For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ABANDONED WELL. Any natural production well in which production casing has been run but which has not been operated for six months; and shall also mean any artificial production well in which production casing has been run but which has not been operated for a period of nine months; and shall also mean any well in which no production casing has been run, and for which drilling operations have ceased for 30 consecutive days, or which has otherwise not been developed or operated with due diligence.
ARTIFICIAL PRODUCTION. The raising of petroleum and/or natural gas to the surface of the earth by means other than the natural flow of such substances.
CITY. The City of Bethany, Oklahoma.
CORPORATION COMMISSION. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission.
DELETERIOUS SUBSTANCE. Any chemical, saltwater, oil field brine, waste oil, waste emulsified oil, basic sediment, mud, injurious substances produced, used in the drilling, development, production, transportation, refining or processing of oil, gas or condensate.
DEVELOPED AREA. Any area within 500 feet of an occupied residential, commercial, or office structure which is itself within 300 feet of an occupied residential, commercial or office structure; or any area within 500 feet of a public or private park, forest preserve, wildlife preserve not operated for profit, municipal or community recreation center, or community play field.
DISPOSAL WELL. Any well drilled or used for the injection of saltwater or other substances into the earth at a point other or different than the point of extraction or production thereof from the earth.
ENHANCED PRODUCTION. Any operation by which fluid or energy is introduced into a source of supply for the purpose of stimulating recovery therefrom.
INSPECTOR. Any person designated by the Bethany, Oklahoma City Manager, or the head of any department of the city, to make inspections provided for in this chapter, whether other duties are additionally assigned.
LEASE. Any tract of land subject to an oil, gas or mineral lease or other oil and gas development contract, any unit composed of several tracts and leases but operated as a single lease; and any tract of land in which the minerals are owned by an operator, someone holding under him or her, or which due to the royalty ownership, is developed as a separate tract.
MUD. The drilling fluid used and recirculated through the drilling hole as a lubricant to reduce torque, drag, heat, friction, differential sticking, and to flush drill bit cuttings from the hole during the drilling process.
MUD PROGRAM. The planned usage of drilling fluid lubricants, specifying with particularity the type, name and physical and chemical composition and characteristics of all ingredients thereof, together with the laboratory and other technical data as may be necessary or required by the Engineering Department to evaluate the same as pollutive, deleterious, detrimental, or otherwise.
NATURAL PRODUCTION. The raising of petroleum and/or natural gas to the surface of the earth by natural flow; i.e. without supplemental pumping efforts.
OIL OR GAS WELL. Any well drilled, operated or maintained to produce oil, gas, casing head gas or any of them or their byproducts or derivatives.
PERMITTEE. The person to whom is issued a permit or permits under the terms of this chapter.
PERSON. Include both the singular and plural; and shall also mean and include any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, club, society, cooperative, trust, municipal corporation or political subdivision, regardless of form. When and after activity or omission is forbidden to a person, that activity or omission is forbidden whether the person is acting for himself, herself, or for another, and whether the activity or omission is performed directly or through an agent, servant, employee, subcontractor or independent contractor.
POLLUTION. The contamination, other alteration of the physical, chemical, biological properties of any natural waters of the city or lands within the city, or such discharge of any liquid, gaseous, solid substance into any water of the city, upon any lands within the city as will, is likely to create a nuisance, render such waters or such lands harmful, detrimental to public health, safety, welfare; which will render such waters or such lands harmful or detrimental to domestic, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational or other beneficial uses; or which will render such waters or such lands harmful or detrimental to livestock, animals or aquatic life.
RESERVE PIT. Any excavation, pit, or receptacle designed or used to receive, store, hold rocks, drill bit cuttings, shale, sand, freshwater, drilling mud that contains no saltwater, oil, oil derivatives, caustics, acids or other deleterious substances harmful to soil, vegetation, injurious to animal or human life.
SLUSH PIT. Any excavation, pit, receptacle designed or used to receive, store, hold waste oil, oil derivatives, sand, saltwater, other waste products or deleterious substances produced or used in the drilling, swabbing, cleaning, reworking of any oil, gas or disposal well.
WATER, OR WATER OF THE CITY. All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, and all other bodies or accumulations of water, whether on the surface, underground, whether natural or artificial, whether public or privately owned or
maintained, and which are either contained within, flow through, or border upon the city or any portion thereof.
WELL. Include and mean any hole or holes, bore, bores, to any sand, formation, strata or depth for the purpose of producing and recovering any petroleum, oil, gaseous liquid hydro-carbon, or for the injection or disposal of any of them or any other liquefied matter or gaseous matter.
TECHNICAL TERMS. All technical or oil and gas industry words or phrases used herein and not specifically defined in this chapter shall have that meaning customarily attributable thereto by prudent operators of the oil and gas industry.
(Prior Code, § 5-701) (Am. Ord. 1426, passed 8-16-88; Am. Ord. 1974, passed 8-6-19)