and new, the associated well records,

and gas volumes if the well is classified as a gas well.

When you get to our home page, hold your cursor over the “Divisions” button at the top

of the screen. Move your cursor down the menu to “Oil and Gas Conservation” and then

click.

On the next screen, on the left, click on “Database Search”.

Scroll Down the page until you see “Well Browse Database” and click on “Search the

Well Browse Database”.

When you get to the well query page, you can search by well name, API number, or

section, township, and range. Remember that, as with most OCC databases, the less

information provided, the better your search results will be.

You will usually search by legal description. Go to the bottom of this form and enter the

section, township, and range. It is not necessary to enter the county if you know the legal

description unless the property about which you are inquiring is in the panhandle. If so,

choose the county. The database cannot differentiate between 4N-10E in Hughes

County from 4N-10E in Texas County without knowing the county, even if you enter the

meridian. If any portion of your legal description is a single digit number, add a leading

zero.

OCC records are filed by surface hole location, however, you can search for horizontal

wells by bottom hole location once the well completion report, Form 1002A, has been

filed.

After entering your search criteria, click “Search” at the bottom of the screen. This will

take you to the results screen where you will see an inventory of all the wells in the

section.

To retrieve information about a particular well, click on the magnifying glass icon

all the way on the left side of the line on which the well name appears. This should take

you to a screen that displays the well operator and other basic well information. If it

doesn’t and you only see a larger image of the previous screen, hold down “Control” and

“Alt” at the same time you click on the magnifying glass to override your pop-up blocker.

You will see four buttons at the bottom of the page – “Permits”, “Completions”,

“Production”, and “All Images”. Click “Production” to retrieve reported gas volumes if the

well is classified as a gas well. Click any of the other buttons to retrieve well records

pertaining to the well such as permit to drill, spud report, completion report, and plugging

report.

Click “Home” at the top of the screen to conduct a new search.

If you need assistance, contact the Oil and Gas Public Assistance Department at (405)

521-2613.

OCC OIL AND GAS DATA MINING INSTRUCTIONS

Use this database to look up operator and well information including historical gas

production volumes.

When you get to our home page, hold your cursor over the “Divisions” button at the top

of the screen. Move your cursor down the menu to “Oil and Gas Conservation” and then

click.

On the next screen, on the left, click on “Database Search”.

On the next screen, scroll down and click on “Search Oil and Gas Data Mining Database”.

At the top center of the next screen click on “Text Data Mining”. To search for wells by

legal description, enter the section, township, and range with a space between each

criterion. If the section, township, or range is only one digit, insert a leading zero to make

it a two digit number.

After entering your search criteria, click “Find”. Then, click on “Sections (1 record), then,

click on the legal description to display the well inventory for that section.

You can also click “Switch to Advanced Filter” to use more specific search functions. To

look up a well operator in order to get their contact or other information, the easiest way

is to enter their operator number which can be retrieved from the Active Oil and Gas

Operator Directory.

Enter an operator number in the appropriate field and click “Find”

Because a company’s well number is associated with all its wells, all the wells come up

in the search results but click on the link to “Companies” then the company name to get

company information.

To look up information about a particular well, enter the well’s API number or the legal

description. It’s often best to search by legal description because most royalty owners

don’t know their wells’ API numbers and if there is more than one well in your section

you can pull them all up at once. Searching by API number will only pull up one well.

From the same screen we used in the previous exercise to look up well operator

information, enter a section, township, and range in the appropriate fields and click

“Find.” Click on the “+” to display the wells. Click on the well you are interested in. There

is a glitch with the database here. As you can see, sometimes the well name is not

displayed, but the API# and the well number are. Also, sometimes there is more than

one entry for the same well. If you are looking for gas production volumes and don’t find

them under one entry, try the other one.

From here you can click on the operator name to display their contact information or click

on “Production” to obtain historical gas production volumes for the well. The Clayton

#1H-0904X is a relatively new well but gas volumes are available for some older wells

back to the 1980s. This information can be exported to various types of spreadsheets

and saved by clicking the printer icon next to “Export List”.

OCC CASE PROCESSING DATABASE INSTRUCTIONS

This database is used to look up OCC causes, applications, orders, hearing dispositions,

etc.

From our home page, click on “Search Case Processing Now”.

Once you have entered the database, you can search by case number, order number,

legal description, case types, party name, and/or a date range. Please note the helpful

tips at the top of the page.

After you enter your parameters and click the “Search” button, results should appear

below. Next, click on the small box to the left of the desired case to retrieve specific

information related to that case.

Once you have clicked on the box next to the case you are looking for, further information

should populate below, including the ability to search case information, hearing dates,

docket information (all filed documents and event data), order numbers, and parties.

Viewing of documents filed in a specific case can be achieved by clicking on “Link to

Imaging” to the right of each case listed. You may click on the back arrow at the top of

the imaging results page to return to your list of cases.

If you need assistance navigating the database, contact the Oil and Gas Public

Assistance Department at (405) 521-2613.

OCC IMAGED RECORDS DATABASE INSTRUCTIONS

This database is used to retrieve copies of imaged Commission records including well

records, orders, applications, oil production reports, electric logs, etc.

When you get to our home page, hold your cursor over the “Divisions” button at the top

of the screen. Move your cursor down the menu to “Oil and Gas Conservation” and then

click.

On the next screen, on the left, click on “Database Search”.

On the next screen, scroll down and click on “Access the OCC Imaged Documents

Directory Here”.

The next screen contains a list of the types of records that are imaged. Select the type

of document you want to look at - usually “Oil and Gas Well Records” for completion

and plugging reports, “OAP Orders and Case Files” for orders and applications such as

pooling, spacing, etc., or “Oil and Gas Production” for oil volumes.

To find a copy of a well record including permit-to-drill, spud report, completion report,

plugging report, change of operator, choose “Oil and Gas Well Records Forms”. For

well records there are several different search criteria. As with all OCC databases,

providing too much information can affect the accuracy of your search results, however,

it’s often helpful to enter the legal description and the form number if you want to limit

your search to just permits-to-drill or just completion reports. To search by legal

description, run all the digits together as shown in the example on the screen. Enter

your search criteria and click “Search”.

When the list of records appears it may be necessary to view several of them to locate

the record you are looking for. Some wells will be identified by a combination of well

name, API number, quarter section, form number, etc. Click on the blue ID number to

the left of the item you are interested in and an image of the document will appear.

You can customize your search by using the wild card, “%”, in place of section number

or other information and by including a date range in the “Effective/Approved Date”

field. Use this format for dates : 1/1/2015.

To search for an order or application go to “OAP Orders and Case Files” and enter the

order number or the cause number. When searching by cause number it is important

to also complete the field “Case Type”, usually CD for oil and gas. This database

contains all Commission records including transportation and public utilities, not just oil

and gas, and sometimes the same case number might be assigned to different case

types. Searching by cause number will retrieve all the documents in the case file

including the order, if it has been issued. Searching by order number will only retrieve

the order.

Documents can be saved and printed.

Although oil production volumes are not posted on the “Well Browse” or “Data Mining”

databases, it is possible to obtain oil volumes in the “Imaged Records” database

because all Form 300R reports submitted by the oil purchasers are imaged. From the

list of types of imaged records, choose “Oil and Gas Production.” You will need two

pieces of information about your lease to look up oil production, the purchaser number

of the oil purchasers for the well or lease and the Production Unit Number (PUN)

assigned to the well or lease by the Oklahoma Tax Commission. Both of these

numbers can be found on the OTC website which we will review later.

To search for oil production, choose Form 300R in the first field of the search screen

and enter the purchaser number in the appropriate field. Do not confuse purchaser

number with operator number.

Click “Search” to obtain a list of Form 300R reports submitted by the purchaser you

chose. Look at the second column to find the production month you want to search.

Usually, all the January reports for all years are sorted together, then February, etc.

Sometimes they are not so you may need to search a little bit for your record.

Click on the blue I.D. number in the column to the left of the date you are interested in

to open the record.

Most Form 300R reports look similar to this one submitted by Sunoco. They are sorted

by PUN and may or may not reflect the well or operator name. In most cases, the

reports are listed numerically by PUN. Look down the list until you find the PUN for

your well or lease to get the monthly volume. Repeat the process to obtain production

volumes for another well or month.

If you need assistance navigating the database, contact the Oil and Gas Public

Assistance Department at (405) 521-2613.

MINERAL OWNER ESCROW ACCOUNT OWNER SEARCH

The Mineral Owner Escrow Account was created to monitor and maintain bonuses and

royalties owed to unlocatable pooling respondents. MOEA funds that are received at the

Oklahoma Corporation Commission are remitted to the Unclaimed Property Department

at the Oklahoma State Treasurer’s Office. They are held there until they are claimed by

the rightful owners. Escheated funds are reported by owner name, therefore, the MOEA

Owner Search database can be searched by name to locate pooling revenue.

When you get to our home page, hold your cursor over the “Divisions” button at the top

of the screen. Move your cursor down the menu to “Administrative, Judicial &

Legislative Services” and then click.

On the next screen, on the left, click on “Mineral Owners Escrow Account”.

From the next screen, click on “Escrow Account Owner Search”, which is the bottom

option in the middle.

Type in the name you wish to search and click “Search”. The results will be a list of

owners for whom royalties and/or pooling bonuses have been reported to the Mineral

Owner Escrow Account. You can click on the order number or operator information for

additional data.

In addition to the search field in which you enter the name, there is a link to a very good

“FAQ” and a “Help” feature that shows you the format to use to enter the name. The

telephone number to the MOEA is (405) 521-4499.

OKLAHOMA TAX COMMISSION

The Oklahoma Tax Commission has recently made some oil and gas well information

available to the public on their website at www.ok.gov/tax/. This database allows you

to retrieve operator and well production information. Here you can also find the PUN

and purchaser number for a well or lease that is necessary to look up oil production in

the OCC “Imaged Records” database.

From the menu at the top, choose “All Taxes” and then click on “Gross Production”.

From the list at the bottom of the page, choose “Public PUN Search” and then “Search

PUN”.

Click the button next to the type of search criteria by which you wish to search and

enter that information, usually legal description. Click “Search” to display a list of wells

or leases in that description.

Click the PUN to the left of the well name to get more information about the well or

lease.

If you click “Production History” you can obtain monthly oil and gas volumes by

reporting company for the last year.